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Open AccessA 10-Week School-Based Mindfulness Intervention and Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety Among School Children and Adolescents: A Controlled Study
Mental health problems are increasing among children and adolescents. School-based mindfulness interventions are gaining popularity worldwide and may be a way to decrease depression and anxiety symptoms in stu...
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Open AccessOsteoporotic fractures in second-generation immigrants and Swedish natives
In this national study of osteoporotic fractures in second-generation immigrants in Sweden, we found a similar risk of osteoporotic fractures in general compared to Swedish natives, which suggests that environ...
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Open AccessOsteoporotic fractures among foreign-born individuals: a national Swedish study
In this national study of osteoporotic fractures in foreign-born individuals, we found a lower risk of osteoporotic fractures in general among foreign-born individuals compared with Swedish-born, especially in...
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Open AccessOsteoporotic fracture trends in a population of US managed care enrollees from 2007 to 2017
This study expands on previous findings that hip fracture rates may no longer be declining. We found that age- and sex-adjusted fracture rates in the US plateaued or increased through mid-2017 in a population ...
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The role of parent and offspring sex on risk for externalizing psychopathology in offspring with parental alcohol use disorder: a national Swedish study
The substantial literature showing that offspring of parents with alcohol use disorder (AUD) is at increased risk for externalizing psychopathology rarely examines the differential effects of parental and offs...
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The joint impact of cognitive performance in adolescence and familial cognitive aptitude on risk for major psychiatric disorders: a delineation of four potential pathways to illness
How do joint measures of premorbid cognitive ability and familial cognitive aptitude (FCA) reflect risk for a diversity of psychiatric and substance use disorders? To address this question, we examined, using ...
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Interactive effects of obesity and physical fitness on risk of ischemic heart disease
Obesity and low physical fitness are known risk factors for ischemic heart disease (IHD), but their interactive effects are unclear. Elucidation of interactions between these common, modifiable risk factors ma...
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Open AccessFamilial associations of lymphoma and myeloma with autoimmune diseases
Many B-cell neoplasms are associated with autoimmune diseases (AIDs) but most evidence is based on a personal rather than a family history of AIDs. Here we calculated risks for non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), Hodg...
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Impact of a short home-based yoga programme on blood pressure in patients with hypertension: a randomized controlled trial in primary care
The present study was designed to evaluate yoga's impact on blood pressure (BP) and quality of life (QOL) and on stress, depression and anxiety in patients with hypertension in a primary care setting. We condu...
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Familial associations of monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance with autoimmune diseases
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Familial risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma by sex, relationship, age at diagnosis and histology: a joint study from five Nordic countries
We aimed to estimate stratified absolute (cumulative) and relative (standardized incidence ratios; SIRs) risks of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in relatives of NHL patients. A cohort of 169 830 first-degree relat...
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Open AccessLactose intolerance and risk of lung, breast and ovarian cancers: aetiological clues from a population-based study in Sweden
Individuals with lactose intolerance are recommended to avoid milk or dairy products, which may affect the development of cancer.
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The longitudinal age and birth cohort trends of smoking in Sweden: a 24-year follow-up study
The aim of this study is to analyse longitudinally, the annual effects of age group and birth cohort on smoking in the Swedish population during a 24-year period and to analyse the smoking trends for different...
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Neighborhood deprivation and prostate cancer mortality: a multilevel analysis from Sweden
The objective was to analyze the association between neighborhood deprivation and prostate cancer mortality, after adjusting for individual characteristics.
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Open AccessCancer risk in patients hospitalised for Graves’ disease: a population-based cohort study in Sweden
The possibility of an association of Graves’ disease (GD) with subsequent cancers raised by certain studies.
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Familial association between type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune and related diseases
In the era of genome-wide association studies, familial risks are used to estimate disease heritability and success in gene identification. We wanted to estimate associations between type 1 diabetes mellitus a...
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Open AccessCancer risk in hospitalised psoriasis patients: a follow-up study in Sweden
We examined overall and specific cancer risks among Swedish subjects who had been hospitalised one or more times for psoriasis. A database was created by identifying such patients from the Swedish Hospital Dis...
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Open AccessCancer risk in hospitalised asthma patients
Asthma is an increasingly common disorder, affecting 5–10% of the population. It involves a dysregulated immune function, which may predispose to subsequent cancer. We examined cancer risk among Swedish subjec...
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Physical activity and body mass index in elderly Iranians in Sweden: a population-based study
To analyze whether elderly Iranians in Sweden have a higher mean body mass index (BMI) and are less physically active than elderly Swedes after adjustment for possible confounders.
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Neighborhood socioeconomic environment and risk of postpartum psychosis
Objective: To examine the hypothesized association between the neighborhood socioeconomic environment and postpartum psychosis, after adjustment for individual sociodemographic characteristics.
