Birgitta Stegmayr

Research qualifications: Docent

Contact

birgitta.stegmayr@umu.se

+46 90 785 87 82

Works at

Affiliated as professor emerita at Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine Section: A5/D

9A, Norrlands Universitetssjukhus Umeå universitet, 901 85 Umeå

Publications Publications

End of life after stroke: a nationwide study of 42,502 deaths occurring within a year after stroke

European Stroke Journal, Sage Publications 2018, Vol. 3, (1) : 74-81

Asplund, Kjell; Lundström, Staffan; Stegmayr, Birgitta

Patients with acute stroke are less likely to be admitted directly to a stroke unit when hospital beds are scarce: a Swedish multicenter register study

European Stroke Journal, Sage Publications 2017, Vol. 2, (2) : 178-186

Darehed, David; Norrving, Bo; Stegmayr, Birgitta; et al.

Acute stroke alert activation, emergency service use, and reperfusion therapy in Sweden

Brain and Behavior, Vol. 7, (4)

Eriksson, Marie; Glader, Eva-Lotta; Norrving, Bo; et al.

Dödsfall sent efter stroke sker ofta på institution

Läkartidningen, Sveriges läkarförbund 2017, Vol. 114, (51-52)

Stegmayr, Birgitta; Lundström, Staffan

Validation of Hospital Performance Measures of Acute Stroke Care Quality. Riksstroke, the Swedish Stroke Register

Neuroepidemiology, Vol. 46, (4) : 229-234

Söderholm, Anna; Stegmayr, Birgitta; Glader, Eva-Lotta; et al.

Diagnostic procedures, treatments, and outcomes in stroke patients admitted to different types of hospitals

Stroke, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2015, Vol. 46, (3) : 806-812

Asplund, Kjell; Sukhova, Maria; Wester, Per; et al.

Trends in Stroke Treatment and Outcome between 1995 and 2010: Observations from Riks-Stroke, the Swedish Stroke Register

Cerebrovascular Diseases, Vol. 37, (1) : 22-29

Appelros, Peter; Jonsson, Fredrik; Asberg, Signild; et al.

Geomagnetic Storms Can Trigger Stroke Evidence From 6 Large Population-Based Studies in Europe and Australasia

Stroke, Vol. 45, (6) : 1639-1645

Feigin, Valery L.; Parmar, Priya G.; Barker-Collo, Suzanne; et al.

Refinement of Swedish Administrative Registers to Monitor Stroke Events on the National Level

Neuroepidemiology, Basel: S. Karger 2013, Vol. 40, (4) : 240-246

Koster, Max; Asplund, Kjell; Johansson, Åsa; et al.

Associations among 25-year trends in diet, cholesterol and BMI from 140,000 observations in men and women in Northern Sweden

Nutrition Journal, Vol. 11

Johansson, Ingegerd; Nilsson, Lena Maria; Stegmayr, Birgitta; et al.

Long-term lithium treatment and the risk of renal failure vs. risk of suicide: a decision analysis

Journal of Psychosomatic Research, Vol. 72, (6) : 508-508

Werneke, Ursula; Ott, Michael; Salander Renberg, Ellinor; et al.

The Riks-Stroke story: building a sustainable national register for quality assessment of stroke care

International Journal of Stroke, Sage Publications 2011, Vol. 6, (2) : 99-108

Asplund, Kjell; Hulter Åsberg, Kerstin; Appelros, Peter; et al.

Large improvements in major cardiovascular risk factors in the population of northern Sweden: the MONICA study 1986–2009

Journal of Internal Medicine, Vol. 269, (2) : 219-231

Eriksson, Marie; Holmgren, L.; Janlert, Urban; et al.

Prospective study of first stroke in relation to plasma homocysteine and MTHFR 677C > T and 1298A > C genotypes and haplotypes: evidence for an association with hemorrhagic stroke

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 2011, Vol. 49, (9) : 1555-1562

Hultdin, Johan; Van Guelpen, Bethany; Winkvist, Anna; et al.

Trends in baseline patient characteristics during the years 1995-2008: observations from Riks-Stroke, the Swedish Stroke Register

Cerebrovascular Diseases, Vol. 30, (2) : 114-119

Appelros, Peter; Jonsson, Fredrik; Asplund, Kjell; et al.

Dissemination of thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke across a nation: experiences from the Swedish stroke register, 2003 to 2008

Stroke, Vol. 41, (6) : 1115-22

Eriksson, Marie; Jonsson, Fredrik; Appelros, Peter; et al.

Discarding heparins as treatment for progressive stroke in Sweden 2001 to 2008

Stroke, Vol. 41, (11) : 2552-2558

Eriksson, Marie; Stecksén, Anna; Glader, Eva-Lotta; et al.

Low levels of antibodies against phosphorylcholine predict development of stroke in a population-based study from northern Sweden

Stroke, Vol. 41, (4) : 607-612

Fiskesund, Roland; Stegmayr, Birgitta; Hallmans, Göran; et al.

Low bone mineral density is an independent risk factor for stroke and death

Cerebrovascular Diseases, Vol. 29, (2) : 130-136

Nordström, Anna; Eriksson, Marie; Stegmayr, Birgitta; et al.

Ischemic stroke and secondary prevention in clinical practice: a cohort study of 14,529 patients in the Swedish Stroke Register

Stroke, Vol. 41, (7) : 1338-1342

Åsberg, Signild; Henriksson, Karin M; Farahmand, Bahman; et al.

C-reactive protein is a determinant of first-ever stroke: prospective nested case-referent study

Cerebrovascular Diseases, Vol. 27, (6) : 544-551

Andersson, Jonas; Johansson, Lars; Ladenvall, Per; et al.

Sex differences in stroke epidemiology: a systematic review

Stroke, Vol. 40, (4) : 1082-1090

Appelros, Peter; Stegmayr, Birgitta; Terént, Andreas

Patient dissatisfaction with acute stroke care

Stroke, American Heart Association, Inc. 2009, Vol. 40, (12) : 3851-3856

Asplund, Kjell; Jonsson, Fredrik; Eriksson, Marie; et al.

Sex differences in stroke care and outcome in the Swedish national quality register for stroke care

Stroke, New York: American Heart Association 2009, Vol. 40, (3) : 909-914

Eriksson, Marie; Glader, Eva-Lotta; Norrving, Bo; et al.

Hyperglycemia and stroke mortality: comparison between fasting and 2-h glucose criteria.

Diabetes Care, Vol. 32, (2) : 348-354

Hyvärinen, Marjukka; Qiao, Qing; Tuomilehto, Jaakko; et al.

A novel stroke locus identified in a northern Sweden pedigree: linkage to chromosome 9q31-33.

Neurology, Vol. 73, (21) : 1767-1773

Janunger, Tomas; Nilsson-Ardnor, Sofie; Wiklund, Per-Gunnar; et al.

Comparison of definitions of metabolic syndrome in relation to the risk of developing stroke and coronary heart disease in Finnish and Swedish cohorts

Stroke, Vol. 40, (2) : 337-343

Qiao, Qing; Laatikainen, Tiina; Zethelius, Björn; et al.

Increased incidence of stroke and impaired prognosis after stroke among patients with seropositive rheumatoid arthritis

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, Vol. 27, (4) : 641-644

Södergren, Anna; Stegmayr, Birgitta; Öhman, Marie-Louise; et al.

Stroke unit care revisited: who benefits the most? A cohort study of 105,043 patients in Riks-Stroke, the Swedish Stroke Register.

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, Vol. 80, (8) : 881-887

Terént, A; Asplund, Kjell; Farahmand, B; et al.

Snoring men with daytime sleepiness drive more than others: a population-based study

Sleep Medicine, Vol. 10, (9) : 1012-1015

Valham, Fredrik; Eriksson, Marie; Stegmayr, Birgitta; et al.

Snoring and witnessed sleep apnea is related to diabetes mellitus in women

Sleep Medicine, Vol. 10, (1) : 112-117

Valham, Fredrik; Stegmayr, Birgitta; Eriksson, Marie; et al.

Riks-Stroke och hur fallgropar vid tolkning av resultaten undviks

Läkartidningen, Stockholm: Sveriges läkarförbund 2008, Vol. 105, (8) : 529-533

Appelros, Peter; Stegmayr, Birgitta; Terént, Andreas

Does the constellation of risk factors with and without abdominal adiposity associate with different cardiovascular mortality risk?

International journal of obesity (2005), Vol. 32, (5) : 757-62

Gao, W; Eliasson, Mats; Stegmayr, Birgitta

Trends in obesity and its distribution: data from the Northern Sweden MONICA survey, 1986–2004

Obesity, Vol. 16, (5) : 1120-1128

Lilja, Mikael; Eliasson, Mats; Stegmayr, Birgitta; et al.

Telomere Length Is Associated With Obesity Parameters but With a Gender Difference.

Obesity (Silver Spring), Vol. 16, (12) : 2682-2689

Nordfjäll, Katarina; Eliasson, Mats; Stegmayr, Birgitta; et al.

Increased abdominal obesity, adverse psychosocial factors and shorter telomere length in subjects reporting early ageing; the MONICA Northern Sweden Study.

Scand J Public Health, Vol. 36, (7) : 744-752

Nordfjäll, Kathrine; Eliasson, Mats; Stegmayr, Birgitta; et al.

Favorable Trends in the Incidence and Outcome in Stroke in Nondiabetic and Diabetic Subjects Findings From the Northern Sweden MONICA Stroke Registry in 1985 to 2003

Stroke, Vol. 39, (12) : 3137-3144

Rautio, Aslak; Eliasson, Mats; Stegmayr, Birgitta

Breast cancer survival is associated with telomere length in peripheral blood cells

Cancer Research, Vol. 68, (10) : 3618-3623

Svenson, Ulrika; Nordfjäll, Katarina; Stegmayr, Birgitta; et al.

Iron stores and HFE genotypes are not related to increased risk of ischemic stroke.: a prospective nested case-referent study

Cerebrovascular Diseases, Vol. 24, (5) : 405-411

Ekblom, Kim; Hultdin, Johan; Stegmayr, Birgitta; et al.

Assessment of functional outcome in a national quality register for acute stroke: can simple self-reported items be transformed into the modified Rankin Scale?

Stroke, Vol. 38, (4) : 1384-1386

Eriksson, Marie; Appelros, Peter; Norrving, Bo; et al.

Foreword.

Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil, Vol. 14 Suppl 3 : S1-

Giampaoli, Simona; Capewell, Simon; Shelley, Emer; et al.

Ischemic stroke and shift work.

Scand J Work Environ Health, Vol. 33, (6) : 435-9

Hermansson, Jonas; Gillander Gådin, Katja; Karlsson, Berndt; et al.

Patients with burnout in relation to gender and a general population

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 35, (5) : 516-523

Stenlund, Therese; Ahlgren, Christina; Lindahl, Bernt; et al.

Increased incidence of and impaired prognosis after acute myocardial infarction among patients with seropositive rheumatoid arthritis.

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & European League Against Rheumatism 2007, Vol. 66, (2) : 263-266

Södergren, Anna; Stegmayr, Birgitta; Lundberg, Vivan; et al.

Fish intake, mercury, long-chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and risk of stroke in northern Sweden

British Journal of Nutrition, Vol. 98, (5) : 1038-1045

Wennberg, Maria; Bergdahl, Ingvar A; Stegmayr, Birgitta; et al.

Lack of aggregation of ischemic stroke subtypes within affected sibling pairs.

Neurology, Vol. 68, (6) : 427-431

Wiklund, Per-Gunnar; Brown, W M; Brott, T G; et al.

Polymorphism of genes related to cardiovascular disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, Vol. 25, (6) : 866-871

Ärlestig, Lisbeth; Wållberg-Jonsson, Solveig; Stegmayr, Birgitta; et al.

[What the MONICA project has taught us about cardiovascular diseases--society, public health and health care]

Lakartidningen, Vol. 103, (40) : 3006-11

Asplund, Kjell; Eliasson, Mats; Janlert, Urban; et al.

Time trends in population cholesterol levels 1986-2004: influence of lipid-lowering drugs, obesity, smoking and educational level. The northern Sweden MONICA study.

J Intern Med, Vol. 260, (6) : 551-9

Eliasson, Mats; Janlert, Urban; Jansson, Jan-Håkan; et al.

MONICA 20 år: Hjärt-kärlsjukdom och riskfaktorer i Norrbotten och Västerbotten 1985 till 2004

Stegmayr, Birgitta

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