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It is now possible to apply for grants for international post doc position, conference organization, and NOP-HS for nordic scientific journals Internationell postdok – ger nydisputerade forskare med doktorsexamen från svenskt universitet möjlighet att forska utomlands.Konferensbidrag – främjar internationellt forskningssamarbete och erfarenhetsutbyte. Att ge forskare verksamma i Sverige möjlighet
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/vr-announces-new-grants - 2025-10-23
The Research Unit of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Biodemography, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), invites applications for 1-2 fulltime positions as associate professors in epidemiology or biostatistics. Read more here.
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/1-2-associate-professors-epidemiology-or-biostatistics - 2025-10-23
European researchers are calling for data sharing Read more here.
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/data-must-be-shared-also-researchers-outside-europe - 2025-10-23
Issues surrounding data sharing Read more here.
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/sharing-data-safely-while-preserving-privacy-0 - 2025-10-23
About 50% of patients with Crohn’s disease (CD) and about 20% of those with ulcerative colitis (UC) undergo surgery at some point during the course of the disease. The diagnostic validity of the Swedish National Patient Register (NPR) has previously been shown to be high for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), but there are little data on the validity of IBD-related surgical procedure codes. New pub
The incidence of JIA in this well-defined, population-based cohort is slightly lower than in previously published studies from Scandinavia. The need for orthopedic surgery and the presence of uveitis are diminished compared to studies with patients diagnosed more than 20 years ago. Children with JIA however still experience disease activity more than 50% of the time. In conclusion, we still have l
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/outcome-juvenile-idiopathic-arthritis-population-based-study-sweden - 2025-10-23
The Lone Star Stroke Consortium Telestroke Registry (LeSteR) currently consisting of 3 academic hub centres and 27 partner spokes is a statewide initiative organised by leading academic health centres in the State of Texas to understand practice patterns of acute stroke management via telestroke (TS) in Texas, a state with one of the largest rural populations in the USA. New publication in BMJ Ope
We aimed to determine the relationship between handgrip strength, smoking, and alcohol consumption in young men and fracture risk at middle age. Thus, we carried out a cohort study including young men undergoing conscription examination in Sweden from September 1969 to May 1970 at a typical age of 18 years. Data on muscle strength, height, weight, and lifestyle factors were linked to the National
It supports four cancer modules: pancreatic, oesophagogastric, biliary and primary liver cancer. The pancreatic cancer (PC) module was the first module to be implemented, with others being established in a staged approach. Individuals are recruited to the registry if they are aged 18 years or older, have received care for their cancer at a participating public/private hospital or private clinic in
Identifying variables predictive of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in women is important. The use of the ratio of total cholesterol-to-high density lipoprotein cholesterol (TC/HDL-C) is often overlooked. The aim was to study TC/HDL-C in relation to later AMI, in a large sample of women, adjusted for age, educational status, smoking, waist-hip ratio, blood pressure, and neighbourhood socioeconom
Datainspektionen (The Swedish Data Protection Authority) will change its name to integritetsskyddsmyndigheten and receive increased funding. The 30 million SEK increase in funding is primarliy aimed towards working with issues regarding personal integrity and the implications of the GDPR for the government sector, private companies and the general public. The agency will also monitor the developem
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/datainspektionen-will-recieve-more-funding-and-change-name - 2025-10-23
When imputing missing baseline values, all methods underestimated equally the true value, but LME3 and MICE correctly estimated remission and low disease activity rates. When imputing missing follow-up values at 6, 12, or 24 months, NAO provided the least biassed estimate of the mean disease activity and corresponding remission rate. These results were not affected by the presence of attrition bia
The score included 31 conditions selected from a list of 65 candidates whose weights were assigned according to the Cox model coefficients. The model was built from a sample of 5.4 million National Health Service (NHS) beneficiaries from the Italian Lombardy Region and applied to the remaining 2.7 million NHS beneficiaries. Predictive performance was assessed by discrimination and calibration. CRe
Previous simulation studies of the case–control study design using incidence density sampling, which required individual matching for time, showed biased estimates of association from conditional logistic regression (CLR) analysis; however, the reason for this is unknown. Separately, in the analysis of case–control studies using the exclusive sampling design, it has been shown that unconditional l
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/bias-control-analysis-case-control-studies-incidence-density-sampling - 2025-10-23
In Sweden, the patients’ diagnoses are recorded in administrative registers. The research value of these registers is determined by their diagnostic validity, that is, if the diagnosis recorded meets the relevant diagnostic criteria. The aim of the study was to assess the validity of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)-diagnoses as compared with case notes in medical records (MRs) and to test if
Estimating the number of individuals living in a country is an essential task for demographers. This study assesses the potential bias in estimating the size of different migrant populations due to over-coverage in population registers. Over-coverage-individuals registered but not living in a country-is an increasingly pressing phenomenon; however, there is no common understanding of how to deal w
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/over-coverage-population-registers-leads-bias-demographic-estimates - 2025-10-23
A healthy lifestyle has been shown to reduce the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD). The extent to which lifestyle influences the risk of CAD for people with pre-existing non-modifiable risk factors is less studied. We therefore examined the associations between a favorable lifestyle and incidence of CAD in population subgroups based on gender, age, educational level, and parental history of my
Selective participation may hamper the validity of population-based cohort studies. The resulting bias can be alleviated by linking auxiliary register data to both the participants and the non-participants of the study, estimating propensity scores for participation and correcting for participation based on these. However, registry holders may not be allowed to disclose sensitive data on (invited)
New publication in The Lancet
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/data-must-be-shared-also-researchers-outside-europe-0 - 2025-10-23
Monday January 13 at 9-12, we will have our very first LUPOP drop-in! Come to the Tornblad Building, have a look at the LUPOP office and ask questions on population studies! For address and directions, visit https://www.lupop.lu.se/tornblad.
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/first-lupop-drop - 2025-10-23
