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The role of liquid resin in orthodontic bonding : toxicological, bond strength and clinical aspects
(2000-01-07)
Dental acrylic composites are rarely fully polymerized in situ. Their unpolymerized components are related to undesirable occupational exposure to dental, particularly orthodontic, personnel. The aim of this study was to ...
Epidemiological studies of vacuum extraction delivery : incidence, risk factors and subsequent childbearing
(2014-11-10)
The aim of this thesis was to bring focus on factors and outcomes associated with vacuum
extraction delivery (VE). Delivery by VE is associated with both maternal risks (such as
obstetric anal sphincter ruptures, postpartum ...
Severe asphyxia due to substandard care during labour
(2010-03-19)
Aim: The objective of the thesis was to describe the most common causes of
substandard care during labour contributing to severe asphyxia or
neonatal death, to study risk factors related to asphyxia associated with
substandard ...
Gestational age and size at birth and risk of esophageal inflammation and cancer
(2013-01-21)
with BE among those born SGA and <3rd percentile (OR 3.0, 95% CI 1.4-6.4), as well as those in the 3rd to<10th percentile (OR 1.8, 95% CI 1.0-3.1). The risk of BE was also increased among those with a birth weight <2,500 grams (OR 8.2, 95% CI 2.8-23.9). The risk...
Prenatal metabolic risks for offspring neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders
(2021-09-24)
Prenatal metabolic disturbances have been reported to increase the risk for offspring adverse outcomes. However, the joint (i.e. combined) effects of several prenatal metabolic exposures on offspring neurodevelopmental and ...
Negative experiences of encounters in healthcare
(2013-05-22)
. Statistical analysis of Attributable Risk (AR) with 95% CI. Results: Response rate 58%. 1 628 of the respondents had experiences of negative encounters in healthcare, and of these 1 036 reported also having felt wronged. Types of negative encounters...
Life course determinants of women’s health : from reproductive age to menopause
(2021-04-26)
Over the past four decades, growing evidence has indicated that characteristics such as birth weight and length of gestation are not only key indicators for infant’s health, but also predictors of adult health and disease ...
Signal processing approaches on otoacoustic emissions
(2000-09-29)
The recent achievement on the measurement of otoacoustic emissions (OAEs) is based on a novel technical development of digital signal processing. OAEs measured in the external ear canal are normal by-products of the active ...
Outcome of gastric cancer surgery in Sweden
(2020-05-20)
Gastric cancer worldwide is the fifth most common cancer and has the third highest cancer related mortality. Curative treatment includes surgical resection but comes with risk of complications and the optimal surgery ...
Genetic characterization of patients with frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in the Nordic countries
(2012-05-21)
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is the second most common form of neurodegenerative disease affecting people under the age of 65 years. The general symptoms are dysfunctions in behavior and/or language. Up to 50 % of FTD ...