The rise in antibiotic resistance is a global public health concern, and antibiotic overuse needs to be reduced. Earlier studies of out-of-hours care have indicated that antibiotic prescribing is less appropriate than that of in-hours care. However, no study has compared the out-of-hours treatment of infections to in-hours treatment within the same population. Read more at https://bmcinfectdis.bio

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/diagnosis-linked-antibiotic-prescribing-swedish-primary-care-comparison-between-hours-and-out-hours - 2025-08-23

People who inject drugs (PWID) have increased risk of acquiring blood-transmitted chronic viral infections such as Hepatitis B (HBV), Hepatitis C (HCV) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) as well as increased risk of acquiring bacterial infections. We aimed to identify and describe bacteraemic episodes, their recurrence rates, predictive and prognostic factors amongst hospitalised PWID. Read mo

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/prevalence-and-recurrence-bacteraemia-hospitalised-people-who-inject-drugs-single-centre - 2025-08-23

Previous research has shown that Common Mental Disorders (CMD) are unequally distributed between population subgroups, but we know less about how labour outcomes following such disorders are distributed. Our aim is to investigate how the labour outcomes following a CMD diagnosis differ over sex, age, schooling and country of birth. Read more at https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/heterogeneity-associations-between-common-mental-disorders-and-labour-outcomes-population-study - 2025-08-23

Musculoskeletal pain is common in the general population and constitutes a major public health problem. A large proportion of these conditions may be work related. The aim of this study was to explore the relative importance of physical, psychosocial and personal factors, in number of pain sites and in five specific pain sites, among women in common professions with a broad variety of occupational

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/impact-occupational-and-personal-factors-musculoskeletal-pain-cohort-study-female-nurses - 2025-08-23

In a recent population-based study, an elevated risk of the Metabolic syndrome (MetS) and type 2 diabetes was found in childless men compared to those who have fathered one or more children. Therefore, by using a larger cohort of more than 22 000 men from the Malmo Preventive Project (MPP) we aimed to expand our observations in order to evaluate the metabolic profile of childless men and to evalua

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/male-childlessness-independent-predictor-risk-cardiovascular-and-all-cause-mortality-population - 2025-08-23

Hemopexin and α1-microglobulin act as scavengers to eliminate free heme-groups responsible for hemoglobin-induced oxidative stress. The present study evaluated maternal and fetal plasma concentrations of these scavengers in the different phenotypes of placenta-mediated disorders. Singleton pregnancies with normotensive fetal growth restriction [FGR] (n = 47), preeclampsia without FGR (n = 45) and

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/hemopexin-and-a1-microglobulin-heme-scavengers-differential-involvement-preeclampsia-and-fetal - 2025-08-23

Welders are exposed to high levels of metal particles, consisting mainly of iron and manganese (Mn) oxide. Metal particles, especially those containing Mn can be neurotoxic. In this exploratory study, we evaluated associations between welding and expression of 87 putative neurology-related proteins in serum in a longitudinal approach. The study cohort from southern Sweden included welders working

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/exposure-mild-steel-welding-and-changes-serum-proteins-putative-neurological-function-longitudinal - 2025-08-23

TheLIH is looking for new leadership to structure the Department of PopulationHealth focusing on multiple determinants of health and disease beyond ‘omics’,with an emphasis on social and environmental determinants that drive healthoutcomes and health inequities in the population and patient cohorts. Read more at https://www.lih.lu/jobs/detail/director-of-department-of-population-hea…

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/director-department-population-health-un1020 - 2025-08-23

The extraordinary effort to speed the development of treatments and vaccines in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has put into sharp relief the need for the global science community to share scientific data openly. As the world’s largest funder of biomedical research, NIH is addressing this need with a new NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing. This policy requires researchers to plan prospec

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/statement-final-nih-policy-data-management-and-sharing - 2025-08-23

Har Du eller någon nära anhörig genomgått så kallad mikrovaskulär lambåkirurgi i huvud-halsområdet vid Skånes Universitetssjukhus i Lund under åren 1989-2019? I så fall ämnar vi undersöka Din/Din anhörigs patientjournaler som del av en forskningsstudie. Läs mer här https://www.lupop.lu.se/preoperativ-riskskattning-vid-stor-huvud-halski…

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/preoperativ-riskskattning-vid-stor-huvud-halskirurgi - 2025-08-23

Insomnia affects up to one in four adolescents and has been shown to have a negative impact on their mental and physical health. This study aimed to investigate the association between insomnia, academic performance, self-reported health, physical activity, school start time, and substance use among adolescents. Read more at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32899407/

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/insomnia-relation-academic-performance-self-reported-health-physical-activity-and-substance-use - 2025-08-23

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. First time diagnoses of i

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/postmenopausal-breast-cancer-and-occupational-exposure-chemicals-0 - 2025-08-23

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 was applied to derive HU.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/health-related-quality-life-and-health-utility-among-patients-diabetes-zabol-southeast-iran - 2025-08-23

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 cognitively unimpaired, and 83 am

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/medial-temporal-lobe-connectivity-and-its-associations-cognition-early-alzheimers-disease - 2025-08-23

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 quantitative susceptibility mappin

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/relationship-between-cortical-iron-and-tau-aggregation-alzheimers-disease - 2025-08-23

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 endometriosis among Swedish women

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/associations-perinatal-characteristics-endometriosis-nationwide-birth-cohort-study - 2025-08-23

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.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ful

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/risk-invasive-prostate-cancer-and-prostate-cancer-death-relatives-patients-prostatic-borderline-or - 2025-08-23

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.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.a

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/alcohol-use-disorder-and-risk-suicide-swedish-population-based-cohort - 2025-08-23

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 late preterm, small for gestat

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/associations-between-antenatal-and-perinatal-risk-factors-and-cerebral-palsy-swedish-cohort-study - 2025-08-23

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 investigate the interplay bet

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/effects-tumor-specific-cap1-expression-and-body-constitution-clinical-outcomes-patients-early-breast - 2025-08-23