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Open AccessMidlife stress-related exhaustion and dementia incidence: a longitudinal study over 50 years in women
Cognitive problems are common symptoms among individuals with stress-related exhaustion. It is still unknown whether these individuals are at a higher risk of develo** dementia later. This study aims to exam...
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Open AccessThe efficacy of real versus sham external Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation (eTNS) in youth with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) over 4 weeks: a protocol for a multi-centre, double-blind, randomized, parallel-group, phase IIb study (ATTENS)
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), if severe, is usually treated with stimulant or non-stimulant medication. However, users prefer non-drug treatments due to side effects. Alternative non-medicat...
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Open AccessSix-year mortality associated with living alone and loneliness in Swedish men and women born in 1930
This study examined how living alone and loneliness associate with all-cause mortality in older men and women.
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Open AccessPatient safety culture in home care settings in Sweden: a cross-sectional survey among home care professionals
The connection between a weak patient safety culture and adverse patient events is well known, but although most long-term care is provided outside of hospitals, the focus of patient safety culture is most com...
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Open AccessThe effect of alcohol consumption on all-cause mortality in 70-year-olds in the context of other lifestyle risk factors: results from the Gothenburg H70 birth cohort study
In this study, we examined the effect of alcohol, as well as the combined effect of seven lifestyle factors, on all-cause mortality in older adults (baseline age 70 years).
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Open AccessA multicentre simulation study of planar whole-body bone scintigraphy in Sweden
Whole-body bone scintigraphy is a clinically useful non-invasive and highly sensitive imaging method enabling detection of metabolic changes at an early stage of disease, often earlier than with conventional r...
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Open AccessSex differences in dementia: on the potentially mediating effects of educational attainment and experiences of psychological distress
Old-age dementias are known to disproportionally affect women as well as individuals with low educational attainment. The higher lifetime risk of dementia among women is usually attributed to their longer life...
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Open AccessCardiovascular and all-cause mortality attributable to loneliness in older Swedish men and women
This study examined whether loneliness predicts cardiovascular- and all-cause mortality in older men and women.
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Open AccessRandomised controlled trial of the short-term effects of OROS-methylphenidate on ADHD symptoms and behavioural outcomes in young male prisoners with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (CIAO-II)
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a highly prevalent disorder, seen in 20–30% of young adult prisoners. Pharmacoepidemiological studies, a small randomised controlled trial and open trial data...
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Open AccessThe Gothenburg H70 Birth cohort study 2014–16: design, methods and study population
To improve health care for older persons, we need to learn more about ageing, e.g. identify protective factors and early markers for diseases. The Gothenburg H70 Birth Cohort Studies (the H70 studies) are mult...
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Open AccessInter-comparison of quantitative imaging of lutetium-177 (177Lu) in European hospitals
This inter-comparison exercise was performed to demonstrate the variability of quantitative SPECT/CT imaging for lutetium-177 (177Lu) in current clinical practice. Our aim was to assess the feasibility of using i...
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Open AccessDecreasing prevalence of dementia in 85-year olds examined 22 years apart: the influence of education and stroke
Individuals aged 80 years and older constitute the fastest growing segment of the population worldwide, leading to an expected increase in dementia cases. Education level and treatment of vascular risk factors...
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Open AccessEvaluation of inter-departmental variability of ejection fraction and cardiac volumes in myocardial perfusion scintigraphy using simulated data
Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS) is a clinically useful noninvasive imaging modality for diagnosing patients with suspected coronary artery disease. By utilizing gated MPS, the end diastolic volume (EDV...
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Open AccessArea of ischemia assessed by physicians and software packages from myocardial perfusion scintigrams
The European Society of Cardiology recommends that patients with >10% area of ischemia should receive revascularization. We investigated inter-observer variability for the extent of ischemic defects reported b...
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Open AccessWhen is reacquisition necessary due to high extra-cardiac uptake in myocardial perfusion scintigraphy?
Technetium-labeled agents, which are most often used for assessing myocardial perfusion in myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS), are cleared by the liver and excreted by the biliary system. Spillover from e...
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Open AccessDiagnostic evaluation of three cardiac software packages using a consecutive group of patients
The aim of this study was to compare the diagnostic performance of the three software packages 4DMSPECT (4DM), Emory Cardiac Toolbox (ECTb), and Cedars Quantitative Perfusion SPECT (QPS) for quantification of ...
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Evaluation of a decision support system for interpretation of myocardial perfusion gated SPECT
We have recently presented a decision support system for interpreting myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS). In this study, we wanted to evaluate the system in a separate hospital from where it was trained a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Activation of Knowledge in an Integrated Business Process Support/Knowledge Management System
The paper is devoted to the issue of activation of knowledge in automated Knowledge Management Systems (KMS). According to the authors, activation of knowledge means that a system, based on the knowledge store...
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Skin blood flow in the human hand in relation to applied pressure
Our aim was to study the relationship between external pressure and skin blood flow (BF) in the area of the palm (P) of the human hand and the relationship between BF and pressure pain thresholds. A special p...
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Selective binding by Helicobacter pylori of leucocyte gangliosides with 3-linked sialic acid, as identified by a new approach of linkage analysis
The human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori has been shown to bind to glycoconjugates of human leucocytes in a sialic acid-dependent way. In order to improve the identification of the binding epitope, a new...
