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Combined oral contraceptives : impact on the vulvar vestibular mucosa and pain mechanisms
(2007-08-24)
Objective: The main aim of this thesis was to study the impact of
combined oral contraceptives (COC) on the vulvar vestibular mucosa and
pain mechanisms; in healthy women and in women with provoked
vestibulodynia (former ...
Improving general practitioners’ management of COPD : a challenge in Swedish primary health care
(2018-04-23)
COPD and being ABSTRACT ≥55 years (OR = 10.9 [95% CI 3.8-30.1]) and between COPD and smoking intensity (>20 pack years) (OR = 3.2 [95% CI 1.2-8.5]). Sex, current smoking status, and type of infection were not significantly associated with COPD. Study 2...
Famine in Nigeria and vitamin D in Sweden : two early life exposures and their relation to cardiovascular risk in adulthood
(2013-12-18)
Early life environment has in previous research been linked to risk of disease in adulthood. This thesis investigated three types of early life exposures and their potential associations with adult life cardiovascular risk. ...
Novel risk markers in the chronic kidney disease patient : new insights into the wasting-inflammation axis
(2008-10-03)
Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have a risk of cardiovascular
morbidity and mortality that is 20 ]30 fold higher than that of a similar
person without CKD. While traditional (i.e Framingham) risk factors
certainly ...
Genetic and epigenetic factors shaping the transcriptome in multiple sclerosis and its animal model
(2014-11-21)
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory and demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. Susceptibility to develop MS is determined by both genetic and environmental factors. The epigenome resides in the ...