Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
About this group
Group information
Our research is concerned with how inherited characteristics, environmental exposures and treatment influence the risk of specific diseases (such as cancer, immune-mediated and metabolic diseases), and disease outcomes. Often, we use a life-course approach which assumes that the consequences may differ by age at exposure, that some risks accumulate over time, and there may be a substantial delay between initial exposure and disease outcome. Epidemiology is a science of study/experimental design, while biostatistics involves analysis, often of large and complex data.
Collaborations
Misuki Sata
Vasudha Ahuja
Kelsi Smith
Researchers
Research projects
Active projects
- 1952-1956 Birth Cohort
- 1970-2000 Birth Cohort
- 1990-2019 General Population Cohort
- Adrenergic signalling in cancer progression
- Biological aspects of ageing
- Comorbidity, mortality and disease progression/severity in multiple sclerosis
- Mat i Sverige
- Prostate Cancer Stress Surveillance and Survival (ProSeSS): evaluation of a fast-track clinical workup for men with suspected prostate cancer
- Prostate cancer, androgen deprivation treatment and covid-19 risk
- Stress-related morbidity and mortality in newly diagnosed cancer patients
- The intestinal microflora and cancer: observational studies exploring the influence on cancer risk and outcomes
- Örebro Birth Cohort
Completed projects
- Allergic diseases in adolescence and depression in adulthood
- Biomarkers and elderly health
- Characteristics during adolescence and the risk of early-onset dementia
- Characteristics in childhood and adolescence relevant to chronic disease risk later in life
- Deep learning algorithms in predicting severe complications after bariatric surgery
- Early life and intergenerational influences on immune-mediated disease risk
- Labour market and health outcomes in adults with a family member who has a chronic illness: the role of family characteristics and social services
- Labour market outcomes and health after surviving cancer
- Long term effect of Continuation Electroconvulsive therapy
- Neurological complications pre-dating obesity and type 2 diabetes
- Outcomes of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Örebro county
- Physical and psychological characteristics in adolescence and risk of cerebrovascular disease
- Physical and psychological characteristics in adolescence and subsequent gastrointestinal disease risk in adulthood
- Placental leptin, leptin receptor isoforms, and inflammation in obese women - in relation to birth weight of the outcome
- Prognostic predictors of ECT for depression
- Risk of frailty after cancer treatment
- The natural history of multiple sclerosis
- The role of early psychological stress on cancer occurrence and outcomes
- Traumatic limb amputation and depression risk