Kristina Sundquist

..This study analyzed whether hospitalization for depression predicts CHD in men and women after accounting for socioeconomic status and geographic region...

..To examine whether socioeconomic status and coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factors remain significant predictors of CHD among people aged >or=65 years. Previous studies in this age group are few and inconsistent...

..Both individuals and neighbourhoods need to be targeted in order to enhance mental health in low-income neighbourhoods...

..The aim of this study was to examine whether second-generation adult immigrants have a higher risk of being hospitalised for mental disorders than the Swedish majority population after adjustment for socio-economic status...

..Both individuals and neighbourhoods need to be targeted in order to enhance people's health in neighbourhoods with low linking social capital...

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..This study analyzed the long-term effect of leisure-time physical activity on incident cases of coronary heart disease (CHD) among women and men...

..This study investigated psychological symptoms in Bosnian women 3-4 years after their arrival in Sweden...

..To analyse whether hospitalization for affective or psychotic disorders predicts coronary heart disease (CHD) after accounting for occupation, region and alcohol-related disorders...

..This study analyses whether the level of urbanization is associated with hospital admissions for alcohol and drug abuse, after adjustment for individual demographic and socio-economic characteristics...

..The positive health effects of physical activity are well known. However, there are few studies of the association between different levels of physical activity and all-cause mortality among elderly people...

..During the last two decades, obesity has reached epidemic proportions in industrialised societies such as Sweden...

..This study is the first to investigate the concordant (same subtype) and disconcordant (different subtype) association between ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke...

..Few studies have investigated the possible differential transmission of maternal and/or paternal coronary heart disease (CHD) to offspring, after accounting for sociodemographic characteristics...

..Public safety and social stability in socially disorganized neighborhoods need to be improved in order to promote cardiovascular health...

..To examine whether neighbourhood deprivation predicts incidence rates of coronary heart disease, beyond age and individual income...

..The aim of this follow-up study is to examine whether the individual's social and physical environment predicts incidence rates of psychiatric illness, after adjusting for demographic and socio-economic characteristics...

..25 and 1.23, respectively). The authors conclude that neighborhood socioeconomic environment predicts incident coronary heart disease, having a significant effect on coronary heart disease risk beyond the individual effect...

..Previous studies of differences in mental health between urban and rural populations are inconsistent...

..The use of linking social capital represents a novel conceptual advance in research on the association between CHD, one of the major causes of death in Western countries, and the multidimensional aspects of social capital...

..The disabling symptoms of psychotic disorders call for increased awareness among clinicians and public health planners involved in the treatment and prevention of psychotic disorders, especially among certain immigrant groups...

..However, we do not exclude the possibility that there is a contextual effect on severe mental disorders or among children with behavioural problems...

..Future studies could coordinate epidemiological studies of large populations with molecular biology resources...

..To investigate possible associations between hospitalization for asthma and socioeconomic status and occupation...

..Genetic causes possibly weigh more in early- than late-onset cases. This study shows the feasibility of carrying out nationwide family studies on subarachnoid hemorrhage...

..To estimate sibling risk of hospitalization for children with sleep disordered breathing (SDB), diagnosed with (1) obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), or (2) adenotonsillar hypertrophy in the total Swedish population...

..This cross-sectional study analyzed the association between sickness absence (SA) and self-reported reduced working capacity due to a longstanding illness (>3 months), as well between SA and a number of other health problems...

..The aim was to investigate the cross-sectional association between acculturation, measured as age at migration or length of residence, and self-rated health among young immigrants...

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..This study was undertaken to estimate associations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with any of 33 autoimmune diseases and related conditions among parents and offspring, singleton siblings, twins, and spouses...

..This study shows a strong influence of country of birth on BMI even after adjustment for age, educational status, physical activity and smoking habits...

..To investigate possible associations between socioeconomic status, occupation, and hospitalization for rheumatoid arthritis (RA)...

..The aim of this study was to investigate whether there is an association between socioeconomic status, occupation and hospitalization for Parkinson's disease (PD)...

..To analyze whether hospitalization for a psychiatric disorder predicts Parkinson's disease (PD) in men and women in different age groups after accounting for socioeconomic status and geographical region...

..The aim of this study was to investigate whether there is an association between socioeconomic status, occupation and obstructive sleep apnea...

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..Decision-makers should take into account the evidence of a neighborhood effect on mental health in decisions regarding the sites of psychiatric clinics and other kinds of community support for psychiatric patients...

..Key factors to prevent suicide include early detection and treatment of psychiatric disorders and/or substance abuse, especially among certain population groups...

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..Further studies in different settings are required to provide scientific results for public health policies and clinical guidelines...

..The aim of this study was to investigate possible associations between educational level, occupation, and hospitalization for inflammatory bowel disease...

..Health care resources need to target certain groups of first- and second-generation immigrants...

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..This study analyzed men and women separately by age at hospital diagnosis of psychotic disorder or schizophrenia and by maternal or paternal disease after taking several possible confounders into account...

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..The purpose of this study was to examine the association between total self-reported health-enhancing physical activity and country of birth among women living in Sweden...

..This study compared the prevalence of self-rated poor health between Finns living in Sweden and Finns living in Finland...

..This study intended to explore immigrant women's attitudes and experiences of physical activity and exercise. The ultimate goal was to find methods that can increase levels of physical activity among immigrant women...

..To examine the association between country of birth and hospitalization for pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), ectopic pregnancy (EP), endometriosis, and infertility...

..To investigate the risk of small for gestational age (SGA) births in relation to maternal history of cardiovascular disease (CVD) across two generations and additionally to analyse maternal CVD risk based on number of SGA offspring...

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..The aim of this study is to investigate associations between hospitalization for epilepsy and two factors: socioeconomic status and occupation...

..Understanding the genetic transmission of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) will help clinicians identify patients at risk and offer opportunities for intervention and treatment at specialist clinics...

..The aim of this study was to examine the incidence of musculoskeletal injuries, site and type of injury, and the most common injury diagnoses in young ballet dancers at the Royal Swedish Ballet School, a public school in Stockholm...

..The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of, and analyse the sociodemographic factors associated with, three indices of obesity in different ethnic groups settled in two deprived neighbourhoods in Sweden...

..The high familial risks for neurological disease imply heritable etiology and opportunities for identification of further susceptibility genes...

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..69, CI=1.21-2.37. We conclude that persons with low social participation in the social participation index exhibited an increased risk of CHD that remained after adjustment for education, housing tenure and smoking habits...

..The incidence of acute cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events in patients treated for complicated or uncomplicated peptic ulcer disease (PUD) has not been ascertained completely...

..Previous studies suggest that this will increase involuntary childlessness in the population. The general aim was to examine the association between sociodemographic factors and first birth fertility trends in Sweden during the 1990s...

..An additional aim was to identify metabolic, lifestyle and socioeconomic risk factors associated with IFG/IGT and T2D in these residents...

..To examine whether there is an association between country of birth in first-generation immigrants and first hospitalization for a rheumatic disease, and to study whether any such association remains in second-generation immigrants...

..The aim of this study was to investigate possible associations between hospitalization for multiple sclerosis (MS) and region, socioeconomic status and occupation...

..49 (95% CI = 1.15-2.91, p = 0.002). CONCLUSION: Decision makers and health care workers should be aware that living in a poor neighborhood socioeconomic environment might contribute to the development of postpartum psychosis...

..CONCLUSION: Neighbourhood non-employment is associated with daily smoking. Smoking prevention in primary health care should address both individuals and neighbourhoods...

..To demonstrate how Care Need Index (CNI), a social deprivation index, may be used to allocate total primary health care resources...

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..The relatively stable temporal trends suggest that the asthmatic condition rather than its medication is responsible for the observed associations...

..To examine the association between first hospital admissions due to postpartum psychosis and the explanatory variables age, educational level, marital status and year of delivery...

..To analyze whether elderly Iranians in Sweden have a higher mean body mass index (BMI) and are less physically active than elderly Swedes after adjustment for possible confounders...

..To quantify the sibling risk of RA, SLE and AS. To analyse the concordant and discordant associations between RA, SLE and AS...

..The purpose of the study was to follow up the self-rated health and the prevalence of symptoms of depression and general symptoms in a population of first-ever stroke patients 3 and 12 months after stroke...

..The severity of postpartum psychosis calls for further research on the association between obstetric variables and this psychiatric disorder...

..The possibility of an association of Graves' disease (GD) with subsequent cancers raised by certain studies...

..Sarcoidosis patients show dysregulated immune function, which may be related to subsequent cancer. We examined here the overall and specific cancer risks among Swedish subjects who had been hospitalized for sarcoidosis...

..The main objective was to determine premature stroke risk in men and women in Sweden with previous hospital admission for Type 1 diabetes or without previous hospital admission...

..All subtypes of hospitalized migraines and other headaches show an increased familial risk, at least in specific age groups. The different subtypes appear to share susceptibility, which may imply common disease mechanisms...

..The lack of discordant pairs may suggest that heritable factors are disorder type-specific. Affected concordant sibling pairs should be subjected to molecular studies aiming at identifying the susceptibility gene...

..Research has not firmly established whether living in a deprived neighborhood predicts the incidence and case fatality of coronary heart disease (CHD), and whether effects vary across sociodemographic groups...

..Nerve, nerve root and plexus disorders are common diseases, but little is known about familial clustering in these diseases. This is, to our knowledge, the first systematic family study carried out on these diseases...

..We aim at defining familial risks for siblings to be hospitalized because of epilepsy...

..The very high overall SIRs for the diseases of the myoneural junction and muscle imply that the sporadic forms of these diseases are relatively rare and these diseases are overwhelmingly heritable...

..To determine whether neighborhood-level deprivation is independently associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) health behaviors/risk factors in the Swedish population...

..However, some of these, including small intestinal carcinoids, prostate cancers and nonthyroid endocrine tumors, may be in excess because of intensified medical surveillance of the patients...

..A study was undertaken to investigate the relationship between country of birth, time in Sweden, and overweight and obesity...

..The high familial risks are likely to be the result of heritable genes, the identification of which would allow gene testing and preventive counseling...

..To our knowledge this is a first attempt to summarize familial risks for a large number of diseases using data from a single population on which reasonable uniform diagnostic criteria have been applied...