Published 31 December 2020 It was discovered that the relation between certain personality traits and nicotine dependence differs among ethnicities and cultures; therefore, this study was conducted to determine which temperaments and personality traits are associated with smoking dependence in order to contribute to the development of effective and targeted interventions for smoking dependence wit

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/association-characters-and-temperaments-cigarette-and-waterpipe-dependence-among-sample-lebanese - 2025-02-07

Published 1 January 2021 Early childhood deprivations and inequalities have social and economic implications in adulthood and thus, their elimination is essential for child development. However, child-level estimates of poverty are rare in low income countries. Using data from two recent rounds of the Ghana Demographic and Health Survey, we measure the extent and sources of childhood deprivations

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/multidimensional-child-poverty-ghana-measurements-determinants-and-inequalities - 2025-02-07

Published 1 January 2021 The Osteoporosis Risk Assessment cohort consists of 1044 community-dwelling women aged 75, with 10 years of follow-up. Investigations were performed and a frailty index constructed at baseline, 5 and 10 years. Falls were self-reported for each previous 12 months. Analysis was two-directional, firstly based on frailty status and second, based on falls status. Recurrent fall

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/frailty-and-prediction-recurrent-falls-over-10-years-community-cohort-75-year-old-women - 2025-02-07

Published 2 January 2021 Abdominal aortic aneurysm is associated with an increased mortality, mostly cardiovascular events. Moreover, aortoiliac calcification is associated with increased mortality in patients with peripheral occlusive disease. The aim of this study is to assess the potential association between iliofemoral calcification, assessed by calcium score, in patients undergoing infrarena

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/low-iliofemoral-calcium-score-may-predict-higher-survival-after-evar-and-fevar - 2025-02-07

Published 2 January 2021 Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a life-threatening condition with a mortality rate of over 80%. Persistent smoking, which is a risk factor for AAA, has lasting effects on DNA methylation. Moreover, a plasma-amino acid, homocysteine, previously implicated in vascular diseases, including aneurysms, has well-established biological association with methylation. In the prese

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/associations-global-dna-methylation-and-homocysteine-levels-abdominal-aortic-aneurysm-cohort-study - 2025-02-07

Published 3 January 2021 In 2009, the Swedish government launched a nationwide dissemination and implementation project regarding substance abuse treatment, Knowledge to Practice (KTP), which was commissioned by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare (SoS). Read more at Implementing guidelines for interventions in Swedish substance abuse treatment: A national evaluation of outcomes from

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/implementing-guidelines-interventions-swedish-substance-abuse-treatment-national-evaluation-outcomes - 2025-02-07

Published 3 January 2021 This three armed pilot randomised controlled trial, was undertaken on the Birth Suite of an Australian tertiary obstetric hospital. Incidence of PPH was assessed using univariable and adjusted logistic regression, which compared the effect of titrating intravenous oxytocin post birth on the likelihood of PPH, relative to the 15 minute titration group. Read more at Spontane

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/spontaneous-vaginal-birth-following-induction-intravenous-oxytocin-three-oxytocic-regimes-minimise - 2025-02-07

Published 4 January 2021 The public health survey in Scania 2008 was linked to the Swedish cause of death register. In this study of 10,757 men and 12,322 women aged 18–80 years, 421 men and 235 women died during the 5.3-year follow-up. Survival analyses were conducted. Read more at Health locus of control and mortality: a population-based prospective cohort study - ScienceDirect

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/health-locus-control-and-mortality-population-based-prospective-cohort-study - 2025-02-07

Published 4 January 2021 Educational and income gradients in health are well established in the literature but there is need for a better understanding of how mental health inequalities change over time, and what drives the development. We aim to study how psychiatric diagnosis and its income-related inequality have changed over time in Sweden and to make a first attempt at disentangling the devel

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/education-immigration-and-rising-mental-health-inequality-sweden - 2025-02-07

Published 5 January 2021 Previous studies regarding associations between depressive symptoms and suicidality (suicidal ideation, plans and attempts) have usually employed a variable-centred approach, without considering the individual variance in time-varying changes of depressive symptoms. Through 10-year follow-up of a large cohort of Chinese adolescents exposed to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake,

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/longitudinal-associations-between-adolescents-trajectory-membership-depressive-symptoms-and - 2025-02-07

Published 29 March 2018 Join the walk between MAX IV and ESS on April 14. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/march-science - 2025-02-07

Published 5 January 2021 Older adults aging with long-term SCI show large variations in all HRQoL-domains and have the potential to maintain a high and stable level of HRQoL over time. Persons with AIS D injuries may need increased attention to mitigate negative changes in depressive symptoms and global QoL. Further studies are needed to identify modifiable factors associated with changes in HRQoL

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/changes-health-related-quality-life-among-older-adults-aging-long-term-spinal-cord-injury - 2025-02-07

Published 6 January 2021 Expensive cancer treatment calls for alternative ways such as drug repurposing to develop effective drugs. The aim of this study was to analyse the effect of post-diagnostic use of cholera vaccine on survival outcome in breast cancer patients. Read more at Association of post-diagnostic use of cholera vaccine with survival outcome in breast cancer patients - PubMed (nih.go

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/association-post-diagnostic-use-cholera-vaccine-survival-outcome-breast-cancer-patients - 2025-02-07

Published 6 January 2021 Observational learning is a successful method for improving writing skills in various genres. We explore effects of a five lesson intervention series based on peer observation. Fifty-five Swedish 5th-grade students aged 10–12 years followed this intervention programme. The students watched short film clips with peers working with texts. Each lesson was organised according

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/improving-narrative-writing-skills-through-observational-learning-study-swedish-5th-grade-students - 2025-02-07

Published 7 January 2021 Over half the children had postural asymmetries in sitting (n = 1,646; 60.2%) or supine (n = 1,467; 53.6%). These increased with age and as motor function decreased. Children were twice as likely to have pain if they had an asymmetric posture (OR 2.1–2.7), regardless of age, sex and motor function. Children unable to maintain or change position independently were at higher

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/postural-asymmetries-pain-and-ability-change-position-children-cerebral-palsy-sitting-and-supine - 2025-02-07

Published 7 January 2021 The results on a combined measure of the word and nonword decoding indicated that only 18% of the children had age-adequate decoding skills. The proportion of age-adequate decoders did not change noticeably with the school year. The participants’ decoding skills showed larger deviations to test norm means with higher school years. Hierarchical regression analysis showed th

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/description-and-prediction-reading-decoding-skills-swedish-children-developmental-language-disorder - 2025-02-07

Published 8 January 2021 Orthostatic hypotension (OH) is associated with increased risk of trauma and cardiovascular events. Recent studies have identified new genetic variants that influence orthostatic blood pressure (BP). The aim of this study was to investigate the associations of candidate gene loci with orthostatic BP responses in older adults. A total of 3,430 participants aged ≥50 years fr

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/orthostatic-hypotension-and-novel-blood-pressure-associated-gene-variants-older-adults-data-tilda - 2025-02-07

Published 8 January 2021 Wealth is highly correlated between parents and their children; however, little is known about the extent to which these relationships are genetic or determined by environmental factors. We use administrative data on the net wealth of a large sample of Swedish adoptees merged with similar information for their biological and adoptive parents. Comparing the relationship bet

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/poor-little-rich-kids-role-nature-versus-nurture-wealth-and-other-economic-outcomes-and-behaviours - 2025-02-07

Published 9 January 2021 The European Registry of Quality Outcomes of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (EUREQUO) contains data on baseline characteristics, surgery, and follow-up for cataract surgeries. Previous vitrectomy is included as a mandatory parameter in baseline characteristics. According to the protocol for EUREQUO, consecutive cases should be reported by participating units. Read more at

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/cataract-surgery-eyes-previous-vitrectomy-risks-and-benefits-reflected-european-registry-quality - 2025-02-07

Published 9 January 2021 Heavy drinking (HD) and binge drinking (BD) exhibit marked differences in their relationships with contextual‐level factors imbedded in geographical areas of residence. The objective is to identify sociodemographic factors, both at the individual and at the contextual level, associated with these 2 main hazardous consumption patterns. Read more at Individual and Contextual

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/individual-and-contextual-factors-associated-hazardous-drinking-spain-evidence-national-population - 2025-02-07