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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 ...
Acute and early chronic responses to resistance exercise using flywheel or weights
(2008-05-15)
Weight training typically offers constant external load during coupled shortening (concentric) and lengthening (eccentric) muscle actions in sets of consecutive repetitions until failure. However, skeletal muscle inherently ...
Methods for measurement of vocal fold vibration and viscoelasticity
(2009-05-08)
The overall aim of the thesis was to develop new methods for analysis of vocal fold vibrations and viscoelasticity and to test them in human subjects.
In Study I the onset of vibration and irregular vocal fold ...
Exploring a national practice-based register for the management of rheumatoid arthritis
(2008-10-17)
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, inflammatory, auto-immune disease with an unpredictable and debilitating course. From diagnosis and onward, RA patients who need treatment with anti-rheumatic drugs will require ...
Dopamine D2-receptor mapping in restless legs syndrome and human behaviour
(2008-05-22)
Molecular imaging techniques such as positron emission tomography (PET) allow for examination of biochemical markers directly in the living human brain. Such imaging studies have over the recent years provided important ...
Molecular characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex from Kampala, Uganda
(2008-11-27)
Uganda is one of the countries with the highest burden of tuberculosis (TB) in Sub-Saharan Africa, ranked 16th among the 22 high-burden countries in the world. Poor peri-urban areas of developing countries with inadequate ...
Evaluations of measurement techniques in functional dyspepsia : electrogastrography, satiety drinking test and 14C-urea breath test
(2010-08-20)
The overall aim of this thesis was to evaluate the clinical usefulness of certain measurement techniques that may be helpful in the understanding of functional dyspepsia (FD). Electrogastrography (EGG) parameters were ...
Aprotinin for reduction of bleeding and transfusions in patients on clopidogrel undergoing urgent coronary surgery
(2009-05-08)
-860) in the aprotinin group vs. 1210 mL (95%CI:860-1550) in the control group (p=0.004). The aprotinin group received fewer transfusions of packed red blood cells (0.9 U, 95%CI:0.1-1.7, vs. 2.7 U, 95% CI:1.4-4.1; p=0.01), platelets (0.1 U, 95%CI:0-0.3, vs. 0.6 U, 0.2- 0...
Colorectal cancer treatment and early response evaluation : how do we best evaluate treatment response?
(2010-02-05)
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is common, being responsible for around 12% of
new cancers in Sweden, and contributing heavily to the large numbers of
cancer deaths yearly. CRC is the second most common cause of cancer death
not ...
Assessment of psychological and social factors in the workplace : psychometric aspects
(2008-10-24)
Psychosocial aspects of work have received increasing attention, partly
because of their postulated importance for the workers health. Among the
techniques developed for measurement of the psychosocial work
environment, ...