Institute of Medicine / Institutionen för medicin: Recent submissions
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Evaluating benefits and harms of screening - the streetlight effect?
(2018-05-25)The general aim of this thesis was to explore how the benefits and harms of screening for a potentially life-threatening disease can be evaluated. Papers I and II are a Cochrane Systematic Review on screening for malignant ... -
Hearing-related symptoms among women - Occurrence and risk in relation to occupational noise and stressful working conditions
(2018-05-24)A considerable amount of research has been devoted to the risk of noise-induced hearing loss among industry workers – the majority of whom are men. Much less research has been done in female-dominated human service ... -
Stratification and model-based analysis of patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome using advanced biostatistics and medical data mining techniques
(2018-05-24)ABSTRACT Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is characterized by symptoms that are dominated by abdominal pain and abnormal bowel habits, as defined by the Rome criteria. The complexity of the disorder is exemplified by the ... -
Investigating antenatal care services, intimate partner violence and non-psychotic mental health disorders among postpartum women in Rwanda
(2018-05-22)Although maternal mortality has decreased in the past years and more women visit antenatal care (ANC) services during pregnancy in Rwanda, initiation and completion of the recommended number of visits remain a problem. It ... -
Addison's Disease and Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
(2018-05-18)Background: Patients with type 1 diabetes (T1DM) and patients with Addison’s disease (AD) need life-long replacement therapy with insulin and glucocorticoids (GCs), respectively. Both groups have reduced life-expectancy. ... -
Renal function in cardiac surgery - Clinical and experimental studies
(2018-05-14)Background: Impaired renal function (measured as glomerular filtration rate (GFR)) is a well-known problem after heart surgery and heart transplantation (HTx), affecting both short-term and long-term survival. The reason ... -
Function of Surface-Associated Protein and DNA on Extracellular Vesicles
(2018-05-09)Extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes, are nano-sized, lipid bilayer enclosed vesicles that are released into the extracellular environment from by almost all cells. EVs contain biomolecules, such as proteins, ... -
Irritable bowel syndrome and physical activity
(2018-05-07)Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common functional gastrointestinal disorder. It is characterized by abdominal pain or discomfort associated with altered bowel habits. The symptoms of IBS limit the patients in daily ... -
151. Occupational skin exposure to chemicals
(Arbets- och miljömedicin, Göteborgs universitet, 2018-04-25)Hudexponering för kemikalier kan ske genom kontakt med luft, fasta material, vätskor, kontaminerade ytor eller genom avsiktlig applicering. Hudexponering kan orsaka upptag genom huden, hudsensibilisering och hudirritation, ... -
Registry studies on myelodysplastic syndrome and secondary acute myeloid leukemia
(2018-04-18)The aims were (I) to describe a European lower risk MDS population and the use of erythropoietin stimulation agents (ESA), (II) to describe the AML population in Sweden 1997-2006 with emphasis on secondary AML (s-AML) and ... -
ILC2s and miRNA regulation in allergy and asthma
(2018-04-12)Asthma is a common respiratory disease that is characterized by chronic inflammation of the airways. In most asthmatic subjects, the immune response is driven by pro-inflammatory type 2 cytokines (interleukin (IL)-4, IL-5 ... -
Heart failure and type 1 diabetes
(2018-03-27)Background: Approximately 45,000 individuals live with type 1 diabetes (T1D) in Sweden. Previous studies have shown an increased risk for heart failure in persons with diabetes, but most of the studies have been in the ... -
Säkerhetskultur i vård och omsorg – stöd och hinder
(Arbets- och miljömedicin, Göteborgs universitet, 2014-04-01)Bättre säkerhet för personal och patienter/boende inom vård och omsorg är en angelägen fråga. Detta gäller både för att minska lidande och av samhällsekonomiska skäl. Därför finns ett stort behov av forskning kring ... -
Identification and early detection of cancer patients in primary care
(2018-03-21)Aim The aim of this thesis was to investigate how general practitioners (GP) can identify patients in primary care with potential common cancers, at an early stage. It was also to design a risk assessment tool for colorectal ... -
The Nordic Expert Group for Criteria Documentation of Health Risks from Chemicals. 150. Silicon carbide
(Arbets- och miljömedicin, Göteborgs universitet, 2018-01-20)Silicon carbide (SiC) is a rare naturally occurring mineral, but manufactured industrially at a large scale. SiC may exist in non-fibrous (angular) and fibrous forms (polycrystalline fibres and single crystal whiskers). ... -
Hypertension, Atrial Fibrillation and Aldosteronism - A study of interplay, predictors and outcome
(2018-03-12)Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common significant arrhythmia, affecting almost 3% of the adult population in Sweden. Although AF is associated with increased risk of lower quality of life, heart failure, ... -
Endosonography and pretreatment tumor profiling - from sampling, staining, to sequencing
(2018-03-01)Background and aims: Endosonography-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) is imperfect in diagnosing solid pancreatic lesions (SPL) and subepithelial lesions (SEL) including gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST). In ... -
SÄKRA BYGGET - Om säkerheten i svensk och dansk byggindustri - och hur den kan förbättras.
(Arbets- och Miljömedicin, 2018-02-23)I SveDan-projektet fann vi att skillnaden i frekvensen dödsolyckor i svensk och dansk byggindustri åren 1993-2012 var 45%. Syftet med SveDan-projektet var att i ett dansk-svenskt forskarsamarbete i en jämförande studie i ... -
Counting deaths, accounting for lives
(2018-02-06)Half of the world’s deaths and their causes are never recorded by virtue of the under-resourced civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems which limits capacity of health systems to respond to population needs. ... -
Högtflygande risker. Variationer i arbetsvillkor, hälsa och säkerhetsklimat bland trafikpiloter i relation till säkerhetsklimat
(Arbets- och miljömedicin, Göteborgs universitet, 2018-02-01)Flygmarknaden har sedan slutet av 1990-talet genomgått genomgripande av-reglering och förändring och är idag hårt konkurrensdriven. Som en följd har flygbolagen utvecklat affärsmodeller med nya anställningsformer och nya ...