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Local infiltration analgesia in knee and hip arthroplasty efficacy and safety
(2014-05-02)
Local infiltration analgesia (LIA) is a new multimodal wound infiltration method. It has attracted growing interest in recent years and is widely used all over the world for treating postoperative pain after knee and hip ...
Daytime sleepiness in Parkinson's disease in relation to other symptoms, disease progression and daily life
(2020-11-12)
The aim of this doctoral thesis is to explore daytime sleepiness (DS) in Parkinson’s disease (PD). The Papers will evaluate how DS is connected to both motor and non-motor symptoms in PD, changes in DS over time, and the ...
Development of novel molecular and microfluidics tools for identification and characterization of latent HIV-1 reservoir
(2019-02-08)
The existence of latent HIV-1 reservoir (LR) in all HIV-1 infected patients serves as a major obstacle to completely cure HIV-1 infection. However, up to now there is still no available assay that provides an accurate ...
Genetic and cognitive aspects on recovery after propofol anaesthesia
(2015-01-14)
Propofol is one of the most used intravenous anaesthetics in the western world. It is often
used for ambulatory surgery due to favourable pharmacokinetic properties allowing quick
onset and short emergence time. However, ...
Neck and shoulder pain : prevalence, incidence and risk factors : the IKCo cohort study
(2008-09-02)
This thesis presents the results of the prevalence and the incidence of
neck/shoulder pain (NSP) and its risk factors in an industrial population
based cohort study. The project was completed between 2003 and 2007 in
Iran ...
Adjuvant hormone therapy in breast cancer patients : a special focus on treatment discontinuation
(2023-04-19)
Purpose: Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, with approximately 80% of cases being estrogen-receptor (ER) positive. Adjuvant hormone therapy is a standard treatment that is recommended for ER-positive ...
Tracking selective attention in a musical cocktail
(2021-08-18)
The cocktail party effect refers to mankind’s ability to focus attention on a single sound within noisy or complex auditory environments, in order to extract the most behaviourally-relevant information present. To investigate ...
Immunometabolic reprogramming during suppressive HIV-1 infection
(2022-05-10)
Since the implementation of antiretroviral therapy (ART), infection with human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) has been transformed into a chronic lifelong condition. The main obstacle for a HIV-1 cure is the persistence ...
Long-term exposure to transportation noise in relation to metabolic and cardiovascular outcomes
(2018-04-26)
Transportation noise exposure is increasing because of rapid urbanization and transportation growth. Environmental noise exposure affects a large part of the population and gives rise to widespread annoyance and sleep ...
Longitudinal study of the impact on hearing from aging, genetic background and environmental exposures in male twins
(2017-09-28)
Background: Hearing loss is a process that normally develops over many years, and the ability to hear high–frequency sounds is often reduced first. Age, repeated exposure to loud noise and other risk factors, diseases, ...