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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Skåne"”.
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Pestens gåta : farsoter i det tidiga 1700-talets Skåne
… last outbreak of the plague with focus on Skåne, where the epidemic raged for three years - from late autumn 1710 to late autumn 1713. This was a time of war, crop failures as well as other simultaneously occurring epidemics. The outline of this study can be summarised with the following …
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Ömse sidor om vägen : Allén och landskapet i Skåne 1700-1900
This thesis is about avenues (tree-lined roads – in Swedish alléer). Avenues are a characteristic landscape element in many parts of Scania. This is an object created by man with a clear visual effect in the landscape. The avenue is also something which is both nature and culture, a man-made object …
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On the scope and assessment of pesticides in groundwater in Skåne, Sweden
… risks. The investigations are restricted to Skåne, which is a relatively populous, intensively cultivated and geologically diverse region located at the tip of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The research shows that pesticides are present in very different types of groundwater systems around …
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Life Satisfaction and the Oldest-Old. Results from the longitudinal population study "Good Aging in Skåne".
… for three years in the study Good Aging in Skåne, a national, randomized, population-based study of the elderly. Neugartens’ life satisfaction index A (LSI-A) was the outcome variable in all four studies. In study I the aim was to examine what factors affect LS in the oldest-old in a multi …
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On Falls in the Elderly –Epidemiological Studies from the Longitudinal General Population Study ‘Good Aging in Skåne’ (GÅS), Sweden
… the longitudinal population study ‘Good Aging in Skåne’ (GÅS), in southern Sweden. In Paper I, a cross-sectional study, it was concluded that falls were common in the population studied and that the risk was multifactorial. The results indicated that there was an overrepresentation of fallers in a …
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Back and neck pain: Patterns in healthcare consultations
… studies of musculoskeletal disorders. Skåne region, as opposed to nationally in Sweden, has healthcare registers, covering all care including primary care. he overall aim of this thesis was to incorporate healthcare registers in the epidemiological research of consultation prevalence, …
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Maternal smoking during pregnancy - Long-term health effects in the offspring
… all children who developed type 1 diabetes in Skåne between 1999 and 2005 (The Diabetes Prediction in Skåne Cohort, The Skåne Study and Better Diabetes Diagnosis Study). The aim of this thesis was to investigate if maternal smoking during pregnancy was associated with long-term health effects …
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Environmental and climatic aspects of the early to mid Holocene calcareous tufa and land mollusc fauna in southern Sweden
… calcareous tufa deposits in the province of Skåne. The biostratigraphical methods include mollusc, pollen, plant macrofossil and insect analysis. These were supplemented by lithological and chemical analyses. An additional aim of the study was to provide new information on the postglacial …
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The Weichselian in southern Sweden and southwestern Baltic Sea : glacial stratigraphy, palaeoenvironments and deglaciation chronology
… from published and new terrestrial sections in Skåne. Here three tills are identified. The lowermost, the Allarp Till, was deposited after the damming of the Baltic Basin at c. 30 ka. It was followed, after a deglaciation, by deposition of the Dalby Till, representing the Last Glacial Maximum …
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Exposure to air pollution during pregnancy and health risks for mother and child
… births during the period 1999-2005) in Scania (Skåne), the most Southern county of Sweden. The aim of the thesis was to investigate whether exposure to air pollution, in an area of low-levels exposures, during different periods of the pregnancy was associated with birth outcomes, pregnancy …
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Social capital, trust in institutions, discrimination and self-rated health. An epidemiological study in southern Sweden.
… a confounder. The 2000 public-health survey in Skåne is a cross sectional study based on self-reported information from a postal questionnaire survey sent to randomly selected persons born in 1919-1981 during the period November 1999 to February 2000. A total of 13,715 (59%) persons answered the …
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Triggers of autoimmunity. Studies on gestational events.
… and Methods The Diabetes Prediction in Skåne (DiPiS) is a population based study where blood samples were obtained at the time of delivery between September 2000 and August 2004 from all mothers in this region (Skåne). The blood samples were analyzed for HLA-DQ alleles and islet …
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Pollen analysis, chronology and palaeomagnetism of three Late Weichselian sites in southern Sweden
Three sites, Torreberga in Skåne, Farslycke in Blekinge and Lake Bolmen in Småland, with Late Weichselian lake sediments were studied with respect to pollen analysis and palaeomagnetism. The chronologies are based on pollen stratigraphical correlations, radiocarbon dating and, for two of the sites, …
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Type 1 diabetes in children - risk factors and prediction.
… studied as part of the Diabetes Prediction in Skåne (DiPiS) study. In paper I, an analysis of the association between T1D high-risk HLA genotypes, cord blood autoantibodies and BW indicated an increased risk for high relative BW (HrBW) in children with high-risk HLA. Presence of cord blood …
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The genetic background of gestational diabetes mellitus
… partum. In the DiPiS (Diabetes Prediction in Skåne) study we typed for HLA-DQB1 alleled, the transcription factor 7-like 2(TCF7L2) rs7903146, rs12255372 and rs7901695 SNPs, the 1858 C>T SNP of the protein tyrosine phosphatase non-receptor 22 (PTPN22) gene and we tested for the presence of …
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Cognitive impairment in medical inpatients
… at the wards of general internal medicine at Skåne university hospital in Malmö. Results: I. Cognitive impairment was prevalent in 73% of medical inpatients, the majority of which were undetected by healthcare professionals. Cognitive impairment was independently associated with a three-fold …
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Prevalence, physical activity and work in patients with spondyloarthritis
… of patients with SpA, identified through the Skåne Health Care Register by searching for 12 ICD-10 codes for SpA that had led to a doctor’s consultation 2003–2007. Two questionnaire surveys in 2009 and 2011 were sent to all the patients in the cohort >18 years and data from these formed the …
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Road Traffic Noise - Factors modifying its relation to annoyance and cardiovascular disease
… and women aged 18-80 years old in the county of Skåne and its major city Malmö in southern Sweden. Exposures of road traffic and railway noise as well as air pollution were modelled using geographic information system (GIS) for the survey participants’ residential addresses. Possible confounding …
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Parental support in a changing society
… we interviewed 237 fathers of small children in Skåne by telephone (Paper III). The fathers were involved in their children to a large extent, and they performed just as many caring as playing activities. They had a good idea of the childs health and just over half of them had at some time …
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Team rehabilitation and health care utilization in chronic inflammatory arthritis patients
… in patients with RA over time. By using the Skåne Health Care Register we identified 3977 persons who had been diagnosed with RA when consulting health care during 1998-2001. Two referents from the general population per RA patient were matched for age, sex, and area of residence. The annual …
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