Background: An increased susceptibility to COVID-19 has been suggested for individuals with neurodegenerative diseases, but data are scarce from longitudinal studies. Methods: In this community-based cohort study, we included 96,275 participants of the UK Biobank who ha...

Background: In Iceland air quality is generally good; however, previous studies indicate that there is an association between air pollution in Reykjavik and adverse health effects as measured by dispensing of medications, mortality, and increase in health care utilisati...

OBJECTIVES: To compare the 1-year, 2-year and 5-year incidences of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) starting any of the biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) currently available in clinical practice and to ancho...

BACKGROUND: White blood cell count (WBC) as a measure of extramedullary leukemic cell survival is a well-known prognostic factor in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), but its biology, including impact of host genome variants, is poorly understood. METHODS: We included ...

Hannah and Peninnah are not necessarily good versus bad (1 Samuel 1). Neither are Maria and Martha (Luke 10:38-42). Presenting them as realistic people can be an advantage in didactic processes.

TILGANGUR Fyrri rannsóknir benda til að hluti barnshafandi kvenna á Íslandi uppfylli ekki ráðlögð viðmið fyrir neyslu langra ómega-3 fitusýra, sem eru taldar mikilvægar fyrir fósturþroska. Markmið rannsóknarinnar var að meta neyslutíðni barnshafandi kvenna á fæðutegundu...