Publications

BMC Public Health. 2023 Apr 25;23(1):764. doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-15653-4. ABSTRACT The current study sought to determine whether public perceptions of other vaccines and diseases than COVID-19 have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. We longitudinally examined whether there had been a change from before the COVID-19 pandemic to during the pandemic…

Eur J Epidemiol. 2023 Jun;38(6):689-697. doi: 10.1007/s10654-023-01002-7. Epub 2023 Apr 20. ABSTRACT In many populations, the peak period of incidence of type 1 diabetes (T1D) has been observed to be around 10-14 years of age, coinciding with puberty, but direct evidence of the role of puberty in the development of…

Eur J Neurosci. 2023 May;57(10):1671-1688. doi: 10.1111/ejn.15989. Epub 2023 May 2. ABSTRACT Exposures to prenatal maternal depressive symptoms (PMDS) may lead to neurodevelopmental changes in the offspring in a sex-dependent way. Although a connection between PMDS and infant brain development has been established by earlier studies, the relationship between PMDS…

Dev Psychopathol. 2023 Apr 3:1-16. doi: 10.1017/S0954579423000275. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT Prenatal adversity has been linked to later psychopathology. Yet, research on cumulative prenatal adversity, as well as its interaction with offspring genotype, on brain and behavioral development is scarce. With this study, we aimed to address this gap.

Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2023 Apr 3. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000003178. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT PURPOSE: Five times sit-to-stand (STS) test is commonly used as a clinical assessment of lower-extremity functional ability, but its association with free-living performance has not been studied. Therefore, we investigated the association between laboratory-based STS capacity…

Infant Behav Dev. 2023 May;71:101838. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101838. Epub 2023 Mar 28. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: In previous studies, an attention bias for signals of fear and threat has been related to socioemotional problems, such as anxiety symptoms, and socioemotional competencies, such as altruistic behaviors in children, adolescents and adults. However, previous studies…

Toxics. 2023 Mar 4;11(3):241. doi: 10.3390/toxics11030241. ABSTRACT Phthalates are mainly used as plasticizers and are associated inter alia with adverse effects on reproductive functions. While more and more national programs in Europe have started monitoring internal exposure to phthalates and its substitute 1,2-Cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid (DINCH), the comparability of results from…

Biol Psychiatry. 2023 May 21:S0006-3223(23)01301-X. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.05.014. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Pre- and postnatal maternal psychological distress predicts various detrimental consequences on social, behavioural, and cognitive development of the offspring and especially in girls. Maturation of white matter (WM) continues from prenatal development into adulthood and is thus…

Pediatr Allergy Immunol. 2023 Mar;34(3):e13932. doi: 10.1111/pai.13932. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Fruit and vegetable consumption has been linked to a decreased risk of asthma, but prospective evidence on longitudinal consumption in childhood is scarce. We aimed to investigate the association between fruit and vegetable consumption in childhood and the risk of asthma…

Sci Rep. 2023 May 11;13(1):7642. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-33518-z. ABSTRACT This study examined whether active commuting to school in childhood and adolescence predicted active commuting to work and overall physical activity (PA) in adulthood. Participants from the Young Finns Study (N = 2436) were aged 9-18 years in 1980 and followed up…