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- Allard, Christina, et al.
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Rasbiologiskt språkbruk i statens rättsprocess mot sameby : DN Debatt 2015-06-11
- 2015
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Annan publikation (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Statens hantering av forskningsresultat i rättsprocessen med Girjas sameby utgör ett hot mot Sverige som rättsstat och kunskapsnation. Åratal av svensk och internationell forskning underkänns och man använder ett språkbruk som skulle kunna vara hämtat från rasbiologins tid. Nu måste staten ta sitt ansvar och börja agera som en demokratisk rättsstat, skriver 59 forskare.
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- Al-Mashhadi, Ammar Nadhom Farman, et al.
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Changes in arterial pressure and markers of nitric oxide homeostasis and oxidative stress following surgical correction of hydronephrosis in children
- 2018
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Ingår i: Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, West). - : Springer. - 0931-041X .- 1432-198X. ; 33:4, s. 639-649
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objective Recent clinical studies have suggested an increased risk of elevated arterial pressure in patients with hydronephrosis. Animals with experimentally induced hydronephrosis develop hypertension, which is correlated to the degree of obstruction and increased oxidative stress. In this prospective study we investigated changes in arterial pressure, oxidative stress, and nitric oxide (NO) homeostasis following correction of hydronephrosis.Methods Ambulatory arterial pressure (24 h) was monitored in pediatric patients with hydronephrosis (n = 15) before and after surgical correction, and the measurements were compared with arterial pressure measurements in two control groups, i.e. healthy controls (n = 8) and operated controls (n = 8). Markers of oxidative stress and NO homeostasis were analyzed in matched urine and plasma samples.Results The preoperative mean arterial pressure was significantly higher in hydronephrotic patients [83 mmHg; 95% confidence interval (CI) 80–88 mmHg] than in healthy controls (74 mmHg; 95% CI 68–80 mmHg; p < 0.05), and surgical correction of ureteral obstruction reduced arterial pressure (76 mmHg; 95% CI 74–79 mmHg; p < 0.05). Markers of oxidative stress (i.e., 11- dehydroTXB2, PGF2α, 8-iso-PGF2α, 8,12-iso-iPF2α-VI) were significantly increased (p < 0.05) in patients with hydronephrosis compared with both control groups, and these were reduced following surgery (p < 0.05). Interestingly, there was a trend for increased NO synthase activity and signaling in hydronephrosis, which may indicate compensatory mechanism(s).Conclusion This study demonstrates increased arterial pressure and oxidative stress in children with hydronephrosis compared with healthy controls, which can be restored to normal levels by surgical correction of the obstruction. Once reference data on ambulatory blood pressure in this young age group become available, we hope cut-off values can be defined for deciding whether or not to correct hydronephrosis surgically.Keywords Blood pressure . Hydronephrosis . Hypertension . Nitric oxide . Oxidative stress . Ureteral obstruction
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- Fossum, Birgitta, 1969-
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Förfädernas land : en arkeologisk studie av rituella lämningar i Sápmi, 300 f. Kr-1600 e. Kr
- 2006
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The main purpose of this thesis has been to study the ritual remains from the Sámi region, over an extended period of time. An analysis of when and why they first appeared, followed by a discussion of the changes and the continuity that occurs during this period of time which then is placed in relation to other social, economical and political processes that took place in northern Fenno Scandinavia during the iron age. The archaeological remains included in this study are Scree graves, lake graves, sacrificial sites, silver hoards and dwellings. Ring-shaped sacrificial sites and labyrinths are also discussed to some extent. The remains are firstly discussed on an individual basis and then in relation to each other and various other dimensions of community development in northern Scandinavia. From 300 BC – 400 AD, several of the ritual remains associated with developing Sámi identities appear for the first time, followed by a period with few discovered sites. There is an increase of archaeological finds from the Viking and Early Middle Ages, including many new ritual forms which can be linked to neighbouring societies increased economic interests in the region. There is a decrease in the number of sites from the 12th century AD and imported metal disappears from the ritual context. During the 14th century AD there is once again an increase in ritual activity, primarily in northern Norway, that appears to have moved to locations in the vicinity of dwelling sites. During the 17th century AD the ritual remains decrease over large parts of northern Scandinavia. One exception is the southern Sámi area, where numbers of characteristic Sámi ritual remains are seen to increase. Bear graves from as late as the 19th century AD have been found. The results demonstrate how rituals have been an important tool in not only creating and maintaining social and ethnical identities, uniting societies, creating opposition and causing change but also establishing bonds with other cultures or communities. Many of the changes that have taken place in the different ritual activities in the Sámi area have occurred at similar periods of time in other geographical regions of Sápmi.
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- Kruse, Robert, 1972-, et al.
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Blood concentrations of the cytokines IL-1beta, IL-6, IL-10, TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma during experimentally induced swine dysentery
- 2008
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Ingår i: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica. - : BioMed Central. - 0044-605X .- 1751-0147. ; 50
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND: Knowledge of the cytokine response at infection with Brachyspira hyodysenteriae can help understanding disease mechanism involved during swine dysentery. Since this knowledge is still limited the aim of the present study was to induce dysentery experimentally in pigs and to monitor the development of important immunoregulatory cytokines in blood collected at various stages of the disease.METHODS: Ten conventional pigs (~23 kg) were orally inoculated with Brachyspira hyodysenteriae B204T. Eight animals developed muco-haemorrhagic diarrhoea with impaired general body condition. Blood was sampled before inoculation and repeatedly during acute dysentery and recovery periods and cytokine levels of IL-1beta, IL-6, Il-10, TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma were measured by ELISA.RESULTS: IL-1beta was increased at the beginning of the dysentery period and coincided with the appearance of Serum amyloid A and clinical signs of disease. TNF-alpha increased in all animals after inoculation, with a peak during dysentery, and IL-6 was found in 3 animals during dysentery and in the 2 animals that did not develop clinical signs of disease. IL-10 was found in all sick animals during the recovery period. IFN-gamma was not detected on any occasion.CONCLUSION: B. hyodysenteriae inoculation induced production of systemic levels of IL-1beta during the dysentery period and increased levels of IL-10 coincided with recovery from dysentery.
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- Österlund Efraimsson, Eva, et al.
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Communication and self-management education at nurse-led COPD clinics in primary health care
- 2009
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Ingår i: Patient Education and Counseling. - : Elsevier. - 0738-3991 .- 1873-5134. ; 77:2, s. 209-217
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objective: The aim of the study was to explore the structure, content in communication and self-management education in patients' first consultations at nurse-led chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) clinics in primary healthcare. Method: Thirty consultations performed by seven registered nurses were videotaped; structure and content in the consultation was analyzed using Pendleton's Consultation Map. Nurses' self-management education was assessed from the content of the conversation: whether important and relevant information and self-management education was given, and how investigations were performed. Results: Each consultation lasted for a mean time of 37.53 min. Communication about reasons for consultations concerned mainly medical and physical problems and to a certain extent patients' perceptions. Teaching about self-management and smoking cessation was of an informative nature. Two consultations ended with shared understanding, and none of the patients received an individual treatment-plan. Conclusion: Nurses rarely planned the consultations on an individual basis and rarely used motivational dialogue in self-management education and in smoking cessation. Practice implications: The findings could be used to help nurses to reflect on how to improve the structure of the visit, self-management education, smoking cessation and patient communication.
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- Österlund Efraimsson, Eva, et al.
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Nurses’ and patients’ communication in smoking cessation at nurse-led COPD clinics in primary health care
- 2015
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Ingår i: European Clinical Respiratory Journal. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1399-3003 .- 2001-8525. ; 2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Smokers with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have high nicotine dependence making it difficult to quit smoking. Motivational interviewing (MI) is a method that is used in stimulating motivation and behavioral changes.Objective: To describe smoking cessation communication between patients and registered nurses trained in MI in COPD nurse-led clinics in Swedish primary health care.Methods: A prospective observational study with structured quantitative content analyses of the communication between six nurses with basic education in MI and 13 patients in non-smoking consultations.Results: Only to a small extent did nurses’ evoke patients’ reasons for change, stimulate collaboration, and support patients’ autonomy. Nurses provided information, asked closed questions, and made simple reflections. Patients’ communicationwasmainly neutral and focusing on reasons for and against smoking. It was uncommon for patients to be committed and take steps toward smoking cessation.Conclusion: The nurses did not adhere to the principles of MI in smoking cessation, and the patients focused to a limited extent on how to quit smoking.Practice implications: To make patients more active, the nurses need more education and continuous training in motivational communication.
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- Österlund Efraimsson, Eva, et al.
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Nurses’ and patients’ communication in smoking cessation at nurse-led COPD clinics in primary health care
- 2011
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Ingår i: International Primary Care respiratory Group (IPCRG). - Amsterdam.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aim: To examine smoking cessation communication between patients and registered nurses, with a few days of Motivational Interviewing (MI) based education, in consultations over time at nurse-led Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) clinics in primary health care (PHC). Method: The first and third of three consultations were videotaped, involving 13 smokers and six nurses. In these consultations smoking cessation communication was analyzed using the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity (MITI) Scale and Client Language Assessment in Motivational Interviewing (CLAMI). Results: The nurses did, but only to a small extent, evoke patients’ reasons forchange, foster collaboration and support patients’ autonomy. In the registration of specific utterances; they provided a lot of information (42%), asked closed (21%) rather than open questions (3%) and made more simple (14%) than complex (2%) reflections. Most of the registration of the patients’ utterances in the communication were either toward or away from smoking cessation coded in the category Follow/Neutral (59%), followed by utterances in the categories of Reason for change 40%, Taking steps 1% and Commitment 0%. No significant differences could be observed in the results of MITI and CLAMI between the first and third consultations. Conclusion: Smoking cessation communication at nurse-led COPD clinics neither focused on the patients’ reasons for or against smoking nor motivated patients to express commitment to, or take steps towards, smoking cessation
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- Österlund Efraimsson, Eva, et al.
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Nurses’ and patients’ communication in smoking cessation at nurse-led COPD clinics in primary health care
- 2011
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Ingår i: European Respiratory Society (ERS). - Amsterdam.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Objective: To explore smoking cessation communication between patients and registered nurses in consultations over time at nurse-led Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) clinics in primary health care. Method: The first and third of three consultations were videotaped, involving 13 smokers and six nurses with a few days of Motivational Interviewing (MI) based education. In these consultations smoking cessation communication was analyzed using the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity Scale (MITI) and Client Language Assessment in Motivational Interviewing (CLAMI). Results: The nurses did only to a small extent evoke patients’ reasons for change, foster collaboration and support patients’ autonomy. Nurses provided a lot of information (42%), asked closed (21%) rather than open (3%) questions and made more simple (14%) than complex (2%) reflections. Patients communication were mainly Follow/Neutral (59%), Reasons for and against smoking 40%, least common were Taking steps (1%) and Commitment (0%) toward smoking cessation. Conclusion: The nurses did not use professional smoking cessation communication and the patients did not talk about how to quit smoking. Practice Implications: To make the patients more active in their smoking cessation process at nurse-led COPD clinics in primary health care the nurses need continuous education and training in smoking cessation communication.
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