Search for dissertations about: "early life hypothesis"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 110 swedish dissertations containing the words early life hypothesis.

  2. 1. Early life origins of health and well-being in modern Sweden

    Author : Serhiy Dekhtyar; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economic history; demography; health; developmental origins; early life hypothesis; Barker hypothesis; life course; intergenerational mobility; entry into motherhood; childhood cognitive ability; dementia; 20th century Sweden; register data;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to examine the role of early life environments for a variety of individual-level health and socioeconomic outcomes in contemporary Sweden. Ever-expanding human lifespans have contributed to the emergence of novel socio-health phenomena confronting contemporary Swedish society. READ MORE

  4. 2. The Stress Hypothesis : Implications for the induction of diabetes-related autoimmunity in children?

    Author : Anneli Sepa; Ann Frodi; Johnny Ludvigsson; Gunilla Bohlin; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; Psychological stress; parenting stress; attachment security; serious life events; children; attitudes; Type I diabetes; beta-cell autoantibodies; prediction; etiology; Medicine; Medicin;

    Abstract : Background: Second to Finland, Sweden has the world’s highest incidence of type 1 diabetes. Experiences of serious life events have retrospectively been shown to constitute a risk factor for the development of this disease, probably via the biological stress response. READ MORE

  5. 3. All that's mine I carry with me. Early life disease and adult health in Sweden during 250 years

    Author : Martin Lindström; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Key words: early life; life course; infant mortality rate; nutrition; disease; airborne infectious diseases; socioeconomic differences; historical demography; 18th-21st centuries; Sweden.;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to study early life risk exposures in relation to adult health and mortality in Sweden during 250 years. A number of causal mechanisms by which exposure to diseases and stressful economic and social conditions early in life may lead to increased morbidity and mortality later in life are discussed (paper I). READ MORE

  6. 4. Social bodies : family and community level influences on height and weight, southern Sweden 1818-1968

    Author : Stefan Öberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; height; weight; body mass index; demography; demographic history; anthropometry; anthropometric history; standards of living; socioeconomic status; socioeconomic differences; resource dilution hypothesis; infant mortality; early life;

    Abstract : This dissertation consists of an introduction, four research papers and one paper describing the data I collected for the studies and how I conducted the study. I collected information on men from conscript inspection lists and linked this to a sample of men in the Scanian Economic Demographic Database (SEDD) born between 1797 and 1950. READ MORE

  7. 5. Telomeres in ecology and evolution: Hypotheses and connections between telomere length, infections and life history trade-offs

    Author : David Gomez Blanco; MEMEG; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; telomeres; life history; telomere elongation; telomere shortening; early-life telomere length; critical threshold; malaria infection; great reed warbler; Acrocephalus arundinaceus;

    Abstract : Studying life history strategies is crucial for understanding the diversity among organisms. The trade-offs in traits related to survival, self-maintenance and reproduction play an important role in the variation of life histories and can be adjusted in response to environmental and physiological factors. READ MORE