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Occupational exposure to electromagnetic fields and chronic diseases
(2003-11-21)
This thesis consider two exposures from the electromagnetic spectrum extremely low-frequency magnetic fields (ELF MF) and ultraviolet (UV) radiation. ELF MF are the lowest and UV radiation ranges among the highest frequencies ...
Risk and resilience in children born preterm : cognitive and executive functioning at 5 1/2 years of age
(2003-11-28)
at the NICU. The test design was the same in the two studies.
The WPPSI-R results of the VLBW children fell well within the normal range: WPPSI-R full scale (FSIQ) 95.7, verbal subscale (VIQ) 99.9 and 91.6 for the performance subscale (PIQ).The term born...
Aspects of foreign-born women's health and childbirth-related outcomes : an epidemiological study of women of childbearing age in Sweden
(2003-11-07)
) was estimated by applying logistic regression for correlated data. Study III: In this followup study, the population consisted of 1,452,944 women, 369,771 of whom have an immigrant background (including 2nd-generation immigrants), aged 20-45 years, 1994...
Epidemiological studies of Helicobacter pylori and its relation to cancer and precancerous lesions in the upper gastrointestinal tract
(2004-05-21)
Helicobacter pylori infection is strongly associated with gastric cancer risk. The carcinogenic process is supposed to occur step by step, from a normal gastric epithelium via gastritis, atrophy, intestinal metaplasia to ...
Population-based studies of body mass index, overweight and systolic blood pressure among Swedish young men
(2002-08-30)
Overweight and obesity has increased in Sweden and worldwide in recent decades. Lifestyle and environmental changes, genetic susceptibility and interactions between these factors are believed to be important. A theoretical ...
The role of estrogen in growth plate chondrogenesis
(2002-11-29)
Overall body proportion is determined by the size of the skeleton, which in turn is determined by the rate and duration of longitudinal bone growth. Longitudinal bone growth occurs at the growth plate and is regulated by ...
Experienced physical functioning and effects of resistance training in patients with chronic kidney disease
(2004-04-15)
Physical fitness declines as chronic kidney disease progresses, and is approximately 50% of the expected norm when starting dialysis therapy This means that physical fitness in these patients is so reduced that it impinge ...
Central-block techniques for reliet of labour pain
(2004-04-23)
analgesia is a possible alternative when an epidural is less suitable. Forty multiparae with a rapid labour course, who in late labour requested effective analgesia, received spinal analgesia with sufentanil 7.5 µg and bupivacaine 2 mg. Analgesia was rapid...
A concept for treatment of sports related knee injuries
(2004-04-02)
The aim of the present thesis was, to evaluate local anaesthesia as ananaesthetic technique when performing knee arthroscopies, from a clinicaland economical point of view, and to describe the total costs for surgeryof ...
The biological mechanisms in neutrophil and eosinophil adhesion and transmigration in vitro and theur relation to the inflammatory process in vivo
(2001-12-28)
In inflammatory reactions, eosinophils and neutrophils constitute the
major classes of granulocytes that emigrate from the bloodstream into the
tissues. The recruitment of inflammatory cells constitutes a multi-step
process ...