Published 13 March 2020 This study of 11,448 individuals was based on linked information from the Swedish BPSD registry, the National Patient Register and the Cause of Death register. BPSD was assessed with the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI). Cox proportional hazards regressions were performed for survival analysis. To study different degrees of BPSD, data was categorized into groups: no (NPI, 0

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/mortality-patients-behavioural-and-psychological-symptoms-dementia-registry-based-study - 2025-03-05

Published 14 March 2020 Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of arthritis and a leading cause of disability worldwide. Metabolic comorbidities such as type II diabetes occur with a higher rate in people with OA than in the general population. Several factors including obesity, hyperglycaemia toxicity and physical inactivity have been suggested as potential links between diabetes and OA, and

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/understanding-role-diabetes-osteoarthritis-disease-and-treatment-process-study-protocol-swedish - 2025-03-05

Published 15 March 2020 Collecting clinical data is viewed as the gold standard for assessing health-care quality. However, considerable investment is needed if the quality of care is to be recorded over a long period of time. Accordingly, the question arises as to whether routine administrative data may be used for quality assurance purposes if certain methodological standards are followed. This

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/comparing-routine-administrative-data-registry-data-assessing-quality-hospital-care-patients - 2025-03-05

Published 13 March 2020 Den 6 april 2020 öppnar den fjärde transnationella utlysningen inom Joint Programming-initiativet More Years, Better Lives (JPI MYBL). Temat för utlysningen är Jämlikhet och välmående över generationer. Läs mer här.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/kommande-utlysning-jamlikhet-och-valmaende-over-generationer - 2025-03-05

Published 14 March 2020 The Swedish Research Council will grant an extension to the availability period of research projects at risk of being delayed due to COVID-19. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/your-research-project-affected-covid-19 - 2025-03-05

Published 16 March 2020 The system aims to support researchers who receive or have received project funding from the Swedish Research Council (VR), or from other funders that demand the establishing of a DMP. A DMP is a document that provides a framework for how the research material is collected, handled, organized, stored and made available during the research process and how it should be preser

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/creating-data-management-plan-dmp-dmproadmap - 2025-03-05

Published 17 March 2020 The university has a new deal with Wiley which means that you pay no publishing fee to publish open access in all their journals (including hybrid journals). As a general rule regarding subsidies for OA journals, you get 50 % off the publishing fee if you chose any pure, serious OA journal, at the moment this subsidy is increased to 100 %. Read more about other publisher ag

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/financial-support-open-acess-publishing-fees - 2025-03-05

Published 17 March 2020 Cerebral palsy (CP) is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disabilities. Yet, most individuals with CP are adults. How individuals with CP fare in terms of health, quality of life (QoL), education, employment and income is largely unknown. Further, little is known about the effects of having a child with CP on the parents. New publication in BMJ Open

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/cp-north-living-life-nordic-countries-retrospective-register-research-protocol-individuals-cerebral - 2025-03-05

Published 18 March 2020 n recent years, there have been significant changes in the perception of valvular and vascular allograft transplants. Despite the constant evolution of the field of transplant and the involvement of multiple surgical specialties, there is not an official registry for administrative and clinical control. This study aims to design a registry of vascular and valvular allograft

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/registry-valvular-and-vascular-allograft-transplants-autonomous-community-catalonia-spain-revac - 2025-03-05

Published 18 March 2020 In line with Lund University's switch to distance education, the weekly LUPOP/SND drop-in will be moved to Zoom. The LUPOP/SND drop-in at Tornblad each Monday at 9-12 will be cancelled as long as the policy of Lund University is that all education should be provided online and not on campus. Instead, representative(s) of LUPOP and/or SND will be available for Zoom meetings.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/lupop-drop-zoom - 2025-03-05

Published 19 March 2020 Record linkage is increasingly used in health research worldwide. Combining the patient information available in healthcare, administrative and clinical databases broadens the research perspectives, particularly for chronic diseases. Recent guidelines highlight the need for transparency on the used record linkage processes and the extracted data to be used by researchers. N

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/linking-disease-registries-and-nationwide-healthcare-administrative-databases-french-renal - 2025-03-05

Published 20 March 2020 Online gambling has increased in recent years, including online casino games and live sports betting which constitute rapid gambling activities with significant potential for gambling-related harm. There is a paucity of research examining whether specific gambling patterns are related to problem gambling and over-indebtedness, when controlling for psychological distress, ge

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/over-indebtedness-and-problem-gambling-general-population-sample-online-gamblers - 2025-03-05

Published 19 March 2020 På grund av covid-19 flyttar Vetenskapsrådet fram deadline för tio utlysningar som skulle stängt 31 mars. Ny deadline är 7 april 2020. Läs mer här

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/forlangd-ansokningsperiod-utlysningar-pa-grund-av-covid-19 - 2025-03-05

Published 19 March 2020 We have compiled a list of publications describing twin registers around the world. You can find it under LUPOP for researchers > Population data outside LU. Or click here to go straight there!

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/new-lupopluse-twin-registers - 2025-03-05

Published 20 March 2020 Vetenskapsrådet och SUHF har tagit fram ett inriktningsförslag för en ny myndighet för svensk e-infrastruktur för forskning. Förslaget påverkar framtidens organisering av bland andra SNIC, SND och Sunet. Monica Lassi vid Lunds universitet är en av dem som varit med och tagit fram förslaget, och svarar gärna på frågor om den del av processen som hon var involverad i. Maila l

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/inriktningsforslag-organisering-av-svensk-e-infrastruktur-forskning - 2025-03-05

Published 21 March 2020 Agricultural pesticides are extensively used for weed- and pest control, resulting in residues of these compounds in food. The general population is mainly exposed through dietary intake. Exposure to certain pesticides has been associated with adverse human health outcomes. Our aim was to assess urinary concentrations and temporal trends in the biomarkers of commonly used p

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/concentrations-and-temporal-trends-pesticide-biomarkers-urine-swedish-adolescents-2000-2017 - 2025-03-05

Published 23 January 2018 The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare launches an interactive tool to facilitate ordering of register data For more information, go to http://www.socialstyrelsen.se/register/bestalladataochstatistik/bestallaindividuppgifterforforskningsandamal (in Swedish).

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/interactive-tool-register-data-sos - 2025-03-05

Published 22 March 2020 Mental health problems and hazardous alcohol consumption often co- exist. Hazardous drinking could have a negative impact on different aspects of health and also negatively influence the effect of mental health treatment. The aims of this study were to examine if alcohol consumption patterns changed after treatment for depression and if the changes differed by treatment arm

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/changes-alcohol-consumption-after-treatment-depression-secondary-analysis-swedish-randomised - 2025-03-05

Published 23 March 2020 The purpose of this study is to develop and validate a prediction model to identify older adults at risk for potentially avoidable hospitalizations (PAHs) using variables readily available in routinely collected health administrative data. New publication in International Journal for Quality in Health Care

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/prospectively-identifying-older-adults-risk-potentially-avoidable-hospitalizations-korea-using - 2025-03-05

Published 24 March 2020 While a dose-response relationship between physical activity and risk of diabetes has been demonstrated, few studies have assessed the relative importance of different measures of physical activity on diabetes risk. The aim was to examine the association between different self-reported measures of physical activity and risk of type 2 diabetes in a prospective cohort study.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/different-domains-self-reported-physical-activity-and-risk-type-2-diabetes-population-based-swedish - 2025-03-05