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Published 20 May 2020 Left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) to prevent stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation has been evaluated in 2 randomized trials; post-approval clinical data are limited. New publication in J Am Coll Cardiol
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/ncdr-left-atrial-appendage-occlusion-registry - 2025-08-07
Published 21 May 2020 For STEMI patients admitted for primary percutaneous coronary intervention from 2007-2010, the latest ECGs recorded before STEMI were exported in digital format. After excluding ECGs with paced rhythm and QRS duration ≥120 ms, the remaining ECGs were processed using the Glasgow algorithm allowing automatic ER detection. The association between ER pattern and VT/VF during the
Published 22 May 2020 Heart failure (HF) has emerged as a global public health problem that affects both low and high-income countries. The high HF burden and the need for resource-intensive treatments often lead to health system crisis in resource-poor settings. Data on prevailing practice patterns and long-term clinical outcomes of HF are scarce from the low and middle-income countries. National
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/national-heart-failure-registry-india-design-and-methods - 2025-08-07
Published 23 May 2020 There were no significant differences in 25(OH)D levels between MDD and controls (p = 0.24) or between MDD with and without SI (p = 0.61). However, 25(OH)D was negatively correlated with all measured inflammatory markers; these correlations were stronger in MDD subjects, and particularly in those with SI. MDD status significantly moderated the relationships between 25(OH)D an
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/vitamin-d-and-inflammation-major-depressive-disorder - 2025-08-07
Published 24 May 2020 Globally, an estimated 350 million people are affected by a rare disease diagnosis. Knowledge limitations persist for the majority of rare conditions due to systemic and structural challenges in healthcare and research. Disease-specific patient populations are often small and geographically dispersed; funding support for research is restricted; and diagnostic delays are commo
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/establishing-patient-registries-rare-diseases-rationale-and-challenges - 2025-08-07
Published 20 May 2020 DORIS är ett verktyg som ska gå att använda genom hela processen för att göra forskningsdata tillgängliga: från beskrivning av forskningsdata till beställning av data för återanvändning eller granskning. Utvecklingen av systemet är uppdelat i flera olika faser. Läs mer på https://snd.gu.se/sv/nyheter/doris-gor-det-enklare-att-dela-data-snd.
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/doris-gor-det-enklare-att-dela-data-snd - 2025-08-07
Published 21 May 2020 A call for proposals for funding of Nordic and Nordic-Estonian/Latvian collaboration projects on health data research on COVID-19 is now announced. The application deadline is 16 June 2020 13 CEST. Read more at https://www.nordforsk.org/calls/nordic-health-data-research-projects-co….
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/nordic-health-data-research-projects-covid-19 - 2025-08-07
Published 22 May 2020 Ett särskilt aktuellt register dessa dagar är Svenska Intensivvårdsregistret, SIR, som dagligen rapporterar om antalet inlagda patienter med covid-19 på svenska intensivvårdsavdelningar. Representanter från SIR har arbetat intensivt tillsammans med Vetenskapsrådet för att dokumentera registrets innehåll i RUT och på så sätt göra det mer tillgängligt för forskning. Läs mer här
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/svenska-intensivvardsregistret-sir-har-anslutits-till-metadataverktyget-rut - 2025-08-07
Published 23 May 2020 Nu finns möjlighet att lyssna på en initierad podd i två delar där forskare samtalar om virusets spridning, lärdomar från spanska sjukan samt ekonomiska konsekvenser av den nedstängning av världen som vi nu upplever. Poddcasten är framtagen som samarbete mellan Centrum för ekonomisk demografi (CED) vid Ekonomihögskolan i Lund och LU Futura - Lunds universitets tankesmedja för
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/poddcast-att-forsta-corona-och-dess-konsekvenser - 2025-08-07
Published 25 May 2020 Job opening at Galapagos, a Biotech company with offices in Europe in Belgium (Mechelen), France (Romainville), the Netherlands (Leiden), Basel (Switzerland) and in Boston (US). Read more at https://careers.glpg.com/o/principal-biostatistician-belgium-the-nether….
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/principal-biostatistician-belgium-netherlands-or-switzerland - 2025-08-07
Published 25 May 2020 Diabetes registries can be used to monitor the prevalence and incidence of diabetes. Diabetes registries are used in many countries for population management of diabetes, outcomes management, and development of Clinician finding Support Structure, for example, National Diabetes Registry (NDR) in Sweden and Singapore diabetes registry. New publication in Pakistan Journal of Me
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/diabetes-registry-pakistan - 2025-08-07
Published 26 May 2020 Temporally and spatially highly resolved information on population characteristics, including demographic profile (e.g. age and sex), ethnicity and socio-economic status (e.g. income, occupation, education), are essential for observational health studies at the small-area level. Time-relevant population data are critical as denominators for health statistics, analytics and ep
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/advances-mapping-population-and-demographic-characteristics-small-area-levels - 2025-08-07
Published 26 May 2020 This paper studies the effects of improvements in infant health produced by the introduction of sulphapyridine in the late-1930s as treatment against pneumonia on outcomes in adulthood. Based on longitudinal individual data for the whole population of Sweden 1968–2012 and archival data on the availability of sulphapyridine and applying a difference-in-differences approach, it
Published 27 May 2020 Effective stewardship of data is a critical precursor to making data FAIR. The goal of this paper is to bring an overview of current state of the art of data management and data stewardship planning solutions (DMP). We begin by arguing why data management is an important vehicle supporting adoption and implementation of the FAIR principles, we describe the background, context
Published 27 May 2020 To investigate the risk of cancer in patients with biopsy-proven giant cell arteritis (GCA) from a defined population in southern Sweden. New publication in The Journal of Rheumatology
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/malignancies-giant-cell-arteritis-population-based-cohort-study - 2025-08-07
Published 8 February 2018 PhD-courses of relevance for population research The strategic research area EpiHealth - Epidemiology for Health - together with LUPOP - Lund University Population Research Platform - now opens a call for proposals for new PhD - courses of relevance for population research. We will fund 3 - 5 courses during 2018 related to e.g. epidemiological data analysis, medical stati
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/call-proposals - 2025-08-07
Published 28 May 2020 Food patterns were extracted using principal component analysis in 1726 individuals (aged 18–71 y, 55% women, mean BMI = 25.5 kg/m2) without diabetes from the population-based Malmö Offspring Study. The gut (fecal) microbiota was analyzed by sequencing the 16S ribosomal RNA gene (V1–V3 region). Prediabetes classification was based on fasting glucose ≥6.0 mmol/L and/or glycate
Published 28 May 2020 In this era of ‘big data’, there is growing recognition of the value of environmental, health, social and demographic data for research. Open government data initiatives are growing in number and in terms of content. Remote sensing data are finding widespread use in environmental research, including in low- and middle-income settings. While our ability to study environment an
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/availability-access-analysis-and-dissemination-small-area-data - 2025-08-07
Published 29 May 2020 In acute myeloid leukemia (AML) FLT3 internal tandem duplication (ITD) and nucleophosmin 1 (NPM1) mutations provide prognostic information with clinical relevance through choice of treatment, but the effect of age and sex on these molecular markers has not been evaluated. New publication in Blood Advances
Published 29 May 2020 The North Texas Concussion Registry (ConTex) was established in 2015 as a multi-institutional collaboration intended to study risk factors, recovery patterns and clinical outcomes associated with concussion across the lifespan, with a particular emphasis on sport-related concussion. New publication in BMJ Open
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/north-texas-concussion-registry-contex - 2025-08-07
