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Sunlight and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: a population-based cohort study in SwedenJ Adami
Department of Medical Epidemiology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Int J Cancer 80:641-5. 1999..Although type of occupation may be an imperfect index of the biologically relevant ultraviolet (UV) light dose, our data on individual exposure are not consistent with an important role of sunlight in the etiology of NHL...
Cancer risk following organ transplantation: a nationwide cohort study in SwedenJ Adami
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, SE 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Br J Cancer 89:1221-7. 2003..The complex pattern of excess risk at many sites challenges current understanding of oncogenic infections that might become activated by immunologic alterations...
The risk for cutaneous malignant melanoma, melanoma in situ and intraocular malignant melanoma in relation to tobacco use and body mass indexA Odenbro
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Br J Dermatol 156:99-105. 2007..Malignant melanoma (MM) is also the most common intraocular malignancy (IMM). Besides ultraviolet radiation, the cause of these tumours is largely unknown...
Time trends in risk and risk determinants of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in solid organ transplant recipientsP Fernberg
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Am J Transplant 11:2472-82. 2011..5; 95% CI 1.9-38). To conclude, posttransplant NHL risk decreased during the last decade among nonkidney recipients, possibly because of a more careful use of ATG, the introduction of new drugs, or both...
Impact of body mass index and tobacco smoking on outcome after open appendicectomyO Sadr Azodi
Department of Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden
Br J Surg 95:751-7. 2008..The effect of body mass index (BMI) and smoking on the risk of perforated appendix and postoperative complications in patients undergoing open appendicectomy for acute appendicitis was studied...
Childbearing and the risk of Hodgkin's diseaseM Lambe
Department of Medical Epidemiology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 7:831-4. 1998..Although uncontrolled confounding might have affected our results, they do not indicate that hormonal or immunological changes associated with childbearing play a role in the development of Hodgkin's disease...
The efficacy of a smoking cessation programme in patients undergoing elective surgery: a randomised clinical trialO Sadr Azodi
Department of Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Anaesthesia 64:259-65. 2009..After 1 year, those in the intervention group was most likely to be abstinent (18/55 (33%) vs 9/62 (15%) of the controls (p = 0.03). Level of nicotine dependence and obesity seemed to be a predictor of long-term abstinence (p = 0.02)...
The effect of tobacco consumption and body mass index on complications and hospital stay after inguinal hernia surgeryD Lindstrom
Department of Surgery, Karolinska Institutet at Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
Hernia 11:117-23. 2007..The second aim was to evaluate the effect of tobacco consumption and obesity on the length of hospital stay...
Primary brain tumors following traumatic brain injury--a population-based cohort study in SwedenC Nygren
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Cancer Causes Control 12:733-7. 2001..The aim of this study was to explore the association between traumatic brain injury and brain tumor development...
Pediatric organ transplantation and risk of premalignant and malignant tumors in SwedenJ F Simard
Department of Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Am J Transplant 11:146-51. 2011..Apart from short-term attention toward the potential occurrence of NHL, our results suggest cancer surveillance into adulthood with special attention to skin, kidneys and the female genitalia...
Tobacco smoking, snuff dipping and the risk of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma: a nationwide cohort study in SwedenA Odenbro
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Br J Cancer 92:1326-8. 2005..Snuff use was associated with a decreased risk of CSCC. Overall, our study provides no evidence that tobacco use increases the risk of CSCC...
Fractures of the shaft of the humerus. An epidemiological study of 401 fracturesR Ekholm
Department of Orthopaedics, Stockholm Soder Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
J Bone Joint Surg Br 88:1469-73. 2006..Only 2% of the fractures were open and 8% were pathological. These figures are representative of a population with a low incidence of high-energy and penetrating trauma, which probably reflects the situation in most European countries...
Disappointment and drop-out rate after being allocated to control group in a smoking cessation trialD Lindstrom
Department of Clinical Science and Education, Karolinska Institute, Section of Surgery, Sodersjukhuset, SE 11883 Stockholm, Sweden
Contemp Clin Trials 31:22-6. 2010..This study's aim was to investigate how patients react after they have been randomised into control group...
A population-based binational register for monitoring long-term outcome and possible disease concordance among blood donors and recipientsG Edgren
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Vox Sang 91:316-23. 2006..CONCLUSION: It is possible to use existing computerized data, collected in routine health care, in haemovigilance systems for monitoring long-term outcome and disease concordance in blood donors and transfusion recipients...
Role of surgeon-performed ultrasound on further management of patients with acute abdominal pain: a randomised controlled clinical trialA Lindelius
Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Science and Education, Sodersjukhuset, Section of Surgery, Stockholm South General Hospital, Sjukhusbacken 10, 118 83 Stockholm, Sweden
Emerg Med J 26:561-6. 2009..A study was performed which is the first randomised study to evaluate the benefits of surgeon-performed ultrasound for the management of the acute abdomen...
Subarachnoid haemorrhage in Sweden 1987-2002: regional incidence and case fatality ratesH Koffijberg
University Medical Centre Utrecht, Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, STR 6 131 7 113, P O Box 85500, 3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 79:294-9. 2008..Reliable estimates of age-specific case fatality rates are lacking. We analysed regional incidence rates and case fatality rates of SAH in Sweden...
