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- Zetterström, Olle, 1940-, et al.
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Comparable morning versus evening administration of once-daily mometasone furoate dry powder inhaler
- 2008
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Ingår i: Respiratory Medicine. - : Elsevier BV. - 0954-6111 .- 1532-3064. ; 102:10, s. 1406-1411
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: The control of daytime and nighttime symptoms is an important measure of effectiveness of asthma therapy, especially, when administered once-daily. Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of evening and morning administrations of mometasone furoate administered via a dry powder inhaler (MF-DPI) 400 μg once-daily (QD) to show equivalence. Methods: Open-label, randomized, parallel-group study in adult patients with mild to moderate asthma with a ≥3-month history of ICS use. Patients received MF-DPI 400 μg QD either in the morning (AM) or evening (PM) for 12 weeks. The primary measure was the change in asthma symptoms from baseline to week 12. Secondary outcomes included response to treatment, adherence, inhaler device evaluation, use of rescue medication, urinary cortisol levels, and differential white blood cell count. Results: A total of 1537 patients were randomized, the efficacy population comprised 543 and 479 patients in the MF-DPI QD morning and evening groups, respectively. Mean improvements from baseline in daytime symptom scores at week 12 with morning and evening administration of MF-DPI 400 μg were -0.11 ± 0.59 and -0.12 ± 0.68, respectively (95% CI, -0.095 to 0.061) and the corresponding improvements in nighttime symptom scores were -0.08 ± 0.59 and -0.07 ± 0.50, respectively (95% CI, -0.067 to 0.068). Use of rescue medication was the same in both groups (1 puff/day). MF-DPI QD was well tolerated regardless of time of administration. Conclusions: This open-label study did not identify differences between morning and evening dosing of MF-DPI 400 μg QD. A better effect of evening dosing compared to morning dosing found in previous double-blind placebo-controlled studies could not be confirmed. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Zetterström, Olle, 1940-, et al.
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The whole story : treatment outcomes with Symbicort?
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Ingår i: Respiratory Medicine. - : Elsevier BV. - 0954-6111 .- 1532-3064. ; 96:Supplement A, s. 29-35
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways that has a considerable socioeconomic impact. Asthma management guidelines have been introduced to help provide better long-term control of asthma. Although recommended guidelines may increase the direct medication costs, the overall direct costs of asthma may be reduced due to fewer exacerbations. In addition, indirect costs due to lost productivity and mortality are reduced and patients have an improved quality of life. Inhaled corticosteroids are first-line therapy in the treatment of persistent asthma. Against this background, we have assessed the cost-effectiveness of Symbicort(R) (budesonide and formoterol in a single inhaler), a treatment that provides better control of asthma compared with budesonide alone. While the prescribing costs of Symbicort(R) were found to be higher than for budesonide alone, these were partially offset by reduced costs due to fewer asthma exacerbations and a reduced need for other medications. Combined long-term therapy with budesonide and formoterol also improves patient quality of life compared with budesonide alone. Two other factors associated with asthma treatment success and cost-effectiveness are patient/physician education and good patient adherence to prescribed therapy. The introduction of a single inhaler that is easy to use in simple treatment regimens may improve patient adherence to prescribed medication, thus resulting in improved asthma control and fewer exacerbations. Treatment with Symbicort(R) is more cost-effective than treatment with budesonide alone.
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- Berglund, Jan, 1950-, et al.
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Long-term results of above knee femoro-popliteal bypass depend on indication for surgery and graft-material
- 2005
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Ingår i: European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. - : Elsevier BV. - 1078-5884 .- 1532-2165. ; 29:4, s. 412-418
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objective. To determine the long-term results of above-knee femoro-popliteal bypass with autologous saphenous vein (SV) or expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) in routine surgical practice. Methods. Data from the Swedish vascular registry, Swedvasc was reviewed retrospectively. Patients with bypass surgery in 1996 and 1997 were assessed 5-7 years later. Data were gathered from the case-records and from clinical follow-up. The composite endpoint of graft failure included death within 30 days, occlusion, major amputation, extension of the graft to below-knee position and removal of an infected graft. Kaplan-Meier curves and Cox' proportional hazard ratios were calculated. Results. Four hundred and ninety-nine patients undergoing bypass for critical limb ischemia (CLI) (56%) or claudication (44%), SV (28%) or ePTFE (72%), were included. There were no significant differences in patient characteristics between patients with SV or ePTFE. CLI and ePTFE were risk factors for graft failure. For patients with both claudication and CLI SV grafts yielded better long-term results than ePTFE grafts (p<0.03) and (p<0.003), respectively. Symptom aggravation after graft occlusion was almost exclusively restricted to ePTFE grafts. Conclusions. Femoro-popliteal bypass above-knee with SV gives good long-term results, especially for claudication. ePTFE grafts cannot be recommended in claudicants, since occlusion occurs often and frequently leads to CLI. © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Bolger, Ann F, 1957-, et al.
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Transit of blood flow through thehuman left ventricle mapped by cardiovascular magnetic resonance
- 2007
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Ingår i: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1097-6647 .- 1532-429X. ; 9:5, s. 741-747
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND:The transit of blood through the beating heart is a basic aspect of cardiovascular physiology which remains incompletely studied. Quantification of the components of multidirectional flow in the normal left ventricle (LV) is lacking, making it difficult to put the changes observed with LV dysfunction and cardiac surgery into context.METHODS:Three dimensional, three directional, time resolved magnetic resonance phase-contrast velocity mapping was performed at 1.5 Tesla in 17 normal subjects, 6 female, aged 44+/-14 years (mean+/-SD). We visualized and measured the relative volumes of LV flow components and the diastolic changes in inflowing kinetic energy (KE). Of total diastolic inflow volume, 44+/-11% followed a direct, albeit curved route to systolic ejection (videos 1 and 2), in contrast to 11% in a subject with mildly dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), who was included for preliminary comparison (video 3). In normals, 16+/-8% of the KE of inflow was conserved to the end of diastole, compared with 5% in the DCM patient. Blood following the direct route lost or transferred less of its KE during diastole than blood that was retained until the next beat (1.6+/-1.0 millijoules vs 8.2+/-1.9 millijoules, p<0.05); whereas, in the DCM patient, the reduction in KE of retained inflow was 18-fold greater than that of the blood tracing the direct route.CONCLUSION:Multidimensional flow mapping can measure the paths, compartmentalization and kinetic energy changes of blood flowing into the LV, demonstrating differences of KE loss between compartments, and potentially between the flows in normal and dilated left ventricles.
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- Escobar Kvitting, John-Peder, 1976-, et al.
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Three-directional myocardial motion assessed using 3D phase contrast MRI
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Ingår i: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. - 1097-6647 .- 1532-429X. ; 6:3, s. 627-636
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Regional myocardial function is a complex entity consisting of motion in three dimensions (3D). Besides magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), no other noninvasive technique can give a true 3D description of cardiac motion. Using a time‐resolved 3D phase contrast technique, three‐dimensional image volumes containing myocardial velocity data in six normal volunteers were acquired. Coordinates and velocity information were extracted from nine points placed in different myocardial segments in the left ventricle (LV), and decomposed into longitudinal (VL), radial (VR), and circumferential (VC) velocity components. Our findings confirm a longitudinal apex‐to‐base gradient for the LV, with only a small motion of the apex. The mean velocity for VL for all the basal segments was higher compared to the midsegments during systole [3.5 ± 1.2 vs. 2.5 ± 1.7 cm/s (p < 0.01)], early filling [− 6.9 ± 1.8 vs. − 4.9 ± 1.8 cm/s (p < 0.001)], and during atrial contraction [− 2.2 ± 1.4 vs. − 1.6 ± 1.3 cm/s (p < 0.05)]. A similar pattern was observed when comparing velocities from the midsegments to the apex. Radial velocity was higher during early filling in the midportion of the lateral [− 4.9 ± 2.7 vs. − 3.2 ± 1.6 cm/s (p < 0.05)] wall compared to the basal segments, no difference was observed for the septal [− 2.0 ± 1.5 vs. − 0.3 ± 2.5 cm/s (p = 0.15)], anterior [− 5.8 ± 3.3 vs. − 4.0 ± 1.7 cm/s (p = 0.17)], and posterior [− 2.3 ± 2.1 vs. − 2.5 ± 1.0 cm/s (p = 0.78)] walls. When observing the myocardial velocity in a single point and visualizing the movement of the main direction of the velocities in this point as vectors in velocity vector plots like planes, it is clear that myocardial movement is by no means one dimensional. In conclusion, our time‐resolved 3D, phase contrast MRI technique makes it feasible to extract myocardial velocities from anywhere in the myocardium, including all three velocity components without the need for positioning any slices at the time of acquisition.
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- Kristenson, Margareta, 1950-, et al.
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Good self-rated health is related to psychosocial resources and a strong cortisol response to acute stress : The LiVicordia study of middle-aged men
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Ingår i: International Journal of Behavioral Medicine. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1070-5503 .- 1532-7558. ; 12:3, s. 153-160
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Self-rated health (SRH) is a strong predictor for disease and death. The relations among SRH, psychosocial factors, and cortisol dynamics were tested using pooled data from the LiVicordia study of 50-year-old men in Lithuania (n = 94) and Sweden (n = 89), controlling for effect of residence. SRH was assessed by " How would you assess your own health?" A standardized laboratory stress test included measures of cortisol in serum and saliva. Good SRH related to high scale scores of decision latitude, social support at work, coping, self-esteem, and sense of coherence, to low scores of overcommitment (all p < .01) and vital exhaustion (r = -0.40, p < 0.001), to low concentrations of saliva baseline cortisol (r = -.26, p = .001), and to a strong cortisol response to stress (r = .27, p = .001). Findings that good SRH related to favorable psychosocial characteristics and to a dynamic cortisol stress response indicate a possible explanation for observed lower risk for disease and death in this state. Copyright © 2005 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
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- Nilsson, Jonas, et al.
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Prostate cancer-derived urine exosomes : a novel approach to biomarkers for prostate cancer.
- 2009
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Ingår i: British journal of cancer. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1532-1827 .- 0007-0920. ; 100:10, s. 1603-1607
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Herein, we describe a novel approach in the search for prostate cancer biomarkers, which relies on the transcriptome within tumour exosomes. As a proof-of-concept, we show the presence of two known prostate cancer biomarkers, PCA-3 and TMPRSS2:ERG the in exosomes isolated from urine of patients, showing the potential for diagnosis and monitoring cancer patients status.
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- Nyström Kronander, Ulla, 1957-, et al.
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Prevalence and incidence of asthma related to waist circumference and BMI in a Swedish community sample
- 2004
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Ingår i: Respiratory Medicine. - : Elsevier BV. - 0954-6111 .- 1532-3064. ; 98:11, s. 1108-1116
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Both asthma and obesity have become more common in affluent societies during the recent decades and several studies have shown a correlation between the presence of asthma and obesity. In order to further study this association we have investigated a population from a community in southern Sweden, where almost all inhabitants had their body indices measured as part of a study on diabetes at a primary care centre. An asthma unit working with a structured care programme for asthma was available. This organisation enabled us to study whether body mass index and waist circumference was associated with having or developing asthma. There was a significant association between both overweight, increased waist circumference and asthma, P
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