Published 10 July 2020 Quantified terminal ileal motility during magnetic resonance enterography (MRE) has been suggested to be used as a biomarker of Crohn's disease (CD). The aim of the present study was to evaluate this method in clinical practice. New publication in NGM

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/volumetric-analysis-small-bowel-motility-unselected-cohort-patients-crohns-disease - 2025-04-11

Published 11 July 2020 Recovery patterns of motor function and activity capacity of the upper extremity after stroke have been described, but less is known about longitudinal changes of perceived manual activity performance. The aim of this study was to investigate longitudinal changes of self-perceived manual ability at several timepoints from onset until 12 months post-stroke in a cohort of cons

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/longitudinal-changes-self-perceived-manual-ability-first-year-after-stroke-cohort-study - 2025-04-11

Published 11 July 2020 Earlier studies have implied a change in dietary habits of the Swedish population towards a low carbohydrate, high fat diet. Questions have been raised about the development in recent years and potential health effects. We have investigated the dietary intake of Swedish female students enrolled in a university nutrition course between 2002 and 2017. The students carried out

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/carbohydrates-fat-trends-food-intake-among-swedish-nutrition-students-2002-2017 - 2025-04-11

Published 12 July 2020 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 - 2025-04-11

Published 12 July 2020 The outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 is the worst healthcare emergency of this century, and its impact on pediatrics and neonatology is still largely unknown. The European Society for Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC) launched the EPICENTRE (ESPNIC Covid pEdiatric Neonatal Registry) international, multicenter, and multidisciplinary initiative to study the epidemiology, cl

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/epicentre-espnic-covid-pediatric-neonatal-registry-initiative-background-and-protocol-international - 2025-04-11

Published 13 July 2020 Pancreatic cancer is a devastating disease with a dismal prognosis. Despite profound medical advances in systemic therapies for other types of aggressive tumours during recent years, a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer is still often synonymous with a fatal outcome. The term periampullary cancer includes pancreatic cancer and applies to the group of tumours found in proximity t

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/chemotherapy-host-response-and-molecular-dynamics-periampullary-cancer-champ-study - 2025-04-11

Published 13 July 2020 The real burden of human cystic echinococcosis (CE) remains elusive, due to the peculiar characteristics of the disease and the heterogeneous and incomplete data recording of clinical cases. Furthermore, official notification systems do not collect pivotal clinical information, which would allow the comparison of different treatment outcomes, and thus circumvent the difficul

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/european-register-cystic-echinococcosis-erce-state-art-five-years-after-its-launch - 2025-04-11

Published 14 July 2020 Sex offender registries (SORs) were established due to policies and practices intended to protect the public from individuals who commit sexually violent acts, and yet the empirical literature does not show that public SORs reduce or prevent sexual crimes. Given that politicians prominently influence SOR policies, the current study explores the views of SORs by 26 political

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/sex-offender-registries-exploring-attitudes-and-knowledge-political-decision-makers - 2025-04-11

Published 14 July 2020 We evaluated a structured education- and exercise-based self-management program for patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis (OA), using a registry-based study of data from 44,634 patients taken from the Swedish “Better Management of Patients with Osteoarthritis” registry. Outcome measures included a numeric rating scale (NRS), EuroQol five dimension scale (EQ-5D), Arthritis

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/better-management-patients-osteoarthritis-program-outcomes-after-evidence-based-education-and - 2025-04-11

Published 15 July 2020 High-quality clinical research of resuscitations in a pediatric emergency department is challenging because of the limitations of traditional methods of data collection (chart review, self-report) and the low frequency of cases in a single center. To facilitate valid and reliable research for resuscitations in the pediatric emergency department, investigators from 3 pediatri

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/videography-pediatric-emergency-research-establishing-multicenter-collaborative-and-resuscitation - 2025-04-11

Published 15 July 2020 International research has found changes in how today’s young people evaluate themselves. The present Swedish research contributes with new findings by distinguishing different patterns of change in self-evaluation in two age groups. The study investigates generational and gender differences in five self-evaluation dimensions in two samples, one from 1983 (N = 3052 10–16-yea

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/self-evaluation-differences-among-swedish-children-and-adolescents-over-30-year-period - 2025-04-11

Published 16 July 2020 Pain treatment post orthopaedic care in the elderly is complicated and requires careful follow-up. Current guidelines state all patients prescribed opioids should have a plan for gradual reduction, with the treatment progressively reduced and ended if any pain remains after more than three months. How this works in primary care remains to be explored. The aim was to describe

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/descriptive-study-pain-treatment-and-its-follow-primary-care-elderly-patients-after-orthopaedic-care - 2025-04-11

Published 16 July 2020 Most participants reported their overall physical and mental health as good (60 [72%] and 50 [60%], respectively) and said they could access medical care (69 [83%]). Fifty (60%) participants had access to food, 72 (87%) had access to basic water, and 55 (66%) lived in housing adequate for their health. Most participants had studied in school (74 [89%]) but only 27 (33%) of t

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/access-basic-needs-and-health-care-malawian-prosthetic-and-orthotic-users-lower-limb-physical - 2025-04-11

Published 17 July 2020 Different methods can be used to define healthy vascular ageing (HVA). In this prospective cohort study, we explored three different definitions in order to provide guidance for which to use. 2718 subjects were included from the Cardiovascular (CV) arm of the Malmö Diet Cancer Study (MDCS; median age 71.9 years, 62.2% females). Three different definitions of HVA were used: H

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/exploring-and-comparing-definitions-healthy-vascular-ageing-population-characteristics-and - 2025-04-11

Published 17 July 2020 The present study investigated the potential moderating role of physical activity on the relationship between parental rejection and poor body image perceptions. Late adolescents and young adults from Turkey (N = 373; 256 females/117 males) reported their memories of upbringing (Egna Minnen Beträffande Uppfostran/EMBU) related to both their mother and father, respectively, l

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/role-physical-activity-parental-rejection-and-body-image-perceptions - 2025-04-11

Published 18 July 2020 People with ID who were ≥55years old and alive at the end of 2012 (n = 7936; ID cohort) were identified through a national register of people with ID who received social services in Sweden to optimise the individual's opportunity for good living conditions in daily life. An equally large reference cohort from the general population (gPop cohort) was matched by year of birth

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/cancer-diagnoses-among-older-people-intellectual-disability-compared-general-population-national - 2025-04-11

Published 18 July 2020 Children diagnosed with right ventricle outflow tract (RVOT) anomalies require surgical repair early in life, reoperations and lifelong follow-up. The aim is to comprehensively describe their health related quality of life (HRQoL) and to assess the agreement in this regard between children and parents. New publication in Front. Cardiovasc. Med.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/health-related-quality-life-children-earlier-surgical-repair-right-ventricular-outflow-tract - 2025-04-11

Published 19 July 2020 Charnley, McKee and Ling, arguably the pioneers of Total Hip Replacement (THR), all recommended that there should be some sort of register for hip replacements. Perceptively, Sir John wrote in 1972: “Serious consideration should be given to establishing a Central Register to keep a finger on the pulse of total implant surgery on a nation-wide basis.” However, it was Peter He

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/how-registry-data-can-improve-outcomes-joint-replacement-seminal-paper - 2025-04-11

Published 19 July 2020 Women with lower levels of serum selenium (Se) may have a worse survival in breast cancer than women with higher levels, despite no difference in incidence of the disease. Our study was conducted to test whether Se is associated with the aggressiveness of breast tumors. Both the risk of having a tumor characteristic associated with worse prognosis, as well as the overall and

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/prediagnostic-serum-selenium-levels-relation-breast-cancer-survival-and-tumor-characteristics - 2025-04-11

Published 20 July 2020 Patients were significantly better (p < 0.001) than their physicians in estimating the average probability of heart failure compared with actual outcome data (14% vs. 24%, outcome 15%), AMI (16% vs. 26%, outcome 8%), and stroke (15% vs. 25%, outcome 11%). Patients were significantly worse (p < 0.001) at estimating the average probability of death (10% vs. 18%, actual outcome

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/do-patients-or-their-physicians-more-accurately-assess-long-term-risk-associated-hypertension - 2025-04-11