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Published 31 May 2018 New population study from Lund University Risk of bladder cancer by disease severity in relation to metabolic factors and smoking; a prospective pooled cohort study of 800,000 men and womenPrevious studies on…

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/risk-bladder-cancer-disease-severity-relation-metabolic-factors-and-smoking- 2021-01-25

Published 17 May 2022 Registries are one way to provide longitudinal, observational data, giving rise to a range of possibilities in terms of audit and research. They allow examining approaches to management, which would not be feasible by…

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/perspectives-pain-registries- 2022-05-17

Published 19 May 2022 Epidemiologists commonly use an adjusted hazard ratio or incidence density ratio, or a standardized mortality ratio, to measure a difference in all-cause mortality rates. They seldom translate it into an age-, time-,…

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/translating-all-cause-mortality-rate-ratios-or-hazard-ratios-age-longevity-and-probability-based- 2022-05-19

Published 20 May 2022 Results of randomized trials and observational studies can be difficult to communicate. Results are often presented as risk or survival functions stratified by the treatment or exposure (1, 2). However, a contrast…

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/twister-plots-time-event-studies- 2022-05-20

Published 23 May 2022 Psychosocial constructs can only be assessed indirectly, and measures are typically formed by a combination of indicators that are thought to relate to the construct. Reflective and formative measurement models offer…

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/constructed-measures-and-causal-inference-towards-new-model-measurement-psychosocial-constructs- 2022-05-23

Published 24 May 2022 Mendelian randomization (MR) is often used to estimate effects of time-varying exposures on health outcomes using observational data. However, MR studies typically use a single measurement of exposure and apply…

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/mendelian-randomization-repeated-measures-time-varying-exposure- 2022-05-24

Published 25 May 2022 Lifetime risk measures the cumulative risk for developing a disease over one’s lifespan. Modeling the lifetime risk must account for left truncation, the competing risk of death, and inference at a fixed age. In…

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/comparison-statistical-methods-predict-residual-lifetime-risk- 2022-05-25

Published 30 May 2022 The Diet, Cancer and Health—Next Generations (DCH-NG) study is a large population-based cohort study that was established as a resource for transgenerational research. The cohort is an extension of the Diet, Cancer…

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/cohort-profile-and-representativeness-participants-diet-cancer-and-health-next-generations-cohort- 2022-05-30

Published 1 June 2018 Karin Larsson's presentation from the GIS seminar is now available Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/what-gis-and-what-can-it-be-used- 2021-01-25

The annual Lund Population Day will feature a keynote address by Professor Douglas Massey, Princeton University, titled “Trends, Causes, and Consequences of Segregation in the United States”, followed by paper presentations (30 minutes…

https://www.lupop.lu.se/lund-population-day-2022- 2022-10-24

Published 1 June 2022 Recruiting participants to a clinical study is a resource-intensive process with a high failure rate. The Scottish Health Research Register (SHARE) provides recruitment support service which helps researchers recruit…

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/early-experience-opt-research-register-scottish-health-research-register-share-multi-method- 2022-06-01

Published 2 June 2022 Modern artificial intelligence techniques have solved some previously intractable problems and produced impressive results in selected medical domains. One of their drawbacks is that they often need very large amounts…

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/registries-databases-and-repositories-developing-artificial-intelligence-cancer-care- 2022-06-02

Published 3 June 2022 Background: The Danish National Patient Registry is a major resource for Danish epidemiology. Only a few studies have been conducted to check the validity of the reporting of systemic anticancer treatments. In this…

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/high-validity-danish-national-patient-registry-systemic-anticancer-treatment-registration-2009-2019- 2022-06-03

Published 7 June 2022 The DMSKW is a valuable structure in providing safety data on drug exposure during pregnancy and lactation in combination with information on disease activity up to 6 years postpartum. This article will be the…

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/german-multiple-sclerosis-and-pregnancy-registry-rationale-objective-design-and-first-results- 2022-06-07

Published 13 June 2022 Sibling comparison studies have the attractive feature of being able to control for unmeasured confounding by factors that are shared within families. However, there is sometimes a concern that these studies may have…

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/generalizability-and-effect-measure-modification-sibling-comparison-studies- 2022-06-13

Published 14 June 2022 Collinearity can be a problem in regression models. When examining the effects of an exposure at different time points, constrained distributed lag models can alleviate some of the problems caused by collinearity…

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/reflection-modern-methods-visualizing-effects-collinearity-distributed-lag-models- 2022-06-14

Published 16 June 2022 Methods for calculating health indicators profoundly influence understanding of and action on population health and inequities. Age-standardization can be useful and is commonly applied to account for differences in…

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/reflection-modern-methods-statistical-policy-and-ethical-implications-using-age-standardized-health- 2022-06-16

List of cohorts at biobanksverige.se (in Swedish)  SND Swedish National Data Service cohorts.se The Swedish Cohort Consortium maelstrom Facilitating collaborative epidemiological research through rigorous data documentation, harmonization,…

https://www.lupop.lu.se/population-data- 2024-01-17

Published 4 June 2018 Internationella bidrag, Nätverksbidrag och Tidskriftsbidrag 2018 Denna utlysning avser fem olika bidragsformer: gästforskarbidrag för inresande och utresande forskare, konferensbidrag, nätverksbidrag samt…

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/nya-utlysningar-fran-forte- 2021-01-25

Published 17 June 2022 Inverse probability weights are increasingly used in epidemiological analysis, and estimation and application of weights to address a single bias are well discussed in the literature. Weights to address multiple…

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/reflection-modern-methods-combining-weights-confounding-and-missing-data- 2022-06-17