OSA in patients with head and neck cancer is associated with cancer size and oncologic outcome.

Purpose: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with severe daytime sleepiness and reduced quality of life. These symptoms are also present in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN) before, during and after treatment, so that comorbidity cannot be excluded. The aim was to evaluate the prevalence of OSA and its impact on the quality of life in patients with oropharyngeal, hypopharyngeal and lateral tongue SCCHN in a prospective study.

Remission from Alcohol Use Disorder among Males in the Lundby Cohort during 1947-1997.

Background: Alcohol use disorders are a major health problem, often with a chronic course. Studies on remission from alcohol use disorders are sparse.

Objective: The aim of this study was to analyse the rate of remission from AUD and the possible influence of other mental disorders and sociodemographic factors on the remission in the Lundby Cohort.

The influence of participation on mortality in very old age among community-living people in Sweden.

Background: Participation in everyday life and society is generally seen as essential for health-related outcomes and acknowledged to affect older people's well-being.

Aims: To investigate if aspects of performance- and togetherness-related participation influence on mortality among very old single living people in Sweden.

Methods: ENABLE-AGE Survey Study data involving single-living participants in Sweden (N = 314, aged 81-91 years), followed over 10 years were used.

Health-related quality of life in patients with lymphoedema - a cross-sectional study.

Introduction: Lymphoedema may cause complex problems that can strongly influence patients' health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The main purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of lymphoedema on HRQoL in patients with varying forms of lymphoedema.

Methods: The Lymphoedema Quality of Life Inventory (LyQLI), measuring three domains, physical, psychosocial and practical, and the Short Form 36 Health Survey Questionnaire (SF-36), measuring eight health domains, were sent to 200 lymphoedema patients.

Changes in Home and Health over Nine Years among very Old People in Latvia - Results from the ENABLE-AGE Project.

To meet the needs of an increasing, heterogeneous, ageing population it is imperative to understand links between home and health. In Latvia, only limited research targeting the health and home situation of very old people is available. Consequently, the aim of this study was to describe how the home environment and aspects of health have changed over nine years between 2002 and 2011 for very old people in Latvia, living in their home environment.