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ABSTRACT Appendectomy has been the indisputable treatment of acute appendicitis for over a century. Acute appendicitis has been evaluated to always progress to perforation. Current evidence suggests complicated and ...

ABSTRACT Voice disorders are common in teachers. In addition to the extensive use of their voice, voice problems are associated with stress, a poor indoor environmental quality (IEQ), and frequently also with a decreased ...

Whole-gland prostate surgery and radiotherapy, the established approaches to localised prostate cancer (PCa), usually cause substantial adverse effects. Targeted image-guided cancer therapy has gained acceptance through ...

ABSTRACT This dissertation aimed at investigating momentums to break the chain of adverse outcomes in the context of tobacco and substance use disorders in pregnancy. First, we evaluated the efficacy of the new parental ...

Body size and body composition have long interested mankind and their assessments are considered key factors for the evaluation of overall health status. Although the role of obesity – mostly applying body mass index (BMI) ...

ABSTRACT Established hypertension is a well-known risk factor for cardiovascular disease and dementia. However, limited evidence exists on the relation between the age of hypertension onset and adverse events. The aim ...

The systemic vasculitides are characterized by inflammation of the blood vessel walls. Most vasculitides are idiopathic but sometimes a triggering event, e.g., medication, can be identified. Vessels of any type and size ...

This thesis is motivated by the Finnish policy of estimating inuenza vaccine effectiveness, i.e., the vaccine-attributable reduction in inuenza incidence, each season from medical and demographic register data. It presents ...

Smoking increases the risk of asthma and impairs the prognosis of the disease and therapeutic response. Smoking cessation is an essential part of the treatment of asthma. The comprehensive treatment of asthma is also ...