List of works by Juan Merlo

A GPS-Based Methodology to Analyze Environment-Health Associations at the Trip Level: Case-Crossover Analyses of Built Environments and Walking.

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A simple multilevel approach for analysing geographical inequalities in public health reports: The case of municipality differences in obesity

scientific article published on 10 June 2019

Absolute rather than relative income is a better socioeconomic predictor of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Swedish adults

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Acculturation and celiac disease risk in second-generation immigrants: a nationwide cohort study in Sweden

scientific article published on 25 July 2012

Acknowledging the role of patient heterogeneity in hospital outcome reporting: Mortality after acute myocardial infarction in five European countries

scientific article published on 06 February 2020

Action Control and Situational Risks in the Prevention of HIV and STIs: Individual, Dyadic, and Social Influences on Consistent Condom Use in a University Population

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Adolescents' utilisation of psychiatric care, neighbourhoods and neighbourhood socioeconomic deprivation: a multilevel analysis

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Albuminuria measurement in diabetic care: a multilevel analysis measuring the influence of accreditation on institutional performance

scientific article published on 14 January 2019

An Original Stepwise Multilevel Logistic Regression Analysis of Discriminatory Accuracy: The Case of Neighbourhoods and Health

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An interactive mapping tool to assess individual mobility patterns in neighborhood studies

scientific article published in October 2012

An intersectional approach to multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity (MAIH) and discriminatory accuracy.

scientific article published on March 2017

Antibiotic use among 8-month-old children in Malmö, Sweden--in relation to child characteristics and parental sociodemographic, psychosocial and lifestyle factors

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Anxiolytic-hypnotic drug use associated with trust, social participation, and the miniaturization of community: a multilevel analysis

scientific article published on 22 August 2005

Applying measures of discriminatory accuracy to revisit traditional risk factors for being small for gestational age in Sweden: a national cross-sectional study

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Appropriate assessment of ethnic differences in adolescent use of psychotropic medication: multilevel analysis of discriminatory accuracy.

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Appropriate assessment of neighborhood effects on individual health: integrating random and fixed effects in multilevel logistic regression

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Area-aggregated assessments of perceived environmental attributes may overcome single-source bias in studies of green environments and health: results from a cross-sectional survey in southern Sweden

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Assessment of the magnitude of geographical variations and socioeconomic contextual effects on ischaemic heart disease mortality: a multilevel survival analysis of a large Swedish cohort

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Association of outpatient utilisation of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and hospitalised heart failure in the entire Swedish population

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Associations of supermarket characteristics with weight status and body fat: a multilevel analysis of individuals within supermarkets (RECORD study).

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Atrial fibrillation and its association with type 2 diabetes and hypertension in a Swedish community

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Auditing patient registration in the Swedish quality register for acute coronary syndrome

scientific article published on 20 April 2010

Bringing the individual back to small-area variation studies: a multilevel analysis of all-cause mortality in Andalusia, Spain.

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Changing analytical approaches in European epidemiology -- a short comment on a recent article.

scientific article published in January 2005

Children's exposure to nitrogen dioxide in Sweden: investigating environmental injustice in an egalitarian country

scientific article published on March 2006

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Sweden: An intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy.

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Coeliac disease in children: a social epidemiological study in Sweden

scientific article published on 07 September 2011

Cohort profile: residential and non-residential environments, individual activity spaces and cardiovascular risk factors and diseases--the RECORD Cohort Study.

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Comment to “Socioeconomic position and education in patients with coeliac disease”

scientific article published on 09 May 2012

Commentary: Weighing up the dead and missing: reflections on inverse-probability weighting and principal stratification to address truncation by death.

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Comparison of a spatial approach with the multilevel approach for investigating place effects on health: the example of healthcare utilisation in France

scientific article published on June 2005

Comparison of a spatial perspective with the multilevel analytical approach in neighborhood studies: the case of mental and behavioral disorders due to psychoactive substance use in Malmo, Sweden, 2001.

scientific article published on 22 June 2005

Comparison of different procedures to identify probable cases of myocardial infarction and stroke in two Swedish prospective cohort studies using local and national routine registers

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Comparison of dose standard units for drug utilisation studies

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Complaints, complainants, and rulings regarding drug promotion in the United Kingdom and Sweden 2004-2012: a quantitative and qualitative study of pharmaceutical industry self-regulation

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Congenital anomalies and childhood celiac disease in Sweden.

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Context and disease when disease risk is low: the case of type 1 diabetes in Sweden

scientific article published on 14 October 2009

Contribution of main causes of death to social inequalities in mortality in the whole population of Scania, Sweden

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Controlled withdrawal of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in elderly patients in nursing homes with no indication of depression--a commentary

scientific article published on 26 May 2005

Cord blood islet autoantibodies and seasonal association with the type 1 diabetes high-risk genotype

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Country of birth, socioeconomic position, and healthcare expenditure: a multilevel analysis of Malmö, Sweden

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Country of residence, gender equality and victim blaming attitudes about partner violence: a multilevel analysis in EU.

scientific article published on 27 September 2017

Cross-classified Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA) to evaluate hospital performance: the case of hospital differences in patient survival after acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 23 October 2020

Diastolic blood pressure and area of residence: multilevel versus ecological analysis of social inequity.

scientific article published on November 2001

Disentangling contextual effects on cause-specific mortality in a longitudinal 23-year follow-up study: impact of population density or socioeconomic environment?

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Disentangling the contribution of hospitals and municipalities for understanding patient level differences in one-year mortality risk after hip-fracture: A cross-classified multilevel analysis in Sweden

scientific article published on 03 June 2020

Distribution and determinants of ischaemic heart disease in an urban population. A study from the myocardial infarction register in Malmö, Sweden

scientific article published on May 2000

Does Maternal Country of Birth Matter for Understanding Offspring's Birthweight? A Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity in Sweden

scientific article published on 28 May 2015

Does country-level gender equality explain individual risk of intimate partner violence against women? A multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA) in the European Union

scientific article published on 24 September 2019

Does the Neighborhood Area of Residence Influence Non-Attendance in an Urban Mammography Screening Program? A Multilevel Study in a Swedish City

scientific article published on 13 October 2015

Effect of neighborhood social participation on individual use of hormone replacement therapy and antihypertensive medication: a multilevel analysis

scientific article published in May 2003

Ethnic differences in asthma treatment among Swedish adolescents: A multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity

scientific article published on 9 November 2015

Female advantage in AMI mortality is reversed in patients with type 2 diabetes in the Skaraborg Project.

scientific article published in September 2005

Gender differences in daily smoking prevalence in different age strata: a population-based study in southern Sweden

scientific article published on 13 January 2009

General and specific contextual effects in multilevel regression analyses and their paradoxical relationship: A conceptual tutorial.

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Geographical and sociodemographic differences in discontinuation of medication for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - A Cross-Classified Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA)

scientific article published on 20 July 2020

Health care utilisation and attitudes towards health care in subjects reporting environmental annoyance from electricity and chemicals.

scientific article published on 14 April 2009

Hormonal contraception increases the risk of psychotropic drug use in adolescent girls but not in adults: A pharmacoepidemiological study on 800 000 Swedish women.

scientific article published on 22 March 2018

Hospital differences in mortality rates after hip fracture surgery in Denmark

scientific article published on 16 July 2019

Hospital level of care and neonatal mortality in low- and high-risk deliveries: reassessing the question in Sweden by multilevel analysis.

scientific article published in November 2005

How are immigrant background and gender associated with the utilisation of psychiatric care among adolescents?

scientific article published on 22 September 2012

Improving our knowledge on the risk of congenital malformations in families with celiac disease.

scientific article published on 30 July 2014

Incidence of cardiovascular disease, cancer and death in postmenopausal women affirming use of hormone replacement therapy

scientific article published on January 2002

Income change at retirement, neighbourhood-based social support, and ischaemic heart disease: results from the prospective cohort study "Men born in 1914".

scientific article published on 28 November 2006

Increased registration of hypertension and cancer diagnoses after the introduction of a new reimbursement system

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Increased risk of ischaemic heart disease mortality in elderly men using anxiolytics-hypnotics and analgesics

scientific article published on 01 January 1996

Increasing prevalence of overweight, obesity and physical inactivity: Two population-based studies 1986 and 1994

scientific article published on 01 December 2003

Individual and contextual determinants of self-reported poor psychological health: a population-based multilevel analysis in southern Sweden

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Individual and neighbourhood determinants of social participation and social capital: a multilevel analysis of the city of Malmö, Sweden

scientific article published on 01 June 2002

Individual self-reported health, social participation and neighbourhood: a multilevel analysis in Malmö, Sweden

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Inequity in access to dental care services explains current socioeconomic disparities in oral health: the Swedish National Surveys of Public Health 2004-2005.

scientific article published on December 2006

Intermediate and advanced topics in multilevel logistic regression analysis.

scientific article published on 23 May 2017

International differences in self-reported health measures in 33 major metropolitan areas in Europe

scientific article published on 8 December 2010

Intersectionality and risk for ischemic heart disease in Sweden: Categorical and anti-categorical approaches

scientific article published on 24 January 2017

Intimate partner violence against women and the Nordic paradox

scientific article published on 31 March 2016

Invited commentary: multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity-a fundamental critique of the current probabilistic risk factor epidemiology

scientific article published on 12 June 2014

Is physician adherence to prescription guidelines a general trait of health care practices or dependent on drug type?--a multilevel logistic regression analysis in South Sweden

scientific article published in August 2009

Is the physician's adherence to prescription guidelines associated with the patient's socio-economic position? An analysis of statin prescription in South Sweden

scientific article published on 19 August 2009

Is there an interaction between self-rated health and medication with analgesics and hypnotics in the prediction of disability pension?

scientific article published in January 2002

Is there important variation among health care institutions?

scientific article published in August 2010

Is victimization from bullying associated with medicine use among adolescents? A nationally representative cross-sectional survey in Denmark

scientific article published in July 2007

Low Adherence to Statin Treatment during the First Year after an Acute Myocardial Infarction is associated with Increased Second Year Mortality Risk- An Inverse Probability of Treatment Weighted Study on 54,872 Patients

scientific article published on 14 February 2020

Low molecular weight heparin for repeated pregnancy loss: is it based on solid evidence?

scientific article published in February 2005

Measures of clustering and heterogeneity in multilevel Poisson regression analyses of rates/count data.

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Measures of discriminatory accuracy and categorizations in public health: a response to Allan Krasnik's editorial

scientific article published on 24 November 2015

Mother's country of birth and prescription of psychotropic medication in Swedish adolescents: a life course approach

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Multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA) within an intersectional framework

scientific article published on 26 December 2017

Multilevel analysis of systolic blood pressure and ACE gene I/D polymorphism in 438 Swedish families--a public health perspective

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Multilevel analytical approaches in social epidemiology: measures of health variation compared with traditional measures of association

scientific article published in August 2003

Multilevel versus single-level regression for the analysis of multilevel information: The case of quantitative intersectional analysis

scientific article published on 24 August 2019

Neighborhood Socioeconomic Deprivation and Residential Instability

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Neighborhood social participation, use of anxiolytic-hypnotic drugs, and women's propensity for disability pension: a multilevel analysis

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Neighbourhood effects and the real world beyond randomized community trials: a reply to Michael J Oakes.

scientific article published on 28 September 2006

Neighbourhood social interactions and risk of acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published in January 2008

Neighbourhoods in eco-epidemiologic research: delimiting personal exposure areas. A response to Riva, Gauvin, Apparicio and Brodeur

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Overuse of methylphenidate: an analysis of Swedish pharmacy dispensing data

scientific article published on 09 November 2018

Overweight and all-cause mortality in a Swedish rural population: Skaraborg Hypertension and Diabetes Project

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Partitioning variation in multilevel models for count data

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

Perceived discrimination, socioeconomic disadvantage and refraining from seeking medical treatment in Sweden.

scientific article published on May 2007

Performance Evaluations and League Tables

scientific article published on 01 March 2011

Perinatal risk factors increase the risk of being affected by both type 1 diabetes and coeliac disease

scientific article published on 6 November 2014

Place effects for areas defined by administrative boundaries: a life course analysis of mortality and cause specific morbidity in Scania, Sweden

scientific article published on 26 August 2011

Population Effects on Individual Systolic Blood Pressure: A Multilevel Analysis of the World Health Organization MONICA Project

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Precision public health: Mapping socioeconomic disparities in opioid dispensations at Swedish pharmacies by Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA)

scientific article published on 27 August 2019

Prevalence of intimate partner violence against women in Sweden and Spain: A psychometric study of the 'Nordic paradox'

scientific article published on 16 May 2019

Prostate cancerPrevalence‐based healthcare costs

scientific article published on January 1, 2003

Psychotropic drug use as indicator of mental health in adolescents affected by a plexus injury at birth: A large population-based study in Sweden.

scientific article published on 21 March 2018

Psychotropic drug use in adolescents born with an orofacial cleft: a population-based study

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Psychotropic drugs and accidents in Scania, Sweden

scientific article published on 6 September 2011

Psychotropic drugs and falling accidents among the elderly: a nested case control study in the whole population of Scania, Sweden

scientific article published on 01 May 2010

Questioning the causal link between maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring use of psychotropic medication: a sibling design analysis

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Questioning the discriminatory accuracy of broad migrant categories in public health: self-rated health in Sweden

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RE: “DETECTING PATTERNS OF OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS CLUSTERING WITH ALTERNATING LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS APPLIED TO LONGITUDINAL DATA”

Re: How can we produce relevant information for decision makers from small area variation studies?

scientific article published on 01 July 2011

Recent increase of neighborhood socioeconomic effects on ischemic heart disease mortality: a multilevel survival analysis of two large Swedish cohorts

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Representativity of a postal public health questionnaire survey in Sweden, with special reference to ethnic differences in participation

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Research methods courses as a means of developing academic general practice. Fifteen years' experience from Sweden and Denmark.

scientific article published in September 2005

Residual risk for acute stroke in patients with type 2 diabetes and hypertension in primary care: Skaraborg Hypertension and Diabetes Project

scientific article published in September 2006

Revising the link between proton-pump inhibitors and risk of acute myocardial infarction-a case-crossover analysis.

scientific article published on 12 November 2014

Revisiting causal neighborhood effects on individual ischemic heart disease risk: A quasi-experimental multilevel analysis among Swedish siblings

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Revisiting the discriminatory accuracy of traditional risk factors in preeclampsia screening.

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Revisiting the effect of maternal smoking during pregnancy on offspring birthweight: a quasi-experimental sibling analysis in Sweden

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Revisiting the risk of celiac disease in children born small for gestational age: A sibling design perspective

scientific article published on 19 March 2012

Risk factors for diagnosed intentional self-injury: a total population-based study

scientific article published on 8 June 2013

Self-administered Questionnaire Compared with a Personal Diary for Assessment of Current Use of Hormone Therapy: An Analysis of 16,060 Women

scientific article published on 01 October 2000

Sex differences in coeliac disease risk: a Swedish sibling design study

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Short Term Survival after Admission for Heart Failure in Sweden: Applying Multilevel Analyses of Discriminatory Accuracy to Evaluate Institutional Performance

scientific article published on 3 February 2016

Similar support for three different life course socioeconomic models on predicting premature cardiovascular mortality and all-cause mortality

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Small-area variations in sales of TNF inhibitors in Sweden between 2000 and 2009: comments on the article by M Neovius et al.

scientific article published in May 2011

Social capital and administrative contextual determinants of lack of access to a regular doctor: A multilevel analysis in southern Sweden

scientific article published on 18 January 2006

Social capital and neo-materialist contextual determinants of sense of insecurity in the neighbourhood: A multilevel analysis in Southern Sweden

scientific article published on 12 September 2005

Social capital and sense of insecurity in the neighbourhood: a population-based multilevel analysis in Malmö, Sweden

scientific article published on March 2003

Social capital externalities and mortality in Sweden.

scientific article published on 22 October 2007

Social capital, the miniaturisation of community, traditionalism and first time acute myocardial infarction: A prospective cohort study in southern Sweden

scientific article published on 23 June 2006

Social participation, social capital and daily tobacco smoking: a population-based multilevel analysis in Malmö, Sweden

scientific article published in January 2003

Sociodemographic patterns in pharmacy dispensing of medications for erectile dysfunction in Sweden.

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Socioeconomic Position, Comorbidity, and Mortality in Aortic Aneurysms: A 13-Year Prospective Cohort Study

scientific article published on 12 November 2011

Socioeconomic differences in body mass index in Spain: An intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy

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Socioeconomic disadvantage and primary non-adherence with medication in Sweden

scientific article published on 19 April 2007

Socioeconomic factors and concomitant diseases are related to the risk for venous thromboembolism during long time follow-up

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Socioeconomic inequality in exposure to bullying during adolescence: a comparative, cross-sectional, multilevel study in 35 countries.

scientific article published on 19 March 2009

Socioeconomic position and secondary preventive therapy after an AMI

scientific article published on 01 April 2010

Socioeconomic position, macroeconomic environment and overweight among adolescents in 35 countries.

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Spatial clustering of mental disorders and associated characteristics of the neighbourhood context in Malmö, Sweden, in 2001

scientific article published on May 2006

Survival after initial hospitalisation for heart failure: a multilevel analysis of patients in Swedish acute care hospitals.

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Survival in patients with hypertension treated in primary care. A population-based follow-up study in the Skaraborg Hypertension and Diabetes Project

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Testosterone prescribing in the population-a short social epidemiological analysis in Sweden

scientific article published on 28 July 2015

The Danish effect on Swedish alcohol costs. An analysis based on hospitalization data from southern Sweden.

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The association between socioeconomic position, use of revascularization procedures and five-year survival after recovery from acute myocardial infarction

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The effect of Swedish snuff (snus) on offspring birthweight: a sibling analysis

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The median hazard ratio: a useful measure of variance and general contextual effects in multilevel survival analysis.

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The natural course of women with recurrent fetal loss

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The relation between self-rated health, socioeconomic status, body mass index and disability pension among middle-aged men.

scientific article published in January 2001

The role country of birth plays in receiving disability pensions in relation to patterns of health care utilisation and socioeconomic differences: a multilevel analysis of Malmo, Sweden

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The role of the clinical departments for understanding patient heterogeneity in one-year mortality after a diagnosis of heart failure: A multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity for profiling provider outcomes.

scientific article published on 6 December 2017

The tyranny of the averages and the indiscriminate use of risk factors in public health: The case of coronary heart disease

scientific article published on 18 August 2017

The validity of obesity based on self-reported weight and height: Implications for population studies

scientific article published in January 2007

Therapeutic traditions, patient socioeconomic characteristics and physicians' early new drug prescribing--a multilevel analysis of rosuvastatin prescription in south Sweden

scientific article published on 04 October 2008

Timing of surgery for hip fracture and in-hospital mortality: a retrospective population-based cohort study in the Spanish National Health System.

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Two-Thirds of Survey Respondents in Southern Sweden Used Complementary or Alternative Medicine in 2015

scientific article published on 23 May 2017

Understanding adherence to therapeutic guidelines: a multilevel analysis of statin prescription in the Skaraborg Primary Care Database

scientific article published on 29 December 2010

Understanding the complexity of socioeconomic disparities in type 2 diabetes risk: a study of 4.3 million people in Sweden

scientific article published on 07 November 2019

Understanding the effects of a decentralized budget on physicians' compliance with guidelines for statin prescription--a multilevel methodological approach

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Use of calcium channel blockers as antihypertensives in relation to mortality and cancer incidence: a population-based observational study

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Utilisation of antibiotics in young children: opposite relationships to adult educational levels in Danish and Swedish counties

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Utilization of cardiovascular drugs (blood pressure lowering drugs, lipid lowering drugs and nitrates) and mortality from ischaemic heart disease and stroke. An ecological analysis based on Sweden's municipalities

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Validity of registration of ICD codes and prescriptions in a research database in Swedish primary care: a cross-sectional study in Skaraborg primary care database

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Validity of self-reported information on cancer: determinants of under- and over-reporting

scientific article published in January 2004

Variation in plasma calcium analysis in primary care in Sweden--a multilevel analysis

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