There are about 8563 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Sweden. The country of the clinical trial is determined by the location of where the clinical research is being studied. Most studies are often held in multiple locations & countries.
This multi-center prospective observational study is designed to track birth outcomes and perinatal correlates to the Panorama prenatal screening test in the general population among ten thousand women who present clinically and elect Panorama microdeletion and aneuploidy screening as part of their routine care. The primary objective is to evaluate the performance of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP)-based Non Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) for 22q11.2 microdeletion (DiGeorge syndrome) in this large cohort of pregnant women. This will be done by performing a review of perinatal medical records and obtaining biospecimens after birth to perform genetic diagnostic testing for 22q11.2 deletion. Results from the follow-up specimens will be compared to those obtained by the Panorama screening test to determine test performance. Specific test performance parameters will include: PPV, specificity, and sensitivity.
Patients diagnosed with Binge Eating Disorder (BED) overeat food but, as opposed to patients with bulimia nervosa, they do not compensate for their increased food intake and therefore their body weight increases. It is hypothesized that the speed of eating has increased in BED and that body weight will decrease if the speed of eating is decreased. The speed of eating is measured using Mandometer, an eating disorder conditioning tool, class 2 device cleared by the FDA for the treatment of eating disorders. Mandometer is a scale connected to a computer, patients eat food from a plate on the scale and the computer stores the weight loss of the plate, thus recording the speed of eating. Patients decrease their speed of eating by following training curves on the computer screen while eating. The emergence of their own speed of eating on the screen makes this possible. Patients use Mandometer for lunch and dinner over one week at home to estimate their speed of eating and their food intake as the first step of clinical pratice. Mandometer is then programmed with how much and how quickly to eat and patients practice eating using Mandometer at home over the subsequent treatment. Data from 166 BED-patients using Mandometer at home and from a total of 354 patients who have been treated have been collected. 30 normal weight, healthy subjects will be recruited to test the hypothesis that their speed of eating is lower than that of the BED-patients. These control subjects will eat lunch and dinner using Mandometer at home over one week, but they will, obviously, not participate in treatment.
Improvements to treatment strategies for patients with cancers of the upper gastrointestinal tract have produced a large population of people who remain free from cancer recurrence in the long term following treatment. Surgery is the cornerstone of treatment for patients with these cancers, but while surgical removal of the tumour may offer the best chance of cure, these are major operations associated with specific long term complications. Weight loss and poor nutrition are common problems among patients who attain long-term cancer remission and cure after surgery. The mechanisms underlying these problems are not well understood and therefore treatment options are limited. Our research has demonstrated increased levels of chemical messengers (gut hormones) released from the gastrointestinal tract after meals in patients who have previously undergone this type of surgery. These chemical messengers play a role in controlling appetite and interest in food, and increased levels after surgery may reduce interest in eating. Understanding the role of gut hormones in the control of appetite may allow us to use certain medications to block gut hormones and hence increase appetite, allowing patients to eat more and regain weight, preventing nutritional problems after surgery. In this study, the investigators aim to determine whether exaggerated gut hormone secretion causes reduced appetite and interest in food after surgery. The information gained from this study may help us to develop treatments for patients with weight loss and nutritional problems after surgery.
The primary overall objective of this study is to characterize the levels of and compare levels of the ADRB3 receptor in human non-pregnant myometrium, pregnant myometrium at different time points in pregnancy, in normal and dysfunctional labor and also to measure levels and expression of these receptors in placental arteries at different maturation statuses of placenta and in pre-eclampsia/hypertension
The purpose of the study is to determine whether vestibular and postural compensation following schwannoma surgery is improved by ablating remaining vestibular function prior to surgery, through gentamicin injections in the middle ear.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether ADC-1013 (an agonistic human monoclonal IgG1 anti-CD40 antibody) is safe and tolerable when administered intratumorally (as repeated injections directly into the tumor tissue) or intravenously (as repeated doses directly into a vein) in patients with advanced solid tumors.
The study's aim is to define imaging and molecular bio-markers for prediction of radiotherapy response of squamous cell carcinomas, in an early treatment phase.
This phase IIb study is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled multi-center study evaluating efficacy and tolerability of Osteodex of patients with metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Osteodex is a poly-bisphosphonate containing three known substances; dextran, alendronate and guanidine. The objective of the study is to evaluate the relative change of response markers to bone metabolism (B-ALP and S-P1NP) The following objectives will also be evaluated: overall survival, PSA response, other response markers related to bone metabolism (S-CTX and osteocalcin), safety, tolerability, pain and quality of life.
The relationship between the gut microbiota and stress is poorly studied in humans. In this study we aim to look for if stressed persons have different levels of key bacterial groups compared to the levels in non-stressed persons.
The aim of the study is to evaluate the effects of a the multimodal treatment with a web-based self-help program with cognitive behavioral therapy coaching and individual tailored physiotherapy on workability, health behavior and pain symptoms for persons with persistent pain.