Paracetamol and centenarians in The Conversation
Karin Modig and Viktor Ahlqvist at the Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM) have recently published two articles on the news platform The Conversation.
Karin Modig is an associate professor researching aging and health. In August, she published the article The key to a centenarian’s long life may be their superhuman ability to avoid disease – new research, which is based on two studies where the researchers examined how centenarians differ from others in terms of disease patterns throughout life.
“We have been able to follow centenarians over several decades of their lives and compare them with ‘ordinary’ people at the same ages earlier in life,” says Karin. “In this way, we’ve seen that they are healthier than others much earlier in life.”
Karin previously published the article Centenarian blood tests give hints of the secrets to longevity, which has been read over 4 million times on The Conversation and translated into several languages.
Viktor Ahlqvist is a postdoctoral researcher focusing on neuropsychiatric conditions such as ADHD and autism, as well as drug safety during pregnancy. Together with colleagues Renee Gardner, associate professor at the Department of Global Public Health Sciences, and Brian Lee, professor at Drexel University, he authored the article Paracetamol use during pregnancy not linked to autism, our study of 2.5 million children shows.
“Using Swedish health registers, we were able to show that the use of paracetamol during pregnancy likely does not cause autism in children – the association disappears once other confounding factors are taken into account,” says Viktor Ahlqvist.