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Brain MRI and CT morphology in healthy aging and Alzheimer's disease
(2010-02-05)
Background: The brain atrophy in individual Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients includes not only specific atrophy from AD pathology, but also atrophy induced by normal aging and cerebral vascular diseases. Although medial ...
Studies on arterial endothelial function and intima-media thickness using ultrasound technique
(2008-05-09)
Background: The development of ultrasonographic arterial imaging, high-resolution B-mode ultrasonography, has created a technical basis for a new diagnostic approach to atherosclerotic disease by offering the possibility ...
Injury profile and injury risk factors in junior tennis players
(2010-05-28)
-nine players sustained totally 100 new and recurrent injuries, 73 injuries in boys and 27 injuries in girls. Injury incidence for both genders was 2.3 injuries/1000 hours of tennis playing time, for boys 1.7 injuries/1000 hours and for girls 0.6 injuries/1000...
Psychosocial factors and prognosis in coronary heart disease
(2009-05-08)
Aim: This thesis aims to contribute to the better understanding of the
role of psychosocial factors in coronary heart disease (CHD) by analysing
(1) the relationship of income, anger expression and work stress with
prognosis ...
Aprotinin for reduction of bleeding and transfusions in patients on clopidogrel undergoing urgent coronary surgery
(2009-05-08)
percentile) adenosinediphosphate mediated platelet aggregation before and after aprotinin, was 84% (76/91) and 94% (86/97, p<0.01). Clopidogrel non-responders with >90% aggregation (n=4) had a median aggregation of 94.5% (91.5/97.5) versus 82% (73/87, p<0...
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 using antiretroviral drugs in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
(2009-08-21)
, respectively and the RR for HIV infection or death compared to placebo were 0.39, 0.64 and 0.97, respectively. After 18 months of follow up the transmission rates were 14.9% (95%CI 9.4-22.8), 18.1% (12.1-26.2), 20.0% (12.9-30.1) and 22.2% (15.9-30.2) for groups...
Functional gastrointestinal disorders : co-morbidity and non-somatic aspects
(2008-05-19)
Aims of the thesis: The first aim, (Study I) of this thesis was to
compare co-morbidity of the reported symptoms and its relation to
healthcare seeking behaviour among non-patients who had persistent
functional ...
Hematolymphoproliferative malignancies : the impact of lifestyle, organ transplantation and genetic susceptibility
(2009-01-30)
During the past decades Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) has demonstrated an
immense increase in incidence globally, among almost all age and race
groups as well as in both genders. In the search for causes, none of the
known ...
Predictors of prognosis in acute myeloid leukemia : a clinical and epidemiological study
(2010-02-05)
AML is a malignant disorder characterized by clonal expansion of immature
myeloid hematopoietic stem cells, myeloblasts, in bone marrow, blood
and/or other tissue. Despite advances in treatment the majority of
patients ...
Hemodynamic aspects of biventricular pacing in heart failure
(2010-05-21)
-invasive reference method (inert gas rebreathing, RB) in 12 HF patients. The median inter-patient correlation coefficient (r = 0.83) as well as bias (-0.39 L/min, 11%) and limits of agreements (± 1.57 L/min) were found to be acceptable and appeared favorable compared...