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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 ...
Dermal exposure determinants : a pesticide exposure assessment approach for developing countries
(2008-11-26)
Background: We know little about the levels of exposure to pesticide in
subsistence farmers mainly because of lack of easy to use and low cost
pesticide exposure assessment methods.
Aim: This thesis aimed to develop ...
Influence of renal dysfunction on therapy and prognosis in patients with myocardial infarction
(2010-04-30)
(n=42 814) were analyzed to assess the association of statin therapy at discharge with one year survival. After multivariable adjustment, statin at discharge was associated with a 37% reduction in one year mortality (HR 0.63, 95% CI 0.58-0.68, p<0...
Tobacco smoking, high body mass index and the outcome after surgery : the role of intervention
(2008-11-07)
The negative effects of smoking and obesity on public health are
well-known. Despite this knowledge, the smoking-attributable morbidity
and mortality is estimated to rise rapidly in the forthcoming years, and
obesity ...
Development of PET radioligands synthesized from in-target produced [11C]methane
(2010-02-08)
). The second aim was to apply high SA [11C]CH4 in the development of PET radioligands for CNS targets such as the metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5), β-amyloid aggregates and the serotonin 1B (5-HT1B) receptor system. PET is a molecular imaging...
Brain MRI and CT morphology in healthy aging and Alzheimer's disease
(2010-02-05)
the atrophy factors that contributed most significantly to the diagnoses with correct AD classification of 90.2%. The correct classification of AD+CVC from controls increased from 79.5% (only CSF biomarkers) to 84.6% (combined CT measurements with CSF...
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...
Hypertension : epidemiological studies of prevalence, prevention, treatment and prognoses in men and women
(2009-10-30)
(quintiles 3-5) in men and ≥88.5cm (quintiles 4-5) in women was associated with newly diagnosed high blood pressure. Secondary school was negatively associated in men, OR 0.73 (0.54-0.99), and university education was negatively associated in both men, OR 0...
The risk of malignancy in women with endometriosis
(2010-03-05)
The aim of this thesis was to investigate the association between endometriosis and malignancies also after controlling for parity, to investigate the impact of endometriosis on survival after a malignancy diagnosis and ...
The role of 5'-nucleotidases and deoxynucleoside kinases in responses to nucleoside analogues
(2010-04-30)
The efficacy of nucleoside analogues (NAs) in treating several
hematological malignancies, solid tumors and viral infections is limited
primarily by side-effects and the development of drug resistance. The
aims of the ...