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Population ageing is putting pressure on pension systems and health care services, creating an imperative to extend working lives. At the same time, policy makers throughout Europe and North America are trying to expand the use of home care over institutional services. Thus, the number of people combining caregiving responsibilities with paid work is growing. We investigate the conflicts that aris

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/caregiving-time-costs-and-trade-offs-gender-differences-sweden-uk-and-canada - 2025-12-31

The distal forearm fracture is the most common fracture in children. To allocate health care resources and evaluate if prevention strategies have been successful, it is essential to monitor changes in the epidemiology of common fractures. New publication in Journal of Wrist Surgery

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/pediatric-distal-forearm-fracture-epidemiology-malmo-sweden-time-trends-during-six-decades - 2025-12-31

Our register-based matched cohort study showed that low level of education was associated with increased mortality among gout patients. Although the magnitude of relative inequality was smaller in people with gout compared with those without, the absolute inequalities were greater reflecting a major mortality burden among those with lower education. New publication i International Journal of Equit

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/educational-inequalities-all-cause-and-cause-specific-mortality-among-people-gout-register-based - 2025-12-31

Some first‐ever stroke patients, such as those with high early case fatality and those with mild stroke, may go undetected with hospital‐based screening used in clinical stroke registers. This can result in selection bias due to not identifying specific groups of patients including some with high early case fatality and those living in healthcare facilities. New publication in Acta Neurologica Sca

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/completeness-case-ascertainment-swedish-hospital-based-stroke-registers-0 - 2025-12-31

Investigating demographic and socioeconomic factors as intersecting rather than as separate dimensions may improve our understanding of the heterogeneous distribution of type 2 diabetes in the population. However, this complexity has scarcely been investigated and we still do not know the accuracy of these factors for predicting type 2 diabetes. Improved understanding of the demographic and socioe

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/understanding-complexity-socioeconomic-disparities-type-2-diabetes-risk-study-43-million-people - 2025-12-31

Of patients with symptom onset in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, 35.0, 43.0 and 45.6% reached SR, respectively (P < 0.001 for each increment), and the odds of SR were higher in every decade compared with the one before. The hazard ratio for reaching SR was 1.15 (95% CI 1.14, 1.15) for each year from 1994 to 2009 compared with the year before. Five years after symptom onset in 2009, 45.3% of patients

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/secular-trends-sustained-remission-rheumatoid-arthritis-nationwide-study-sweden - 2025-12-31

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-0 - 2025-12-31

For a long time the attention given to the hip fracture patient group was minor and without any certain consideration to their frailty. To improve the care for these patients Skane University Hospital in Lund has during the past 19 years worked actively with developing the care. This paper aims to describe what impact the care process development has had on functional outcome and mortality, as wel

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/impact-care-process-development-and-comorbidity-time-surgery-mortality-rate-and-functional-outcome - 2025-12-31

I maj bjuder LUPOP (Lund University Population Research Platform) och SND (Svensk Nationell Datatjänst) in till en webinarieserie om juridik i befolkningsforskning. Webinarierna kommer att handla om arkivering av forskningsdata, forskningsdata som allmän handling, och överföring av data till tredje land. Föreläsningarna med efterföljande frågestund kommer att hållas på svenska och är öppna för all

https://www.lubi.lu.se/article/webinarieserie-om-juridik-i-befolkningsforskning-seminar-series-swedish - 2025-12-31

​​​​​​​How can we navigate both the challenges and opportunities in the energy system due to the increasing use of electric vehicles? Smart electric vehicle charging and user flexibility have been proposed as potential remedies for future imbalances in energy consumption, but the success of such remedies requires close collaboration between users and system operators. A study shows that while user

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/requesting-control-and-flexibility-exploring-swedish-user-perspectives-electric-vehicle-smart - 2025-12-31

A podcast from "Vetenskap & hälsa" Podd: Virus – svåra att kontrollera – Vetenskap och Hälsa (vetenskaphalsa.se) A podcast from "Vetenskap & hälsa" Ebola fever is a viral disease with a very high mortality rate but despite several outbreaks it has never spread globally. An HIV infection, which in the 1980s led to the deadly disease AIDS can today be treated and has become a chronic disease. But de

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/viruses-difficult-control-swedish - 2025-12-31

Research indicates that occupation is important for well-being in people with mental illness, but this has not been extensively studied among those with severe psychiatric disabilities. Social contacts may possibly play a more vital role for them. This study aimed to explore how aspects of occupation and social interaction were related with well-being factors in that group, while controlling for t

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/associations-between-occupational-and-social-interaction-factors-and-well-being-among-people - 2025-12-31

As at December 31, 2018, 5,762 patients, 7,776 amputations, 2,658 prosthetic supplies, 1,848 baselines, and 2,006 follow-ups were registered. 61% of the patients were male, and mean age by the time of the first registered amputation was 74 years (SD 14). Women were older, more frequently had vascular disease without diabetes and more often underwent amputation at a higher level compared with men (

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/swedeamp-swedish-amputation-and-prosthetics-registry-8-year-data-5762-patients-lower-limb-amputation - 2025-12-31

Examination of the validity of SP identification according to SNOMED (Systematised Nomenclature of Medicine) codes and free text from colorectal histopathology reports. Read more at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31892305/.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/validation-serrated-polyps-sps-swedish-pathology-registers - 2025-12-31

Registry‐based cohort study. The adjusted effect of surgical exposure for mortality was examined using Cox regression. Secondary analysis with conditional logistic regression in a case‐control subpopulation matched for age, gender, and Simplified Acute Physiology Score III (SAPS3) was also conducted. New publication in Acta

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/exposure-surgery-associated-better-long-term-outcomes-patients-admitted-swedish-intensive-care-units - 2025-12-31

To evaluate screening efficiency and suggest cut-offs for parent and child Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (MFQ) and the short version (SMFQ) in unselected help seeking child- and adolescent psychiatric outpatients for subgroups of 6–12 versus 13–17 year olds and boys versus girls. New publication in PLOS ONE

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/screening-efficiency-mood-and-feelings-questionnaire-mfq-and-short-mood-and-feelings-questionnaire - 2025-12-31

A total of 413 000 people with T2D aged <66 years, comprising 4.9 million person‐years, was included. The crude proportion with any absence was higher among those with T2D compared to controls (47% vs. 26%) in the index year, and the median (IQR) number of days was higher (223 [77;359] vs. 196 [59;352]) if any absence. Regression analyses showed that complications per se were a key driver of days

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/days-absent-work-result-complications-associated-type-2-diabetes-evidence-20-years-linked-national - 2025-12-31

Compression neuropathies (CN) in the upper extremity, the most common being carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) and ulnar nerve entrapment (UNE), are frequent among patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). Earlier studies have shown contradicting results regarding DM as a risk factor for CN. Thus, the aim of the present population-based, longitudinal study was to explore potential associations between DM, C

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/diabetes-mellitus-risk-factor-compression-neuropathy-longitudinal-cohort-study-southern-sweden - 2025-12-31

Exposures to perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have shown positive associations with serum lipids in previous studies. While many studies on lipids investigated associations with perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), there are only a few studies regarding other PFAS, such as perfluorohexane sulfonic acid (PFHxS). The purpose of the current study is to investigate i

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/associations-between-perfluoroalkyl-substances-and-serum-lipids-swedish-adult-population - 2025-12-31

In this population-based study, we compared the incidence of distal radius fracture in 2016 with that in the same region’s adult general population in 2001 using radiographs to identify fracture cases. We showed that the incidence decreased by 24% in 2016 compared with 2001 indicating an important development. New publication in Osteoporosis International

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/incidence-distal-radius-fracture-general-population-southern-sweden-2016-compared-2001 - 2025-12-31