Published 10 November 2020 The study comprised women born 1923–1950 living in Malmö city, Sweden, 1991–1996, and enrolled for a prospective population cohort study. Occupational exposure to various chemicals was assessed from job-exposure matrices. An extensive set of individual data on hormonal breast cancer risk factors were collected via a baseline questionnaire and used for confounding control

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/postmenopausal-breast-cancer-and-occupational-exposure-chemicals-0 - 2025-04-15

Published 10 November 2020 The current study aimed to assess the factors associated with HRQoL and HU among Patients with diabetes in Zabol, Southeast Iran. Methods: Among patients referred to Zabol city diabetes clinic, a total of 213 consecutive patients 18 years and older consent to participate in the study in 2015. The Persian version of EuroQol-5D-3L (EQ-5D-3L) using the UK preference weights

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/health-related-quality-life-and-health-utility-among-patients-diabetes-zabol-southeast-iran - 2025-04-15

Published 11 November 2020 Human episodic memory critically depends on subregions of the medial temporal lobe, which are part of functional brain systems such as the anterior-temporal and the posterior-medial system. Here we analysed how Alzheimer’s pathology affects functional connectivity within these systems. Data from 256 amyloid-β-negative cognitively unimpaired, 103 amyloid-β-positive cognit

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/medial-temporal-lobe-connectivity-and-its-associations-cognition-early-alzheimers-disease - 2025-04-15

Published 11 November 2020 A growing body of evidence suggests that the dysregulation of neuronal iron may play a critical role in Alzheimer’s disease. Recent MRI studies have established a relationship between iron accumulation and amyloid-β aggregation. The present study provides further insight demonstrating a relationship between iron and tau accumulation using magnetic resonance-based quantit

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/relationship-between-cortical-iron-and-tau-aggregation-alzheimers-disease - 2025-04-15

Published 12 November 2020 Perinatal characteristics are associated with subsequent risk of several chronic diseases. Previous studies regarding endometriosis were based on small samples and retrospective data and were limited by unmeasured confounding bias, leading to conflicting and inconclusive findings. We investigated the associations of maternal and birth characteristics with risk of endomet

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/associations-perinatal-characteristics-endometriosis-nationwide-birth-cohort-study - 2025-04-15

Published 12 November 2020 The question of whether having a family history of prostatic borderline or in situ neoplasia (PBISN) is associated with an increased risk of invasive prostate cancer (PCa) or death from PCa remains unanswered. The objective of the current study was to provide an evidence‐based risk estimation for the relatives of patients with PBISN. Read more at https://acsjournals.onli

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/risk-invasive-prostate-cancer-and-prostate-cancer-death-relatives-patients-prostatic-borderline-or - 2025-04-15

Published 13 November 2020 The authors examined the association between alcohol use disorder (AUD) and risk of suicide, before and after accounting for psychiatric comorbidity, and assessed the extent to which the observed association is due to a potentially causal mechanism or genetic and familial environmental confounding factors that increase risk for both. Read more at https://ajp.psychiatryon

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/alcohol-use-disorder-and-risk-suicide-swedish-population-based-cohort - 2025-04-15

Published 13 November 2020 In all, 381 (0.2 %) children were assigned a cerebral palsy diagnosis. Among term children, maternal preobesity/obesity, small for gestational age, malformations, induction, elective and emergency caesarian section, Apgar <7 at 5 min and admission to neonatal care were significantly associated with cerebral palsy (all p values<0.05). Among children born moderately or lat

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/associations-between-antenatal-and-perinatal-risk-factors-and-cerebral-palsy-swedish-cohort-study - 2025-04-15

Published 14 November 2020 Obesity induces molecular changes that may favor tumor progression and metastatic spread, leading to impaired survival outcomes in breast cancer. Adenylate cyclase-associated protein 1 (CAP1), an actin regulatory protein and functional receptor for the obesity-associated adipokine resistin, has been implicated with inferior cancer prognosis. Here, the objective was to in

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/effects-tumor-specific-cap1-expression-and-body-constitution-clinical-outcomes-patients-early-breast - 2025-04-15

Published 14 November 2020 Group A streptococci (GAS) are known to cause serious invasive infections, but little is known about outcomes when patients with these infections are admitted to intensive care. We wanted to describe critically ill patients with severe sepsis or septic shock due to invasive GAS (iGAS) and compare them with other patients with severe sepsis or septic shock. Read more at h

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/morbidity-and-mortality-critically-ill-patients-invasive-group-streptococcus-infection-observational - 2025-04-15

Published 15 November 2020 Pre-hospital circumstances, cardiac arrest characteristics, comorbidities and clinical status on admission are strongly associated with outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Early prediction of outcome may inform prognosis, tailor therapy and help in interpreting the intervention effect in heterogenous clinical trials. This study aimed to create a model fo

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/artificial-neural-networks-improve-early-outcome-prediction-and-risk-classification-out-hospital - 2025-04-15

Published 15 November 2020 The etiology of type-2 diabetes is only partly known, and a possible role of prenatal stress in programming offspring for insulin resistance has been suggested by animal models. Previously, we found an association between prenatal stress and type-1 diabetes. Here we examine the association between prenatal exposure to maternal bereavement during preconception and pregnan

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/prenatal-exposure-bereavement-and-type-2-diabetes-danish-longitudinal-population-based-study - 2025-04-15

Published 16 November 2020 Problem gambling is a public health issue and its comorbidity with other health conditions may provide an opportunity for screening in healthcare settings; however, a high level of uncertainty and a lack of research in the field remains. The objective of this study is to investigate potential associations between problem gambling and numerous other health conditions, inc

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/problem-gambling-associations-comorbid-health-conditions-substance-use-and-behavioural-addictions - 2025-04-15

Published 26 March 2018 Results from a cohort study from Lund University suggest that laughter actually is the best medicine (in Swedish) Att ett gott skratt förlänger livet är ett välanvänt ordspråk – men faktum är att det stämmer. I alla fall enligt en ny studie från Lunds universitet. – Vi ser helt enkelt ett samband, säger Gunnar Engström, professor i medicinsk epidemiolog, till TT.Läs mer här

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/laughter-best-medicine - 2025-04-15

Published 16 November 2020 Even though abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and coronary heart disease (CHD) are both related to atherosclerosis, there could be important differences in risk factors. Based on Malmö Diet and Cancer Cohort, the incidence of AAA and CHD was followed prospectively. Cox regression was used to calculate the association of each factor with AAA and CHD and hazards ratio were c

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/comparisons-risk-factors-abdominal-aortic-aneurysm-and-coronary-heart-disease-prospective-cohort - 2025-04-15

Published 17 November 2020 A compulsory swimming education programme was launched in 2014 in second grade (at age 8) in all public primary schools in Malmö, Sweden. Data for the present study on sociodemographic conditions and self-reported swimming ability in fourth grade (age 10) were used for the last birth cohort unexposed (n = 1695) and the first birth cohort exposed (n = 1773) to the interve

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/socioeconomic-differences-swimming-ability-among-children-malmo-southern-sweden-initial-results - 2025-04-15

Published 17 November 2020 Parental role strain was related to young parental age at first birth, female gender, non-married status, age of youngest child, age range of children, number of children in the household, and the parent’s own chronic illness. Furthermore, chronic illness or disability of a child was markedly related to higher parental role strain, although the relationship was partly re

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/sociodemographic-and-health-status-predictors-parental-role-strain-general-population-study - 2025-04-15

Published 18 November 2020 Self-efficacy refers to a person´s confidence in carrying out treatment-related activities and constitutes the foundation of self-management as well as long-term follow-up after heart transplantation. Exploring the heart recipients´ experiences by means of self-report instruments provides healthcare professionals with valuable information on how to supply self-management

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/self-efficacy-recovery-and-psychological-wellbeing-one-five-years-after-heart-transplantation - 2025-04-15

Published 18 November 2020 Cellular rejection is most common 3–6 months after heart transplantation while chronic rejection, that is, cardiac allograft vasculopathy and malignancy are the most common causes of death in heart-transplant recipients beyond the third year after transplantation. However, the heart transplantation recipient’s perceived threat of graft rejection has never been explored.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/fear-graft-rejection-after-heart-transplantation-nationwide-cross-sectional-cohort-study - 2025-04-15

Published 19 November 2020 For this prospective observational study, data on demographics, functional status and living conditions were obtained from the Swedish Stroke Register (Riksstroke). Data on comorbidity and hospital readmissions up to five years post-index stroke were obtained from the Swedish National Patient Register. Patients were grouped based on number of readmissions: low (0–1) inte

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/patterns-hospital-readmissions-after-ischaemic-stroke-observational-study-swedish-stroke-register - 2025-04-15