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Toxicity of real-world PM2.5 road tunnel emissions using a mobile air-liquid interface system and submerged exposure.
Introna M, Juárez-Facio AT, Srikanth Vallabani NV, Tu MH, Heikkilä P, Colombo A, Liboni V, Tsyupa B, Mancini A, Keskinen J, Olofsson U, Steimer SS, Karlsson HL, Elihn K
Environ Pollut 2025 May;379():126486
Road traffic noise and incident ischemic heart disease, myocardial infarction, and stroke: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Pershagen G, Pyko A, Aasvang GM, Ögren M, Tiittanen P, Lanki T, Sørensen M
Environ Epidemiol 2025 Jun;9(3):e400
Dissecting key contributions of Th2 and Th17 cytokines to atopic dermatitis pathophysiology.
Meesters LD, Roubroeks JAY, Gerritsen A, Velthuijs N, Klijnhout JA, Laberthonnière C, van Vlijmen-Willems IM, Hübenthal M, Rodijk-Olthuis D, Peters RHW, Rikken G, Szymczak S, Fyhrquist N, Alenius H, Weidinger S, Smits JPH, Mhlanga M, Zhou H, Niehues H, van den Bogaard EH
J Allergy Clin Immunol 2025 May;():
Perinatal maternal mental health and offspring internalizing and externalizing difficulties from early childhood through adolescence: Rhea mother-child cohort in Crete, Greece.
Koutra K, Mouatsou C, Margetaki K, Roumeliotaki T, Mavroeides G, Psoma S, Kampouri M, Karachaliou M, Kogevinas M, Chatzi L
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2025 May;():
Mechanisms of change of a multifaceted implementation strategy on fidelity to a guideline for the prevention of mental health problems at the workplace: a mechanism analysis within a cluster-randomized controlled trial.
Rödlund A, Toropova A, Lengnick-Hall R, Powell BJ, Elinder LS, Björklund C, Kwak L
Implement Sci 2025 May;20(1):25
Variants in the DDX6-CXCR5 autoimmune disease risk locus influence the regulatory network in immune cells and salivary gland.
Wiley MM, Radziszewski M, Khatri B, Joachims ML, Tessneer KL, Stolarczyk AM, Yao S, Li J, Pritchett-Frazee C, Johnston AA, Rasmussen A, Anaya JM, Aqrawi LA, Bae SC, Baecklund E, Björk A, Brun JG, Bucher SM, Dand N, Eloranta ML, Engelke F, Forsblad-d'Elia H, Fugmann C, Glenn SB, Gong C, Gottenberg JE, Hammenfors D, Imgenberg-Kreuz J, Jensen JL, Johnsen SJA, Jonsson MV, Kelly JA, Khanam S, Kim K, Kvarnström M, Mandl T, Martín J, Morris DL, Nocturne G, Norheim KB, Olsson P, Palm Ø, Pers JO, Rhodus NL, Sjöwall C, Skarstein K, Taylor KE, Tombleson P, Thorlacius GE, Venuturupalli SR, Vital EM, Wallace DJ, Radfar L, Brennan MT, James JA, Scofield RH, Gaffney PM, Criswell LA, Jonsson R, Appel S, Eriksson P, Bowman SJ, Omdal R, Rönnblom L, Warner BM, Rischmueller M, Witte T, Farris AD, Mariette X, Shiboski CH, , Wahren-Herlenius M, Alarcón-Riquelme ME, , Ng WF, , Sivils KL, Guthridge JM, Adrianto I, Vyse TJ, Tsao BP, Nordmark G, Lessard CJ
Ann Rheum Dis 2025 May;():
Response to letter to the editor regarding: "Plasma metabolite profiles of meat intake and their association with cardiovascular disease risk: A population-based study in Swedish cohorts" by Arage et al., Metabolism. 2025 Jul;168:156188.
Arage G, Dekkers KF, Rašo LM, Hammar U, Ericson U, Larsson SC, Engel H, Baldanzi G, Pertiwi K, Sayols-Baixeras S, Landberg R, Sundström J, Smith JG, Engström G, Ärnlöv J, Orho-Melander M, Lind L, Fall T, Ahmad S
Metabolism 2025 May;():156309
Person-related work and the risk of cardiovascular disease: a Swedish register-based cohort study.
Pan KY, Almroth M, Nevriana A, Hemmingsson T, Kjellberg K, Falkstedt D
Eur J Public Health 2025 May;():
Manual therapists in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic -they remained in business, but how was their work environment and practice impacted?
Axen I, Weiss N, Skillgate E
PLoS One 2025 ;20(5):e0324245
Trends in reported occupational injuries due to accidents among native-born Swedes and immigrant workers in Sweden 2003-2020.
Thern E, Nevriana A, Davis L, Wegman DH, Wadensjö E, Kjellberg K, Bodin T, Elling DL
Inj Epidemiol 2025 May;12(1):29
Machine Learning Analysis of Whole-Blood Transcriptomics Data in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Treated with Adalimumab Identifies Predictive Biomarkers of Response.
Yap CF, Nair N, Morgan AW, Isaacs JD, Wilson AG, Hyrich K, Barturen G, Riva-Torrubia M, Gut M, Gut I, Alarcón Riquelme ME, Barton A, Plant D
Arthritis Rheumatol 2025 May;():
Celiac Disease and Incident Dupuytren's Contracture: A Matched Nationwide Cohort Analysis.
Yuan S, Furniss D, Larsson SC, Leffler DA, Ludvigsson JF
Clin Epidemiol 2025 ;17():481-484
Physicians' experiences of the process leading to their sick leave for exhaustion disorder in Sweden: a narrative design.
Landstad BJ, Kvangarsnes M, Thunqvist E, Löfman B, Nygren Å, Brulin E
BMJ Open 2025 May;15(5):e097179
Snus and Cardiometabolic Health Markers Among Swedish Young Adults.
Zettergren A, Andersson N, Pershagen G, Lindh C, Georgelis A, Kull I, Melén E, Ekström S, Ljungman P, Bergström A
Nicotine Tob Res 2025 May;27(6):1098-1108
Technical recommendations for analyzing oxylipins by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry.
Schebb NH, Kampschulte N, Hagn G, Plitzko K, Meckelmann SW, Ghosh S, Joshi R, Kuligowski J, Vuckovic D, Botana MT, Sánchez-Illana Á, Zandkarimi F, Das A, Yang J, Schmidt L, Checa A, Roche HM, Armando AM, Edin ML, Lih FB, Aristizabal-Henao JJ, Miyamoto S, Giuffrida F, Moussaieff A, Domingues R, Rothe M, Hinz C, Das US, Rund KM, Taha AY, Hofstetter RK, Werner M, Werz O, Kahnt AS, Bertrand-Michel J, Le Faouder P, Gurke R, Thomas D, Torta F, Milic I, Dias IHK, Spickett CM, Biagini D, Lomonaco T, Idborg H, Liu JY, Fedorova M, Ford DA, Barden A, Mori TA, Kennedy PD, Maxey K, Ivanisevic J, Gallart-Ayala H, Gladine C, Wenk M, Galano JM, Durand T, Stark KD, Barbas C, Garscha U, Gelhaus SL, Ceglarek U, Flamand N, Griffin JL, Ahrends R, Arita M, Zeldin DC, Schopfer FJ, Quehenberger O, Julian R, Nicolaou A, Blair IA, Murphy MP, Hammock BD, Freeman B, Liebisch G, Serhan CN, Köfeler HC, Jakobsson PJ, Steinhilber D, Gelb MH, Holčapek M, Andrew R, Giera M, FitzGerald GA, Murphy RC, Newman JW, Dennis EA, Ekroos K, Milne GL, Gijón MA, Vesper HW, Wheelock CE, O'Donnell VB
Sci Signal 2025 May;18(887):eadw1245
Alcohol intake and pancreatic cancer risk: An analysis from 30 prospective studies across Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America.
Naudin S, Wang M, Dimou N, Ebrahimi E, Genkinger J, Adami HO, Albanes D, Babic A, Barnett M, Bogumil D, Cai H, Chen C, Eliassen AH, Freudenheim JL, Gierach G, Giovannucci EL, Gunter MJ, Håkansson N, Hirabayashi M, Hou T, Huang BZ, Huang WY, Jayasekara H, Jones ME, Katzke VA, Koh WP, Lacey JV, Lagerros YT, Larsson SC, Liao LM, Lo K, Loftfield E, MacInnis RJ, Männistö S, McCullough ML, Miller A, Milne RL, Moore SC, Mucci LA, Neuhouser ML, Patel AV, Platz EA, Prizment A, Robien K, Rohan TE, Sacerdote C, Sandin S, Sawada N, Schoemaker M, Shu XO, Sinha R, Snetselaar L, Stampfer MJ, Stolzenberg-Solomon R, Thomson CA, Tjønneland A, Um CY, van den Brandt PA, Visvanathan K, Wang SS, Wang R, Weiderpass E, Weinstein SJ, White E, Willett W, Woslk A, Wolpin BM, Yaun SS, Yuan C, Yuan JM, Zheng W, Brennan P, Smith-Warner SA, Ferrari P
PLoS Med 2025 May;22(5):e1004590
Theses
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