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Temporal changes and genetic susceptibility to type 2 diabetes (1984-2019; HUNT): a longitudinal, population-based study.
Bjarkø VV, Wolford BN, Haug EB, Stene LC, Carlsson S, Langhammer A, Birkeland KI, Berg TJ, Sørgjerd EP, Lyssenko V, Brumpton BM, Vie GÅ, Åsvold BO
Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol 2026 Jan;():
Effectiveness of soil remediation intervention of abandoned used lead-acid battery recycling sites to reduce lead exposure among children: A three-arm pretest-posttest non-equivalent comparison group trial.
Rahman M, Sultana J, Sarker S, Hasan SS, Parvez SM, Das M, Binkhorst GK, Forsyth JE, Winch PJ, Raqib R, Luby SP, Kippler M, Rahman SM
Int J Hyg Environ Health 2026 Feb;273():114756
Methodological considerations in the analysis of survival data in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Yazdani S, Seitz C, Andersson J, Ingre C, Fang F, Lovik A
Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener 2026 Jan;():1-12
Old and new autoantibodies in systemic lupus erythematosus.
Parodis I, Nikolopoulos D, Brylid A, Hultgren O, Alarcón-Riquelme ME, Sjöwall C
Expert Rev Clin Immunol 2026 Feb;():1-11
Coviretinopathy: COVID-19-induced VEGF-dependent retinopathy.
Wang X, Jing X, Guo Z, Long S, Sun X, Appelberg S, McInerney GM, Adner M, Cao Y
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2026 Feb;123(7):e2516405123
Effectiveness of dyadic interventions in improving outcomes for adults with multiple long-term conditions and/or frailty and their informal carers: A systematic review protocol.
Arakelyan S, Gilarova M, Ding M, Jaiswal A, Anand A, Modig K, Kristiansen M, Lillekroken D, Shenkin SD, Manthorpe J, Guthrie B
PLoS One 2026 ;21(1):e0333728
A HIF1A variant impacts long-term disability and smoldering inflammation in multiple sclerosis.
Giordano A, Stridh P, Preziosa P, Pisa M, Lerma-Martin C, Sorosina M, Mascia E, Santoro S, Misra K, Clarelli F, Ferrè L, Needhamsen M, Manouchehrinia A, Missaglia M, Moridi T, Shchetynsky K, Ouellette R, Harroud A, de Vries E, Kuttikkatte SB, Piehl F, Alfredsson L, Hillert J, Olsson T, Fugger L, Attfield K, Granberg T, Schirmer L, Absinta M, Jagodic M, DeLuca GC, Rocca MA, Filippi M, Kockum I, Esposito F
Acta Neuropathol 2026 Feb;151(1):12
Active commuting and atherosclerosis in a population-based sample of middle-aged adults: the Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage study (SCAPIS).
Edholm P, Wennberg P, Ballin M, Östgren CJ, Daka B, Berglind D, Lenander C, Ahlqvist VH, Rådholm K, Henriksson P, Herraiz-Adillo Á
Br J Sports Med 2026 Feb;():
Process Evaluation of a Structured Method for Systematic and Integrated Occupational Safety and Health and Patient Safety Management Systems (SIOHPS): Protocol for a Convergent Parallel Mixed Methods Study.
Göras C, Ersson AS, Hellman T, Bjurling-Sjöberg P, Bergström G, Sarkadi Kristiansson R, Lohela-Karlsson M
JMIR Res Protoc 2026 Jan;15():e89185
Long-term adherence to the new Nordic Nutrition Recommendations in relation to cardiovascular events and cardiometabolic biomarkers.
Pitt SG, Wolk A, Åkesson A, Larsson SC
Eur J Prev Cardiol 2026 Jan;():
Genetic risk factors modulate the association between physical activity and colorectal cancer.
Peoples AR, Obón-Santacana M, Kim AE, Kawaguchi ES, Fu Y, Qu C, Moratalla-Navarro F, Morrison J, Lin Y, Arndt V, Berndt SI, Bien SA, Bishop DT, Bouras E, Brenner H, Buchanan DD, Campbell PT, Chan AT, Chang-Claude J, Conti DV, Corley DA, Devall MA, Dimou N, Drew DA, Gruber SB, Gunter MJ, Harlid S, Harrison TA, Hoffmeister M, Hsu L, Huyghe JR, Keku TO, Kundaje A, Lewinger JP, Li L, Lynch BM, Le Marchand L, Martín V, Murphy N, Newton CC, Ogino S, Hardikar S, Ose J, Pai RK, Palmer JR, Papadimitriou N, Pardamean B, Pellatt AJ, Pinchev M, Platz EA, Potter JD, Rennert G, Ruiz-Narvaez EA, Sakoda LC, Schoen RE, Shcherbina A, Stern MC, Su YR, Thomas CE, Tian Y, Tsilidis KK, Um CY, van Duijnhoven FJB, Van Guelpen B, Visvanathan K, Wang J, White E, Wolk A, Woods MO, Wu AH, Ulrich CM, Peters U, Gauderman WJ, Moreno V
BMC Med 2026 Feb;():
A highly prevalent lupus risk haplotype increases IRF7-dependent induction of IFN-α, enhancing antiviral defense and exacerbating autoimmunity.
Virolainen SJ, Creighton K, Dashtiahangar M, Krishnamurthy D, Parks L, Forney C, Ampadu B, Rudrapatna AN, Dunn KA, Parameswaran S, Hesse HK, Chen X, VonHandorf A, Edsall LE, Yin C, Lynch A, Gittens OE, Diouf AA, Jones SH, Hass M, Javier E, Donmez OA, Keddari Y, Danzinger O, Seelamneni H, Namjou-Khales B, Ainsworth HC, Comeau ME, Marion MC, Glenn SB, Nath SK, Freedman BI, Tsao BP, Kamen DL, Brown EE, Gilkeson GS, Alarcón GS, Reveille JD, James JA, Criswell LA, Vilá LM, Alarcón-Riquelme ME, Petri M, Scofield RH, Kimberly RP, Ramsey-Goldman R, Bae SC, Graham DC, Vyse TJ, Guthridge JM, Gaffney PM, Langefeld CD, Kelly JA, Kaufman KM, Sivils K, Harley JB, Shen N, Lawson LP, Baglaenko Y, Miraldi ER, Rosenberg BR, Siggers T, Waggoner SN, Weirauch MT, Kottyan LC
medRxiv 2026 Jan;():
Breast cancer risk in women with neurofibromatosis type 1: a register-based cohort study from Denmark and Sweden.
Tettamanti G, Pedersen A, Feychting M, Tesi B, Ejerskov C, Doherty MA, Tham E, Nordenvall AS, Kenborg L, Nordgren A
Breast 2026 Jan;86():104717
Red meat intake during pregnancy and childhood and risk of type 1 diabetes: findings from the ABIS birth cohort.
Lampousi AM, Zeng J, Löfvenborg JE, Carlsson S, Ludvigsson J
Diabetologia 2026 Feb;():
Identifying an At-Risk Asthma Phenotype: Allergy and Recurrent Infections Predict Severe Disease.
Bari EJ, Hansen S, Sandin P, Ernstsson O, Geale K, Bossios A, Lehtimäki L, Janson C, Ulrik C, Kankaanranta H, Aarli BB, Von Bülow A, Viinanen A, Sverrild A, Lúdvíksdóttir D, Backman H, Schmid JM, Karjalainen J, Bjermer L, Kilpeläinen M, Hilberg O, Kauppi P, Lehmann S, Sandström T, Skjold T, Björnsdóttir US, Yasinska V, Backer V, Altraja A, Porsbjerg C
Clin Exp Allergy 2026 Feb;():
Patient-reported gradual worsening reveals progression beyond MS subtypes.
Guo J, Olsson T, Alfredsson L, Hedström AK
J Neurol 2026 Feb;273(2):117
Omicron Infection and Severity After Life Adversities: Evidence From a Trauma Injury Cohort Study in China.
Luo J, Wen S, Yang H, Xu Y, Zeng Y, Chen W, Zhang Y, Wang G, Zhang W, Fang F, Valdimarsdóttir UA, Song H, Song J
Biopsychosoc Sci Med 2026 Jan;():
Adolescent Risk Factors for the Presence and Persistence of Irritable Bowel Syndrome in Young Adulthood-Findings From a Prospective Birth Cohort.
Sjölund J, Hreinsson JP, Bergström A, Törnblom H, Simrén M, Olén O
Gastroenterology 2026 Jan;():
Assessing the performance of a novel Finnish register-based measure of precarious employment: affected employee groups and subjective and objective employment outcomes.
Leinonen T, Salonen L, Bodin T, Solovieva S
BMC Public Health 2026 Feb;():
Acute pancreatitis in relation to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and infection: A nationwide cohort study in Sweden.
Hedenmalm K, Pihlström N, Lindemo P, Lindblad M, Oskarsson V, Sadr-Azodi O, Ljung R
Pancreatology 2026 Jan;():
Theses
2025
Coming soon
2024
A problem-solving intervention for employees on sickness absence due to common mental disorders : effects, ethics and process
Ida karlsson
Unit of Intervention and Implementation Research
“Should i stay, or should i go” : teachers’ motivation to stay at their workplace
Jeffrey Casely-Hayford
Unit of Intervention and Implementation Research
Epithelial alarmins as novel targets for treatment of asthma
Maria Belikova
Unit of Experimental Asthma and Allergy Research
Diet, genetic susceptibility, latent autoimmune diabetes in adults, type 1 and type 2 diabetes
Anna-Maria Lampousi
Unit of Epidemiology
Exposures through drinking water and risk of chronic disease
Emilie Helte
Enheten för kardiovaskulär och nutritionsepidemiologi
Exploring allergic and irritant contact dermatitis : biomarkers, mechanisms, and allergen uptake
Paulina Werner Nosrati
Unit of Systems Toxicology
Health consequences of gender-based harassment at work
Katrina Julia Blindow
Unit of Occupational Medicine
Infections, antibiotics, tobacco, genetic factors and risk of lada : latent autoimmune diabetes in adults, and type 2 diabetes
Jessica Edstorp
Unit of Epidemiology
The role of inflammatory cells in sarcoidosis and asthma
Mu Nie
Unit of Experimental Asthma and Allergy Research
Modifiable risk factors, blood proteins, and venous thromboembolism
Shuai Yuan
Unit of cardiovascular and nutritional epidemiology
Congenital heart disease, genetic syndromes, and childhood cancer
Christina-Evmorfia Kampitsi
Unit of Integrative Epidemiology
2023
Studies on the molecular and functional properties of exosomes in the metastatic prostate cancer bone microenvironment
Ioulia Vardaki
Unit of Toxicology
T cell responses in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis : friends or foes?
Solmaz Yazdani
Unit of Integrative Epidemiology
Occupational exposure to particles in relation to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cardiovascular disease
Karin Grahn
Unit of Occupational Medicine
Persistent environmental pollutants and risk of cardiovascular disease
Tessa Schillemans
Unit of cardiovascular and nutritional epidemiology
Environmental exposures and cardiac arrhythmias
Marcus Dahlquist
Unit of environmental epidemiology
Evaluating occupational health interventions : design, implementation, and effects
Emma Cedstrand
Unit of Occupational Medicine
2022
Psychological distress and breast cancer : a bidirectional link
Kejia Hu
Unit of Integrative Epidemiology
Physical workload and exit from the labour market : epidemiological studies with a focus on employees with musculoskeletal disorders
Kathryn Badarin
Unit of Occupational Medicine
Mental disorders as risk factors, comorbidities, and consequences of cancer
Qianwei Liu
Unit of Integrative Epidemiology
The effect of spinal manipulative therapy on heart rate variability and pain in patients with persistent or recurrent neck pain
Anders Galaasen Bakken
Unit of Intervention and Implementation Research
Early-life metal exposure and child growth and development
Annachiara Malin Igra
Unit of Metals and Health
Exploring toxicity and fate of metal-based particles in the lung : from mechanistic screening to lung deposition modelling
Sarah McCarrick
Unit of Biochemical Toxicology
Physical workload in surgery : from risk assessments to interventions
Xuelong Fan
Unit of Occupational Medicine
Defining the role of mast cells in guinea pig models of asthma
Jielu Liu
Unit of Experimental Asthma and Allergy Research
Immune mechanisms and potential immunological treatment in atherosclerosis
Shailesh Kumar Samal
Unit of Immunology and Chronic Disease
Toxic metals, essential micronutrients, gestational thyroid hormones, and size at birth
Klara Gustin Mossegård
Unit of Metals and Health
Premenstrual disorders : risk factors, comorbidities and health impact
Qian Yang
Unit of Integrative Epidemiology
DissolvIt : development and validation of a new in vitro dissolution apparatus for dry powder aerosols
Maria Malmlöf,
Unit of Integrative Toxicology
Application of the benchmark dose-response modelling approach for risk characterization of chemicals
Antero Vieira da Silva
Unit of Integrative Toxicology
Socioeconomic factors and childhood cancer : survival and long-term consequences
Hanna Mogensen
Unit of Epidemiology
Biomedical factors in the risk and prognosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Jiangwei Sun
Unit of Integrative Epidemiology
Precarious employment and occupational injuries in Sweden
Bertina Kreshpaj
Unit of Occupational Medicine
Trends in population health in an era of increasing longevity
Anna C. Meyer
Unit of Epidemiology
Profiling of microglia in inflammation, aging, and the tumor microenvironment
Lara Friess,
Unit of Toxicology
2021
Immunity and inflammation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis : an epidemiological approach
Can Cui
Unit of Integrative Epidemiology
Precarious employment in Sweden : methodological development and health associations
Johanna Jonsson
Unit of Occupational Medicine
Silica particle-induced NLRP3 inflammasome activation and DNA damage in respiratory epithelium
Rongrong Wu
Unit of Biochemical Toxicology
Environmental arsenic exposure in humans : toxicity and adaptation in the Bolivian Andes
Jessica De Loma Olson
Unit of metals & health
Experimental studies of lipid mediator modulation of airway responsiveness
Willem Abma
Unit of experimental asthma and allergy research
Risks and benefits of drinking water treatment : focusing on child health and prenatal development
Melle Säve-Söderbergh
Unit of cardiovascular and nutritional epidemiology
2020
Dietary carbohydrate quality and health : focus on low-grade systemic inflammation and cardiometabolic risk factors
Nor Adila Mhd Omar
Unit of cardiovascular and nutritional epidemiology
Urban greenness and related health effects
Åsa Persson
Unit of environmental epidemiology
Health effects of air pollution : innovative approaches for spatio-temporal evaluations
Massimo Stafoggia
Unit of environmental epidemiology
Short and long-term regulation of autophagy
Patricia González-Rodríguez
Unit of toxicology
Genotoxic effects among Bolivian farmers exposed to mixtures of pesticides : population and in vitro based studies
Jessika Ximen Barrón Cuenca
Unit of biochemical toxicology
Evaluation of biomarkers in chronic inflammatory diseases
Zahra Golabkesh
Unit of cardiovascular and nutritional epidemiology
Stress prevention at work : intervention effectiveness and implementation process evaluation
Bozana Arapovic-Johansson
Unit of Intervention and Implementation Research
Deep tissue massage therapy and/or strengthening and stretching exercises for disabling subacute or chronic neck pain. A randomized controlled trial
Oscar Javier Pico Espinosa
Unit of Intervention and Implementation Research
2019
Health effects of road traffic noise in childhood and adolescence
Alva Käte Enoksson Wallas
Unit of Environmental Epidemiology
Ergonomic risk assessment and intervention through smart workwear systems
Liyun Yang
Unit of Occupational Medicine
Exposure to air pollution in the work and residential environment during pregnancy and adverse birth effects
Filip Norlén
Unit of Occupational Medicine
Shoulder injuries in adolescent elite handball players
Martin Asker
Unit of Intervention and Implementation Research
Topics on mathematical statistics for medical applications : summary measures and exact simulation of diffusions
Celia García-Pareja
Unit of Biostatistics
Interplay between birthweight, family history, obesity, and genes in the development of latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) and type 2 diabetes
Rebecka Hjort
Unit of Epidemiology
Airborne occupational exposures and risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis
Anna Ilar
Unit of Translational Epidemiology
Molecular mechanisms of cell death and cell clearance
Katharina Klöditz
Unit of Molecular Toxicology
Diet and the risk of latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) : studies on the association with fish and sweetened beverages
Josefin Edwall Löfvenborg
Unit of Epidemiology
Contact allergy in Swedish adolescents : results from the BAMSE cohort study
Maria Lagrelius
Unit of Environmental Epidemiology
Occupational exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and early biomarkers related to cardiovascular disease and cancer
Ayman Alhamdow
Unit of Metals & Health
Phospholipid related antigens and protective mechanisms : implications for cardiovascular diseases, human autoimmunity and inflammation
Divya Thiagarajan
Unit of Immunology and Chronic Disease
Occupational exposure to chemicals and cancer
Cecilia Videnros
Unit of Occupational Medicine
Novel immunologic cellular mechanisms in atherosclerosis and potential therapeutic implications
Mizanur Rahman
Unit of Immunology and Chronic Disease
Deciphering microglia plasticity in glioma
Dalel Saidi
Unit of Toxicology
2018
Mitochondria targeting and its consequences for cell death in neuroblastoma
Kadri Valter
Unit of Toxicology
The impact of transcriptional mutagenesis on cellular homeostasis
Monika Ezerskyte
Unit of Biochemical Toxicology
Early-life selenium status and cognitive development
Helena Skröder Löveborn
Unit of Metals & Health
Cellular effects of nickel and nickel oxide nanoparticles : focus on mechanisms related to carcinogenicity
Emma Åkerlund
Unit of Biochemical Toxicology
Innate immune airway responses after exposure to ultrafine and ambient particles : in vivo and in vitro models
Anna Steneholm
Unit of Work Environment Toxicology
Quantification of inflammatory mediators to explore molecular mechanisms and sub-phenotypes of asthma
Johan Kolmert
Unit of Experimental Asthma and Allergy Research
Evidence by interaction : a new role of caspase-2
Jeremy Forsberg
Unit of Toxicology
Occupational skin exposure to cobalt : origin and fate
Jolinde Kettelarij
Unit of work environment toxicology
Development of multi-cellular human lung models to study inflammatory mechanisms and cell-cell interactions
Jie Ji
Unit of work environment toxicology
Characterizing chemical exposure : focus on children's environment
Kristin Larsson
Unit of biochemical toxicology
Use of novel statistical methods in assessing particulate air pollution and evaluating its association with mortality in China
Xin Fang
Unit of biostatistics
Long-term exposure to transportation noise in relation to metabolic and cardiovascular outcomes
Andrei Pyko
Unit of environmental epidemiology
Neutrophil extracellular traps : function in infectious and non-Infectious conditions
Beatrice Lazzaretto
Unit of molecular toxicology
Overweight in relation to allergic disease in childhood and adolescence
Sandra Ekström
Unit of environmental epidemiology
Mathematical programming for optimal probability weighting
Michele Santacatterina
Unit of biostatistics
Short-term exposure to ozone in relation to mortality and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest : exploring sensitive subgroups by previous hospitalizations
Auriba Raza
Unit of environmental epidemiology
Postmenopausal hormone therapy and cardiovascular risk
Germán D. Carrasquilla
Unit of cardiovascular epidemiology
