NEW STUDY. Adult patients with congenital heart disease are living longer but have a greater risk of heart failure and other heart complications. This is the finding of a new study by researchers at the University of Gothenburg and Sahlgrenska University Hospital. Zacharias Mandalenakis is the last author of the article now being published in the journal Circulation. Zacharias is a chief physician at the ACHD Center at Sahlgrenska University…
Youth overweight a risk factor for blood clots as adult
NEW STUDY. Being overweight in childhood and in early adulthood are discrete risk factors for blood clots later in life, a University of Gothenburg study shows. The study is based on the early BMI history of more than 37,000 men and information about their thrombi, if any, in adulthood. The association between obesity and blood clots is already established. However, to date it has been unclear how much influence a raised…
Lower fracture risk for older wheelchair users
NEW STUDY. Being a frail elderly person and using a wheelchair involves a substantially reduced risk of fractures, a University of Gothenburg study shows. More prescriptions for wheelchairs may result. Wheelchair use often means spending many hours in the same, seated position with no load on the legs, which can cause functional deterioration and loss of bone mass. This in turn makes the skeleton more brittle and thus subject to…
AI supports doctors’ hard decisions on cardiac arrest
NEW STUDY. When patients receive care after cardiac arrest, doctors can now — by entering patient data in a web-based app — find out how thousands of similar patients have fared. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have developed three such systems of decision support for cardiac arrest that may, in the future, make a major difference to doctors’ work. One of these decision support tools (SCARS-1), now published, is…
The master’s program in public health paved the way for collaboration in Sri Lanka and India
TRAVELOGUE. In early November last year, Solveig Lövestad and Monica Hunsberger (Master’s program in public health Directors) and Evelina Nyström (International Coordinator at Sahlgrenska Academy) traveled to Rajarata University in Mihintale in the Northeastern part of Sri Lanka and to NITTE (Deemed to be University) in the Southern part of India. Here they share a story from the journey. The goal was to strengthen relationships with teachers and researchers working…