• Assessing short-term risk of ischemic stroke in relation to all prescribed medications 

      Janszky, Imre; Vardaxis, Ioannis; Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Horn, Jens; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Strand, Linn Beate; Bakken, Inger Johanne Landsjøåsen; Alsnes, Ingvild Vatten; Romundstad, Pål Richard; Ljung, Rickard; Mukamal, Kenneth J.; Sen, Abhijit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      We examined the short-term risk of stroke associated with drugs prescribed in Norway or Sweden in a comprehensive, hypothesis-free manner using comprehensive nation-wide data. We identified 27,680 and 92,561 cases with a ...
    • Bereavement and Prognosis After a First Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Swedish Register-Based Cohort Study 

      Wei, Dang; Janszky, Imre; Ljung, Rickard; Fang, Fang; Li, Jiong; László, Krisztina D. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      BACKGROUND Despite accumulating evidence suggesting that bereavement is associated with increased risks of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, the association between bereavement and prognosis after acute myocardial ...
    • Cancer Risk After Bariatric Surgery in a Cohort Study from the Five Nordic Countries 

      Tao, Wenjing; Giola, Santoni; von Euler-Chelpin, My; Ljung, Rickard; Lynge, Elsebeth; Pukkala, Eero; Ness-Jensen, Eivind; Romundstad, Pål Richard; Tryggvadóttir, Laufey; Lagergren, Jesper (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Purpose Obesity increases the risk of several cancers, but the influence of bariatric surgery on the risk of individual obesity-related cancers is unclear. This study aimed to assess the impact of bariatric surgery on ...
    • Death of a Child and the Risk of Stroke 

      Wei, Dang; Li, Jiong; Chen, Hua; Fang, Fang; Janszky, Imre; Ljung, Rickard; László, Krisztina D. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background and Objectives The death of a child is an extreme life event with potentially long-term health consequences. Accumulating evidence suggests that parents who lost a child have increased risks of cardiovascular ...
    • Death of an offspring and parental risk of ischemic heart diseases: A population-based cohort study 

      Dang, Wei; Janszky, Imre; Fang, Fang; Hua, Chen; Ljung, Rickard; Jiangwei, Sun; Jiong, Li; László, Krisztina D. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Background The death of a child is an extreme life event with potentially long-term health consequences. Knowledge about its association with ischemic heart diseases (IHDs) and acute myocardial infarction (AMI), however, ...
    • Systematic assessment of prescribed medications and short-term risk of myocardial infarction - a pharmacopeia-wide association study from Norway and Sweden 

      Sen, Abhijit; Vardaxis, Ioannis; Lindqvist, Bo Henry; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Strand, Linn B; Bakken, Inger Johanne Landsjøåsen; Vatten, Lars Johan; Romundstad, Pål Richard; Ljung, Rickard; Mukamal, Kenneth Jay; Janszky, Imre (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Wholesale, unbiased assessment of Scandinavian electronic health-care databases offer a unique opportunity to reveal potentially important undiscovered drug side effects. We examined the short-term risk of acute myocardial ...