Publications by authors named "Morten Hasselstroem Jensen"

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  • Teriflunomide, a medication for multiple sclerosis (MS), is linked to a higher risk of developing hypertension compared to another MS treatment, dimethyl fumarate.
  • A study involving nearly 5,000 adult patients over 10 years showed that hypertension events occurred significantly more in those on teriflunomide (40.6 per 1000 person-years) than in those on dimethyl fumarate (13.1 per 1000 person-years).
  • The findings indicate that patients on teriflunomide are 2.8 times more likely to develop hypertension, with a concerning "number needed to harm" of 16 at 3 years and 9 at 5 years.
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Introduction: Orthogeriatric collaboration in hip fracture patients during admission is well established, however, orthogeriatric involvement after discharge is not common. The aim of this study was to explore the association of orthogeriatric home visits with 30-day and 120-day readmission and mortality in ≥ 65-year-old patients surgically treated for hip fractures.

Materials And Methods: A cohort of patients who underwent acute hip fracture surgery in an usual care period from January 2018 to December 2018 was compared with a cohort of patients in an intervention period from June 2020 to June 2021.

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  • The study analyzes 317 ancient genomes from Mesolithic and Neolithic periods across northern and western Eurasia to understand human migration impacts during the Holocene.* -
  • Findings show a significant genetic divide between eastern and western populations, with the west experiencing major gene replacement due to the introduction of farming, while the east maintained its hunter-gatherer ancestry longer.* -
  • The Yamnaya culture, which emerged around 5,000 BP, played a crucial role in spreading ancestry across western Eurasia, leading to significant genetic changes in European populations.*
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Major migration events in Holocene Eurasia have been characterized genetically at broad regional scales. However, insights into the population dynamics in the contact zones are hampered by a lack of ancient genomic data sampled at high spatiotemporal resolution. Here, to address this, we analysed shotgun-sequenced genomes from 100 skeletons spanning 7,300 years of the Mesolithic period, Neolithic period and Early Bronze Age in Denmark and integrated these with proxies for diet (C and N content), mobility (Sr/Sr ratio) and vegetation cover (pollen).

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An unusual mass mortality event (MME) of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) and harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) occurred in Denmark and Sweden in June 2007. Prior to this incident, the region had experienced two MMEs in harbour seals caused by Phocine Distemper Virus (PDV) in 1988 and 2002. Although epidemiology and symptoms of the 2007 MME resembled PDV, none of the animals examined for PDV tested positive.

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Aims: The NatIonal Danish endocarditis stUdieS (NIDUS) registry aims to investigate the mechanisms contributing to the increasing incidence of infective endocarditis (IE) and to discover risk factors associated to the course, treatment and clinical outcomes of the disease.

Methods: The NIDUS registry was created to investigate a nationwide unselected group of patients hospitalized for IE. The National Danish healthcare registries have been queried for validated IE diagnosis codes (International Classification of Disease, 10 edition [ICD-10]: DI33, DI38, and DI398).

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The cation channel TRPA1 is a potentially important drug target, and characterization of TRPA1 functional dynamics might help guide structure-based drug design. Here, we present results from long-timescale molecular dynamics simulations of TRPA1 with an allosteric activator, allyl isothiocyanate (AITC), in which we observed spontaneous transitions from a closed, non-conducting channel conformation into an open, conducting conformation. Based on these transitions, we propose a gating mechanism in which movement of a regulatory TRP-like domain allosterically translates into pore opening in a manner reminiscent of pore opening in voltage-gated ion channels.

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Infectious diseases are major health care challenges globally and a prevalent cause of admission to emergency departments. Epidemiologic characteristics and outcomes based on population level data are limited. The Database of Community Acquired Infections in Eastern Denmark (DCAIED) 2018-2021 was established with the aim to explore and estimate the population characteristics, and outcomes of patients suffering from community acquired infections at the emergency departments in the Capital Region and the Zealand Region of Denmark using data from electronic medical records.

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Background: Small observational studies have observed poor persistency to sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2-i) and glucacon-like-peptide-1-receptor agonists (GLP1-RA), contrary to what has been reported in clinical trials. Therefore, we investigated the risk of discontinuing SGLT2-is and GLP1-RAs in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) in a nationwide population.

Methods: From Danish nationwide registers, all first-time users of SGLT2-is and GLP1-RAs from 2013 to 2021 were identified.

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Background/aim: The Danish National Patient Registry (DNPR) provides unique epidemiological insight, but often lacks granular data. We propose a procedure-based definition of cancer status in patients with breast-, lung- and colorectal cancer, which can be applied to administrative health databases. New definitions of cancer status are needed as mortality and morbidity are closely linked to cancer status, yet most studies only use duration since cancer diagnosis as a severity marker.

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To perform their physiological functions, amino methyl propionic acid receptors (AMPARs) cycle through active, resting, and desensitized states, and dysfunction in AMPAR activity is associated with various neurological disorders. Transitions among AMPAR functional states, however, are largely uncharacterized at atomic resolution and are difficult to examine experimentally. Here, we report long-timescale molecular dynamics simulations of dimerized AMPAR ligand-binding domains (LBDs), whose conformational changes are tightly coupled to changes in AMPAR functional states, in which we observed LBD dimer activation and deactivation upon ligand binding and unbinding at atomic resolution.

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Introduction/aim: People with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) have an increased risk of fractures due to skeletal fragility. We aimed to compare areal bone mineral density (aBMD), volumetric BMD (vBMD), cortical and trabecular measures, and bone strength parameters in participants with diabetes vs. controls.

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  • A new variant in the SLC4A3 gene has been linked to short QT syndrome (SQTS), but its significance in sudden cardiac death is still unclear.
  • This study examined genetic variants in SQTS patients, finding disease-causing variants in 26% of those tested, primarily in the SLC4A3 gene.
  • Results indicate that SLC4A3 variants lead to changes in heart activity, confirming the need to screen for these variants in SQTS and sudden cardiac death cases.
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  • *Recent studies suggest that modifying the gut microbiota through biotic interventions (like probiotics) may boost vaccine effectiveness by enhancing immune responses.
  • *The review discusses various mechanisms of how these biotic strategies work, highlights clinical trials examining their effects on vaccine outcomes, and emphasizes the need for future research to find the best combinations of strains, doses, and timing for maximum efficacy, especially in vulnerable populations.
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Purpose: In this descriptive study, we examined the incidence of fractures in patients with newly treated type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) compared to matched reference population.

Methods: Participants from the UK Clinical Practice research datalink (CPRD) GOLD (1987-2017), aged ≥30 years, with a T2D diagnosis code and a first prescription for a non-insulin anti-diabetic drug (n = 124,328) were included. Cases with T2D were matched by year of birth, sex and practice to a reference population (n = 124,328), the mean follow-up was 7.

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Background: Sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors improve cardiac structure but most studies suggest no change in left ventricular (LV) systolic function at rest. Whether sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors improve LV contractile reserve is unknown. We investigated the effect of empagliflozin on LV contractile reserve in patients with heart failure (HF) and reduced ejection fraction.

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Background: Infective endocarditis (IE) with involvement of the aortic root is associated with high short-term mortality and morbidity. Long-term data are sparse, and the existing studies with long-term data are restricted by a low number of patients and do not report mortality risks of different age groups.

Objective: This study examined the all-cause mortality risk postoperatively of patients with first-time IE who underwent aortic root replacement (ARR), according to age at the time of surgery, with one and 10 years follow-up.

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Unlabelled: Research on younger patients with hip fractures is limited. This study adds knowledge on patient and injury characteristics, and DXA was investigated at the time of the fracture. Risk factors for osteoporosis and fractures were numerous among young patients, and osteoporosis was markedly more prevalent than in the general population.

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Background: Clinical trials often suffer from recruitment barriers and poor adherence, which increases costs and affects trial outcomes.

Objective: To investigate the feasibility of Decentralized Clinical Trial (DCT) design elements to recruit, enroll, and engage patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).

Methods: Patients with T2DM were recruited through a pharmacy and online recruitment using advert on Facebook, to 3 weeks monitoring of glucose and behaviometric parameters.

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Background: A single high-sensitive cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) can be used to rule-out acute myocardial infarction (MI) in patients presenting >3 hours (3 h) after chest pain onset to the emergency department. This study aimed to investigate the safety of ruling-out MI in early presenters with chest pain ≤3 h using a single hs-cTnI at admission.

Methods: We prospectively enrolled patients presenting with chest pain suggestive of MI.

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Increased turnover of extracellular matrix proteins is seen in many different diseases and is an underlying and driving feature of pathogenesis. An increased ratio of formation over degradation of extracellular matrix proteins, such as collagens, leads to accumulation of proteins in the tissues, ultimately impairing organ function. Understanding how this balance is regulated is key to providing deeper insight into high extracellular matrix turnover diseases.

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Background: A high fruit and vegetable (F&V) diet reduces asthma exacerbations in adults; this has not been examined in children to date.

Objective: To investigate the effect of a 6-month, high F&V diet on the time to first asthma exacerbation in children with asthma, in a parallel-group, randomized, controlled trial.

Methods: Children (aged 3-11 years) with asthma, history of exacerbations and usual low F&V intake (≤3 serves/day) were randomized to the intervention (high F&V diet) or control group (usual diet) for 6 months.

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