Author: Henok Karvonen

Clin Nutr ESPEN. 2025 Jan 25:S2405-4577(25)00048-8. doi: 10.1016/j.clnesp.2025.01.047. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Maternal diet and health may influence a child’s later neurodevelopment. We investigated the effect of maternal diet, adiposity, gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), and depressive/anxiety symptoms during pregnancy on the child’s motor outcome at 5-6…

Infancy. 2025 Jan-Feb;30(1):e12649. doi: 10.1111/infa.12649. ABSTRACT The interplay of emotional availability (EA) and child temperament in association with early language development is understudied. We explored associations between maternal EA and infant communicative development and possible moderations by child temperament. Participants were 151 mother-child dyads from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study.

Nicotine Tob Res. 2025 Jan 14:ntae296. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntae296. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION: Tobacco smoking has been associated with reduced success in the labor market, potentially due to its negative impact on labor productivity, especially in physically demanding jobs, as it affects physical fitness and performance adversely. METHODS: This…

Clin Kidney J. 2024 Nov 22;18(1):sfae373. doi: 10.1093/ckj/sfae373. eCollection 2025 Jan. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Lysinuric protein intolerance (LPI) is a metabolic disorder that leads to dysfunctional intestinal absorption and kidney clearance of cationic amino acids. Chronic kidney disease develops in many LPI patients and leads to end-stage kidney disease in at…

2023 Mar 29. In: Feingold KR, Anawalt B, Blackman MR, Boyce A, Chrousos G, Corpas E, de Herder WW, Dhatariya K, Dungan K, Hofland J, Kalra S, Kaltsas G, Kapoor N, Koch C, Kopp P, Korbonits M, Kovacs CS, Kuohung W, Laferrère B, Levy M, McGee EA, McLachlan R, New…

Neuropsychology. 2023 Jan;37(1):64-76. doi: 10.1037/neu0000877. Epub 2022 Nov 17. ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: An adverse psychosocial environment in childhood may harm cognitive development, but the associations for adulthood cognitive function remain obscure. We tested the hypothesis that adverse childhood psychosocial factors associate with poor cognitive function in midlife by leveraging the prospective…

Neurology. 2023 Feb 7;100(6):e568-e581. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000201489. Epub 2022 Nov 16. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Whether chronic autoimmune inflammatory diseases causally affect the risk of Alzheimer disease (AD) is controversial. We characterized the relationship between inflammatory diseases and risk of AD and explored the role of circulating inflammatory biomarkers in the…

Scand J Med Sci Sports. 2023 Mar;33(3):307-318. doi: 10.1111/sms.14261. Epub 2022 Nov 16. ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: Physical activity benefits cardiometabolic health, but little is known about its detailed links with serum lipoproteins, amino acids, and glucose metabolism at young age. We therefore studied the association of physical activity with a comprehensive…

J Hypertens. 2023 Jan 1;41(1):187-193. doi: 10.1097/HJH.0000000000003320. Epub 2022 Oct 27. ABSTRACT OBJECTIVES: Retirement is a major life event characterized by removal of work-related stressors and changes in health behaviours. The association between retirement and changes in blood pressure (BP), and particularly in ambulatory BP, has been scarcely studied. We…

Eur J Oral Sci. 2022 Dec;130(6):e12897. doi: 10.1111/eos.12897. Epub 2022 Oct 27. ABSTRACT We evaluated associations between dental anxiety and four temperament dimensions: effortful control, extraversion/surgency, negative affect and orienting sensitivity among 2558 parents in the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study. Dental anxiety was measured with the Modified Dental Anxiety Scale,…