Personlig presentation av Lars Berglund

Professor Emeritus

Department of Health Care 3 School of Health and Welfare

I am a biostatistician and epidemiologist and Professor Emeritus at Dalarna University.

Contact

labr@du.se

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Background

I am educated at Uppsala University and have worked as a teacher of statistics and as a biostatistician at the Faculty of Medicine in Uppsala and at several life science companies. For ten years I was head of the section for biometrics at the Uppsala Clinical Research Center (UCR).

I have produced 166 scientific articles and I am co-author of 58 doctoral theses. My h-index according to Google Scholar is 76. I am an academic editor for two journals.

Research

I work with biostatistical and epidemiological research with applications in cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, obesity, dementia and IVF treatment.

At Dalarna university I work with the projects pain after myocardial infarction, UDDGait (prediction of dementia development based on a mobility test combined with a simultaneous verbal task). I also work with shorter consultations and seminars.

Publications

Löfgren, Niklas, Berglund, Lars, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Rosendahl, Erik, Åberg, Anna Cristina. Can Turn Duration and Step Parameters During the Timed Up and Go Test With and Without a Dual-Task Discriminate Between Individuals With Different Cognitive Abilities? An Explorative Study, Assessment, 2026. Article : refereed.
Berglund, Lars, Rönnegård, Ann-Sofie, Lindahl, Bertil, Äng, Björn, Gordh, Torsten, Hambraeus, Kristina, Ärnlöv, Johan. Self-reported pain is associated with a poorer long-term prognosis in patients with myocardial infarction : A SWEDEHEART study, IJC Heart & Vasculature, 2025, Vol. 59. Article : refereed.
Fridén, Michael, Rosqvist, Fredrik, Kullberg, Joel, Berglund, Lars, Vessby, Johan, Martinell, Mats, Carlsson, Per-Ola, Hulthe, Johannes, Johansson, Lars, Ahmad, Nouman, Johansson, Hans-Erik, Rorsman, Fredrik, Sundström, Johan, Lind, Lars, Landberg, Rikard, Orho-Melander, Marju, Ahlström, Håkan, Risérus, Ulf. Effects of an anti-lipogenic low-carbohydrate high polyunsaturated fat diet or a healthy Nordic diet versus usual care on liver fat and cardiometabolic disorders in type 2 diabetes or prediabetes : a randomized controlled trial (NAFLDiet), Nature Communications, 2025, Vol. 16, No. 1. Article : refereed.
Löfgren, Niklas, Berglund, Lars, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Halvorsen, Kjartan, Rosendahl, Erik, McKee, Kevin, Åberg, Anna Cristina. Extracted step parameters during the timed up and go test discriminate between groups with different levels of cognitive ability-a cross-sectional study, BMC Geriatrics, 2025, Vol. 25, No. 1. Article : refereed.
Ali, Mohamed Kalid, Berglund, Lars, Flacking, Renée, Sulaiman, Munshi, Osman, Fatumo. Dietary diversity and associated factors among households and children in internally displaced person camps in Southern Somalia : A cross-sectional study, Maternal and Child Nutrition, 2024, Vol. 20, No. 4. Article : refereed.