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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 ...
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 ...
Prevention and intervention therapies in auditory trauma
(2009-01-16)
Hearing impairment is one of the most common health conditions in
developed countries. It is estimated that approximately 70 million people
worldwide are deaf. For patients with a severe to profound hearing loss a
cochlear ...
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...
Sex steroid hormone receptors : inner ear and hearing
(2009-04-29)
It is well known that hearing loss is more profound in elderly males than
females, regardless of noise exposure. Also, an age-related hearing
decline starts much earlier in males, already after the age of 30, while
in ...
Procedure related pain and anxiety during bone marrow aspiration
(2010-04-14)
and physicians (к 0.33 and 0.37), and moderate agreement for intensity of pain (ICC 0.42 and 0.44). RNs and physicians underestimated severe pain and overestimated mild pain. There was slight agreement between patients and RNs and physicians regarding occurrence...
Clinical aspects of Mycoplasma genitalium infection
(2010-01-15)
The microorganism Mycoplasma (M.) genitalium was first isolated by culture in 1980. Further attempts to culture this mycoplasma were difficult because of its slow growing nature. The development of polymerase chain reaction ...
Proximal femoral fractures : functional outcome, quality of life and mortality
(2008-11-27)
A hip fracture in the elderly is one of the most devastating consequences
of osteoporosis and has a high rate of complications, including death and
a serious threat to the patient s future mobility, social functioning,
quality ...
Risk behaviour and prevention of blood borne infections among injecting drug users
(2009-11-13)
In Stockholm County the two major injecting drugs are amphetamine and heroin, injected by about 9 000 persons almost every day. There is no access to needle and syringe program and about 1000 patients are in substitution ...
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 ...