Published 22 April 2020 Treatment options for peritoneal metastases (PM) from colorectal cancer (CRC) have increased, their efficiency should be monitored. For this purpose, register-based data on PM can be used, if valid. Purpose: We aimed to evaluate the completeness and positive predictive value (PPV) of synchronous peritoneal metastases (S-PM) registered among CRC patients in the Danish Nation

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/validity-registered-synchronous-peritoneal-metastases-colorectal-cancer-danish-medical-registries - 2025-04-21

Published 23 April 2020 Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) and its risk factors may differ between various populations. Few studies have compared the risk profiles associated with cfPWV in different ethnic populations. The study population included 4321 subjects from Shanghai, China (n = 1272, age 75.0 ± 6.5 years, female 57.3%) and Malmö, Sweden (n = 3049, age 72.5 ± 5.5 years, female 60

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/difference-risk-profiles-carotid-femoral-pulse-wave-velocity-results-two-community-based-studies - 2025-04-21

Published 24 April 2020 The Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) database is a population-based resource of SACT activity reported routinely by National Health Service (NHS) trusts in England. Data are collected on the SACT treatments of adult and paediatric patients, delivered in secondary and tertiary settings with the intention of improving survival, delaying further cancer progression or develo

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/data-resource-profile-systemic-anti-cancer-therapy-sact-dataset - 2025-04-21

Published 16 April 2020 Statusrapport i Vetenskapsrådets uppdrag – summering av arbetet 2017–2019 och fortsatt arbete Läs mer här.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/samordning-av-oppen-tillgang-till-forskningsdata - 2025-04-21

Published 25 April 2020 There are limited data regarding efficacy of abatacept treatment for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) outside clinical trials. Quality registers have been useful for observational studies on tumor necrosis factor inhibition in clinical practice. The aim of this study was to investigate clinical efficacy and tolerability of abatacept in RA, using a national register. New publicatio

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/abatacept-rheumatoid-arthritis-survival-drug-clinical-outcomes-and-their-predictors-data-large - 2025-04-21

Published 26 April 2020 The National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS), part of Public Health England (PHE), is the population-based cancer registry for England. It collects, quality assures and analyses data on all people living in England who are diagnosed with malignant and pre-malignant neoplasms, with national coverage since 1971. It produces the national cancer registration da

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/data-resource-profile-national-cancer-registration-dataset-england - 2025-04-21

Published 30 January 2018 Lecturer: Tyler J. VanderWeele, Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public, Boston, MA, USA Find more information here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/workshop-causal-mediation-and-interaction-analysis - 2025-04-21

Published 27 April 2020 A circumferential resection margin (CRM) of 1·0 mm or less after rectal cancer surgery is thought to increase the risk of local recurrence (LR). This retrospective population‐based study examined how CRM distance affects the LR risk. New publication in BJS Society

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/risk-local-recurrence-rectal-cancer-and-circumferential-resection-margin-population-based-cohort - 2025-04-21

Published 28 April 2020 The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) was conceived in 1997 during a multidisciplinary conference focused on risk communication with attenders representing the fields of psychology, health behaviour and education, public health, clinical medicine and health journalism. The key recommendation born of this conference encourage

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/data-resource-profile-national-cancer-institutes-health-information-national-trends-survey-hints - 2025-04-21

Published 24 April 2020 Evolution, projections and impact of government measures (European Journal of Epidemiology) Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/covid-19-epidemic-italy - 2025-04-21

Published 25 April 2020 Genom ett gemensamt initiativ från Arbets-och miljömedicin i Stockholm, Göteborg och Lund har en tvärprofessionell arbetsgrupp bildats för att utifrån Folkhälsomyndighetens och Världshälsoorganisationens (WHO) riktlinjer ta fram anpassade hälsoråd till personer och familjer med boende i förorter och andra områden med stora förutsättningar för smittspridning. Läs mer på http

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/covid-19-i-trangbodda-fororter - 2025-04-21

Published 26 April 2020 Med anledning av Covid-19 och den rådande utvecklingen i Sverige och världen har Formas forskarråd beslutat att omgående öppna akututlysningen 2020. Formas vill inom rådets ansvarsområden, ge möjligheten att samla in data/forskningsmaterial av akut karaktär för att säkerställa framtida tillgänglighet för forskning. Läs mer på https://www.formas.se/arkiv/alla-utlysningar/utl

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/formas-akututlysning-2020 - 2025-04-21

Published 29 April 2020 Epidemiologists are often confronted with datasets to analyse which contain measurement error due to, for instance, mistaken data entries, inaccurate recordings and measurement instrument or procedural errors. If the effect of measurement error is misjudged, the data analyses are hampered and the validity of the study’s inferences may be affected. In this paper, we describe

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/reflection-modern-methods-five-myths-about-measurement-error-epidemiological-research - 2025-04-21

Published 1 February 2018 Updated FAQ regarding personal data on LU's project blog Påverkar dataskyddsförordningen hur vi behandlar gamla personuppgifterNär och hur bör vi använda samtycke som rättslig grund för behandling av personuppgifterVad gäller för gamla samtycken?Svaren hittar du på: https://personuppgifter.blogg.lu.se/faq/============Does the General Data Protection Regulation affect how

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/about-consent-and-old-data - 2025-04-21

Published 30 April 2020 Treatment of postoperative pain remains a significant clinical problem, and prediction of patients with a risk of higher postoperative pain levels is an important focus. We aimed to identify patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty (THA) with risk of higher pain levels at 24 h postoperatively by using four simple and easily available clinical tools. New publication in BMC

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/using-four-different-clinical-tools-predictors-pain-after-total-hip-arthroplasty-prospective-cohort - 2025-04-21

Published 16 June 2020 Sport‐related concussions are an increasingly recognized health problem. Soccer is the most popular sport in the world although recent studies on concussion incidence are scarce. Here, a nationwide prospective study on concussion incidence, symptom severity, risk factors, gender differences, and return‐to‐play after concussion was performed in 51 Swedish elite soccer teams d

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/concussion-incidence-and-recovery-swedish-elite-soccer-prolonged-recovery-female-players - 2025-04-21

Published 16 June 2020 The study population included adults (n = 434,542) aged 30 years or older with DM followed from 2005 to 2015 in Sweden for incident HF. The association between neighborhood deprivation and the outcome was explored using Cox regression analysis, with hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs). All models were conducted in both men and women and adjusted for ag

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/association-between-neighborhood-deprivation-and-heart-failure-among-patients-diabetes-mellitus-10 - 2025-04-21

Published 15 February 2018 Theme: "The future of Swedish register-based research" By the end of 2018 the Swedish Initiative for Research on Microdata in the Social And Medical Sciences (SIMSAM), funded by the Swedish Research Council, has been active for 10 years. This will be acknowledged by a free open national one-day symposium in Stockholm 16 May reflecting on how the achievements and experien

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/10-year-symposium-simsam - 2025-04-21

Published 17 June 2020 Consecutive patients with early RA (symptom duration <12 months) were followed according to a structured programme and examined with dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) at inclusion and after 2, 5 and 10 years. Mean Z-scores over the study period were estimated using mixed linear effect models. Changes in Z-scores between follow-up visits were analysed using paired T-test

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/changes-bone-mineral-density-over-10-years-patients-early-rheumatoid-arthritis - 2025-04-21

Published 17 June 2020 It remains unclear whether heritable factors can contribute to risk stratification for ischemic stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). We examined whether having a sibling with ischemic stroke was associated with increased risk of ischemic stroke and mortality in patients with AF. New publication in JAHA

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/risk-stroke-patients-atrial-fibrillation-associated-stroke-siblings-nationwide-study - 2025-04-21