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Olof Nyrén

Researcher at Karolinska Institutet

Publications -  274
Citations -  24232

Olof Nyrén is an academic researcher from Karolinska Institutet. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Cancer. The author has an hindex of 78, co-authored 274 publications receiving 23034 citations. Previous affiliations of Olof Nyrén include Vanderbilt University Medical Center & Harvard University.

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Dose–Response Relationship of Total and Leisure Time Physical Activity to Risk of Heart Failure : a prospective cohort study

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated nonlinear associations of total and leisure time physical activeness with risk of heart failure, and found that the relationship between levels of physical activity and risk of coronary heart failure was not well understood.
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Blood donation and blood donor mortality after adjustment for a healthy donor effect

TL;DR: The relation between blood donation frequency and mortality within a large cohort of blood donors is investigated and the effects of presumed health differences linked to donation behavior are considered.
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Alcohol and breast cancer risk: the alcoholism paradox.

TL;DR: A population-based cohort study of 36 856 women diagnosed with alcoholism in Sweden found that alcoholic women had only a small 15% increase in breast-cancer incidence compared to the general female population.
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Interleukin 1-β gene polymorphisms and risk of gastric cancer in Sweden.

TL;DR: The results do not lend support to the hypothesis that human genetic polymorphisms related to the production of IL-1β are associated with the risk of gastric cancer.
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Childbearing and the Risk of Scleroderma: A Population-based Study in Sweden

TL;DR: This study examined associations between childbearing and risk of scleroderma by using national population-based registry data from Sweden to reflect subfecundity caused by sclerodma before disease became clinically evident, possible common causes of infertility and sclerodingma, or a protective effect of pregnancy through an unknown mechanism.