Published 19 October 2020 Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), a progressive liver disease that is closely associated with obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidaemia, represents an increasing global public health challenge. There is significant variability in the disease course: the majority exhibit only fat accumulation in the liver but a significant minority develop a necroin

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/european-nafld-registry-real-world-longitudinal-cohort-study-nonalcoholic-fatty-liver-disease - 2025-07-05

Published 19 October 2020 This paper measures consumption expenditures using registry data on income and asset holdings in Sweden. We show how a registry-based measure complements traditional survey measures of consumption and can alleviate some critical limitations. We describe the construction of our measure, which builds on prior work and exploits the identity coming from the household budget c

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/value-registry-data-consumption-analysis-application-health-shocks - 2025-07-05

Published 20 October 2020 Pelvic floor disorders (PFDs) are important public health concerns due to their increasing prevalence. Hence, there is an increasing need for developing systematically collected quality data to assist appropriate clinical decision‐making. This study aimed to develop a core data set for patients with PFDs based on the PFDs registry. Read more at https://onlinelibrary.wiley

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/development-core-data-set-pelvic-floor-disorder-patients-registry - 2025-07-05

Published 20 October 2020 Dementia was identified as a priority area for the development of a Clinical Quality Registry (CQR) in Australia in 2016. The Australian Dementia Network (ADNeT) Registry is being established as part of the ADNeT initiative, with the primary objective of collecting data to monitor and enhance the quality of care and patient outcomes for people diagnosed with either dement

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/protocol-clinical-quality-registry-dementia-and-mild-cognitive-impairment-mci-australian-dementia - 2025-07-05

Published 21 October 2020 Independent disease registries for pre-and post-approval of novel treatments for rare diseases are increasingly important for healthcare professionals, patients, regulators and the pharmaceutical industry. Current registries for rare diseases to evaluate orphan drugs are mainly set up and owned by the pharmaceutical industry which leads to unacceptable conflicts of intere

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/registries-orphan-drugs-generating-evidence-or-marketing-tools - 2025-07-05

Published 21 March 2018 Ragnar Söderbergs stiftelse finansierar projekt vid Stockholms och Lunds Universitet En framgångsrik digitalisering resulterar i ett unikt dataset som kastar nytt ljus på svensk industrihistoria. Planen är att göra datasetet offentligt, och bedömningen är att det kan bli internationellt uppmärksammat och användas i historiska studier av industrialisering.Läs mer här.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/projekt-att-digitalisera-svensk-industridata-beviljas-13-miljoner-kronor - 2025-07-05

Published 21 October 2020 Recruitment for Alzheimer's disease (AD)-focused studies, particularly prevention studies, is challenging due to the public's lack of awareness about study opportunities coupled with studies' inclusion and exclusion criteria, resulting in a high screen fail rate. Read more at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32920626/

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/alzheimers-prevention-registry-large-internet-based-participant-recruitment-registry-accelerate - 2025-07-05

Published 22 October 2020 Hypertension (HTN) has become a major public health problem which can cause serious complications when it is not well-controlled. Prevention and effective care of HTN require a population-based registry. Thus, establishing this registry can be used to collect comprehensive, timely, and reliable data on epidemiology cases. The aim is to create a registry for the collection

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/improving-hypertension-surveillance-data-management-prospective-data-requirements-implementation - 2025-07-05

Published 22 October 2020 The risk of complications and medical consequences of type 2 diabetes are well known. Hospital costs have been identified as a key driver of total costs in studies of the economic burden of type 2 diabetes. Less evidence has been generated on the impact of individual diabetic complications on the overall societal burden. The objective of this study was to analyse costs of

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/costs-diabetes-complications-hospital-based-care-and-absence-work-392200-people-type-2-diabetes-and - 2025-07-05

Published 23 October 2020 Non-Western immigrants to Europe are at high risk for type 2 diabetes. In this nationwide study including incident cases of type 2 diabetes, the aim was to compare all-cause mortality (ACM) and cause-specific mortality (CSM) rates in first- and second-generation immigrants with native Swedes. Read more at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32979073/

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/mortality-first-and-second-generation-immigrants-sweden-diagnosed-type-2-diabetes-10-year-nationwide - 2025-07-05

Published 23 October 2020 Several prediction models for falls/near falls in Parkinson’s disease (PD) have been proposed. However, longitudinal predictors of frequency of falls/near falls are poorly investigated. Therefore, we aimed to identify short- and long-term predictors of the number of falls/near falls in PD. Read more at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00415-020-10234-6

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/longitudinal-prediction-falls-and-near-falls-frequencies-parkinsons-disease-prospective-cohort-study - 2025-07-05

Published 24 October 2020 The objective was to describe the epidemiology, bacteriology, clinical presentation, risk factors for endocarditis (IE), diagnostic workup, and outcome of patients with bacteremia caused by the non-influenzae Haemophilus, Aggregatibacter, Cardiobacterium, Eikenella, and Kingella genera (HACEK). A retrospective population-based cohort of patients with bacteremia collected

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/epidemiology-bacteriology-and-clinical-characteristics-hacek-bacteremia-and-endocarditis-population - 2025-07-05

Published 24 October 2020 Higher socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with lower mortality, and this correlation has been confirmed using different indicators across several geographical settings. Nevertheless, the timing of the emergence of the SES gradient remains unclear. We used individual-level longitudinal data for a regional population in southern Sweden covering the period between 1813

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/ses-inequalities-cause-specific-adult-mortality-study-long-term-trends-using-longitudinal-individual - 2025-07-05

By maria [dot] esaiasson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Esaiasson) - published 11 October 2023 The ongoing procurement of a learning platform through NORDUnet has been interrupted again due to an appeal. In the spring, the procurement had to be halted due to uncertainties in the bidding process. Here's a brief update on the current situation. Photo: Mimi Thian from Unsplash.com What h

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/procurement-learning-platform-once-again-interrupted - 2025-07-05

By steven [dot] curtis [at] ahu [dot] lu [dot] se (Steven Curtis, AHU) - published 9 November 2023 Take advantage of the existing and new courses at AHU to develop your pedagogical competence, in general and in relation to particular roles and challenges. The deadline for applications is 28 November 2023. AHU (the Division for Higher Education Development) provides basic and advanced pedagogical c

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/advance-your-pedagogical-competence-ahus-spring-2024-course-offerings - 2025-07-05

By maria [dot] esaiasson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Esaiasson) - published 9 November 2023 Excuse the mess! Right now we are revising the Swedish version of our website education.lu.se. Our English website is next in line. Photo: Shivendu Shukla from Unsplash.com. Our website education.lu.se was created during the pandemic and has grown organically since then. A lot of the materia

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/we-are-rebuilding-read-about-revision-educationluse - 2025-07-05

Published 14 December 2023 Employees at Lund University can now use the generative AI tool Copilot (previously known as Bing Chat) through Office 365. Copilot can be used, for example, to search for information, analyze data, create images, or improve text. Copilot uses Chat GPT-4 and has internet access. To use Copilot, you need to have the Microsoft Edge browser installed. Open the browser and f

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/lu-employees-can-now-use-ai-assistant-copilot-previously-known-bing-chat-free - 2025-07-05

Published 17 August 2020 Do your students (and yourself) think that your lecture is too long and tedious in the online classroom? Don´t worry - you can now easily add interactivity through the voting/poll tool Mentimeter. The long wait is over and now employees and students can log in to Mentimeter with their LU credentials. With Mentimeter you can add a layer of interactivity in your lecture, bot

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/time-vote-now-we-have-mentimeter - 2025-07-05

By maria [dot] esaiasson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Esaiasson) - published 7 February 2024 Get to know Ann-Catrin Johansson, the new coordinator at the Unit for Educational Support since the beginning of the year. Ann-Catrin has previously worked as a librarian at LTH with a focus on teaching information literacy as well as reading and writing support for students. Over the next t

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/hello-there-ann-catrin-johansson - 2025-07-05

By maria [dot] esaiasson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Esaiasson) - published 26 March 2024 Photo: Kennet RuonaCanvas has won the procurement of the new learning platform. The national network Sunet (Swedish University Computer Network) conducted the procurement. Lund University will call off Sunet's framework agreement. This means that Lund University will have the opportunity to re

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/canvas-wins-procurement-learning-platform - 2025-07-05