Published 23 February 2020 Only one out of ten elderly, is dissatisfied with the outcome of LDH surgery. Age, preoperative duration of leg pain, preoperative SF 36 score, and for satisfaction also dominance of back over leg pain, are in elderly factors associated to good and poor subjective outcome after LDH surgery. New publication in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/predictors-satisfaction-after-lumbar-disc-herniation-surgery-elderly - 2025-04-27

Published 23 February 2020 A possible connection on vascular basis between impaired kidney function and cognitive dysfunction has been suggested in previous studies. Contradictory results regarding specific cognitive domains have been reported. The aim for this study was to investigate the association between kidney function and specific cognitive domains. New publication in BMC Geriatrics

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/impaired-kidney-function-associated-lower-cognitive-function-elder-general-population-results-good - 2025-04-27

Published 21 February 2020 Den 24/2 2020 lanseras LU:s system för datahanteringsplaner, DMP Roadmap. Inloggning sker med LUCAT-id och systemet finns på https://dmp.research.lu.se. Planerna lagras på en server inom LU och rekommendationen är att de inte ska göras publika. De ska däremot bevaras och kan eventuellt arkiveras direkt i systemet.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/dmp-roadmap - 2025-04-27

Published 24 February 2020 Despite dramatic improvements in survival, nutrition, and education over recent decades, today's children face an uncertain future. This Commission presents the case for placing children, aged 0–18 years, at the centre of the SDGs: at the heart of the concept of sustainability and our shared human endeavour. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/future-worlds-children-who-unicef-lancet-commission - 2025-04-27

Published 24 February 2020 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 ou

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/impact-care-process-development-and-comorbidity-time-surgery-mortality-rate-and-functional-outcome - 2025-04-27

Published 25 February 2020 A dysfunctional use of coping strategies has repeatedly been linked to suicidal behaviour in non-psychiatric populations. However, data regarding association between coping strategies and suicidal behaviour in psychiatric populations are limited. New publication in Journal of Mental Health

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/coping-and-suicide-risk-high-risk-psychiatric-patient - 2025-04-27

Published 12 January 2018 League of European Research Universities (LERU), där Lunds universitet ingår, har tagit initiativ till att ta fram en uppförandekod för behandling av personuppgifter inom forskning. Läs mer på https://personuppgifter.blogg.lu.se/leru-forsoker-etablera-europeisk-code-of-conduct-for-behandling-av-personuppgifter-inom-forskning/.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/code-conduct-behandling-av-personuppgifter - 2025-04-27

Published 25 February 2020 We investigated if bone mineral density was related to testosterone deficiency and/or previous cancer treatment in men who were childhood cancer survivors. Men with untreated testosterone deficiency or previous treatment with cranial irradiation were at increased risk of impaired bone health. Prevention of osteoporosis should be considered in their follow-up. New publica

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/low-bone-mineral-density-associated-hypogonadism-and-cranial-irradiation-male-childhood-cancer - 2025-04-27

Published 26 February 2020 This study focuses on two central Scandinavian cities – Copenhagen and Stockholm – that are generally thought to be culturally close but have deviated with respect to cycling policies and infrastructure. Based on a survey including inhabitants of Copenhagen (n = 1110) and Stockholm (n = 1191), this study investigated whether cyclists in Copenhagen and Stockholm experienc

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/comparison-cycling-cultures-stockholm-and-copenhagen - 2025-04-27

Published 27 February 2020 To study the prevalence of chronic widespread pain (CWP) and chronic regional pain (CRP), and their association to quality of life, pain, physical function at a 20-year follow-up in a population based cohort with chronic knee pain at inclusion. New publication in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/chronic-widespread-pain-and-its-associations-quality-life-and-function-20-year-follow-individuals - 2025-04-27

Published 28 February 2020 To estimate inappropriate opioid dispensing in patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis (OA) defined as (1) dispensing of opioids within the first year of diagnosis or (2) long-term opioid use. New publication in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/inappropriate-opioid-dispensing-patients-knee-and-hip-osteoarthritis-population-based-cohort-study - 2025-04-27

Published 1 May 2020 Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), a prominent tool for expressing assumptions in epidemiologic research, are most useful when the hypothetical data generating structure is correctly encoded. Understanding a study’s data generating structure and translating that data structure into a DAG can be challenging, but these skills are often glossed over in training. New publication in E

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/graphical-catalog-threats-validity-linking-social-science-epidemiology - 2025-04-27

Published 2 May 2020 Sonographers have reported a high occurrence of musculoskeletal pain for more than 25 years. Assessments of occupational risk factors have previously been based on cross-sectional surveys. The aim of this longitudinal study was to determine which factors at baseline that were associated with neck/shoulder and elbow/hand pain at follow-up. New publication in BMC Musculoskeletal

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/neck-and-upper-extremity-pain-sonographers-longitudinal-study - 2025-04-27

Published 3 May 2020 In the 1980s debate intensified over whether there was a protective effect of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) or an adverse effect of triglycerides on coronary heart disease (CHD) risk. In a 1991 paper reprinted in the IJE we suggested that the high degree of correlation between the two, together with plausible levels of measurement error, made it unlikely that co

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/correlation-without-cause-epidemiological-odyssey - 2025-04-27

Published 4 May 2020 Duplicate and salami publication are unethical, but are common practices with substantial consequences for science and society at large. Scientific journals are the ‘gatekeepers’ of the publication process. We investigated journal policies on duplicate and salami publication New publicationin International Journal of Epidemiology

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/duplicate-and-salami-publication-prevalence-study-journal-policies - 2025-04-27

Published 6 May 2020 Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are popular tools for identifying appropriate adjustment strategies for epidemiological analysis. However, a lack of direction on how to build them is problematic. As a solution, we propose using a combination of evidence synthesis strategies and causal inference principles to integrate the DAG-building exercise within the review stages of resear

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/evidence-synthesis-constructing-directed-acyclic-graphs-esc-dags-novel-and-systematic-method - 2025-04-27

Published 7 May 2020 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 stud

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/associations-between-perfluoroalkyl-substances-and-serum-lipids-swedish-adult-population - 2025-04-27

Published 8 May 2020 Partial exchangeability is sufficient for the identification of some causal effects of interest. Here we review the use of common graphical tools and the sufficient component cause model in the context of partial exchangeability. We illustrate the utility of single world intervention graphs (SWIGs) in depicting partial exchangeability and provide an illustrative example of whe

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/graphical-description-partial-exchangeability - 2025-04-27

Published 9 May 2020 For a significant proportion of the older population, increasing age is associated with health problems and worsening health. Older family caregivers are largely responsible for care of next-of-kin living at home, which impacts their own physical and mental health both positively and negatively. However, evidence is insufficient regarding the health situation of older caregive

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/analyzing-situation-older-family-caregivers-focus-health-related-quality-life-and-pain-cross - 2025-04-27

Published 10 May 2020 Analyses of causal mediation are often complicated by treatment-induced confounders of the mediator–outcome relationship. In the presence of such confounders, the natural direct and indirect effects of treatment on the outcome, into which the total effect can be additively decomposed, are not identified. An alternative but similar set of effects, known as randomized intervent

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/effect-decomposition-presence-treatment-induced-confounding-regression-residuals-approach - 2025-04-27