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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 ...
Acute kidney injury, outcome studies
(2008-05-09)
-day mortality, with an odds ratio (OR) of 1.9 and 2.0 respectively. The ICU ESRD cohort had increased long-term mortality as compared to non-ICU ESRD patients: relative risk of death 2.32 (95% CI 1.84-2.92). A comparison with the mortality rate...
Early cervical lesions detected by visual inspection : viral factors, management and follow-up
(2009-10-09)
for HIV testing and HPV typing was performed using SPF10/LiPA. The overall prevalence of HPV infection was 39.4 %. The most common HPV types in decreasing order of frequency were: HPV16, HPV52, HPV35, and HPV18. An age of less than 40 years, low income...
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 ...
Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction and enteric dysmotility : aspects on patients' health-care use, coping capacity and quality of life
(2009-08-14)
patient and year and costs from $32,698 during traditional health-care services to $9,681 after introducing the day-care unit (p<0.002). Patients with CIP reported significantly greater functional impairment in the aggregated physical dimension of SIP (p<0...
Active immunization against nicotine dependence
(2010-03-19)
Tobacco smoking is the largest preventable cause of morbidity and premature mortality in the world. Although its medical consequences are well documented, 20-45% of the adult population in the European countries remains ...
Health enhancing physical activity, sociodemographic factors and the neighbourhood environment
(2009-05-05)
groups were observed. The environmental module showed good test-retest reliability, with intra-class correlations ranging from 0.36 regarding questions of a subjective nature to 0.98 for questions of an objective nature, with minor differences...
Evaluation of computer-assisted virtual treatment planning and template-guided surgery in dental implant treatment
(2010-05-14)
One of the newly introduced concepts in implant dentistry is computer-guided surgery. The development of 3D implant planning software and imaging technology provide clinicians with 3D information of patients bony structures. ...
Mass spectrometric investigation of intoxications with plant-derived psychoactive substances
(2009-05-08)
The flora of the world contains many plants and fungi with stimulant, hallucinogenic and narcotic effects. For centuries, many of these have been used in initiation rites, physical and spiritual healing and rites of ...