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Factors associated with healing of periradicular lesions
(2003-01-24)
Healing of periradicular lesions is a complex process. This thesis addressed some factors of importance to the outcome, namely treatment options and host response in cases of refractory lesions, levels of pro-inflammatory ...
Trauma, ethnicity and posttraumatic stress disorder in outpatient psychiatry
(2003-10-01)
more likely (OR= 5.6) to receive a diagnosis of psychosis (except schizophrenia) compared with the rest of the patient group. Swedes were about twice as likely as the rest to receive a personality disorder diagnosis (OR= 2.2).
Trauma and its...
Pain-related fear and movement : implications for physiotherapy and public health
(2003-01-17)
of catastrophizing were related to ratings of pain with an increased risk by 1.8. Furthermore fear-avoidance beliefs increased the risk of the inception of a new episode of pain by 2 and catastrophizing increased the risk by 1.5. The risk of a lower physical function...
Violent recidivism among sexual offenders : risk factors and assessment procedures
(2002-10-18)
populations were included in a register-based
retrospective follow-up study; 1) all persons subjected to forensic
psychiatric evaluation 1988-1990 due to a criminal charge of rape and
diagnosed with personality disorder (N = 51) and 2) a cohort of all adult...
Living with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
(2003-05-15)
This thesis focuses on how individuals with the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), an inherited connective-tissue disorder, experience and describe their daily lives with focus on physical and psychosocial problems. The syndrome ...
Cognitive functioning in aging and dementia : the role of psychiatric and somatic factors
(2002-05-24)
This doctorial thesis concerns the role of psychiatric and somatic factors in aging and dementia. Five studies are included, all based on data from the Kungsholmen Project, a population-based longitudinal study of aging ...
Biophysical aspects of contact dermatitis and its prevention
(2004-03-05)
I, we used the above-mentioned techniques to evaluate clinically similar allergic (to NiSO4 in distilled water in different concentrations) and irritant (to 2% sodium lauryl sulphate) skin reactions in 19 nickel-allergic patients.
In Paper II...
Effects of anabolic hormone treatment in elderly patients with hip fracture
(2001-11-15)
further aim was to determine whether anabolic hormone treatment could had any beneficial effects after a hip fracture.
A retrospective study was conducted on 437 consecutive patients with femoral neck fractures. The rate of deep wound infection was low...
Studies of presenilin function in neurodegeneration and in human embryonic CNS during development
(2004-05-21)
Presenilin-1 (PS1) and -2 (PS2) gene mutations cause early onset familial
Alzheimer's disease (FAD). Presenilins provide gamma-secretase activity
for cleaving transmembrane proteins such as the amyloid precursor protein
(APP), Notch receptors...
Genetic and environmental influences on major recurrent headaches
(2004-01-09)
.0001) and these proportions increased with increasing
age. A significant variation in heritability of migraine headache across
age groups ranging from 91% (15-20 years) to 37% (41-47 years) was
detected in women (chi2 =20.29, P<0.025). This variation was explained by
less...