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- Jonasson, Grethe, 1945, et al.
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Cervical thickness of the mandibular alveolar process and skeletal bone mineral density.
- 1999
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Ingår i: Acta odontologica Scandinavica. - 0001-6357. ; 57:3, s. 155-61
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Much effort has been devoted to finding methods for detecting individuals with low bone mass and risk of osteoporotic fractures. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether there is a relationship between the thickness of the alveolar process and the bone mineral density (BMD) of the distal forearm. In 24 women (38-65 years), the BMD of the distal forearm, obtained by dual X-ray absorptiometry, was correlated to the difference between two measures of the thickness of the mandibular alveolar process in the region of the first premolar. A highly significant correlation (r = 0.95, P< 0.001) was found. The method was cross-validated by using the equation obtained from the linear regression analysis above to predict BMD in two other groups. In both groups, the correlation between the measured BMD of the forearm and the predicted BMD was highly significant (r = 0.91, P< 0.001). The interdental thickness between the canine and the second incisor was also correlated to BMD, but with lower predictive value (r = 0.67, P<0.001). Measurements of the mandibular alveolar process can be used as one of several parameters to predict skeletal bone density.
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- Martin-Boglind, Lene, et al.
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The effect of topical antiglaucoma drugs on the results of high-pass resolution perimetry
- 1991
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Ingår i: American Journal of Ophthalmology. - 0002-9394 .- 1879-1891. ; 11:6, s. 711-714
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We conducted a randomly assigned, double-masked, crossover study of the effects of betaxolol, epinephrine, pilocarpine, and timolol on the high-passresolution perimetry results in normal subjects. The influence of topical administration of these intraocular pressure reducing drugs was negligible, which confirmed the reliability of high-pass resolution perimetry results. The method seems appropriate for the diagnosis of glaucoma and the follow-up ofpatients with glaucoma.
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- Andersson, H. Ingemar, 1950-, et al.
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Impact of chronic pain on health care seeking, self care, and medication : results from a population-based Swedish study
- 1999
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Ingår i: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. - 0143-005X .- 1470-2738. ; 53:8, s. 503-509
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- STUDY OBJECTIVE: To explore individual and social factors that could predict health care utilisation and medication among people with chronic pain in an unselected population. DESIGN: A mailed survey with questions about pain and mental symptoms, disability, self care action, visits to health care providers, and medication. SETTING: General populations in two Swedish primary health care (PHC) districts. Medical care was given in a state health system. PARTICIPANTS: A random sample (from the population register) of 15% of the population aged 25-74 (n = 1806). MAIN RESULTS: Among people reporting chronic pain 45.7% (compared with 29.8 of non-chronic pain persons, p < 0.05) consulted a physician and 7.2% (compared with 1.2%, p < 0.05) a physiotherapist during three months. Primary health care was the most frequent care provider. High pain intensity, aging, depression, ethnicity, and socioeconomic level had the greatest impact on physician consultations. Alternative care, used by 5.9%, was associated with high pain intensity and self care. Use of self care was influenced by high pain intensity, regular physical activity, and ethnicity. Alternative care and self care did not imply lower use of conventional health care. Women reporting chronic pain consumed more analgesics and sedatives than corresponding men. Besides female gender, high pain intensity, insomnia, physician consultation, social network, and self care action helped to explain medication with analgesics. Use of herbal remedies and ointments correlated to self care action, visit to an alternative therapist, high pain intensity, and socioeconomic level. CONCLUSIONS: The presence of chronic pain has an impressive impact on primary health care and medication. Various therapeutic actions are common and are partly overlapping. The use of health care among people with chronic pain depends above all on pain perception and intensity of pain but is also affected by ethnicity, age, socioeconomic level, and depressive symptoms. Among people with chronic pain use of analgesics is common in contrast with other types of pain relief (acupuncture, physiotherapy) suitable for treating chronic pain symptoms.
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- Andersson, H. Ingemar, 1950-, et al.
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Musculoskeletal chronic pain in general practice : studies of health care utilisation in comparison with pain prevalence
- 1999
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care. - 0281-3432 .- 1502-7724. ; 17:2, s. 87-92
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- OBJECTIVE: To study the relations between population prevalence of chronic pain and pain-related diagnoses (musculoskeletal and headaches) in primary health care (PHC) and to examine longitudinal variations in these diagnoses. DESIGN: A population-based mailed survey to catch prevalence data and continuous computerised diagnosis registration in PHC. SETTING: General population in a well-defined Swedish PHC district. SUBJECTS: A random sample of 15% of the population aged 25-74, n = 1101. Annual visitors to district physicians at the health centre. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Rates of pain-related diagnoses in PHC in relation to population prevalence of chronic pain. Comparisons of the number of individuals (annual visiting rates) with pain-related diagnoses 1987-1996. RESULTS: Population pain prevalence and pain-related diagnoses in PHC corresponded as regards the magnitude and distribution of chronic pain by age and partly by pain location. Compared to low-back and widespread pain, neck-shoulder pain and headaches were less frequent in PHC in relation to reported prevalence. From 1987 to 1996 we found an increasing number of individuals seeking primary care with pain-related diagnoses. The increase was mainly assigned to the groups of fibrositis/myalgia and headache. CONCLUSION: Pain-related diagnoses in PHC reflect partly the occurrence of self-reported chronic pain symptoms in the population. The observed increase in visits with pain-related diagnoses in the last 10 years is due to an increased number of individuals with soft-tissue rheumatism and headaches. Future studies will have to elucidate whether these findings are due to an increase in morbidity or changes in care-seeking and social conditions.
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- Bondeson, E, et al.
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[A simple health control for the elderly. Screening for vitamin B12 deficiency and thyroid disease]. : Enkel hälsokontroll värdefull för ädre. Screening upptäcker B12-brist och tyreoideasjukdom.
- 1997
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Ingår i: Lakartidningen. - 0023-7205. ; 94:47, s. 4329-32
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Screening for vitamin B12 deficiency and thyroid disease is cheap and enables early diagnosis to be made and treatment to be started while it is still simple and can prevent the development of such serious conditions as dementia, depression, or irreversible tissue damage. In 1995-6, 83% (126/151) of all 75-year-olds in Härryda, a district (population 28,500) to the east of Gothenburg, agreed to undergo a health control designed to detect hypo- or hyper-thyroidism or vitamin B12 deficiency among elderly residents without symptoms (or with atypical symptoms not easily recognised). Of the 126 participants, four (3%) had low plasma cobalamin (vitamin B12) levels (a figure similar to or lower than those reported by others), and were treated with vitamin B12 after further examination; eight (6%) had serum thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) levels below the lower normal limit, though further examination showed all eight to be euthyroid; and two (1.6%) were diagnosed as being hypothyroid (a lower prevalence than figures reported elsewhere), and were treated with laevothyroxine. The findings suggest that such screening might be useful in primary care. However, the clinical diagnosis of vitamin B12 deficiency, and of hypo- or hyperthyroidism, is often difficult, especially in the elderly; and although a low serum TSH level is also considered to be a reliable marker of hyperthyroidism, like others this study showed that it may occur even in the absence of disease. Thus, serum TSH and plasma B12 levels are useful screening variables, but need to be complemented by other tests before diagnosis is set.
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- Eggertsen, Robert, 1948, et al.
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Effect of coffee on ambulatory blood pressure in patients with treated hypertension.
- 1993
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Ingår i: Journal of internal medicine. - : Wiley. - 0954-6820 .- 1365-2796. ; 233:4, s. 351-5
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Effects of caffeine on ambulatory blood pressure, heart rate, renin-angiotensin system, and ANP were studied in patients treated for mild to moderate hypertension in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, cross-over trial comparing 2 weeks of caffeine-free diet with 2 weeks of regular coffee use. Twenty-three patients (13 men; aged 28-74 years) with treated, mild to moderate essential hypertension and a regular intake of 3-4 cups of coffee daily completed the study. Mean 24-h, day- or night-time ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate were not different between regimens. Nor were there any effects on the renin-angiotensin system while ANP was significantly increased during caffeine intake. Compliance of the dietary regimen was excellent as assessed by serum caffeine concentration measurements. We conclude that habitual coffee drinking did not influence the 24-h blood pressure profiles or cardiovascular hormones in treated hypertensives.
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- Eggertsen, Robert, 1948, et al.
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The value of screening for retinopathy and microalbuminuria in patients with type 2 diabetes in primary health care.
- 1993
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Ingår i: Scandinavian journal of primary health care. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0281-3432 .- 1502-7724. ; 11:2, s. 135-40
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Patients with type 2 diabetes (NIDDM) attending the Primary Care Centre in Mölnlycke, Sweden, were evaluated regarding their metabolic status, microalbuminuria (UAER), and hypertension. An ophthalmological examination was performed, and two diagnostic methods, slit-lamp biomicroscopy and fundus photography, were compared. Nearly half the patients (42%) had diabetic retinopathy, mainly of the background type. Retinopathy was associated only with the duration of the disease, but the prevalence was as high as 20% within 0-4 years of the diagnosis. Fundus photography was easy to apply, except in the age groups above 80 years, in otherwise healthy and mentally cooperative patients. Fundus photography could not be applied in only 7% of the patients for ophthalmological reasons. The prevalence of microalbuminuria (20-200 micrograms/min) was high--34%--with another 8% above that range. Male sex, mode of antidiabetic treatment, and hypertension were associated with an increased UAER. Screening for retinopathy and microalbuminuria is valuable in primary health care in order to detect treatable diabetic retinopathy and to trace patients with microalbuminuria, a risk factor for clinically overt nephropathy as well as for cardiovascular diseases.
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