The Danish health care system and epidemiological research: from health care contacts to database records

M Schmidt, SAJ Schmidt, K Adelborg… - Clinical …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Denmark has a large network of population-based medical databases, which routinely
collect high-quality data as a by-product of health care provision. The Danish medical …

Nordic health registry-based research: a review of health care systems and key registries

K Laugesen, JF Ludvigsson, M Schmidt… - Clinical …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The Nordic countries are Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden and
comprise a total population of approximately 27 million. The countries provide unique …

[HTML][HTML] A deep learning algorithm to predict risk of pancreatic cancer from disease trajectories

D Placido, B Yuan, JX Hjaltelin, C Zheng, AD Haue… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Pancreatic cancer is an aggressive disease that typically presents late with poor outcomes,
indicating a pronounced need for early detection. In this study, we applied artificial …

Venous thromboembolism in cancer patients: a population-based cohort study

FI Mulder, E Horvàth-Puhó, N van Es… - Blood, The Journal …, 2021 - ashpublications.org
The incidence of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in cancer patients may have changed in
the past decade, possibly due to novel cancer therapies, improved survival, and high …

Data resource profile: the Danish national prescription registry

A Pottegård, SAJ Schmidt… - International journal …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Denmark has a long tradition of creating nationwide administrative and health registries. 1, 2
Examples include its registries on causes of death, 3 hospitalizations 4 and cancer, 5 and on …

Post-acute effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection in individuals not requiring hospital admission: a Danish population-based cohort study

LC Lund, J Hallas, H Nielsen, A Koch… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Individuals admitted to hospital for COVID-19 might have persisting symptoms
(so-called long COVID) and delayed complications after discharge. However, little is known …

Arterial events, venous thromboembolism, thrombocytopenia, and bleeding after vaccination with Oxford-AstraZeneca ChAdOx1-S in Denmark and Norway …

A Pottegård, LC Lund, Ø Karlstad, J Dahl, M Andersen… - bmj, 2021 - bmj.com
Objective To assess rates of cardiovascular and haemostatic events in the first 28 days after
vaccination with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine ChAdOx1-S in Denmark and Norway and …

Vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 infection or COVID-19 hospitalization with the Alpha, Delta, or Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant: A nationwide Danish cohort …

MA Gram, HD Emborg, AB Schelde, NU Friis… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background The continued occurrence of more contagious Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants and waning immunity over time require …

Characteristics and predictors of hospitalization and death in the first 11 122 cases with a positive RT-PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 in Denmark: a nationwide cohort

M Reilev, KB Kristensen, A Pottegård… - International journal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Population-level knowledge on individuals at high risk of severe and fatal
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is urgently needed to inform targeted protection …

Cross-trait assortative mating is widespread and inflates genetic correlation estimates

R Border, G Athanasiadis, A Buil, AJ Schork, N Cai… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The observation of genetic correlations between disparate human traits has been
interpreted as evidence of widespread pleiotropy. Here, we introduce cross-trait assortative …