Published 30 May 2020 There is a growing recognition of significant, unmet palliative care needs in nursing facilities, yet limitations in the workforce limit access to palliative care services. Attention to palliation is particularly important when there are efforts to reduce hospitalizations to help ensure there are no unintended harms associated with treating residents in place. New publication

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/role-palliative-care-registered-nurse-nursing-facility-setting - 2025-01-29

Published 30 May 2020 As research in treatments for neurocognitive diseases progresses, there is an increasing need to identify cognitive decline in the earliest stages of disease for initiation of treatment in addition to determining the efficacy of treatment. For early identification, accurate cognitive tests cutoff values for cognitive impairment are essential. New publication in Alzeheimer´s R

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/age-related-effect-cognitive-performance-cognitively-healthy-elderly-mainly-caused-underlying-ad - 2025-01-29

Published 31 May 2020 Early onset preeclampsia (EOP) and late onset preeclampsia (LOP) have been differentiated with a cut‐point of ≤34 weeks. This classical definition has never been examined with respect to maternal characteristics by different gestational age cut‐points. We examined maternal characteristics in a population‐based cohort of 1736 preeclamptic deliveries at different gestational ag

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/validation-34-week-gestation-definition-late-onset-preeclampsia-testing-different-cutoffs-30-37 - 2025-01-29

Published 31 May 2020 The incidence of cirrhosis for individuals in Sweden has previously been reported as stable/low among European countries. However, Swedish population-based studies are scarce and none of them included data from the most recent decade (2010–2019). We aimed to describe the incidence and aetiology of cirrhosis in the Halland region from 2011 to 2018, and to describe the severity

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/incidence-aetiology-and-related-comorbidities-cirrhosis-swedish-population-based-cohort-study - 2025-01-29

Published 1 June 2020 Cancer registry system has been playing important roles in research and policy making in cancer control. In general, information on cause of death is not available in cancer registry data. To make inference on survival of cancer patients in the absence of cause of death information, the relative survival ratio is widely used in the population‐based cancer research utilizing e

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/doubly-robust-inference-procedure-relative-survival-ratio-population-based-cancer-registry-data - 2025-01-29

Published 1 June 2020 Baseline lung function was assessed in 20,700 men and 7325 women from 1974 to 1992. Mean age was 43.4 (±6.6) and 47.5 (±7.9) for men and women respectively. Sex-specific quartiles of FEV1 and FVC (L) were created (Q4: highest, reference) and the cohort was also divided by the FEV1/FVC ratio (≥ or < 0.70). Cox proportional hazards regression was used to determine the risk of i

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/low-lung-function-and-risk-incident-chronic-kidney-disease-malmo-preventive-project-cohort - 2025-01-29

Published 2 June 2020 Victimisation of women is encountered in all countries across the world, it damages the mental and physical health of women. During pregnancy and the postpartum period, women are at a greater risk of experiencing violence from an intimate partner. The aim of this study was to explore childbirth outcomes in a Swedish population of women reporting a history of violence includin

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/birth-outcomes-swedish-population-women-reporting-history-violence-including-domestic-violence - 2025-01-29

Published 2 June 2020 Registries will enable cohort studies to be performed, which are usually considered to be the best quality of observational studies. The quality of data of registries can be increased if is it possible to merge results (‘crosstalk’) between registries. A prerequisite for that is an agreed uniform core set of data to be collected and uniform definitions on the items to be coll

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/registries-and-databases-european-perspective - 2025-01-29

Published 3 June 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 healthcare

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

Published 3 June 2020 Diabetes registries can be used to monitor the prevalence and incidence of diabetes. Diabetes registries are used in many countries for population management of diabetes, outcomes management, and development of Clinician finding Support Structure, for example, National Diabetes Registry (NDR) in Sweden and Singapore diabetes registry. New publication in Pak J Med Sci.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/diabetes-registry-pakistan-0 - 2025-01-29

Published 4 June 2020 Our aim was to investigate the bone mineral density (BMD) evolution and incidence of osteoporosis in relation to chronic kidney disease (CKD) up to 10 years after heart transplantation (HT). New publication in Europe PMC

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/bone-mineral-density-relation-chronic-kidney-disease-after-heart-transplantation-retrospective - 2025-01-29

Published 4 June 2020 Central haemodynamics have in recent years emerged as a promising predictor of cardiovascular health and risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Central haemodynamics are affected early in the development of vascular aging and contributes to target organ damage. Carotid–femoral pulse wave velocity (c-f PWV), augmentation index (Aix) and central SBP (cSBP) are variables that ref

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/family-patterns-arterial-stiffness-across-three-generations-malmo-offspring-study - 2025-01-29

Published 5 June 2020 The Minimum Information About BIobank data Sharing (MIABIS) was initiated in 2012. MIABIS aims to create a common biobank terminology to facilitate data sharing in biobanks and sample collections. The MIABIS Core terminology consists of three components describing biobanks, sample collections, and studies, in which information on samples and sample donors is provided at aggre

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/extending-minimum-information-about-biobank-data-sharing-terminology-describe-samples-sample-donors - 2025-01-29

Published 5 June 2020 Longitudinal studies of caregiver burden when caring for persons with dementia living at home are sparse. The aim of the study was to identify factors associated with caregiver burden and predicting increased burden related to caregivers, persons with dementia and formal care. Data were collected through interviews with 1223 caregivers in eight European countries. New publica

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/predicting-caregiver-burden-informal-caregivers-caring-persons-dementia-living-home-follow-cohort - 2025-01-29

Published 6 June 2020 To assess how the prevalence of pain in a population-based sample of children and adolescents with cerebral palsy (CP) differ based on self- or proxy reporting. New publication in Journal of Primary Care & Community Health 

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/self-versus-proxy-reported-pain-children-cerebral-palsy-population-based-registry-study-3783 - 2025-01-29

Published 6 June 2020 Patients aged ≥ 18 years seeking at emergency department (ED) during daytime on weekdays between December 2013 and July 2018, with diabetes and acute dyspnea, identified at the triage process, were included. Participants (n = 291) were triaged according to Medical Emergency Triage and Treatment System-Adult score, and blood samples were collected. Association between TNFR1 an

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/tnfr1-associated-short-term-mortality-patients-diabetes-and-acute-dyspnea-seeking-care-emergency - 2025-01-29

Published 9 February 2018 Forum för forskningskommunikation vid Vetenskapsfestivalen i Göteborg Forum för forskningskommunikation är en årlig konferens i Göteborg som vänder sig till kommunikatörer på universitet och högskolor. Den 18 april är det återigen dags att samlas på Draken i Göteborg. Hur blir vi bättre på att kommunicera och sprida forskningsresultat? Och hur hittar vi smartare sätt för

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/communicating-research - 2025-01-29

Published 7 June 2020 This study examined the longitudinal associations between non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in early adolescence and various positive and negative aspects of mental health in young adulthood. The participants were a cohort of regular school students (n = 1064) in grades 7–8 from a Swedish municipality. Nine hundred and ninety-one of these completed an 11-page questionnaire (T1:

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/what-happens-young-adults-who-have-engaged-self-injurious-behavior-adolescents-10-year-follow - 2025-01-29

Published 7 June 2020 Using unique longitudinal microdata linking administrative records from Sweden and Finland, we study how immigrant naturalization relates to cultural proximity. We analyze how Swedish citizenship acquisition depends on mother tongue by comparing Swedish-speaking and Finnish-speaking immigrants from Finland, who arrived in Sweden in 1988–2004, and contrast with other Nordic-bo

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/naturalization-context-free-mobility-evidence-cross-national-data-finnish-immigrants-sweden - 2025-01-29

Published 8 June 2020 Given the increasing availability of large data set, small single-institutional series raise decreasing attention. Rapid expansion of technology from electronic medical records to easily accessible internet access, and widespread use and acceptance of registries in the medical world has allowed for research and quality improvement efforts using 'big data'. Big data, although

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/big-data-vascular-surgery-registries-international-collaboration-and-future-directions - 2025-01-29