Published 4 February 2020 The very small changes over 6 years imply that persons with a TBI can reach and maintain a stable level of functioning many years post‐TBI. Women with a moderate‐to‐severe TBI seem to be more vulnerable and may experience a small decline in some aspects of their functioning related to anxiety, depression, irritability, pain and headache and fatigue. The relatively small s

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/functioning-and-disability-10-16-years-after-traumatic-brain-injury - 2025-07-11

Published 4 February 2020 User involvement in research is advocated as an avenue for efficient societal developments. In this article, we identify potentials, problems, and challenges related to research on aging and health, and identify and illustrate research priorities using an evolving research program as an example. Involving user representatives in the development phase, the UserAge program

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/understanding-user-involvement-research-aging-and-health - 2025-07-11

Published 29 January 2020 LERU (of which Lund University is a part) have now signed the Sorbonne declaration on research data rights Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/sorbonne-declaration-research-data-rights - 2025-07-11

Published 5 February 2020 Linked data are increasingly being used for epidemiological research, to enhance primary research, and in planning, monitoring and evaluating public policy and services. Linkage error (missed links between records that relate to the same person or false links between unrelated records) can manifest in many ways: as missing data, measurement error and misclassification, un

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/reflections-modern-methods-linkage-error-bias - 2025-07-11

Published 6 February 2020 The psychological health of young people in Sweden has declined since measurements began to be taken in 1985. The reasons for the increase in stress and decline in psychological well-being among adolescents have been de- bated during the past few years. New publication in Lund University Publications

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/well-being-and-stress-among-upper-secondary-school-pupils-sweden - 2025-07-11

Published 6 February 2020 Much progress has been made in twin research since our last special issue on twin registries (Hur, Y.-M., & Craig, J. M. (2013). Twin Research and Human Genetics, 16, 1-12.). This special issue provides an update on the state of twin family registries around the world. This issue includes 61 papers on twin family registries from 25 countries, of which 3 describe consortia

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/twin-family-registries-worldwide-important-resource-scientific-research - 2025-07-11

Published 31 January 2020 U21 offer staff and research students a range of funding options for collaborative projects. They strongly encourage members to take an interdisciplinary approach involving multiple health themes, working in partnership with at least three member universities. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/u21-hsg-funding-opportunities - 2025-07-11

Published 7 February 2020 Hand surgery leadership in the United States must identify and define what quality care means for its patients. To achieve this, the surgical team needs a standardized framework to track and improve quality. This is necessary not only in our value-based health care system but also in light of considerable provider variation in the management of common hand conditions and

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/establishing-national-registry-hand-surgery - 2025-07-11

Published 7 February 2020 n Sweden, teachers are subject to high turnover, unfavorable working conditions, and high incidence of stress-related disorders. The aim of the present study was to (a) assess teachers’ perceptions of work-related health and working conditions, (b) examine the relationship among sev- eral key characteristics in teachers’ work environment, and (c) examine the importance fo

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/well-being-and-working-conditions-teachers-sweden - 2025-07-11

Published 8 February 2020 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

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/understanding-complexity-socioeconomic-disparities-type-2-diabetes-risk-study-43-million-people - 2025-07-11

Published 8 February 2020 The extent to which a favorable lifestyle may lower cancer risk in subjects with a family history of cancer is unknown. We conducted a prospective study in two Swedish cohorts, the Malmö Diet and Cancer Study (MDCS; n = 25,604) and the Malmö Preventive Project (MPP; n = 16,216). The association between a favorable lifestyle (based on nonsmoking, normal weight, absence of

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/lifestyle-and-cancer-incidence-and-mortality-risk-depending-family-history-cancer-two-prospective - 2025-07-11

Published 9 February 2020 The aim was to study the association between weight, mental health and experience of being bullied in 12‐year‐old children. Additional aim was to investigate the impact of childhood psychosocial risk factors for overweight and obesity at age 12. New publication in Acta Paediatrica

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/mental-health-and-experience-being-bullied-12-year-old-children-overweight-and-obesity - 2025-07-11

Published 9 February 2020 ClinicalTrials.gov was established in 2000 in response to the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997, which called for registration of trials of investigational new drugs for serious diseases. Subsequently, the scope of ClinicalTrials.gov expanded to all interventional studies, including diet trials. Presently, prospective trial registration is required by

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/discrepancies-registries-diet-vs-drug-trials - 2025-07-11

Published 8 January 2018 Applications are now accepted for the annual summer school of biostatistics and epidemiology. For more information and application form, go to http://www.biostatepi.org.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/summer-school-modern-methods-biostatistics-and-epidemiology - 2025-07-11

Published 10 February 2020 The introduction of new technology in joint replacement surgery requires close monitoring to identify early successes and failures. This monitoring can be effectively performed through the analysis of registry data and radiostereometric analysis studies. This study examined the revision rates of a contemporary knee system for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) using National

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/use-national-joint-registries-evaluate-new-knee-arthroplasty-design - 2025-07-11

Published 10 February 2020 We aimed to describe and evaluate the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) in the 24 hours preceding an in-hospital cardiac arrest among general somatic ward patients. The 24 hours preceding the in-hospital cardiac arrest were divided into four timespans and analysed by a medical record review of 127:254 matched case-control patients. The median NEWS ranged from 3 (2–6) t

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/hospital-cardiac-arrest-and-preceding-national-early-warning-score-news-retrospective-case-control - 2025-07-11

Published 11 February 2020 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

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/secular-trends-sustained-remission-rheumatoid-arthritis-nationwide-study-sweden - 2025-07-11

Published 11 February 2020 To review the highest impact studies published from the UK Biobank and assess their contributions to “precision medicine.” We reviewed 140 of 689 studies published between 2008 and May 2019 from the UK Biobank deemed to be high impact by citations, alternative metric data, or publication in a high impact journal. We classified studies according to whether they were large

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/contributions-uk-biobank-high-impact-papers-era-precision-medicine - 2025-07-11

Published 12 February 2020 There is insufficient knowledge on how to avert neck/back pain from turning chronic or to impair work ability. The Swedish Government implemented a national multimodal rehabilitation (MMR) programme in primary care intending to promote work ability, reduce sick leave and increase return to work. Since randomised control trial data for effect is lacking, it is important t

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/evaluation-multimodal-pain-rehabilitation-programme-primary-care-based-clinical-register-data - 2025-07-11

Published 12 February 2020 Within cancer care, dynamic evaluations of the loss in expectation of life provides useful information to patients as well as physicians. The loss of lifetime function yields the conditional loss in expectation of life given survival up to a specific time point. Due to the inevitable censoring in time-to-event data, loss of lifetime estimation requires extrapolation of b

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/estimating-loss-lifetime-function-using-flexible-parametric-relative-survival-models-0 - 2025-07-11