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Acute pain in pedatric patients : aspects of pain management and pain assessment
(2004-11-18)
Despite advances in pain management, children's pain continue to be frequently unrecognized, dismissed and ineffectively managed while children are hospitalized. The overall purpose of this thesis was to evaluate and improve ...
The impact of social security compensation inequality on earnings distribution due to sickness and disability
(2005-08-26)
One of the main purposes of social security systems is to compensate for loss of earnings during periods of sickness and disability. Of interest is therefore the extent to which such compensation reduces earnings inequality. ...
Physical fitness and overweight in Swedish youths
(2005-03-22)
obese. The total prevalence accordingly being 20.1% (95% CI: 18.3% to 22.0%). This sample proved to be heterogeneous concerning overweight status. When obesity and overweight were combined the highest prevalence (26.6%, 95% CI: 21.2 to 32.7) was found...
Risk factors for haematological malignancies : immune-mediated diseases, body mass index and magnetic fields
(2006-11-03)
Haematological malignancies constitute approximately 7% of all cancer cases in Sweden, and leukaemia is in fact the most common malignancy among children. The few established risk factors, such as ionising radiation and immunodeficiency, only...
Platelets and eosinophils in lung tissue remodelling
(2006-08-25)
Tissue injury and inflammation followed by effective repair restores normal function, but defective repair with associated tissue remodelling and fibrosis can lead to loss of organ function. Thus, interactions between ...
Smoking and pregnancy : with special reference to preterm birth and the feto-placental unit
(2006-01-06)
with data on single births obtained from the Swedish Medical Birth Registry (N=311 977 and N=795 459, respectively). A case control study of very preterm birth (including 295 smokers and 295 non-smokers, respectively), with information retrieved from patient...
Studies on alcoholic liver disease
(2006-11-17)
The overall aim of this thesis was to explore the impact of alcoholic cirrhosis in Sweden, and the relation between drinking patterns and beverage types and alcoholic cirrhosis, and to evaluate the possible role of ...
Diabetes, physical activity and endometrial cancer
(2006-11-22)
Accumulating evidence suggests that hyperinsulinemia, in the context of insulin resistance, is associated with carcinogenesis. Physical activity is involved in the regulation of metabolic and hormonal pathways and is an ...
The post-polio syndrome : studies of immunology and immunomodulatory intervention
(2005-09-02)
Late effects in patients with prior poliomyelitis were first reported in the nineteenth century and have been referred to as the post-polio syndrome (PPS). PPS is characterized by new muscular deterioration, fatigue and ...
Patient-orientated aspects of the postoperative course after hernia surgery
(2006-09-01)
, testicular pain in 120 (8%) patients and infection in 105 (7%) patients. The risk-factors for complications were age below the median of 59 years and laparoscopic repair. The National Hernia Register covered 25% of the complications recorded by the patients...