Publications by authors named "M E Holmqvist"
Hazelnut Oral Immunotherapy Desensitizes Hazelnut But Not Other Tree Nut Allergies (Nut CRACKER Study).
J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract
January 2025
Background: Data on oral immunotherapy (OIT) for hazelnut allergy is limited and its potential to cross-desensitize for other nuts is unknown.
Objective: To study the efficacy and safety of hazelnut OIT in desensitizing to hazelnut and additional tree nuts.
Methods: This was a prospective observational study of 30 hazelnut-allergic patients aged 4 years or older who underwent hazelnut OIT.
Objectives: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and systemic sclerosis (SSc) are more common in women, partly due to differences in female sex hormones. Menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) is widely used to alleviate climacteric symptoms. Here, the relationship between MHT and SLE/SSc was investigated in a nested case-control study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this paper, I examine how the King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf, systematically consecrates the nation's business and corporate elites who have come to dominate Swedish society during the last decades concomitant with a fundamental transformation from traditional social-democracy to neoliberalism, that is, a society characterized by the logic of corporations and markets. By promoting the business and corporate elites, the King contributes to strengthening their status and legitimacy in relation to other groups, while at the same time he reproduces his own elite status and image as a "corporate king." In order to examine this dual elite legitimation, I have studied three major official duties in the King's official role as Sweden's head of state: (a) the awarding of the most prestigious royal medals to corporate leaders; (b) the invitation of these elites to official royal dinners; and (c) state visits, whereby the corporate elites are given a peculiar status in relation to other elite groups.
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- The study examines the risk of developing cardiac arrhythmia in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) over time, investigating possible risk factors and the relationship between arrhythmia and mortality.
- Using Swedish national registers, researchers tracked 1,565 SSc patients and 16,009 matched controls from 2004 to 2019, finding a significantly higher incidence of arrhythmia in SSc patients compared to controls.
- The findings suggest that arrhythmia appears early in the course of SSc and is linked to increased mortality, particularly influenced by factors like male sex, older age, and pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Background: Patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) have an increased risk of cancer, but their cancer-related disease burden remains unclear.
Objectives: To explore how cancer might impact the mortality of patients with IIM and examine the associated prognostic factors for cancer and death.
Methods: We identified patients with IIM diagnosed between 1998 and 2020 and ascertained their cancer and death records via linkage to the Swedish healthcare and population registers.