Does it matter that the hearts of 'brainstem dead' patients may persist in beating spontaneously? Hostile reactions, to the Danish inclusion of cardiac criteria in the determination of death, betray reductionist views of human life at the core of 'brainstem' conceptions of death. Such views (whether centred on neurological function or on abstractions concerning 'personhood') supplant the richne...

A retrospective study was carried out to assess the incidence of cardiomyopathy in western Denmark (Jutland and Funen) (population 2 798 000) during a two year period (1980-81). The WHO/ISCF classification was strictly followed, and rigid criteria for exclusion and inclusion of patients were adopted. Thus cases in which specific heart muscle disorders (myocarditis, alcoholic heart disease, hype...

J. Larsen,1,* T. K. Schäffer,2 U. B. Hansen,2 S. L. Holm,2 S. R. Ahl,1,2 R. Toft-Petersen,1,3 J. Taylor,4 G. Ehlers,5 J. Jensen,6 H. M. Rønnow,7 K. Lefmann,2 and N. B. Christensen1,8,† 1Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark 2Nanoscience Center, Niels Bohr Institute, Universitetsparken 5, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark 3Helmholtz Center for Energy and Mate...

Among 436 959 live infants born between 1970 and 1975 in Denmark were 72 (49 girls and 23 boys) who developed primary hypothyroidism, giving an incidence of 1 in 6064 live births. In the oldest group (6 to 8 years of age) the incidence was 1 in 5100. The age at diagnosis ranged from 1 week to 5 years 4 months; 10% were diagnosed within the first month, 40% within the first 3 months, and 70% wit...

This Report examines the state of competition policy in Denmark in 2004. It focuses particular attention on developments since the 1999 " Report on the Role of Competition Policy in Regulatory Reform " , prepared as part of a larger OECD study of regulatory reform in Denmark.

Despite the fact that Denmark is a small country, historically there have been fairly consistent regional differences in fertility rates. We apply the statistical age-periodcohort model to include the effect of these three time-related factors to concisely illuminate the regional differences in first-time births in Denmark. From the Fertility of Women and Couples Dataset we obtain data on the n...

931 1 Department of Gynaecology, Juliane Marie Centre, H:S Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. 2 Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. 3 Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. 4 Department of Pathology, Centre of Diagnostic Investigations, H:S Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 5...

The effects of 13 weeks of liraglutide treatment on endocrine and 1 exocrine pancreas in male and female ZDF-rats 2 – A quantitative and qualitative analysis revealing no evidence of 3 drug induced pancreatitis 4 5 Running head: Liraglutide does not induce pancreatitis in the ZDF rat 6 7 *Niels Vrang,* Jacob Jelsing, *Lotte Simonsen, Andres Eskjær Jensen, Inger 8 Thorup, Henrik Søeborg and Lott...