Publications

Biol Psychiatry Glob Open Sci. 2025 Apr 1;5(4):100498. doi: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2025.100498. eCollection 2025 Jul. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Telomere attrition has previously been associated with mental health problems and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Resilience has been shown to protect against mental health problems even in the context of ACEs. In this study, we…

Eur J Oral Sci. 2025 Jun 9:e70024. doi: 10.1111/eos.70024. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT We aimed to identify factors predicting toothbrushing less than twice daily at the age of 2 years. The data from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study of 506 mother-father pairs (with 506 children) were used. Logistic regression…

bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2025 May 19:2025.05.16.648988. doi: 10.1101/2025.05.16.648988. ABSTRACT Personality traits describe stable differences in how individuals think, feel, and behave and how they interact with and experience their social and physical environments. We assemble data from 46 cohorts including 611K-1.14M participants with European-like and African-like genomes for genome-wide association studies…

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2025 Jun 4;25(1):653. doi: 10.1186/s12884-025-07775-x. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Gestational anemia is a common pregnancy complication that affects approximately 40% of pregnant women globally. The health benefits of breastfeeding are widely acknowledged for both mothers and infants, and recognizing the factors that affect the duration and quality (exclusive /…

Sci Rep. 2025 Jun 4;15(1):19697. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-02287-2. ABSTRACT Physical activity is associated with compositional changes in gut microbiota. Studies applying data from general populations exhibiting varying physical activity levels are scarce. This study investigated the associations between leisure time physical activity and gut microbiota composition in a general population of…

Eur J Public Health. 2025 Jun 3:ckaf084. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckaf084. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT Active commuting to school (ACS) may markedly contribute to overall physical activity (PA) among youth, but ACS levels have declined in recent decades. Parents significantly influence their children’s PA and commuting behaviours, and lifestyle habits are…

J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2025 May 28:dgaf320. doi: 10.1210/clinem/dgaf320. Online ahead of print. NO ABSTRACT PMID:40435323 | DOI:10.1210/clinem/dgaf320…

Atherosclerosis. 2025 May 21;406:120218. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2025.120218. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Comprehensive longitudinal data in healthy populations on cardiometabolic determinants of arterial intima-media thickness (IMT), especially aortic IMT, in adolescence are lacking. We aimed to examine in detail how cardiometabolic risk factors associate with aortic and carotid…

Schizophr Res. 2025 May 23;281:229-236. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2025.05.017. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: A high genetic risk for schizophrenia, in complex interplay with environmental factors, has been suggested to explain population-level variation in personality traits among individuals who do not develop schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. We investigated, first, whether polygenic risk for…

Acta Paediatr. 2025 May 23. doi: 10.1111/apa.70148. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT AIM: As earlier puberty has been associated with higher later metabolic risk, we studied how weight gain in infancy and childhood is associated with pubertal timing and duration in healthy children. METHOD: Leveraging the longitudinal data from the…