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In December 2018 the national data collection was concluded as 30 000 individuals had been examined.

Changes in the smallest vessels in the body, the microcirculation, affect oxygen and nutrient delivery to the cells. A new optical technique gives the opportunity to find relations between dysfunctional microcirculation and cardiovascular disease

SCAPIS combines the use of new imaging technologies, advances in large-scale 'comics' and epidemiological analyses to extensively characterize a Swedish cohort of 30 000 men and women aged between 50 and 64 years.

Thymus may play a bigger role in the immune system of adults than was previously believed. With age, the glandular tissue in the thymus is replaced by fat, but the rate at which this happens is linked to sex, age and lifestyle factors.

Can stress lead to heart attacks? Most people would probably answer in the affirmative, but the scientific evidence of this is scarce. A new study, measuring a stress hormone in hair, suggests that long-term stress is a risk factor for heart attacks.

By way of a large national population study, researchers are looking for increasingly better ways of determining which individuals run the greatest risk of cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases.