Published 1 April 2020 With age, the number of chronic conditions increases along with the use of medications. For several years, polypharmacy has been found to be on the increase in western societies. Polypharmacy is associated with an increased risk of adverse drug events (ADE). Medications called potentially inappropriate medications (PIM) have also been found to increase the risk of ADEs in an

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/use-potentially-inappropriate-medication-and-polypharmacy-older-adults-repeated-cross-sectional - 2025-04-25

Published 30 March 2020 As an international, consensus-driven, community based organisation, the Research Data Alliance (RDA) has been asked to leverage on the global RDA data community to support the urgent Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. As a response, RDA has set up a fast track Working Group titled the “RDA COVID-19 Working Group”. Read more at https://www.rd-alliance.org/rda-covid-19-working-g

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/rda-covid-19-working-group-urgent-call-expert-contributions - 2025-04-25

Published 2 April 2020 People with intellectual disability (ID) face considerable barriers to accessing psychiatric health care, thus there is a risk for health disparity. The aims of the present study were 1) to compare specialist psychiatric health care utilization among older people with ID to that with their age peers in the general population, taking into account demographic factors and co-mo

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/specialist-psychiatric-health-care-utilization-among-older-people-intellectual-disability-predictors-0 - 2025-04-25

Published 25 January 2018 The annual conference "Kvalitetsregister för forskning" will be held 23 May, 2018, 9 am – 5 p.m. at Arlanda Radisson Blu Arlandia Hotel. The aim of the conference is to increase the competence in issues related to research using quality registers. Conference fee: 650-900 SEKRegistration deadline: 16 May, 2018Language: SwedishLink to additional information and registration

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/conference-using-quality-registers-research - 2025-04-25

Published 3 April 2020 Low resting heart rate and premature atrial contractions (Pacs) predict incident atrial fibrillation (aF) and could be interdependent, since Pacs occur in the gaps between normal beats. New publication in BMJ

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/heart-rate-and-premature-atrial-contractions-24hecg-independently-predict-atrial-fibrillation - 2025-04-25

Published 4 April 2020 Data from the European Registry of Quality Outcomes for Cataract and Refractive Surgery (EUREQUO) were analyzed. The EUREQUO contains preoperative baseline, intraoperative, and follow-up data. Intraoperative data include dropped nucleus as a complication. Baseline data such as demographic data, ocular comorbidities, surgical difficulties, and visual and refractive outcomes w

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/risk-factors-dropped-nucleus-cataract-surgery-reflected-european-registry-quality-outcomes-cataract - 2025-04-25

Published 5 April 2020 Population-based cancer registries collect information on first course of treatment that may be utilized in research on cancer care quality, yet few studies have investigated the validity of this information. We examined the accuracy and completeness of registry-based treatment information in a cohort of adolescent and young adult women. New publication in Cancer Epidemiolog

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/validity-state-cancer-registry-treatment-information-adolescent-and-young-adult-women - 2025-04-25

Published 6 April 2020 The development of caregiver support programs is limited by lack of large long-term follow-up studies. We present a comprehensive study of Swedish stroke caregivers' life situation in relation to degree of functional dependency of the survivor. New publication in International Journal of Stroke

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/informal-caregivers-stroke-life-impact-support-and-psychological-well-being-swedish-stroke-register - 2025-04-25

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 - 2025-04-25

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 - 2025-04-25

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 - 2025-04-25

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 - 2025-04-25

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 - 2025-04-25

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 - 2025-04-25

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 - 2025-04-25

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 - 2025-04-25

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 - 2025-04-25

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 - 2025-04-25

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 - 2025-04-25

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 - 2025-04-25