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Objective. To investigate the prevalence of current and chronic pain and their relationship to pain intensity, sex, age, income, employment status, citizenship, marital status, urban residence, occupational activity, and healthcare-seeking based on a representative sample from a Swedish county. Methods. A cross-sectional survey using a postal questionnaire was sent to a representative sample (n =

Objective To examine the association between anthropometry and endometrial cancer, particularly by menopausal status and exogenous hormone use subgroups. Methods Among 223,008 women in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study, there were 567 incident endometrial cancer cases during 6.4 years of follow-up. The analysis was performed with Cox proportional hazards

BACKGROUND: High blood pressure contributes to organ damage. However, during the past two decades there have been great advances in the medical treatment of hypertension. Technical progress has also made it easier to visualize organ damage. Hence we found it of interest to examine heart, brain and retina in a group of middle-aged treated hypertensives, comparing the results with those from a group

OBJECTIVES: To map out-patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) with special reference to patients suffering from acute exacerbations, and to describe COPD health care structure and process in Swedish clinical practice in a real life setting. DESIGN: Retrospective, non-interventional, epidemiological survey. SETTING: 141 hospital based out patient clinics (OPC, n=30) and primary

OBJECTIVE: This study examined all-cause mortality in stroke patients with and without documented atrial fibrillation (AF), and the impact of CHADS(2) score. DESIGN: A cohort of 105,074 patients, 31,821 (30.3%) with and 73,253 (69.7%) without documented AF, was studied. These patients were registered in the Swedish Stroke Registry during the years 2001-2005. Mortality data were retrieved from the

The monograph reports a number of studies of a therapist’s speech. It comprises three chapters. The first chapter is a theoretical introduction into the scientific problem of the psychotherapeutic utterance. It reveals some psychological aspects of language issue, explains the concepts of “utterance” and “psychotherapeutic utterance”, and provides an account of the research methods used for studyi

OBJECTIVE:: To evaluate effect on comorbid disease and weight loss 5 years after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery for morbid obesity in a large nationwide cohort. BACKGROUND:: The number patients having surgical procedures to treat obesity and obesity-related disease are increasing. Yet, population-based, long-term outcome studies are few. METHODS:: Data on 26,119 individuals [75.8% women,

ABINIT is a package whose main program allows one to find the total energy, charge density, electronic structure and many other properties of systems made of electrons and nuclei, (molecules and periodic solids) within Density Functional Theory (DFT), Many-Body Perturbation Theory (GW approximation and Bethe-Salpeter equation) and Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT). ABINIT also allows to optimize

Purpose To explore the association of baseline trabecular bone structure with incident tibiofemoral (TF) osteoarthritis (OA) and with increase in joint space narrowing (JSN) score. Methods The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study (MOST) includes subjects with or at risk for knee OA. Knee radiographs were scored for Kellgren–Lawrence (KL) grade and JSN at baseline, 30, 60 and 84 months. Knees (KL ≤ 1)

Hedersrelaterat våld är för svenskt vidkommande inget nytt. Det råder däremot fortfarande stora svårigheter att få grepp om fenomenet vilket dels beror på frånvaron av en vedertagen definition, dels delade meningar om vad våldet beror på. Gemensamt för de olika förklaringarna är dock att det bottnar i föreställningen om att mannen är överordnad kvinnan. Brott utförda med hedersmotiv omfattas inteHonor-based violence is not a foreign phenomenon in Sweden. Still, there are significant difficulties in understanding it. This is partly due to the lack of a recognized definition and to conflicting opinions regarding how the violence can be explained. Nevertheless, what is common to the various explanations is that the violence stems from the idea of man being superior to woman. In Sweden, crim

Applications based on Wireless Sensor Networks are making their way into all kinds of industries. Today, they can do anything from off-loading hospitals by monitoring patients in their homes to regulating production lines in factories. More often than not, they perform some kind of surveillance and tracking. Thus, in most cases the information they carry is sensitive, rendering good encryption sch

År 1979 införde Sverige ett uttryckligt agaförbud. Stadgandet i 6 kap. 1 § föräldrabalken, (FB) innebär att föräldrar inte får utsätta barn för kroppslig bestraffning eller annan kränkande behandling. Agaförbudet är en markering från lagstiftarens sida om att barn är extra skyddsvärda. Enligt motiven till 6 kap. 1 § FB är det dock oundvikligt att föräldrar erkänns rätten att övervinna fysiskt mots

En jämförelse mellan singel-chipet och dual-chipet: ny tillämpning för akustisk infångning av celler och partiklar Mikrofluidik är ett expansivt område som banar väg för utveckling av ny mikroteknologi inom det medicintekniska området. Genom att studera och försöka förstå hur vätskor och mindre partiklar beter sig på mikroskalan kan man finna lösningar till mer effektiva analysmetoder på exempelvAbstract Microfluidics is the field where the behavior of fluids is studied in very small channels, and small means that the size of the channels normally is only a couple of hundred microns. Fluids in the µL/nL/pL range are handled in microfluidics. There´s a difference in the behavior of fluids on the microscale compared to the macroscale. This difference, taken into consideration yields severa

To reach the global targets, a number of actions must be taken. Among other things, the EU has decided that the recovery rate for waste from the building sector shall be at least 70 weight percent by year 2020. This means that the building sector needs to take increased responsibility for its waste. Based on the global targets, the Swedish Parliament has formulated 16 environmental quality targets

Mjukvaror och produktansvarslagen - en komparativ studie är en komparativ studie som belyser den svenska och danska produktansvarslagstiftningens tillämpligheten på mjukvaror och vad för problematik som uppstår om gällande lagstiftning inte omfattar mjukvaror. Tillämpligheten har diskuterats utifrån analyser av förarbeten och hur frågan har diskuterats i litteraturen. Slutligen förs ett resonemangMjukvaror och produktansvarslagen - en komparativ studie is a comparative study that illustrate the applicability of the Danish and Swedish Product Liability Act and what problems arise if the current legislation does not include software. The applicability has been discussed based on analyzes of preliminary work and how the issue has been discussed in the literature. Lastly, there is a discussion

Patienter har i Sverige så kallad negativ självbestämmanderätt, det vill säga en rätt att neka behandling. Denna rätt återfinns i såväl patientlagen som i svensk grundlag. Den negativa självbestämmanderätten uttrycks bland annat genom kravet att patienten måste samtycka till medicinsk behandling för att sådan ska få genomföras. Kravet på samtycke kan åsidosättas vid fara som akut och allvarligt hoPatients in Sweden have the right to negative autonomy which means they have a right to refuse treatment. This right can be found in the Swedish Patient Act as well as in constitutional law. Negative autonomy is guaranteed through the requirement that patients must consent to medical treatment for such treatment to lawfully be carried out. Exemptions from the requirement of consent can be made in

China’s increasing assertiveness in the South China Sea towards its neighbouring countries has been a clear awakening for the European Union as well as its member states. The situation has attracted military vessels from the United States whose mission has become to ensure the continuation of freedom of navigation and movement in the South China Sea. However, the EU’s involvement in the situation