Purpose - To investigate the association of commonly used systemic medications with glaucoma and intraocular pressure (IOP) in the European population.<p> <p>Design - Meta-analysis of 11 population-based cohort studies of the European Eye Epidemiology Consortium.<p> <p>Participants - The glaucoma analyses included 143 240 participants and the IOP analyses included 47 177 participants.<p> <p>Methods ...

Background: The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) of 2019 ranked stroke, as both the second-leading cause of death and the third-leading cause of death and disability worldwide. As the burden of stroke has risen the past three decades, stroke has emerged as one of the current greatest public health issues worldwide of growing importance. During the past 40 years, healthcare expenditure has increased ...

Introduction: Although more than 300 000 children and adolescents worldwide are diagnosed with cancer yearly, little research has been conducted investigating how healthcare providers consider risk and patient safety connected with supportive care (including complementary and alternative medicine [CAM]) in this age group. This study aimed to explore how different healthcare providers perceive and ...

Objectives<p> <p>The objective of our study was to describe time trends in body height according to attained educational level in women and men in Norway. <p>Methods <p>We used previously collected data from six repeated cross-sectional studies in the population based Tromsø Study 1979–2016. Measured body height in cm and self-reported educational level were the primary outcome measures. We ...

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are prevalent, causing high rates of morbidity and mortality. A diet rich in fruit and vegetables are important in the prevention and management of NCDs. If-then plans is a planning strategy that could facilitate eating behaviour change by creating a mental link between a cue and a response in an “If…, then…”-structure. The aim was to investigate the effectiveness ...

Evidence linking body fatness to breast cancer (BC) prognosis is limited. While it seems that excess adiposity is associated with poorer BC survival, there is uncertainty over whether weight changes reduce mortality. This study aimed to assess the association between body fatness and weight changes pre- and postdiagnosis and overall mortality and BC-specific mortality among BC survivors. Our study ...

Objective - Literature about asthma among Indigenous communities worldwide is scarce. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of self-reported asthma and to identify the risk factors associated with it among the Sámi population in Sweden.<p> <p>Methods - A population-based health study (SámiHET) was conducted among the Sámi population aged 18–84 years in 2021. The asthma outcome was self-reported. ...

Introduction: Freezing cold injuries (FCI) are a common risk in extreme cold weather operations. Although the risks have long been recognised, injury occurrences tend to be sparse and geographically distributed, with relatively few cases to study in a systematic way. The first challenge to improve FCI medical management is to develop a common nomenclature for FCI classification. This is critical for ...

Objective - Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is a risk factor for invasive breast cancer (IBC). The prognosis of DCIS is considerably better than for IBC, yet women do not distinguish between the threat. We aimed to compare the psychosocial consequences of screen-detected DCIS and IBC, and to examine this comparison over time.<p> <p>Methods - We surveyed a Danish mammography-screening cohort from ...

Given the constant pressure to increase patient throughput while respecting radiation protection, global body PET image quality (IQ) is not satisfactory in all patients. We first studied the association between IQ and other variables, in particular body habitus, on a digital PET/CT. Second, to improve and homogenize IQ, we evaluated a deep learning PET denoising solution (Subtle PET^TM) ...