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…
Study in Science: Electrodes can grow in living tissue
NEW STUDY. Researchers at the Department of Chemistry & Molecular Biology at University of Gothenburg are partners in a research collaboration that successfully has grown electrodes in living tissue using the body’s molecules as triggers. The result, published in the journal Science, paves the way for the formation of fully integrated electronic circuits in living organisms. Linking electronics to biological tissue is important to understand complex biological functions, combat diseases…
Decades-long suffering from obstetric injuries
NEW STUDY. Bowel leakage, the need for anal incontinence protection and a restricted social life may cause severe, decades-long suffering among women with obstetric injuries to the anal opening, according to a study from the University of Gothenburg. The study, published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, comprises a total of more than 11,000 women who had given birth vaginally in Sweden, twice, in the years 1987–2000. The…
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…
More obesity in three- and four-year-olds during pandemic
NEW STUDY. The incidence of overweight and obesity in children aged three and four in Sweden during the pandemic, especially in more deprived areas, a study of just over 25,000 children in three Swedish counties shows. The study, published in the European Journal of Public Health, is based on data concerning 25,049 children aged three to five who have undergone regular health checks at child health centers. The counties taking…