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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 ...
Sexual life after childbirth and aspects of midwives’ counselling at the postnatal check-up
(2009-02-27)
The overall aim of this thesis was to explore and describe how sexual
life after childbirth is communicated, addressed and reflected upon among
new mothers, fathers and midwives and the impact of leaving first and
minor ...
Genetic and environmental aspects of symptomatic gallstone disease
(2009-05-22)
Gallstone disease (GD) represents a major healthcare problem. Gallstones
are likely to result from a complex interaction of the environment and
the effects of multiple undetermined genes.
The aim of this study ...
The risk of malignancy in women with endometriosis
(2010-03-05)
). The results showed a statistically significant improved survival for women with endometriosis for all malignancies combined (HR 0.92), as well as for breast cancer (HR 0.86) and for women diagnosed with ovarian cancer after the age of 54 (HR 0.62). However...
Leisure activities at old age and their influence on dementia development
(2009-04-20)
This thesis aims to describe the participation in leisure activities of elderly subjects and to detect their possible effect, if any, on the development of dementia. The data were derived from the Kungsholmen Project, which ...
Aprotinin for reduction of bleeding and transfusions in patients on clopidogrel undergoing urgent coronary surgery
(2009-05-08)
-treated patients versus 1200±570 mL (P<0.001) in control. During the hospital stay, patients in the aprotinin group received 1.2±1.5 and 0.1±0.4 U of erythrocytes and platelets, respectively, versus 2.8±3.2 (P=0.02) and 0.9±1.4 (P=0.002) units in the control...
Postpartum psychosis and the association with sociodemographic and obstetric factors
(2009-01-30)
Objective: To examine the association between postpartum psychosis and the
sociodemographic factors age, education, marital status and year of
delivery (study 1). To examine the association between neighbourhood
socioeconomic ...
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, ...
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 ...
The impact of tobacco use on postoperative complications
(2008-08-29)
is started 6 8 weeks ahead of orthopaedic surgery. Whether or not this is also true for other surgical procedures has not been studied, and it is not known if even shorter periods of smoking cessation can affect the complication rate. There is little evidence...