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…

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…

Associations of dietary patterns between age 9 and 24 months with risk of celiac disease autoimmunity and celiac disease among children at increased risk

Am J Clin Nutr. 2023 Dec;118(6):1099-1105. doi: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2023.08.009. Epub 2023 Oct 16. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Higher gluten intake in childhood is associated with increased incidence of celiac disease autoimmunity (CDA) and celiac disease. It remains to be studied whether different dietary patterns independent of gluten intake contribute to the incidence. OBJECTIVES:…

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