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Published 9 March 2018 Eight new calls for proposal are now open The Swedish Research Council has now opened several calls for proposals within Natural and engineering sciences, Educational sciences and Development research. Most of the calls are open until 10 April, but the Network grant within Educational Sciences is open until 27 March.Read more at www.vr.se.
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/new-calls-proposal-vr - 2025-07-17
Published 13 September 2020 Red blood cell (RBC) transfusions are associated with risks including immunological reactions and volume overload. Current guidelines suggest a restrictive transfusion strategy in most patients with sepsis but based on previous randomized controlled trials and observational studies, there are still uncertainties about the safety in giving low-grade RBC transfusions to p
Published 14 September 2020 Data from the Swedish National Registry for Pancreatic and Periampullary Cancer for all patients undergoing a PD from 2010 until 30th June 2018 were collected. The material was analysed in two groups, no POPF and clinically relevant (grade B and C) POPF. Read more at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00268-020-05735-4
Published 14 September 2020 Cold sensitivity is common following nerve injuries in the upper extremity, but is less well studied in carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). We investigated cold sensitivity in CTS and its effects on surgical outcome. A search of the Swedish National Registry for Hand Surgery (HAKIR) for open carpal tunnel releases (OCTR) from 2010–2016 identified 10,746 cases. Symptom severit
Published 15 September 2020 Two hundred and eighty‐one patients hospitalized for HF (mean age, 74 years; 32% women) were assessed using cognitive tests: Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), A Quick Test of Cognitive speed, Trail Making Test A, and Symbol Digit Modalities Test. The mean follow‐up time censored at rehospitalization or death was 13 months (interquartile range, 14) and 28 months (int
Published 15 September 2020 Investigations of social-genetic effects, whereby a social partner’s genotype affects another’s outcomes, can be confounded by the influence of the social partner’s rearing environment. We used marital information on more than 300,000 couples from Swedish national data to disentangle social-genetic from rearing-environment effects for alcohol use disorder (AUD). Read mo
Published 16 September 2020 Adult-onset growth hormone deficiency (AGHD) is usually the last deficiency to be substituted in hypopituitarism. In children with documented GH deficiency, treatment without delay is crucial for achieving optimal effects on growth and development. In adults, it is not known whether a delay in treatment initiation influences biochemical response and the favourable physi
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/early-versus-late-initiation-gh-replacement-adult-onset-hypopituitarism - 2025-07-17
Published 16 September 2020 Rates of knee replacement (KR) are increasing worldwide. Based on population and practice changes, there are forecasts of a further exponential increase in primary knee replacement through to 2030, and a corresponding increase in revision knee replacement. We used registry data to document changes in KR over the past 15 years, comparing practice changes across Sweden, A
Published 10 March 2018 In the annual open call Formas welcomes applications within its three areas of responsibility - Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning. The purpose of the call is to enable researchers to address self-identified research needs and is divided into three sub-calls:Research and development projectsResearch and development projects for future research leadersMo
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/formas-annual-open-call-2018-now-open - 2025-07-17
Published 17 September 2020 Influenza may precipitate cardiovascular disease, but influenza typically peaks in winter, coinciding with other triggers of myocardial infarction (MI) such as low air temperature, high wind velocity, low atmospheric pressure, and short sunshine duration. Read more at https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0236866
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/association-acute-myocardial-infarction-influenza-nationwide-observational-study - 2025-07-17
Published 17 September 2020 Increased urinary excretion of IgM and low-grade albuminuria are associated with increased risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The objective of this study was to investigate the association between urinary IgM, albuminuria, and vascular parameters reflecting arterial structure and function. Read more at https://bmccardiovascdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/
Published 18 September 2020 An inverse relationship between mental health and academic achievement is a well-known phenomenon in the scientific literature. However, how and when this association develops is not fully understood and there is a lack of longitudinal, population-based studies on young children. Early intervention is important if associations are to be found already during childhood. T
Published 18 September 2020 Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is the most serious adverse effect of oral anticoagulant (OAC) treatment. The effect of OAC reversal therapy on outcome is uncertain. We compared 90-day survival and functional outcome in patients with OAC-ICH who received OAC reversal therapy with those who did not. Read more at https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2020.0076
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
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
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 - 2025-07-17
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 - 2025-07-17
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 - 2025-07-17
Published 18 June 2020 We performed whole-exome sequencing in 22 probands, under 56 years at their first ischemic stroke episode, from multi-incident stroke families. With the use of a comprehensive stroke-gene panel, we searched for variants in stroke-related genes. The probands’ clinical stroke subtype was related to clinical characteristics previously associated with pathogenic variants in thes
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/whole-exome-sequencing-22-young-ischemic-stroke-patients-familial-clustering-stroke - 2025-07-17
Published 18 June 2020 Chills and vomiting have traditionally been associated with severe bacterial infections and bacteremia. However, few modern studies have in a prospective way evaluated the association of these signs with bacteremia, which is the aim of this prospective, multicenter study. Patients presenting to the emergency department with at least one affected vital sign (increased respira
