Published 22 January 2020 Sleep apnea is increasing in prevalence, and is an important cause of cardiometabolic diseases and mortality worldwide. Its only established modifiable risk factor is obesity; however, up to half of all sleep apnea cases may occur in non‐obese persons, and hence there is a pressing need to identify other modifiable risk factors to facilitate more effective prevention. We

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/cardiorespiratory-fitness-and-long-term-risk-sleep-apnea-national-cohort-study - 2025-05-07

Published 23 January 2020 Snus use at admission for a first PCI was not associated with a higher occurrence of all-cause mortality, new revascularisation or heart failure hospitalisation. Discontinuing snus after a first PCI was associated with a significantly longer duration to a subsequent PCI. New publication in Interventional cardiology

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/smokeless-tobacco-snus-admission-percutaneous-coronary-intervention-and-future-risk-cardiac-events - 2025-05-07

Published 23 January 2020 More remains to be understood about attitudes towards treatment for gambling disorder and where to seek treatment. Given the low degree of treatment seeking behaviour in this condition, it may be of interest to study people’s perception about where to seek help in case of problem gambling. From a study originally aiming to address health correlates of problem gambling, th

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/general-populations-view-where-seek-treatment-gambling-disorder-general-population-survey - 2025-05-07

Published 24 January 2020 No study to date, as far as we know, has analyzed the potential effect of neighborhood-level deprivation on autoimmune disorders (ADs), when adjusted for individual-level characteristics. Methods: A total of 5.4 million individuals from 8363 neighborhoods, comprising the whole Swedish population (ages 25–74 years), were followed for the period 1 January 2000, until admiss

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/neighborhood-deprivation-and-risks-autoimmune-disorders-national-cohort-study-sweden - 2025-05-07

Published 24 January 2020 An increasing number of women are evaluated for potential breast cancer and may experience mental distress during evaluation. We aim to assess the risks of psychiatric disorders and cardiovascular diseases during the diagnostic workup of potential breast cancer. New publication in Breast Cancer Research

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/psychiatric-disorders-and-cardiovascular-diseases-during-diagnostic-workup-potential-breast-cancer - 2025-05-07

Published 25 January 2020 Studies on partners' mutual receipt of benefits constitute a growing research field in the way individual health and health-related decisions depend on social relations. This paper provides the first study on the mutual receipt of sickness allowance. We analysed married and cohabiting couples' receipt of sickness allowance and disability pension by estimating discrete-tim

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/sickness-or-health-register-based-evidence-partners-mutual-receipt-sickness-allowance-and-disability - 2025-05-07

Published 9 January 2017 Ullrika Sahlin, Researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, CEC, has been awarded Richard J. Burk Outstanding Service Award for her work in the field of risk analyses. Ullrika Sahlin, Researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, CEC, has been awarded Richard J. Burk Outstanding Service Award for her work in the field of risk analyse

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/researcher-awarded-price-society-risk-analysis - 2025-05-07

Published 18 January 2017 The purpose of Dr. Pejchar's visit is to advance science at the intersection of biodiversity, ecosystem services and agriculture in collaboration with BECC researchers. Dr. Liba Pejchar brings expertise in several emerging topics in BECC at the intersection of biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being. Her lively research program explores innovative strategies

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/welcome-becc-guest-researcher-liba-pejchar-associate-professor-department-fish-wildlife-and - 2025-05-07

Published 1 February 2017 • Do you get your Friday emails from Research professional with the latest funding opportunities? • Is your profile in LUCRIS, ORCID-ID and PRISMA in order? • What happens with your articles once they are published? How do you get them in all these databases? Warmly welcome to a workshop on tools for researchers at LU on 9 February 10–12. This event is open to both CEC Fe

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/workshop-tools-researchers-lu - 2025-05-07

Published 3 February 2017 In January 2017, Lund University signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Stockholm Environmental Institute, SEI. The relationship between Lund University and SEI has a long history, covering areas such as climate adaptation and low carbon transitions in Sweden, agriculture and food security, and, most recently, with a common 58 MSEK Mistra Geopolitics programme. Future

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/lund-university-and-sei-sign-mou - 2025-05-07

Published 6 February 2017 Johanna Alkan Olsson from CEC, Lund University was awarded 5,000 Euros for her project on algorithmic potato farming at Climate-KIC Nordic Ideation Day 27 January. The project will create a method for farmers to better handle outbreaks of late blight on crops, a disease expected to become more problematic in a changing climate. This was the second ever Climate-KIC Nordic

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/potato-project-awarded-grant - 2025-05-07

Published 10 February 2017 Four different research teams have shared the assignment of evaluating the the Swedish rural programme 2007–2013. One of the groups have been responsible for the second partial report, with the assignment of evaluating the programmes effect when it comes to measures for improving the environment. This research group has worked under the supervision of Henrik Smith who ha

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/final-evaluation-report-swedish-rural-programme-2007-2013 - 2025-05-07

Published 15 February 2017 Anna Persson, researcher at the CEC is one of the authors of a new publication from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: "Arguments for more ecosystem services". From the report; Ecosystem services are the foundation of human welfare, yet the services are often invisible in many of society’s decision-making processes. This report contains statistics, studies and

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/arguments-more-ecosystem-services - 2025-05-07

Published 6 March 2017 The research project Valuation of ecosystem services in agriculture – a path towards effective decision making (VESA) led by Katarina Hedlund will present their results at the Environmental Protection Agency's final conference March 21 in Stockholm. One of the results of VESA is C-bank, which is a web-based tool that can be used by farmers and advisers to value ecosystem ser

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/final-conference-value-ecosystem-services - 2025-05-07

Av anna [dot] lothman [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Löthman) - publicerad 31 mars 2025 Johan Larsson, tidigare doktorand vid Statistiska institutionen på Ekonomihögskolan, har blivit tilldelad Ekonomihögskolans pris för bästa avhandling 2024. Avhandlingen heter Optimization and Algorithms in Sparse Regression: Screening Rules, Coordinate Descent, and Normalization.Det är Forskarutbildningskolle

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/ekonomihogskolans-avhandlingspris-till-johan-larsson - 2025-05-07

Av kefu [at] kefu [dot] se (Mats Brangstrup) - publicerad 24 mars 2025 Gabriella Radencrantz Det finns många initiativ för att göra transporterna i våra städer mer hållbara. Men det är mycket att ta hänsyn till när dessa initiativ ska utvärderas. Gabriella Radencrantz, doktorand vid företagsekonomiska institutionen på Ekonomihögskolan, forskar i sitt avhandlingsarbete på hur denna process kan före

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/doktorand-vill-forbattra-utvardering-av-hallbara-trafikprojekt - 2025-05-07

Av anna [dot] lothman [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Löthman) - publicerad 13 april 2025 Den årliga konferensen CED Lund Population Day 2025 (även kallad LPD) ges den 8 maj på temat The Two Fertility Puzzles, 2010-2020. Vi frågade konferensens organisatör, professor Martin Dribe, tre snabba frågor för att få veta mer. Hej Martin Dribe, professor i Ekonomisk historia och specialiserad på ekonomis

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/nyfiken-pa-lpd-tre-korta-fragor - 2025-05-07

Av thea [dot] sandin [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Thea Sandin) - publicerad 14 april 2025 Ekonomihögskolans karriärcenter besökte Mohamad Hariri för att höra om hur en dag som praktikant på Nordea ser ut. Foto: Wihlborgs Mohamad Hariri studerar på Ekonomie kandidatprogrammet på Ekonomihögskolan, och under de senaste tio veckorna har han gjort praktik på Nordea i Malmö. Ekonomihögskolans karriärcent

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/erfarenheter-av-praktik-pa-nordea - 2025-05-07

Av kefu [at] kefu [dot] se (Mats Brangstrup) - publicerad 21 mars 2025 Fredrik N G Andersson är docent vid nationalekonomiska institutionen Högst personligt: Fredrik N G Andersson Klimatpolitiken har nu nått sitt mest avgörande skede. Efter det amerikanska presidentvalet och Donald Trumps återkomst till Vita huset har USA dragit sig ur Parisavtalet från 2015. Till skillnad från Biden-administratio

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/klimatpolitiken-i-ett-kritiskt-skede - 2025-05-07

Av kefu [at] kefu [dot] se (Mats Brangstrup) - publicerad 11 april 2025 Hur ska vi klara det här?Utvecklingen av alltmer kapabel artificiell intelligens rusar fram och sprids omedelbart till varje dator och smartphone. Målen för klimatarbetet kommer allt närmre, liksom klimatförändringarna.El, som vi länge tagit för givet, riskerar nu att bli en bristvara med stigande priser som följd. Vår egen IT

https://www.ehl.lu.se/artikel/kefu-dagen-2025-fem-i-tolv-och-det-intilliggande-mojliga - 2025-05-07