J Affect Disord. 2024 Jan 11:S0165-0327(24)00103-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2024.01.093. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: A great number of case-control and population-based studies have shown that depression patients differ from healthy controls in their temperament traits. We investigated whether polygenic risk for depression predicts trajectories of temperament traits from early adulthood…
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Trajectories of maternal depressive and anxiety symptoms and child’s socio-emotional outcome during early childhood
J Affect Disord. 2024 Jan 4:S0165-0327(23)01544-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2023.12.076. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT Maternal symptoms of depression and anxiety during pregnancy and early postnatal years are suggested to impose differential negative effects on child’s socio-emotional development depending on the characteristics of the symptoms, such as timing, intensity, and persistence. The…
Climate Change, Summer Temperature, and Heat-Related Mortality in Finland: Multicohort Study with Projections for a Sustainable vs. Fossil-Fueled Future to 2050
Environ Health Perspect. 2023 Dec;131(12):127020. doi: 10.1289/EHP12080. Epub 2023 Dec 27. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Climate change scenarios illustrate various pathways in terms of global warming ranging from “sustainable development” (Shared Socioeconomic Pathway SSP1-1.9), the best-case scenario, to ‘fossil-fueled development’ (SSP5-8.5), the worst-case scenario. OBJECTIVES: We examined the extent to which increase…
Fruit, berry, and vegetable consumption and the risk of islet autoimmunity and type 1 diabetes in children – The DIPP birth cohort study
Am J Clin Nutr. 2023 Dec 22:S0002-9165(23)66347-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2023.12.014. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Prospective studies investigating the association between fruit, berry, and vegetable consumption and the risk of islet autoimmunity (IA) and type 1 diabetes (T1D) are few. OBJECTIVE: In this cohort study, we explored whether the consumption…
Association of number of siblings with preclinical markers of cardiovascular disease. The cardiovascular risk in Young Finns study
Int J Cardiol Cardiovasc Risk Prev. 2023 Dec 8;20:200227. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcrp.2023.200227. eCollection 2024 Mar. ABSTRACT To investigate the association of number of siblings with preclinical cardiovascular disease (CVD) markers in adulthood. The sample comprised 2776 participants (54 % female) from the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study who had CVD…
Finnish Retirement and Aging Study: a prospective cohort study
BMJ Open. 2023 Dec 10;13(12):e076976. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-076976. ABSTRACT PURPOSE: The Finnish Retirement and Aging (FIREA) Study was set up to study changes in health behavioural and cardiometabolic risk factors across retirement transition, and to examine the long-term consequences of work and retirement on health and functioning with advancing age. PARTICIPANTS:…
Sense of coherence, its components and depressive and anxiety symptoms in expecting women and their partners – A FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study
Sex Reprod Healthc. 2023 Nov 24;39:100930. doi: 10.1016/j.srhc.2023.100930. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: Expecting mothers with high sense of coherence (SOC) exhibit improved physical, emotional, and childbearing health. However, the dimensions of SOC and the factor structure of the SOC-13 scale during prenatal period is slightly known. Especially the…
Tracking of apolipoprotein B levels measured in childhood and adolescence: systematic review and meta-analysis
Eur J Pediatr. 2023 Dec 5. doi: 10.1007/s00431-023-05350-0. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT To quantify the tracking of apolipoprotein B (apoB) levels from childhood and adolescence and compare the tracking of apoB with low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, a systematic search of MEDLINE, Embase, Web of Science, and Google Scholar was…
Blood Pressure at Different Life Stages Over the Early Life Course and Intima-Media Thickness
JAMA Pediatr. 2023 Dec 4. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2023.5351. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT IMPORTANCE: Although cardiovascular disease (CVD) begins in early life, the extent to which blood pressure (BP) at different life stages contributes to CVD is unclear. OBJECTIVE: To determine the relative contribution of BP at different life stages across…
Polygenic risk for schizophrenia predicting social trajectories in a general population sample
Psychol Med. 2023 Dec 4:1-9. doi: 10.1017/S003329172300346X. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: We investigated (a) whether polygenic risk for schizophrenia predicts different trajectories of social development among those who have not developed psychoses and (b) whether possible associations are PRSSCZ-specific or evident also for any polygenic risk for mental…
