Published 7 April 2020 The changing health care environment promotes the adoption of new information technologies to connect patients and health care providers. However, individuals greatly vary in their ability to use new digital systems, and in their feelings regarding integrity and validation. Caregivers in southern Sweden plan to implement a new digital primary health care (DPHC) service, and

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/patients-experiences-digital-primary-health-care-concept-using-written-dialogues-pilot-study - 2025-03-05

Published 31 March 2020 Välkomna till Lunds universitets deltävling av Forskar Grand Prix, en tävling där forskare från svenska lärosäten tävlar om vem som kan göra den mest begripliga, inspirerande och intressantaste presentationen av sin forskning – på endast fyra minuter. Läs mer på https://www.lu.se/event/forskar-grand-prix-2020.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/forskar-grand-prix-2020 - 2025-03-05

Published 8 April 2020 Oncoplastic breast surgery (OBS) has developed as an extension of breast-conserving surgery (BCS) in an effort to improve esthetic and functional outcome following surgery for breast cancer. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the possible benefits of OBS, as compared with BCS, with regard to health-related quality of life (HRQoL), using patient-reported outcome mea

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/patient-reported-outcome-after-oncoplastic-breast-surgery-compared-conventional-breast-conserving - 2025-03-05

Published 9 April 2020 Road traffic injuries are a neglected global public health problem. Over 1.25 million people are killed each year, and middle- income countries, which are motorising rapidly, are the hardest hit. Sri Lanka is dealing with an injury- related healthcare crisis, with a recent 85% increase in road traffic fatality rates. Road traffic crashes now account for 25 000 injuries annua

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/establishment-road-traffic-trauma-registry-northern-sri-lanka - 2025-03-05

Published 10 April 2020 Modal choice is a prominent concept within transport studies. However, the term is often used quite loosely, with little known about the factors lying behind the choice, the alternatives available to a person, and whether the person had a ‘choice’ to begin with. This study draws on a travel survey among older people living in Sweden’s large metropolitan regions. The questio

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/examining-process-modal-choice-everyday-travel-among-older-people - 2025-03-05

Published 11 April 2020 Plasma phosphorylated tau181 (P-tau181) might be increased in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but its usefulness for differential diagnosis and prognosis is unclear. We studied plasma P-tau181 in three cohorts, with a total of 589 individuals, including cognitively unimpaired participants and patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), AD dementia and non-AD neurodegenerative

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/plasma-p-tau181-alzheimers-disease-relationship-other-biomarkers-differential-diagnosis - 2025-03-05

Published 1 April 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic presents a major test for our science system and for our research and data infrastructures. These infrastructures, such as open science clouds and data commons, must serve the needs! of science, policy, and humanity not only in ‘normal times’, but also in times of crisis by providing controlled access to quality data in real time and at scale for a rang

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/data-together-covid-19-appeal-andactions - 2025-03-05

Published 12 April 2020 There are a few studies that report cognitive impairment as a complication of treatment with beta- blockers. We aimed to evaluate the longitudinal association between use of beta-blockers, as a class, and incident risk of all-cause dementia, vascular dementia, Alzheimer's and mixed dementia in the prospective population-based Malmö Preventive Project. We included 18,063 ind

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/beta-blocker-therapy-and-risk-vascular-dementia-population-based-prospective-study - 2025-03-05

Published 13 April 2020 Preeclampsia (PE) is a common pregnancy-related disorder associated with cardiovascular long-term disease. Eighty percent are late-onset PE, occurring after 34 gestational weeks, and can present with severe symptoms. Magnitude and reversibility rate of maternal cardiovascular changes after severe late-onset PE have not been characterized. This study therefore evaluated long

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/cardiovascular-effects-severe-late-onset-preeclampsia-are-reversed-within-six-months-postpartum - 2025-03-05

Published 14 April 2020 Ovarian cancer (OC) is usually detected in late clinical stages, and imaging at diagnosis is crucial. Peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) and cardio phrenic lymph nodes (CPLN) are pathological findings of computed tomography (CT) and are relevant for surgical planning. Furthermore, mammographic breast density (BD) has shown an association with OC risk and might be prognostically

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/ovarian-cancer-subtypes-and-survival-relation-three-comprehensive-imaging-parameters - 2025-03-05

Published 15 April 2020 The discrepancy between social and biological clock due to sleep and wake up time difference across weekdays and weekends is referred as social jetlag. The overall aim of this study is to test whether there is an association between both screen time and nighttime texting and social jetlag among 13- to 15-year-old adolescents in Sweden. This study included a cross-sectional

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/social-jetlag-and-its-association-screen-time-and-nighttime-texting-among-adolescents-sweden-cross - 2025-03-05

Published 16 April 2020 The study population included all adults with diagnosed AF (n = 156,104) aged ≥ 45 years in Sweden without an earlier recorded diagnosis of dementia. Individuals with a dispensed prescription of levothyroxine on two or more occasions between July 1 2005 and December 31 2006 in Sweden were considered exposed (n = 12,978; 8.3%), and were compared to all other patients with AF

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/levothyroxine-treatment-and-incident-dementia-adults-atrial-fibrillation - 2025-03-05

Published 12 April 2020 Winner of the Poster Session at RDA (Research Data Alliance) Virtual Plenary Meeting! Read more, and see the poster at https://www.rd-alliance.org/missing-data-relationship-between-legal-req…!

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/missing-data-relationship-between-legal-requirements-and-open-research-data - 2025-03-05

Published 14 April 2020 LUPOP is running a matchmaking initiative, connecting clinically active researchers with non-clinicians who are willing to help out with research during the corona-pandemic. Today, the team of researchers who are willing to help can provide expertise in these areasAgeingBioinformaticsBiology (molecular, computational)BiomarkersCardiometabolic risksData management (data mini

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/do-you-need-help-your-research-while-working-covid-19-patients - 2025-03-05

Published 17 April 2020 Loss to follow-up in dementia studies is common and related to cognition, which worsens over time. We aimed to describe dropout and missing cognitive data in the Swedish dementia registry, SveDem; identify factors associated with dropout; and estimate propensity scores and use them to adjust for dropout. New publication in Alzheimers Dement

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/controlling-selective-dropout-longitudinal-dementia-data-application-svedem-registry - 2025-03-05

Published 18 April 2020 Male hypogonadism is associated with higher risk of co-morbidity and premature mortality. It is, therefore, of utmost importance to identify young men who are at the highest risk of testosterone deficiency and who may benefit from preventive measures. In this context, infertile men constitute a high-risk group. The extent of testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) among infe

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/testosterone-replacement-therapy-men-who-conceived-intracytoplasmic-sperm-injection-nationwide - 2025-03-05

Published 19 April 2020 C-reactive protein (CRP) is not included in the major intensive care unit (ICU) prognostic tools such as the Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS). We assessed CRP on ICU admission as a SAPS-3 independent risk marker for short-term mortality and length of stay (LOS) in ICU patients with sepsis. New publication in Journal of Critical Care

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/c-reactive-protein-prognostic-factor-intensive-care-admissions-sepsis-swedish-multicenter-study - 2025-03-05

Published 20 April 2020 The cognitive components of subjective well-being can be measured with the Satisfaction with life scale (SWLS) and the Harmony in life scale (HILS), which both comprise five items each. The aim of this article is to abbreviate these scales and examine their psychometric properties and validity. Three datasets including test-retest data are used (N = 787; N = 860; N = 343).

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/abbreviated-three-item-versions-satisfaction-life-scale-and-harmony-life-scale-yield-strong - 2025-03-05

Published 21 April 2020 The West Sweden Asthma Study (WSAS) is a population-representative longitudinal study established to: generate data on prevalence trends, incidence and remission of asthma, allergy and respiratory conditions, elucidate on the risk and prognostic factors associated with these diseases, characterise clinically relevant phenotypes of these diseases and catalyse relevant mechan

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/cohort-profile-west-sweden-asthma-study-wsas-multidisciplinary-population-based-longitudinal-study - 2025-03-05

Published 22 April 2020 Treatment options for peritoneal metastases (PM) from colorectal cancer (CRC) have increased, their efficiency should be monitored. For this purpose, register-based data on PM can be used, if valid. Purpose: We aimed to evaluate the completeness and positive predictive value (PPV) of synchronous peritoneal metastases (S-PM) registered among CRC patients in the Danish Nation

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/validity-registered-synchronous-peritoneal-metastases-colorectal-cancer-danish-medical-registries - 2025-03-05