Smoking is a strong risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and causes exposure to cadmium, which is a pro-atherosclerotic metal. Cadmium exposure has also been shown to increase the risk of CVD, even after adjustment for smoking. Our hypothesis was that part of the risk of CVD in smokers may be mediated by cadmium exposure from tobacco smoke. We examined this hypothesis in a mediation analys

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/smoking-induced-risk-future-cardiovascular-disease-partly-mediated-cadmium-tobacco - 2025-09-11

We examined all death certificates (DCs, n=2 01 488) in adults recorded in the Skåne region during 1998–2014. We identified all fall deaths using International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 codes (W00-W19) and calculated the mortality rates by age and sex. Temporal trends were evaluated using joinpoint regression and associated causes were identified by age-adjusted and sex-adjus

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/fall-related-mortality-southern-sweden - 2025-09-11

Cognitive impairment is common among older adults, necessitating the use of collateral sources in epidemiological studies involving this age group. The objective of this study was to evaluate agreement between self- and proxy-reports of cardiovascular disorders and diabetes mellitus in a population-based sample of 80-year-olds. Further, both self- and proxy-reports were compared with hospital regi

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/agreement-between-self-reports-proxy-reports-and-national-patient-register-regarding-diagnoses - 2025-09-11

A cross-sectional survey of the Danish Cardiac Rehabilitation Database Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/facilitators-using-data-quality-registry-local-quality-improvement-work - 2025-09-11

The American Joint Replacement Registry (AJRR) was created to capture knee and hip arthroplasty data in the United States. The purpose of this study was to compare early reports from the AJRR to other national registries to identify topics for future analysis. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/early-results-american-joint-replacement-registry-comparison-other-national-registries - 2025-09-11

This paper presents the methodological approach of a user-centered design process applied in the initial phase of the registry development. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/user-centered-design-national-medical-registry-tick-borne-diseases - 2025-09-11

An external validity analysis of national register versus trial data from the Swedish prospective SENOMIC trial on sentinel node micrometastases in breast cancer. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/do-clinical-trials-truly-mirror-their-target-population - 2025-09-11

Monte Carlo simulations were used to examine the degree to which selective non-response leads to biased estimates of associations between risk factors and health outcomes when persons with the highest levels of health problems are under-represented or totally missing from the sample. This was examined under different response rates and different degrees of dependency between non-response and study

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/preventing-bias-selective-non-response-population-based-survey-studies-findings-monte-carlo - 2025-09-11

The Swedish National Patient Registry (NPR) is a nationwide registry that is used extensively for epidemiological research. Using the NPR, we recently found a recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) incidence of 650/100,000 (0.65%) pregnant women in Sweden. It is of great importance that the quality of the coding is good and reliable in order to use NPR data for research. To specifically study RPL in Swede

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/reliability-recurrent-pregnancy-loss-diagnosis-coding-swedish-national-patient-register-validation - 2025-09-11

Sweden has a long tradition of nationwide registers enabling population-based research of high quality and validity. We aimed to describe the content and validity of reported number of remaining and intact teeth in the Swedish Dental Health Register and report some descriptive data on dental health care utilization. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/swedish-dental-health-register-validation-study-remaining-and-intact-teeth - 2025-09-11

In medicine and life sciences we are overloaded with different forms of text and speech. Texts in the form of electronic health records, genomic sequences, scientific articles, twitter feeds or patient questionnaires can be analysed to gain new scientific insights. Speech technology can be used in health apps and chatbots, to extract information from doctor-patient-dialogues or to direct medical r

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/language-technology-medicine-and-life-sciences - 2025-09-11

Föreläsning av Stina Wollter och efterföljande samtal med Per Johnsson, universitetslektor vid institutionen för psykologi. Samtalet modereras av Katarina Bernhardsson, litteraturvetare och lektor i medicinsk humaniora. Läs mer här.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/kunskapskrogen-med-stina-wollter - 2025-09-11

Psykisk ohälsa är ett växande problem som vi behöver tackla tillsammans. Den behandling som finns idag är otillräcklig. Kom och hör om hur morgondagens behandling och förebyggande arbete kan se ut. Presentationer av och med forskare vid Lunds universitet och Region Skåne. Vetenskapliga arrangörer är Åsa Petersén, Åsa Westrin och Anders Håkansson. Moderator är Anne-Marie Rauer. Läs mer här.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/forskningens-dag-2019-psykisk-ohalsa - 2025-09-11

Sandblomdagen är ett årligt evenemang där medicinare och humanister möts! Läs mer här!

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/sandblomdagen-2019-intelligens-artificiell-och-emotionell - 2025-09-11

I år är det 10 år sedan Pufendorfinstitutet tog emot sin första Temagrupp. Sedan dess har många hundra forskare haft möjlighet att tillsammans utveckla nya tvärvetenskapliga forskningsområden vid institutet. Den 19-21 ser vi tillbaka på vad dessa 10 år har inneburit för de forskare och den forskning som vuxit fram här – med höjdpunkter och dilemman. Tillsammans med inbjudna gäster fördjupar vi sam

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/pufendorfinstitutets-10-ars-jubileum - 2025-09-11

Hälsovetenskapens dag arrangeras årligen av Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper och är ett event öppet för alla. I år är eventet en del av Framtidsveckan 2019 vid Lunds universitet, den 14-20 oktober, där forskare från olika fakulteter presenterar populärvetenskaplig forskning under temat Omställningar – Vilka måste vi göra? Vilka vill vi göra? Och vilka vill vi helst slippa? Från Institutionen för

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/halsovetenskapens-dag-2019-omstallningar - 2025-09-11

A position as senior researcher is vacant in the department of Health and Social Context at the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) in Copenhagen, from October 1, 2019 or as soon as possible thereafter. The position is vacant for a period of 2 years. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/senior-researcher-epidemiology-and-statistics - 2025-09-11

Do you conduct patient- or population-based research using clinical, survey, registry or biobank data? Then this course is indispensable for you! The course is primarily intended for doctoral students at the Medical Faculty at Lund University, but it is also open for postdoctoral and senior researchers and other applicants if there are available slots. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/epidemiology-i-introduction-epidemiology - 2025-09-11

Karaktärisering av olika kategorier av knäartros i en populationsbaserad kohort, och en jämförelse av livskvalitet och kostnader mellan de som sökt och de som inte sökt sjukvård Läs mer här.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/malmo-osteoartros-studie-moa-studien - 2025-09-11

Inom denna utlysning kan du ansöka om projektbidrag för verksamhetsnära forskning om psykisk ohälsa. Utlysningen fokuserar på två områden: tidiga insatser mot psykisk ohälsa samt samordnade insatser för personer med svår psykiatrisk problematik. Läs mer här.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/forte-verksamhetsnara-forskning-om-psykisk-ohalsa-2019 - 2025-09-11