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Risk factors and consequences of asthma can be studied by using validated questionnaires. The overall objective of this study was to assess the agreement of parental-reported asthma-related questions regarding their children against Swedish health care registers. New publication in Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf.
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/agreement-between-asthma-questionnaire-and-health-care-register-data-0 - 2025-10-01
New publication in Rev Esp Cardiol
New publication in Eur Neuropsychopharmacol
High-quality biobanking within routine health services, through the use of existing health-care practices and infrastructure, with respect to safety and integrity of patients in line with the Swedish Biobank Act, enables large-scale collection of biological material at reasonable costs. Complementing the extensive information on myocardial infarction patients from a national registry gives unique
Spatial epidemiological analyses primarily depend on spatially-indexed medical records. Some countries have devised ways of capturing patient-specific spatial details using ZIP codes, postcodes or personal numbers, which are geocoded. However, for most resource-constrained African countries, the absence of a means to capture patient resident location as well as inexistence of spatial data infrastr
In summary, the authors have proposed progressive ideas which could improve surveillance however, in our view, it is likely that many programs will not have the political and medical support needed for implementation with the exception of mortality outcomes. New publication in European Journal of Medical Genetics
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/triple-surveillance-future-birth-defect-registries - 2025-10-01
We herein outline the rationale for a Swedish cohort consortium, aiming to facilitate greater use of Swedish cohorts for world-class research. Coordination of all Swedish prospective population-based cohorts in a common infrastructure would enable more precise research findings and facilitate research on rare exposures and outcomes, leading to better utilization of study participants' data, better
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/rationale-swedish-cohort-consortium-0 - 2025-10-01
PSYCOHORTS lays the foundation for complex examinations of psychiatric disorders that is based on compatible datasets, use of biobanks and multigenerational approach to risk factors, and extensive data on marginalization and inequality. New publication in Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/finnish-psychiatric-birth-cohort-consortium-psycohorts-content-plans-and-perspectives - 2025-10-01
CandiReg provides an eCRF for invasive Candida infections that can be used for a variety of studies from cohort studies on attributable mortality to evaluations of guideline adherence, offering to the investigators of the 28 ECMM member countries the opportunity to document their cases of invasive Candida infection. CandiReg allows the monitoring of epidemiology of invasive Candida infections, inc
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/ecmm-candireg-ready-use-platform-outbreaks-and-epidemiological-studies - 2025-10-01
The Nordic Arthroplasty Register Association (NARA) was established in 2007 by arthroplasty register representatives from Sweden, Norway and Denmark with the overall aim to improve the quality of research and thereby enhance the possibility for quality improvement with arthroplasty surgery. Finland joined the NARA collaboration in 2010.NARA minimal hip, knee and shoulder datasets were created with
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/benefits-collaboration-nordic-arthroplasty-register-association-0 - 2025-10-01
The STarT Back Screening Tool (SBT) identifies patients with low back pain (LBP) at risk of a worse prognosis of persistent disabling back pain, and thereby facilitates triage to appropriate treatment level. However, the SBT does not consider the pain distribution, which is a known predictor of chronic widespread pain (CWP). The aim of this study was to determine if screening by the SBT and screen
Radical prostatectomy (RP) is a common surgical procedure with a risk of postoperative erectile dysfunction and urinary incontinence. There is a need for data on RP as a basis for quality assurance and benchmarking. New publication in Journal of Surgical Oncology
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/population-based-nationwide-registration-prostatectomies-sweden - 2025-10-01
Randomized clinical trials are the preferred study design to address key research questions about the benefits or harms of interventions. However, randomized trials of oxygen therapy are difficult to conduct and have limitations. The purpose of this article is to offer our view on the potential use of patient registries in the field of home oxygen in COPD as an alternative to randomized trials by
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/patient-registries-home-oxygen-research-and-evaluation-0 - 2025-10-01
The best-fit model predicted risk for DA in S2 as a function of the log of kilometres between S1 and S2 with parameter estimates (±95% confidence intervals) of 0.94 (0.92; 0.95). Prediction of DA included effects of cohabitation and an interaction of proximity and time since S1 registration with stronger effects of proximity early in the follow-up period. Proximity effects were stronger for smalle
The best-fit model predicted risk for DA in S2 as a function of the log of kilometres between S1 and S2 with parameter estimates (±95% confidence intervals) of 0.94 (0.92; 0.95). Prediction of DA included effects of cohabitation and an interaction of proximity and time since S1 registration with stronger effects of proximity early in the follow-up period. Proximity effects were stronger for smalle
Major advances in cardiovascular medicine have been driven by innovations in basic research in biological and technical sciences. The subsequent testing in prospective randomized controlled trials (RCT) has provided the evidence underpinning the introduction of new, more effective, and safer treatments. New publication in European Heart Journal
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/euroheart-european-unified-registries-heart-care-evaluation-and-randomized-trials - 2025-10-01
The Islamic presence in Europe is becoming normalised. But integration also leads to increased conflict, according to Oliver Scharbrodt, Lund University’s new Professor of Islamic Studies. Oliver Scharbrodt came to the University last spring after taking up Sweden’s only professorship in Islamic Studies. “I was attracted by the fact that Lund is one of Europe’s classic top universities and that th
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/integration-can-lead-conflict - 2025-10-01
CMES Phd researcher Joel Abdelmoez has written a Q & A on Qatar and the World Cup on the blog Tabsir. In the blog post, Joel describes Qatar politically and economically and discusses the controversies surrounding Qatar acting as host to the 2022 FIFA World Cup. One issue is the fact that Qatar and FIFA have been accused of corruption and irregularities in relation to the election process. Another
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/qatar-and-world-cup-questions-and-answers - 2025-10-01
CMES scholar Svante Lundgren has authored the article "När den assyriska tragedin blev Seyfo: En undersökning av svens-assyrisk minnespolitik" [In English: "When the Assyrian Tragedy Became Seyfo: A Study of Swedish-Assyrian Memory Politics"] published in Historisk Tidskrift för Finland. Seyfo is the name Assyrians use for the Assyrian genocide. It is an Assyrian (Aramaic) word meaning sword, as t
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/when-assyrian-tragedy-became-seyfo - 2025-10-01
This panel of Middle East experts will discuss: What is the status of women’s rights in Iran? How can we understand recent political acts of resistance and civil protests expressed by young people in Iran? What is the role of the Iranian diaspora, and what is the impact of these protests beyond Iran regionally and globally? The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), together with the S
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-public-panel-protests-iran - 2025-10-01
