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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 1837 avhandlingar innehållade ordet prospective.
1. Self-Perceived Health and Nutritional Status among Home-Living Older People : A Prospective Study
Sammanfattning : The overall aim was to follow the development of nutritional status and its significance for general health status using an epiemiologic method in a representative population‐based selection of older individuals in two cohorts. The main focus was to prospectively examine the significance of demographic, social and medical factors and to establish a basis to investigate the possibilities of preventive measures. LÄS MER
2. Metachromatic cells and eosinophils in atopic children : A prospective study
Sammanfattning : Metachromatic cells and eosinophil leukocytes were studied prospectively in 64 newborns with and without a family history of atopic disease (FH). Cellfindings in nasal mucosa and peripheral blood were related to development of atopic symptoms up to 18 months of age. For this purpose, a gentle scraping method suitable for infants was developed. LÄS MER
3. Body mass index, cognitive ability, and dementia : prospective associations and methodological issues in late life
Sammanfattning : The aims of the present study were to investigate the association between overweight and cognitive ability and dementia, and to evaluate the usefulness of self-reported body mass index (BMI) in late life and various data sources commonly used in epidemiological studies to identify persons with dementia. Data were drawn from three population-based studies: the Swedish Adoption/Twin Study of Aging (SATSA), Aging in Women and Men: A Longitudinal Study of Gender Differences in Health Behaviour and Health among Elderly (the Gender Study), and the Finnish Lieto Study. LÄS MER
4. Advancing prospective life cycle assessment -Experiences from guiding carbon fibre composite development
Sammanfattning : Life cycle assessment is a powerful tool for quantifying the environmental impacts of goods and services. While most easily done for well-defined and known product systems, there is also a need for a prospective (that is, a future-orientated) approach to assessing developing technologies. LÄS MER
5. Perspectives of anxiety in stressful environments : Prospective studies in real-life settings
Sammanfattning : The present thesis deals with perspectives of anxiety experienced in stressful environments. As such two major issues are addressed. The first issue is whether increased trait anxiety during work in a high-stress environment is related to impaired performance on executive control tasks. LÄS MER