Islet autoantibody screening in at-risk adolescents to predict type 1 diabetes until young adulthood: a prospective cohort study

Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2023 Apr;7(4):261-268. doi: 10.1016/S2352-4642(22)00350-9. Epub 2023 Jan 18. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Screening for islet autoantibodies in children and adolescents identifies individuals who will later develop type 1 diabetes, allowing patient and family education to prevent diabetic ketoacidosis at onset and to enable consideration of preventive therapies. We…

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Cross-sectionally calculated metabolic ageing does not relate to longitudinal metabolic changes – support for stratified ageing models

J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2023 Jan 20:dgad032. doi: 10.1210/clinem/dgad032. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT CONTEXT: Ageing varies between individuals with profound consequences for chronic diseases and longevity. One hypothesis to explain the diversity is a genetically regulated molecular clock that runs differently between individuals. Large and long enough human studies…

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Effect of common pregnancy and perinatal complications on offspring metabolic traits across the life course: a multi-cohort study

BMC Med. 2023 Jan 18;21(1):23. doi: 10.1186/s12916-022-02711-8. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Common pregnancy and perinatal complications are associated with offspring cardiometabolic risk factors. These complications may influence multiple metabolic traits in the offspring and these associations might differ with offspring age. METHODS: We used data from eight population-based cohort studies to examine…

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Course of child social-emotional and sleep symptoms, parental distress and pandemic-related stressors during COVID-19

Dev Psychopathol. 2023 Feb 16:1-15. doi: 10.1017/S0954579422001377. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT Research on the longitudinal courses of child social-emotional symptoms and sleep during the COVID-19 pandemic within societies would be of key value for promoting child well-being in global crises. We characterized the course of children’s social-emotional and sleep…

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Aberrations in the early pregnancy serum metabolic profile in women with prediabetes at two years postpartum

Metabolomics. 2023 Mar 24;19(4):20. doi: 10.1007/s11306-023-01994-z. ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION: Aberrations in circulating metabolites have been associated with diabetes and cardiovascular risk. OBJECTIVES: To investigate if early and late pregnancy serum metabolomic profiles differ in women who develop prediabetes by two years postpartum compared to those who remain normoglycemic. METHODS: An NMR…

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Sex differences, asymmetry, and age-related white matter development in infants and 5-year-olds as assessed with tract-based spatial statistics

Hum Brain Mapp. 2023 May;44(7):2712-2725. doi: 10.1002/hbm.26238. Epub 2023 Mar 22. ABSTRACT The rapid white matter (WM) maturation of first years of life is followed by slower yet long-lasting development, accompanied by learning of more elaborate skills. By the age of 5 years, behavioural and cognitive differences between females and…

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Stress-Related Exhaustion, Polygenic Cognitive Potential, and Cognitive Test Performance – A General Population Study

Cognit Ther Res. 2023;47(2):155-167. doi: 10.1007/s10608-023-10354-z. Epub 2023 Feb 4. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: We investigated whether stress-related exhaustion (chronic or short-term, and co-occurring with depression or not) is related to cognitive performance and whether polygenic cognitive potential modifies these associations. METHODS: The participants were from the Young Finns Study (N =…

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The interplay between inflammatory cytokines and cardiometabolic disease: bi-directional mendelian randomisation study

BMJ Med. 2023 Feb 14;2(1):e000157. doi: 10.1136/bmjmed-2022-000157. eCollection 2023. ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: To leverage large scale genetic association data to investigate the interplay between circulating cytokines and cardiometabolic traits, and thus identifying potential therapeutic targets. DESIGN: Bi-directional Mendelian randomisation study. SETTING: Genome-wide association studies from three Finnish cohorts (Northern Finland Birth…

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Childhood Dyslipidemia and Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaque in Adulthood: The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study

J Am Heart Assoc. 2023 Apr 4;12(7):e027586. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.122.027586. Epub 2023 Mar 16. ABSTRACT Background Childhood exposure to dyslipidemia is associated with adult atherosclerosis, but it is unclear whether the long-term risk associated with dyslipidemia is attenuated on its resolution by adulthood. We aimed to address this question by examining…

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Factors influencing vulnerability to climate change-related health impacts in cities – A conceptual framework

Environ Int. 2023 Mar;173:107837. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2023.107837. Epub 2023 Feb 18. ABSTRACT Climate change will have adverse impacts on human health, which are amplified in cities. For these impacts, there are direct, indirect, and deferred pathways. The first category is well-studied, while indirect and deferred impacts are not well-understood. Moreover, the…

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