• Cardiovascular health in children and adolescents with obesity : prevalence, prediction and supervised exercise 

  Hedvall Kallerman, Pernilla (Inst för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik / Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, 2019-08-19)

  Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major cause of death worldwide and is preceded by a long process in which several cardiovascular (CV) risk factors are present, sometimes already in childhood. Some of these ...

• Identification and functional characterization of proteins involved in hepatic triglyceride metabolism 

  Taxiarchis, Apostolos (Inst för medicin, Solna / Dept of Medicine, Solna, 2019-08-19)

  Triglycerides are the main form of energy in the tissues and liver, along with the adipose tissue, is the main organ of triglyceride metabolism and storage in the lipid-droplet organelles. A number of proteins are involved ...

• Relation between nutritional status, the outcome of infection and immune responses 

  Terán, Graciela (Inst för mikrobiologi, tumör- och cellbiologi / Dept of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, 2019-08-16)

  A causal interaction between nutrition and the outcome of different infections has been known since long time ago. Moreover, responses of human beings to infection are diverse and demarcated by immunity. A deficient and ...

• Self-management of type 2 diabetes : processes for setting up a diabetes and pre-diabetes support intervention in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities in Sweden 

  Aweko, Juliet (Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2019-08-13)

  Background: Type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes are major public health challenges, disproportionately affecting disadvantaged populations worldwide. The high burden of Type 2 diabetes (T2D) contributes significantly to ...

• Lineage stability and effector function of CD4+FOXP3+ regulatory T cells 

  Seitz, Christina (Inst för medicin, Solna / Dept of Medicine, Solna, 2019-08-12)

  This work focuses on regulatory T (Treg) cell biology in the context of defining the role of forkhead box protein 3 (FOXP3) isoform expression and Treg mediated suppression via CTLA-4 (cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated ...

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