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A Nordic registry study in JAMA Surgery finds bariatric surgery is associated with a 19 per cent lower risk of obesity-related cancers, with liver cancer risk roughly halved.
Final results of the Nordic ASAC trial in The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology show daily low-dose aspirin failed to cut recurrence or death after curative-intent treatment.
Two New England Journal of Medicine studies with Karolinska involvement suggest patients with high-risk adenomas can wait five years rather than three for surveillance.
In a nationwide SveDem study of 7,308 people with atrial fibrillation and Alzheimer's disease, users of modern anticoagulants declined more slowly on cognitive tests.
A Current Biology study from Karolinska and the Max Planck Institute shows a growth hormone receptor variant inherited from Neanderthals makes cells respond more strongly.
A five-year Karolinska follow-up of Swedish adolescents finds no lasting association between time on social media at 15 and depression or anxiety in young adulthood.
A JAMA study of 6,174 Stockholm adults with directly measured kidney function validates the diagnostic threshold for chronic kidney disease against hard outcomes.
Karolinska researchers show the brain's own immune cells supply fibronectin that helps diffuse midline glioma invade, and that blocking it curbs tumour spread.
A matched cohort study of over 200,000 US adults with coeliac disease finds modestly higher rates of major cardiovascular events and an 18 per cent higher risk of death.
In a Nature study, every vaccinated macaque developed antibodies against the stable apex of HIV's envelope spike, neutralising strains the animals had never encountered.
A Swedish twin study of around 17,800 people finds the risk of depression that fails to respond to treatment rises with each additional adverse childhood experience.
Swedish register data on nearly 100,000 people with depression or anxiety show GLP-1 users, especially on semaglutide, needed less psychiatric hospital care.
A Nature paper from Karolinska and UCSF describes particles that create gene-targeted CAR-T cells in vivo; a single injection cleared cancer in nearly all treated mice.
A Karolinska analysis of the OPEN study finds a simple sit-to-stand exercise and protein drink regime was linked to reduced care time in nursing home dementia units.
A Nature Microbiology study of the Swedish ALADDIN cohort links bifidobacteria that produce aromatic lactic acids to fewer allergy antibodies and less eczema by age two.
Karolinska's Aging Research Center shows seven common biomarkers predict how many diseases older adults accumulate and how fast, validated in a US cohort.
A JAMA Oncology register study of 778,943 women finds vaccination is associated with roughly 37 per cent lower risk of high-grade vulvovaginal lesions.
A Nordic genome-wide study of over 150,000 people with depression finds early-onset disease has a distinct genetic architecture and markedly higher suicide attempt risk.