Published 21 January 2020 Comorbidity in stroke is common, but comprehensive reports are sparse. We describe prevalence of comorbidity and the prognostic impact on mortality and functional outcome in a large national ischemic stroke cohort. New publication in SAGE Journals

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/long-term-outcome-after-ischemic-stroke-relation-comorbidity-observational-study-swedish-stroke-0 - 2025-07-23

Published 21 January 2020 Preterm birth (gestational age <37 weeks) has been associated with insulin resistance early in life. However, no large population-based studies have examined risks of type 1 and type 2 diabetes and potential sex-specific differences from childhood into adulthood. Clinicians will increasingly encounter adults who were born prematurely and will need to understand their long

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/preterm-birth-and-risk-type-1-and-type-2-diabetes-national-cohort-study - 2025-07-23

Published 22 January 2020 In an increasing but changing population of gestational diabetes women in our region, with more hereditary and non‐Scandinavian origins, but with fewer smokers, metabolic control has improved with maintained favorable pregnancy outcomes, with more frequent use of metformin and substantially less use of insulin treatment. New publication in Obstetrics & Gynaecology

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/pregnancy-outcome-women-gestational-diabetes-longitudinal-study-changes-demography-and-treatment - 2025-07-23

Published 22 January 2020 Sleep apnea is increasing in prevalence, and is an important cause of cardiometabolic diseases and mortality worldwide. Its only established modifiable risk factor is obesity; however, up to half of all sleep apnea cases may occur in non‐obese persons, and hence there is a pressing need to identify other modifiable risk factors to facilitate more effective prevention. We

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/cardiorespiratory-fitness-and-long-term-risk-sleep-apnea-national-cohort-study - 2025-07-23

Published 23 January 2020 Snus use at admission for a first PCI was not associated with a higher occurrence of all-cause mortality, new revascularisation or heart failure hospitalisation. Discontinuing snus after a first PCI was associated with a significantly longer duration to a subsequent PCI. New publication in Interventional cardiology

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/smokeless-tobacco-snus-admission-percutaneous-coronary-intervention-and-future-risk-cardiac-events - 2025-07-23

Published 23 January 2020 More remains to be understood about attitudes towards treatment for gambling disorder and where to seek treatment. Given the low degree of treatment seeking behaviour in this condition, it may be of interest to study people’s perception about where to seek help in case of problem gambling. From a study originally aiming to address health correlates of problem gambling, th

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/general-populations-view-where-seek-treatment-gambling-disorder-general-population-survey - 2025-07-23

Published 24 January 2020 No study to date, as far as we know, has analyzed the potential effect of neighborhood-level deprivation on autoimmune disorders (ADs), when adjusted for individual-level characteristics. Methods: A total of 5.4 million individuals from 8363 neighborhoods, comprising the whole Swedish population (ages 25–74 years), were followed for the period 1 January 2000, until admiss

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/neighborhood-deprivation-and-risks-autoimmune-disorders-national-cohort-study-sweden - 2025-07-23

Published 24 January 2020 An increasing number of women are evaluated for potential breast cancer and may experience mental distress during evaluation. We aim to assess the risks of psychiatric disorders and cardiovascular diseases during the diagnostic workup of potential breast cancer. New publication in Breast Cancer Research

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/psychiatric-disorders-and-cardiovascular-diseases-during-diagnostic-workup-potential-breast-cancer - 2025-07-23

Published 25 January 2020 Studies on partners' mutual receipt of benefits constitute a growing research field in the way individual health and health-related decisions depend on social relations. This paper provides the first study on the mutual receipt of sickness allowance. We analysed married and cohabiting couples' receipt of sickness allowance and disability pension by estimating discrete-tim

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/sickness-or-health-register-based-evidence-partners-mutual-receipt-sickness-allowance-and-disability - 2025-07-23

Published 5 December 2019 Rebecca Warvinge receives award for CML research. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) is a slowly progressing form of blood cancer that attacks the blood-forming cells in the bone marrow. The condition requires lifelong treatment that can cause severe side effects. Rebecca Warfvinge maps stem cells in patients in the hope of identifying predictive marker

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/tailored-therapy-chronic-myeloid-leukaemia - 2025-07-23

Published 17 February 2020 Cristian Bellodi awarded 12 million SEK by Cancerfonden. Photo: Alexander Doyle. The Swedish Cancer Foundation, Cancerfonden, has announced the researchers it will be supporting in its most recent round of funding and Lund Stem Cell Center was especially successful, with seven scientists awarded a total of almost 30 million SEK. Cristian Bellodi, a research team leader f

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/cancerfonden-supports-research-role-rna-modification-cancer-development - 2025-07-23

Published 10 December 2019 Filipe Pereira awarded the 2019 ERC Consolidator Grant. Today the European Research Council (ERC) announced the winners of its latest Consolidator Grant competition and Filipe Pereira, group leader in the Department of Laboratory Medicine, was one of the researchers awarded this highly competitive grant. One of 89 researchers selected from a total of 707 applicants in th

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/filipe-pereira-awarded-european-research-council-consolidator-grant-0 - 2025-07-23

Published 11 December 2019 Joan Yuan, research team leader at the Department of Laboratory Medicine. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter Directly after birth, the immune system completes production of a subtype of antibody-producing immune cells, B-1, that are to last for a lifetime. No more B1-cells are formed after that point. However, these cells are self-reactive – they produce not only antibodies against f

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/how-self-reactive-immune-cells-are-allowed-develop - 2025-07-23

Published 16 December 2019 By Pia [dot] romare [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Pia Romare) - published on 23 August 2018“We must understand the ageing process itself in order to help people with conditions such as Alzheimer’s and dementia, and to possibly enable us to prevent these diseases from arising”, says Henrik Ahlenius of the Stem Cell Centre at Lund University. His aim is to develop an experim

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/how-do-dementia-diseases-affect-our-brains - 2025-07-23

Published 16 December 2019 Zaal Kokaia, Professor within the Department of Clinical Sciences and Director of Lund Stem Cell Center, has been awarded Georgia’s most prestigious scientific prize - the National Prize in Science.  The award comes as a result of his outstanding contribution to world class scientific research and was presented to Prof. Kokaia at a ceremony in the Presidential Palace, Tb

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/prestigious-scientific-prize-awarded-director-lund-stem-cell-center - 2025-07-23

By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 13 January 2020 Margarita Chumarina defends her thesis on Wednesday 15th January Margarita Chumarina, from the iPSC laboratory for CNS disease modeling, will be defending her PhD thesis on Wednesday 15th of January. Researching in the group led by Laurent Roybon, Margarita has been utilizing stem cell-based models to

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-interview-margarita-chumarina - 2025-07-23

By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 27 January 2020 Sara Nolbrant defends her thesis on Friday 31st January Sara Nolbrant, from the Developmental and Regenerative Neurobiology lab, will be defending her PhD thesis on Friday 31st of January. Researching in the group led by Malin Parmar, Sara has been directing and dissecting the fate of dopaminergic neu

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-interview-sara-nolbrant - 2025-07-23

Published 26 February 2020 Björn Nilsson and Nicholas Leigh We are very happy to announce that two new PIs have joined Lund Stem Cell Center! Björn Nilsson is Professor of Clinical Immunology at the Medical Faculty of Lund University, and the Head of the Division of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine at the Department of Laboratory Medicine. He is also a visiting researcher at the Broad Institute

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/two-new-principal-investigators-lund-stem-cell-center - 2025-07-23

By sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Leidholm) - published 2 March 2020 Human iPS cells Photo: Johan Jakobsson Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease make up the world’s most common diseases. A new biobank at Lund University in Sweden - the largest of its kind - with stem cells from both those affected and healthy individuals, will contribute to an

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/worlds-largest-stem-cell-biobank-launched-0 - 2025-07-23

By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 5 March 2020 UniStem day 2020 High school students from all over the Skåne region will be visiting Lund University to spend a whole day discussing the current state of stem cell research, discovering what it is like to work in a research setting, and exploring the exciting future possibilities that stem cells have to

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/continued-interest-stem-cells-among-high-school-students - 2025-07-23