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Resources and relative deprivation : analysing mechanisms behind income, inequality and ill-health
(2004-12-31)
Even in more egalitarian welfare states health is related to income. Improvements in health are acknowledged over the entire income distribution, albeit with decreasing marginal returns of health at higher income levels. ...
Interaction involving amino acids in HLA proteins and smoking in Rheumatoid arthritis
(2015-02-06)
Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a complex autoimmune disease involving gene-environment interactions. Different subtypes of RA, based on the presence of specific antibodies, differ in each etiology. Interacting ...
Unstimulated human whole saliva flow rate in relation to hyposalivation and dental caries
(2005-04-08)
Introduction: Salivary secretion is influenced by a large number of factors, including the circadian rhythm, making the detection of reduced salivary flow (hyposalivation) difficult. This is important since severely reduced ...
HLA-A*02 and its prognostic traits in cancer : an immunological biomarker as a tool towards individualised cancer therapy
(2016-01-15)
This thesis is based on the findings that HLA-A*02, a common allele in the Swedish population,
has a decreasing frequency in the European continent in relation to geographic latitude.
Furthermore, mortality of ovarian ...
New technologies for the further advancement of ERCP
(2022-03-17)
predefined 4 grade assessment scale. In paper II, all consecutive patients that underwent single operator pancreatoscopy (SOPP) at Karolinska University Hospital between April 2015 and Nov 2020 were included. The Swedish Registry for Gallstone Surgery...
Lactate as an early marker of intrapartum fetal hypoxia
(2014-04-24)
Background: Cardiotocography (CTG) is the main method for intrapartum fetal surveillance in many countries. The method has a high sensitivity, but a poor specificity, which leads to an increased rate of interventions ...
Outcome after allogeneic stem cell transplantation with special reference to non-malignant disorders, chimerism and graft cell composition
(2018-10-03)
, we hypothesized that these donor graft lymphocyte sub-sets could influence patient outcome. We collected and evaluated routine flow cytometry donor graft data (i.e. CD34+, CD3+, CD19+, CD4+, CD8+, CD3-CD56+CD16+, CD4+CD127lowCD25high) for 299 patients...
Genetic determinants of postmenopausal breast and endometrial cancer
(2007-01-26)
Breast cancer is overall the most common cancer in women worldwide and
endometrial cancer is the most common gynaecological cancer in the
industrialized world. History of a first-degree relative with breast or
endometrial ...
Trends in population health in an era of increasing longevity
(2022-01-26)
In Sweden, the number of older adults over the age of 85 increased by 75% since 1990 while the number of centenarians has almost quadrupled. Rapid population ageing is a global phenomenon and projected to continue in almost ...