Published 21 December 2020 Nina Wilén’s article about how the ‘added value’ of female peacekeepers risks becoming an ‘added burden’ is now open access in International Affairs. In this article, Nina argues that discussions about female peacekeepers’ "added value" may increase gender inequality, due to the added burden that it places upon female peacekeepers - a burden which is not carried by their

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nina-wilens-latest-article-now-open-access-international-affairs - 2025-01-29

Published 14 January 2021 Catarina Kinnvall has recently published a book chapter entitled ‘Postcolonialism’ in the Routledge Handbook of Critical European Studies, edited by Didier Bigo, Thomas Diez, Evangelos Fanoulis, Ben Rosamond and Yannis A. Stivachtis and published with Routledge. This handbook comprehensively defines and shapes the field of Critical European Union Studies, sets the researc

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Published 21 January 2021 Annika Bergman Rosamond and Catarina Kinnvall have together with Chris Agius (Swinburne University, Australia) published the article ‘Populism, Ontological Insecurity and Gendered Nationalism: Masculinity, Climate Denial and Covid-19’ in the journal Politics, Religion and Ideology. The  article proceeds from a critical analysis of gendered narratives of nationhood as mani

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Published 29 January 2021 Christie Nicoson has recently published an article entitled 'Towards climate resilient peace: an intersectional and degrowth approach.' This paper calls for stronger consideration of positive conceptualizations of peace and of intersectionality and degrowth in pursuit of peace and resilience. Not only does climate change make planetary limitations more salient, but it als

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Published 1 February 2021 Johannes Lindvall and Carl Dahlström (University of Gothenburg) has contributed a report to the Danish parliament’s study Managing the Covid-19-Crisis The report, which deals with Sweden’s response to Covid-19, is published as Appendix 4 in the Danish study. An English-language summary is available. Link to the study at ft.dk Johannes Lindvall's personal page

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Published 9 February 2021 In an article entitled "Nordic Security and Defence Cooperation: Differentiated Integration in Uncertain Times" Rikard Bengtsson analyzes the development and nature of Nordic security and defence cooperation. The article is part of the thematic issue on "Rediscovering Nordic Cooperation" in the journal Politics and Governance. Link to the publication on cogitatiopress.com

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bengtsson-nordic-security-and-defence-cooperation - 2025-01-29

Published 12 February 2021 New article in "Foreign Policy Analysis" by Hanna Bäck, Jan Teorell, Alexander Von Hagen-Jamar and Alejandro Quiroz Flores. In this study, Hanna Bäck and Jan Teorell with colleagues engage in the debate about leadership and foreign policy outcomes by focusing on the tenure of foreign ministers. They ask why some foreign ministers stay longer in office than others. Using

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Published 9 December 2020 Malmö city, Sweden had 322,574 inhabitants in 2015. We used diagnosis registry, charts, and radiographs of the only city hospital to classify fractures in individuals < 16 years in 2014–2016, and compared these with data from 1950–2006. We used joinpoint regression to analyze time trends and present results as mean annual percentage changes (APC). Differences between peri

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Published 9 December 2020 Two academic centers in Lithuania and Turkey participated in this retrospective study conducted between November 2018 and July 2019. A total of 100 consecutive patients (22 males, 78 females; mean age 78.9 years; range, 45 to 100 years) with low energy proximal femur fractures admitted for surgery were included in the study. Fracture Risk Assessment tool (FRAX) and the Se

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/combined-fracture-and-mortality-risk-evaluation-stratifying-treatment-hip-fracture-patients - 2025-01-29

Published 10 December 2020 Recent improvements in life expectancy in many countries stem from reduced mortality from cardiovascular disease and cancer above the age of 60. This is the combined result of decreased incidence and improved survival among those with disease. The latter has led to a higher proportion in the population of people with a past history of disease. This is a group with higher

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/rise-number-long-term-survivors-different-diseases-can-slow-increase-life-expectancy-total - 2025-01-29

Published 10 December 2020 Global environmental change has degraded ecosystems. Challenges such as climate change, resource depletion (with its huge implications for human health and wellbeing), and persistent social inequalities in health have been identified as global public health issues with implications for both communicable and noncommunicable diseases. This contributes to pressure on health

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/advancing-global-health-through-environmental-and-public-health-tracking-0 - 2025-01-29

Published 11 December 2020 International patient registries are of particular importance for rare disorders, as they may contribute to overcome the lack of knowledge derived from low number of patients and limited awareness of these diseases, and help to learn more about their geographical or population-based specificities, which is relevant for research purposes and for promoting better standards

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/creation-and-implementation-european-registry-patients-mcardle-disease-and-other-muscle-glycogenoses - 2025-01-29

Published 11 December 2020 Dominant mutations in valosin-containing protein (VCP) gene cause an adult onset inclusion body myopathy, Paget’s disease of bone, and frontotemporal dementia also termed multisystem proteinopathy (MSP). The genotype-phenotype relationships in VCP-related MSP are still being defined; in order to understand this better, we investigated the phenotypic diversity and pattern

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/phenotypic-diversity-international-cure-vcp-disease-registry - 2025-01-29

Published 12 December 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic may have severe impact on mental health, and concerns have been raised about potentially increased online behavior and possibly increased gambling problems, such as in sports bettors at risk of transfer to even riskier forms of gambling during sports lock-down. Given the need for objective data about gambling behavior during the pandemic, the presen

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/impact-covid-19-online-gambling-general-population-survey-during-pandemic - 2025-01-29

Published 12 December 2020 Survival data for pancreatic cancer are usually based on actuarial calculations and actual long-term survival rates are rarely reported. Here we use population-level data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program for patients with microscopically confirmed pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma diagnosed from 1975 to 2011. A total of 84,275 patients with at

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/actual-5-year-survivors-pancreatic-ductal-adenocarcinoma-based-real-world-data - 2025-01-29

Published 13 December 2020 The aim of this study was to investigate the appearance of a disturbed oropharyngeal microbiota during hospitalization and explore the patient characteristics that maybe associated with such a disturbance. Oropharyngeal swabs were collected from 134 patients at hospital admission and every 3–4 days thereafter. The samples were cultivated to determine the presence of a di

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/disturbance-oropharyngeal-microbiota-relation-antibiotic-and-proton-pump-inhibitor-medication-and - 2025-01-29

Published 13 December 2020 Only one fifth of children aged 11–17 years are physically active for 60 min (min)/day. As physical activity (PA) levels track from childhood to adulthood, it is important to establish healthy PA behavior early in life. This study aims to evaluate whether daily school PA is associated with objectively measured PA independently of other socioecological factors. This study

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/daily-school-physical-activity-associated-higher-level-physical-activity-independently-other - 2025-01-29

Published 14 December 2020 The Swedish Quality Register for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (SWIBREG) contains clinical data for the study of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The Epidemiology Strengthened by histoPathology Reports in Sweden (ESPRESSO) cohort was recently established for the study of gastrointestinal histopathology. We aimed to develop and validate a histology score from ESPRESSO using

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/novel-method-quantifying-intestinal-inflammatory-burden-inflammatory-bowel-disease-using-register - 2025-01-29

Published 14 December 2020 Read more at Current national hand surgery registries worldwide - PubMed (nih.gov)

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Published 15 December 2020 We are living in a multi-omics era of systems epidemiology. Quantitative high-throughput metabolomics and lipidomics have resulted in hundreds of molecular measures for up to tens of thousands of people in multiple cohorts and biobanks. Extensive and complex data create significant challenges for statistical analyses. It would therefore be beneficial, not only for omics

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/epimetal-open-source-graphical-web-browser-tool-easy-statistical-analyses-epidemiology-and - 2025-01-29