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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"epidemiologi"”.
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Dinamika psikologis penderita obsessive compulsif disorder (OCD)
… obsesif kompulsif wudlu dan istinja. Padahal epidemiologi telah mendokumentasikan bahwa wanita biasanya mengembangkan OCD antara usia 20 sampai 29 tahun (American Psychiatric Association, 2000 dalam Halgin, 2010). Hal ini tidak mungkin terjadi secara tiba-tiba, pasti terdapat serangkaian …
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Obesity in a Rural Population Experiences from The Skaraborg Project
Over the last two decades there has been a striking and continuous increase in the prevalence of obesity both in industrialized and developing countries. Despite this global consistency there is a variation within countries with a higher prevalence of obesity within rural areas. The overall aim was …
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Parental support in a changing society
In today's Swedish society there is increasing emphasis on health-promotive work among children, adolescents, and their parents. Knowledge is needed about why certain activities work better than others. It is important to study the parents' motives and experiences of participating in parental …
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Risk faktors for fracture in middle-aged men and women
The number of fractures is increasing worldwide, and fractures frequently cause long-term disability, impaired quality of life and sometimes death. The Malmö Preventive Project, a population-based, prospective study, consisting of 22 444 men, mean age 44 and 10 902 women, mean age 50 years, …
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Epidemiological studies of risk factors for injuries in an adult population
Injuries are often associated with long-term suffering and lowered functioning, and personal injuries impose a huge burden on medical care and health services in addition to the costs associated with impaired functional ability. Each year in Sweden, falling accidents are experienced by a third of …
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Epidemiology of stroke in an urban population - aspects of time, place and person
The present thesis explored the epidemiology of stroke in Malmö, Sweden, an urban population of approximately 250000 inhabitants. Incidence of stroke in Malmö has been monitored since 1989. The National census investigation in 1990 was used to get information about the background population in the …
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Acute Pancreatitis. Studies on smoking and protease activation.
Background and aims: Activation of pancreatic proteases is considered to be a crucial event in the early phase of acute pancreatitis but the cause of this activation is not known. Most cases of acute pancreatitis can be attributed to either gallstone disease or alcohol abuse. However, little is …
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Breast cancer screening in an urban, Swedish population Aspects of non-attendance, interval cancers and over-diagnosis
… provides a natural, experimental setting for epidemiological studies of factors of significance for the effectiveness of screening in different time periods and under different screening premises. The aim of the present thesis was to focus on three issues in an urban, Swedish population of …
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Country of birth and socioeconomic disparities in utilisation of health care and disability pensions - a multilevel approach
Besides individual characteristics, people born in the same country may present a related pattern of health status and health care utilisation, perhaps because they share a number of socioeconomic and cultural characteristics in addition to their common geographic origin and language. Rather than …
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Targeting the human papillomavirus for prevention of cervical cancer
Different types of human papillomavirus (HPV) vary in the extent they cause precursor lesions (CIN) and cancer. There are limited long-term efficacy data on HPV testing in primary screening Among 72 cervical cancers in Mozambique, HPV 16 and 18 were the most frequent HPV types (69% of cases). …
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Obesity and cardiovascular disease. Aspects of methods and susceptibility.
The aim of this thesis was to study the morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in obese individuals, as measured by different obesity measurements, and to explore how the CVD risk related to obesity was modified by other biologic and socio-demographic circumstances. Data from two …
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Epidemiology of diabetes in a well defined population in Sweden: the Skaraborg Diabetes Registry
Time trends in prevalence, incidence and mortality was followed in 15000 diabetic patients in 1991?2005. Clinical findings, C-peptide protocols, and islet antibodies were compared in their ability to distinguish type 1 from type 2 diabetes, and factors associated with the prognosis of diabetes were …
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Exposure, health effects, immunological markers and biomarkers of susceptibility among Swedish rubber workers
Workers in the rubber industry have an increased risk of several diseases, such as airway disease, cancer and probably cardiovascular disease. The exposure is very complex; carbon disulfide (CS2) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) being two of the contaminants. The general aim of this …
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Pestens gåta : farsoter i det tidiga 1700-talets Skåne
This study deals with Sweden’s 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 …