Jan Karlsson

ORCID: 0000-0002-2559-5456
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Research Areas
  • Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Obesity and Health Practices
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Health, psychology, and well-being
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Cancer survivorship and care
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Peripheral Artery Disease Management
  • Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies
  • Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases
  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
  • Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics
  • Reproductive Health and Technologies
  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Reproductive Health and Contraception

Örebro University Hospital
2011-2025

Örebro University
2014-2024

Lund University
2015-2017

University of Gothenburg
2001-2014

Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
2014

University of Helsinki
2014

University of Stavanger
2014

Sahlgrenska University Hospital
1998-2013

Vaincre la Mucoviscidose
2006

Hôtel-Dieu de Paris
2006

Obesity is associated with increased mortality. Weight loss improves cardiovascular risk factors, but no prospective interventional studies have reported whether weight decreases overall In fact, many observational suggest that reduction mortality.The prospective, controlled Swedish Obese Subjects study involved 4047 obese subjects. Of these subjects, 2010 underwent bariatric surgery (surgery group) and 2037 received conventional treatment (matched control group). We report on mortality...

10.1056/nejmoa066254 article EN New England Journal of Medicine 2007-08-22

Obesity is a risk factor for cardiovascular events. Weight loss might protect against events, but solid evidence lacking.To study the association between bariatric surgery, weight loss, and events.The Swedish Obese Subjects (SOS) an ongoing, nonrandomized, prospective, controlled conducted at 25 public surgical departments 480 primary health care centers in Sweden of 2010 obese participants who underwent surgery 2037 contemporaneously matched controls received usual care. Patients were...

10.1001/jama.2011.1914 article EN JAMA 2012-01-03

The aims of this study were to: describe dietary intakes obese and nonobese middle‐aged women using a validated food frequency questionnaire; to assess restraint, disinhibition, hunger by the three factor eating questionnaire (TFEQ) in samples determine which factors are independently associated with obesity; examine correlations between selected nutritional variables TFEQ factors. Subjects studied included 179 Swedish (BMI>32) 147 population‐based controls (BMI<28). Age‐adjusted mean...

10.1002/j.1550-8528.1997.tb00290.x article EN Obesity Research 1997-05-01

10.1023/b:qure.0000015290.76254.a5 article EN Quality of Life Research 2004-02-01
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