Sökning: "confounding factors"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 198 avhandlingar innehållade orden confounding factors.

  1. 16. Mental disorders as risk factors, comorbidities, and consequences of cancer

    Författare :Qianwei Liu; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Sammanfattning : Cancer and mental disorders are both heterogenous groups of diseases and with substantial public health burden. Accumulating evidence has supported an elevated risk of mental disorders among patients with cancer. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Neck pain : factors of importance for the risk and prognosis

    Författare :Lina Palmlöf; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Sammanfattning : Introduction: Considering the recurring nature of neck pain, and that it is a big societal as well as individual burden, it is of great importance to increase the knowledge about what factors that affect the risk and prognosis of neck pain. Objectives: The objective of this thesis was to study factors of potential importance for the risk and prognosis of neck pain, including whiplash-associated disorders (WAD). LÄS MER

  4. 18. Risk factors for disability pension : studies of a Swedish twin cohort

    Författare :Åsa Samuelsson; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska institutet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : Background & aims: Mental disorders are today the major diagnosis behind newly granted disability pensions (DP) in the Western world. Yet, studies of risk factors for DP due to mental diagnoses are scarce, are often based on small or selective samples, and have a cross-sectional design, or short follow-up. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Evaluation of patient related factors influencing outcomes after total hip replacement

    Författare :Max Gordon; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Sammanfattning : Background: Basic patient factors such as age, sex, and comorbidities are poorly understood in the context of re-operation rates and patient-reported outcome measures after total hip replacement (THR) surgery. Aims: The aims of this thesis were to investigate: 1. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Early Life Environmental Risk Factors and Gut Microbiota in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis : - More than a gut feeling

    Författare :Erik Kindgren; Rosaura Casas; Johnny Ludvigsson; Thomas Abrahamsson; Robin Kahn; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Juvenile idiopathic arthritis JIA ; Gut microbiota; Nutrition; Autoimmunity; Rheumatic disease;

    Sammanfattning : Background: The autoimmune disease juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is the most common rheumatic disease in children, but the cause is not fully established. Only a small percentage (13–18%) of the risk of contracting the disease can be attributed to genetic factors, but environmental factors are believed to be behind most of the risk. LÄS MER