By petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - published 1 November 2024 Joao Duarte's research group is investigating how the brain is affected by diabetes. Photograph: Petra Olsson Diabetes researcher Joao Duarte specialices in studying what happens in the brain in diabetes. In his research, he is also investigating how diet changes can improve brain function in connection wit

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/praised-research-diabetes-and-dementia - 2025-05-05

By petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - published 5 November 2024 Research nurse Jessica Melin takes as blood sample from a participant. Åke Lernmark, principal investigator of the TEDDY study in Sweden, gives examples of important lessons from the study in the video. In 2025, children within the TEDDY study will submit their final samples at research clinics in Sweden, F

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-knowledge-about-type-1-diabetes-large-scale-teddy-study-will-soon-be-completed - 2025-05-05

By petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - published 8 January 2025 Efraim Westholm and Lena Eliasson have measured levels of the protein IGFBP7 in beta cells from people with type 2 diabetes. Photo: Petra Olsson In type 2 diabetes, the body's ability to release insulin is impaired, which leads to high blood glucose levels. Research led from Lund University shows how the lev

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/protein-affects-ability-secrete-insulin-type-2-diabetes - 2025-05-05

Published 19 September 2020 The two previous versions of the Scandinavian donations and transfusions (SCANDAT) databases, encompassing data on blood donors, blood components, transfusions, and transfused patients linked to national health registers in Sweden and Denmark up until 2012, have been used to study donor health, disease transmission, the role of donor characteristics, and more. Read more

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/swedish-scandinavian-donations-and-transfusions-database-scandat3-s-50-years-donor-and-recipient - 2025-05-05

Published 19 September 2020 The Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health is dedicated to publishing high quality peer-reviewed research in the field of occupational and environmental health and safety. High accessibility of all research data is critical for scientific interaction. The more people this research reaches, the better. The journal has been committed to open science for many y

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/open-acess - 2025-05-05

Published 20 September 2020 The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and open science. This year’s conference (2020) will be the fifteenth Munin Conference and will take place online 18–19 November. Read more at https://site.uit.no/muninconf/

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/welcome-15th-munin-conference-18-19-november-2020 - 2025-05-05

Published 20 September 2020 he EOSC Symposium 2020 brings together researchers, data scientists, e-Infrastructures, Research Infrastructures, EOSC projects, EOSC Working Group members, and representatives of the EU27 Member States and associated countries to discuss the final steps towards the establishment of a first version of a fully-fledged European Open Science Cloud. Read more at https://www

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/eosc-symposium-2020 - 2025-05-05

Published 14 September 2020 Umeå University is dedicated to providing creative environments for learning and work. We offer a wide variety of courses and programmes, world leading research, and excellent innovation and collaboration opportunities. More than 4 100 employees and 34 000 students have already chosen Umeå University. We welcome your application! The Faculty of Medicine, which consists

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/postdoc-position - 2025-05-05

Published 21 September 2020 The global pandemic of the 2019-nCov requires the evaluation of policy interventions to mitigate future social and economic costs of quarantine measures worldwide. We propose an epidemiological model for forecasting and policy evaluation which incorporates new data in real-time through variational data assimilation. We analyze and discuss infection rates in the UK, US a

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/epidemiological-modelling-approach-covid-19-data-assimilation - 2025-05-05

Published 21 September 2020 The Poly Implant Prothèse incident and breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma have pointed to the need for uniform registries for breast implants as key features to monitoring the outcomes of breast implant surgeries internationally. The purpose of this study was to identify and harmonize common data elements collected by breast implant registries acro

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/toward-international-harmonization-breast-implant-registries-international-collaboration-breast - 2025-05-05

Published 22 September 2020 Registries of pancreatic surgery have become increasingly popular as they facilitate both quality improvement and clinical research. We aimed to compare registries for design, variables collected, patient characteristics, treatment strategies, clinical outcomes, and pathology. Read more at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039606020304554?via%3Dihub

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/transatlantic-registries-pancreatic-surgery-united-states-america-germany-netherlands-and-sweden - 2025-05-05

Published 22 September 2020 Registry-based trials have emerged as a potentially cost-saving study methodology. Early estimates of cost savings, however, conflated the benefits associated with registry utilisation and those associated with other aspects of pragmatic trial designs, which might not all be as broadly applicable. In this study, we sought to build a practical tool that investigators cou

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/registry-based-trials-potential-model-cost-savings - 2025-05-05

Published 15 September 2020 Placing research software into Open Science - Initial results from an RDA Sweden and EOSC Nordic collaboration. The concept of Open Science is mostly focused around Open Data and Open Access for published material, with Open Software usually left in the shadow. But in order to ensure transparent and reproducible science, it is essential that also software used in resear

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/webinar-25-september-1300-1400-zoom - 2025-05-05

Published 23 September 2020 This paper examines social class differences in fertility, using longitudinal micro-level data for a regional sample in Sweden, 1922-2015. Using discrete-time event history models, we estimated the association between social class and parity-specific duration to next birth, adjusting for household income in separate models. Social class was associated with fertility qui

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/social-class-and-fertility-long-run-analysis-southern-sweden-1922-2015 - 2025-05-05

Published 23 September 2020 The novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has resulted in a global pandemic. Patients with cardiovascular risk factors or established cardiovascular disease are more likely to experience severe or critical COVID-19 illness and myocardial injury is a key extra-pulmonary manifestat

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/north-american-covid-19-st-segment-elevation-myocardial-infarction-nacmi-registry-rationale-design - 2025-05-05

Published 24 September 2020 In response to the public health emergency created by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, American Heart Association volunteers and staff aimed to rapidly develop and launch a resource for the medical and research community to expedite scientific advancement through shared learning, quality improvement, and research. In <4 weeks after it was first announce

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/american-heart-association-covid-19-cvd-registry-powered-get-guidelines - 2025-05-05

Published 24 September 2020 In this comparative effectiveness study, a total of 141 randomized clinical trials referenced in the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Clinical Practice Guidelines for 8 common solid tumor types were identified. Data on participants within the National Cancer Database (NCDB) diagnosed between 2004 and 2014, matching the eligibility criteria of the randomized clinica

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/evaluation-use-cancer-registry-data-comparative-effectiveness-research - 2025-05-05

Published 25 September 2020 In the developing countries with high mortality rates, poisoning is considered to be one of the most common causes of admission to emergency wards. Given the importance of registering data on poisoned patients, it is very important to have a complete poisoning Minimum Data Set (MDS). Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine an MDS for poisoning registry in

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/development-national-minimum-data-set-poisoning-registry-iran - 2025-05-05

Published 25 September 2020 The goal of the global congestive heart failure (G-CHF) registry is to collect comparative international data on heart failure characteristics, management, and outcomes and to better understand the determinants that impact the clinical course of heart failure. Read more at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0002870320301800

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/multinational-registry-study-characteristics-and-outcomes-heart-failure-patients-global-congestive - 2025-05-05

Published 26 September 2020 Cerebral palsy (CP) describes a heterogeneous group of motor disorders resulting from disturbance in the developing brain. CP occurs in approximately 2.1 per 1000 live births in high-income countries, but in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) the prevalence and severity of CP may be greater and aetiological risk factors different. In Sri Lanka, a LMIC, there have

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/protocol-sri-lankan-cerebral-palsy-register-pilot-study - 2025-05-05