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On gallstone disease : complications and surgical treatment
(2005-11-18)
episode predicted difficulty in the overall operation. Predicting difficulties in dissection of Calot's triangle was most difficult and not dependent upon CRP value. Among 152 776 cholecystectomies registered in the Swedish Inpatient Registry, 613 (0...
Bad breath : prevalence, periodontal disease, microflora and inflammatory markers
(2005-03-29)
periodontal disease and bad breath demonstrated a higher percentage of teeth with pockets =5 mm than did individuals without bad breath (p<0.001). Moreover subjects with foetor ex ore showed significantly higher levels of plaque and calculus values than did...
Quality of care and quality of life in coronary artery disease
(2005-02-09)
.3% from 4.2 (CI 4.0-4.5) to 3.7 (CI 3.4-4.0) mmol/l in the intervention group and was 0.5 (CI 0.1-0.9) mmol/l lower (effect size 0.56) in the intervention group as compared to the control group (p < 0.05) after two years. We found no change in the control...
Heart failure : aspects on treatment and prognosis
(2006-05-02)
The aim of this thesis was to describe aspects on treatment and prognosis in heart failure. In paper I, we studied two hundred and seventy-nine hospitalised heart failure patients, and related clinical and demograhic data ...
Patient-orientated aspects of the postoperative course after hernia surgery
(2006-09-01)
Operations for inguinal hernia are one of the most common surgical procedures performed. With the development of mesh techniques, recurrence rates have improved radically and patient-orientated endpoints have evolved as ...
Coronary heart disease in Swedish twins : quantitative genetic studies
(2006-08-24)
in higher concordances for CHD in monozygotic (MZ) than dizygotic (M) twins as well as in higher estimates at younger ages. 1 Heritability for CHD-death was estimated to 0.57 (95 % Cl 0.45-0.69) among males and 0.38 (0.26-0.50) among females, and extension...
Renal effects of C-peptide in experimental type-1 diabetes mellitus
(2005-11-11)
in streptozotocin diabetic Sprague-Dawley and Wistar rats and the results demonstrate that C-peptide prevents or reduces diabetes-induced glomerular hyperfiltration by 17-42% (p<0.01) and urinary albumin excretion and urinary albumin/creatinine ratio. Furthermore, C...
Molecular diagnosis of infection with Toxoplasma gondii in immunocompromised patients
(2006-08-23)
The protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii infects more than a billion people worldwide. The parasite is generally divided into three clonal lineages, denoted type I, II and III. Primary infections in humans are usually ...
Pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes with emphasis on the mechanism of insulin resistance
(2006-09-15)
Type 2 diabetes is characterized by chronic hyperglycemia and develops slowly through stages of early impairments of glucose metabolism. The disease is often associated with obesity, physical inactivity, decreased insulin ...
Genetic epidemiological studies of adverse pregnancy outcomes and the role of schizophrenia
(2006-02-24)
The purposes of this thesis were to investigate the importance of genetic and environmental factors in the development of adverse pregnancy outcomes and to investigate the role of schizophrenia as a risk factor for and a ...