Search for dissertations about: "healthy population"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 767 swedish dissertations containing the words healthy population.

2. 21. Population studies on depression in the elderly. Prevalence, incidence and relation to cognitive function and dementia

   Author : Sigurdur Páll Pálsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; depression; major depression; dementia; incidence; prevalence; mortality; computed tomography; epidemiological methods; psychometric tests; aged; population study.;

   Abstract : Aims: To study the prevalence and incidence of depression in relation to cognitive function, dementia and brain atrophy in a representative sample of elderly persons. Methods: 70 and 74-year-old women (n=501) were studied in 1992-93 as part of the fourth phase of the Prospective Population Study of Women in Gothenburg, Sweden. READ MORE

4. 22. On Falls in the Elderly –Epidemiological Studies from the Longitudinal General Population Study ‘Good Aging in Skåne’ (GÅS), Sweden

   Author : Magnus Stenhagen; Geriatrik; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Accidental falls; elderly; general population; risk factors; prospective; health-related quality of life; life satisfaction; activities of daily living.;

   Abstract : In a ‘greying world’ with aging populations, falls in the elderly are a challenge to the health care system as they are associated with substantial mortality and morbidity. Apart from physical injuries, the consequences of falls are broad, with additional psychological and social consequences. READ MORE

5. 23. Psychotic symptoms and paranoid ideation in the non-demented elderly. A population study on prevalence, incidence, and associated factors, and their relationship to cognitive functioning and prognosis

   Author : Svante Östling; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : hallucinations; delusions; psychotic symptoms; paranoid ideation; incidence; prevalence; psychometric tests; computed tomography; basal ganglia calcification; population study; elderly;

   Abstract : Background: Psychotic symptoms and paranoid ideation are not commonly reported in non-demented elderly, and may be underrated in traditional epidemiological studies.Aims: The aims of this study are to characterize the incidence and prevalence of psychotic symptoms and paranoid ideation and associated factors; the relationship between neuropsychological performance and psychotic symptoms and paranoid ideation and the prognosis of psychotic symptoms and paranoid ideation in non-demented elderly. READ MORE

6. 24. Lipoprotein lipase in hemodialysis patients and healthy controls : effects of heparin

   Author : Birgit Näsström; Per-Ola Attman; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : dalteparin; dialysis; lipoprotein metabolism; LMWH; LPL; triglycerides; UFH; uremia; medicinsk och fysiologisk kemi; Medical and Physiological Chemistry;

   Abstract : Mortality from cardiovascular disease in patients on chronic hemodialysis (HD) is 10 to 20 times greater than in the general population. One major risk factor is renal dyslipidemia, characterised by an impaired catabolism of triglyceride (TG)-rich lipoproteins with accumulation of atherogenic remnant particles. READ MORE

7. 25. Truncation and missing family links in population-based registers

   Author : Monica Leu; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Left-trunction; Swedish Cancer Registry; MultiGeneration Register; family history; misclassification; simulation; Poplab;

   Abstract : Studies of familial aggregation of disease routinely use linked population registers to construct retrospective cohorts. Although such resources have provided numerous estimates of familial risk, little is known regarding the sensitivity of the estimates to assumed disease models and incompleteness of the data, such as truncation and/or missing family links. READ MORE