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Balance disturbance and orthostatic hypotension as risk factors for falls among older adults
(Turun yliopisto, 2022-02-25)
Falls present common serious clinical problems among older adults. To detect older adults with a high risk to fall, there is a need to develop clinically usable tools. For clinicians, balance is an important aspect of fall ...
Detection of Pathologic Changes Following Traumatic Brain Injury Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(Annales Universitatis Turkuensis D 1061Turun yliopisto, 2013-04-05)
Background: Approximately two percent of Finns have sequels after traumatic brain injury (TBI), and many TBI patients are young or middle-aged. The high rate of unemployment after TBI has major economic consequences for ...
Cardiovascular risk factors and cardiovascular risk prediction from childhood to adulthood. The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study
(Annales Universitatis Turkuensis D 1287Turun yliopisto, 2017-05-12)
Background: In the late 1960s, Finland had the world’s highest coronary heart disease mortality. Atherosclerosis has its roots in childhood. Childhood risk factors are associated with risk factors in adulthood ...
The Influence of Chronic Diseases on Household Chores and Leisure-time Activities - with Reference to Low Back Pain, Psoriasis, and Rheumatoid Arthritis
(Annales Universitatis Turkuensis D1290Turun yliopisto, 2017-05-26)
Chronic diseases can negatively affect a patient’s ability to perform household chores and leisure-time activities, which are an important part of everyday life. The aim of this thesis was to estimate from the patients’ ...
Aspects of Coronary Revascularization - With Special Reference To Renal Impairment and Permanent Work Disability
(Annales Universitatis Turkuensis D 1291Turun yliopisto, 2017-06-09)
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a common cause of morbidity in the Western world and remains one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide. Treatment of CAD aims at improving quality of life and prognosis. The cornerstone ...
Fetal heart and hemodynamics in diabetic pregnancy - Fetal cardiac and placental function in a rat model of maternal hyperglycemia and human type 1 diabetic pregnancies
(Annales Universitatis Turkuensis D 1285Turun yliopisto, 2017-05-24)
Maternal type 1 diabetes mellitus affects fetal and offspring health. We aimed to investigate fetal cardiac and placental function in a rat model of maternal pregestational hyperglycemia, and the effect of gestational ...
VMAT2 and GLP-1R targeting tracers for pancreatic beta cell imaging
(Annales Universitatis Turkuensis D 1293Turun yliopisto, 2017-06-10)
Diabetes is characterized by hyperglycemia associated with beta cell dysfunction in type 2 diabetes (T2D) or loss in type 1 diabetes (T1D). Positron emission tomography (PET) could provide a possibility for the in vivo ...
Post-traumatic Stress among adolescents surviving Nepalese earthquake and children of immigrants in Finland
(Turun yliopisto, 2021-06-11)
The aim of this dissertation was to identify risk factors associated with posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) using two study designs: a longitudinal postearthquake survey and a Finnish population-based study. Studies I ...
Factors Affecting Cancer Behavior with Special Reference to Lymphatic Vessels, Macrophages, EGFR, and Pim-1 in Colorectal Cancer
(Annales Universitatis Turkuensis D 1009Turun yliopisto, 2012-04-21)
Syövän käyttäytymiseen ja ennusteeseen vaikuttavat monet tekijät, muun muassa muutokset syöpäsoluissa sekä kasvainta ympäröivässä mikroympäristössä.
Tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli tutkia uusia prediktiivisiä ja prognostisia ...
Unettomuus ja uniapnea samalla potilaalla
(Turun yliopisto, 2016-11-10)