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Chemoattractants as causative agents, biomarkers and therapeutic targets in vascular pathology
(2006-09-22)
Atherosclerosis and restenosis are driven by chronic immune response in the vascular wall. This involves cell migration into and within the vessel wall, cell proliferation as well as accumulation of lipids in the vessel ...
Effects of high glucose on platelet activation
(2006-08-07)
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is associated with increased cardiovascular mortality and morbidity, due to diabetic angiopathy. Hyperglycaemia is one of the factors that may cause platelet dysfunction in diabetic patients. This ...
Liver transplantation and the role of adjuvant therapy for advanced primary liver tumours
(2005-11-11)
HSCT, HLA-matched live donors were used for a nonmyeloablative HSCT post LT. Five patients that have undergone this procedure are reported and we found that the concept is feasible with. low transplant-related mortality (TRM). However, 315 patients...
Basic and translational studies of follicular thyroid neoplasia
(2005-04-08)
- 1 were performed. Five of the 16 primary tumors revealed an abnormal karyotype including a FTC with a somatic translocation involving chromosomes 2, 5 and 10 and a PTC with a balanced translocation t(3;15).
In Paper II, a panel of 87 follicular...
Morbidity and mortality in patients with bundle branch block
(2006-05-19)
cohort of 87052 cases of MI from the Register of Information and Knowledge about Swedish Heart Intensive care Admissions (RIKS-HIA) in 1995-2001 was studied. LBBB was present in 9%. The unadjusted relative risk of death within 1 year was 2.16 (95% Cl, 2...
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 ...
Ribavirin : dose and concentration in treatment of chronic hepatitis C infected patients
(2005-04-29)
from the first study was used, but underestimated the ribavirin dose. After dose adjustments a mean dose was 2540 mg/day. Due to anaemia, 2 patients required blood transfusions, twice. 9 patients completed treatment and 9 patients were cured...
Prevention of complications in pediatric cataract surgery
(2004-11-26)
randomised study of the same surgical method used in the first study. Children aged 3-15 years in Ukraine received cataract surgery with posterior capsulorhexis, with or without anterior vitrectomy and were implanted with a singlepiece AcrySof SA30AL IOL...
Physical activity and myocardial infarction : epidemiological studies on the association between various types of physical activity and the risk of myocardial infarction, including certain aspects of methodology
(2006-08-15)
The aim of this thesis was to study the associations between physical activity during leisure time, occupational and household work, and established risk factors for cardiovascular disease, as well as the risk of acute ...
The impact of age and gender with respect to general joint laxity, shoulder joint laxity and rotation : a study of 9, 12 and 15 year old students
(2005-03-25)
selected schools participated in this Swedish nation-wide research study ("The School project 2001") with a total of 1846 students aged 9-15 included. Data concerning these subjects are reported in study I-III. An additional study group of 120 competitive...