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Laparoscopic and open surgery for colon cancer : studies on costs and health related quality of life
(2006-05-19)
(LCR vs. OCR difference of means E 1846, p=0. 104). However, LCR was more expensive than OCR at operation (E 1 171, p<0.001), for the first admission (E 1556, p=0.015) and for the health care system (E 2 244, p=0.018).
In Paper II the method...
Epstein-Barr virus latency in vivo and in vitro
(2006-10-06)
In this thesis, I studied 1) The latency situation of Epstein- Barr virus (EBV) in bone marrow transplanted (BMT) patients and healthy virus carriers. 2) The role of EBNA1 and cellular transcriptional factors Oct and Grg/TLE ...
Dietary and genetic factors in the etiology of prostate cancer
(2006-05-19)
cases and 214 controls, chosen randomly. We identified four single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the ERbeta gene and five in the COX-2 gene, and genotyped these SNPs in 1314 (ERbeta) or 1378 (COX2) cases and 782 controls, respectively. Unconditional...
Severe maternal morbidity in Angola : studies on postpartum haemorrhage, jaundice and clinic-based audit
(2005-05-13)
Background: Angola has recently ended a long period of warfare, which has resulted in an almost complete collapse of public health. In Luanda, the capital, some 70,000 deliveries take place in public facilities. Maternal ...
The post-polio syndrome : studies of immunology and immunomodulatory intervention
(2005-09-02)
patients. The PPS patients displayed greater numbers of CSF cells expressing mRNA for TNF-alpha (p<0.02), IFN-gamma (p< 0.02), IL-4 (p<0.001) and IL-10 (p<0.05), compared to eight controls with other neurological disorders (OND). The level of increase...
Modeling the economics of prevention
(2005-04-29)
Cardiovascular disease, particularly coronary heart disease and stroke, is the most common cause of death world wide, with a prevalence that is expected to increase. The consequences of the modern lifestyle such as obesity ...
The human skeletal muscle in vivo : the use of microdialysis to study glucose metabolism and insulin resistance
(2004-11-26)
The aim of this thesis was to further develop the microdialysis technique for studies of glucose metabolism and insulin resistance in human skeletal muscle in vivo and to use this technique to explore the effect of exercise ...
Mental illness : relation to childbirth and experience of motherhood
(2005-10-14)
This thesis comprises two population-based studies of mental illness in childbearing women in Stockholm.
The principal aims in study I were to find out to what extent postnatal depression (PND) in mothers was ...
Oral mucosal lesions, tobacco use and the long-term outcome in a Swedish population
(2006-11-10)
The overall objectives of this thesis were to study the natural history for Oral Lichen (OLL), Oral Leukoplakia (OL) and Snus Induced Lesions (SIL) and to correlate cancer and mortality among users and non-users of Swedish ...
Long-term neurodevelopmental outcome after moderate neonatal encephalopathy and after post-term birth : two population-based studies
(2006-03-17)
Long-term neurodevelopmental outcome in two population-based groups of children with different perinatal events was studied: A) Children born at term with moderate neonatal encephalopathy (NE) and B) children born post-term ...