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Mosquito borne Inkoo virus in northern Sweden isolation and whole genome sequencing
... In conclusion, the study provides additional evidence on Aedes communis as the principal vector of INKV. The sequence data obtained from this study will aid in build- ing up of the scanty genetic data available in the ...
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Human Puumala hantavirus infection in northern Sweden; increased seroprevalence and association to risk and health factors
... A study from Finland, showed higher glomerular filtra- tion rate (GFR) and higher systolic blood pressure in patients who had been diagnosed with PUUV infection 3–7 years earlier, compared to a healthy, seronegative ...
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DISTRIBUTION OF WINTER BROWSING BY MOOSE: EVIDENCE OF LONG-TERM STABILITY IN NORTHERN SWEDEN
... ABSTRACT: Predicting spatial distribution of large herbivore foraging is important for successful management, but accurate predictions remain elusive against a background of multiple causes modified by environmental ...
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Improved metabolic health among the obese in six population surveys 1986 to 2009: the Northern Sweden MONICA study
... of northern Sweden, we can for the first time report that a larger proportion within all weight groups are metabolically healthy over the 23 year observation ...
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Physicians’ perspectives on clinical pharmacy services in Northern Sweden: a qualitative study
... Most physicians have little knowledge and awareness about how the service is delivered (e.g. scheduling, fre- quency), and saw this as an area for further improvement. Based on consultation with the head of the ...
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Unsafe and unequal: a decomposition analysis of income inequalities in fear of crime in northern Sweden
... The present study shows that income inequality in fear of crime exists even in a comparatively equitable setting like northern Sweden. One’s position in social space involves a risk for a range of ...
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Embodying pervasive discrimination: a decomposition of sexual orientation inequalities in health in a population-based cross-sectional study in Northern Sweden
... The study was cross-sectional and as such causal infer- ences are hazardous. The response rate was only about 50%, which may severely bias point estimates of frequen- cies, such as the proportion of LGBQ/heterosexual ...
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Vegetation Succession, Carbon Accumulation and Hydrological Change in Subarctic Peatlands, Abisko, Northern Sweden
... © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Gałka, M., et al., (2017) Vegetation Succession, Carbon Accumulation and Hydrological Change in Subarctic Peatlands, Abisko, ...
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How discrimination and participation are associated with psychosomatic problems among boys and girls in northern Sweden
... The study includes ten schools in a municipality in northern Sweden. Boys and girls in grades six to nine were invited to answer a web-based questionnaire regard- ing their health and the psychosocial ...
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Early pregnancy sex steroids during primiparous pregnancies and maternal breast cancer: a nested case–control study in the Northern Sweden Maternity Cohort
... the Northern Sweden University Hospital, Umeå, ...four northern counties of Sweden while attending a maternity care unit run by the Swedish National Health Care ...
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Autoantibodies predate the onset of systemic lupus erythematosus in northern Sweden
... The register of patients with SLE attending the Depart- ment of Rheumatology, University Hospital, Umeå, Swe- den, with a known date of the onset of symptoms was coanalysed with the registers of the Medical Biobank ...
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Recent treeline shift in the kebnekaise mountains, northern sweden – A climate change case
... Kebnekaise tourist station, founded in 1907, is located at the western extent of the valley birch forest, 690 m a. s. l. Apparently, the birch forest was thinned all round here in connection with the building of the ...
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Health inequalities between employed and unemployed in northern Sweden: a decomposition analysis of social determinants for mental health
... 13]. Sweden is charac- terised as a worker-friendly country with universalism, solidarity and de-commodification of social and economic equality between its citizens ...though Sweden still has generous ...
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Experiences of barriers and facilitators to weight-loss in a diet intervention - a qualitative study of women in Northern Sweden
... Thus, a gender-relational approach [24] – in which men’s and women’s relations and interactions with each other are analysed in different settings, such as family life – seems to be reasonable to understand our findings. ...
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Socioeconomic inequalities and body mass index in Västerbotten County, Sweden: a longitudinal study of life course influences over two decades
... Introduction: Life course socioeconomic inequalities in heart disease, stroke and all-cause mortality are well studied in Sweden. However, few studies have sought to explain the mechanism for such associations ...
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THE IMPACT OF HUMAN RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES: MOOSE AS A CASE STUDY
... in northern Sweden, we exposed 29 adult free-ranging GPS-collared female moose (Alces alces) to either off-trail hiking or snowmobiling activity to study individual response to non-lethal human ...
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End-stage renal disease and low level exposure to lead, cadmium and mercury; a population-based, prospective nested case-referent study in Sweden
... The Northern Sweden Health and Disease Study [24] includes the population-based Västerbotten Intervention Project [25] and the Northern Sweden WHO Monitor- ing of Trends and Cardiovascular ...
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Puumala Hantavirus Viremia Diagnosed by Real Time Reverse Transcriptase PCR Using Samples from Patients with Hemorrhagic Fever and Renal Syndrome
... from Sweden belong to two distinct genetic lineages (11, 21) separated by a contact zone located south of Umeå in central Sweden (13, ...in northern Sweden, it was important to design a ...
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The large-scale spatio-temporal variability of precipitation over Sweden observed from the weather radar network
... in northern Sweden (station 1 up to station 7) southeasterly winds are mainly re- sponsible for the highest daily precipitation rate (nearly 40 % of the time), while in the southern parts of Sweden ...
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Dietary inflammatory index and risk of first myocardial infarction; a prospective population-based study
... the northern Swedish county of Västerbot- ...The Northern Sweden MONICA Study follows essentially the same protocol as the VIP and includes 2000 or 2500 randomly selected 25–74 year olds (25–64 years ...
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