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Urban/rural differences in body weight: evidence for social selection and causation hypotheses in FinlandMarkus Jokela
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Soc Sci Med 68:867-75. 2009..e. heavier people tend to migrate to more rural areas where people tend to get heavier...- The association of cognitive performance with mental health and physical functioning strengthens with age: the Whitehall II cohort studyM Jokela
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
Psychol Med 40:837-45. 2010..We examined whether cognitive performance predicted mental and physical health from midlife to early old age... - Childhood problem behaviors and injury risk over the life courseMarkus Jokela
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 50:1541-9. 2009..We examined whether externalizing and internalizing behaviors expressed in childhood predict injuries in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood... - IQ, socioeconomic status, and early death: The US National Longitudinal Survey of YouthMarkus Jokela
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Psychosom Med 71:322-8. 2009..To assess whether the association between cognitive ability (IQ) and early mortality is mediated by socioeconomic status (SES) or whether the association between SES and mortality reflects a spurious association caused by IQ... - Childhood problem behaviors and death by midlife: the British National Child Development StudyMarkus Jokela
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London and Dr Jokela is with the Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 48:19-24. 2009..g., aggression, impulsivity) and internalizing behaviors (e.g., anxiousness, avoidant behavior) as predictors of mortality by the age of 46 years and to assess whether these associations are dependent on childhood family background... - Personality and having children: a two-way relationshipMarkus Jokela
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
J Pers Soc Psychol 96:218-30. 2009..These findings suggest a two-way relationship between personality and having children... - From midlife to early old age: health trajectories associated with retirementMarkus Jokela
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Epidemiology 21:284-90. 2010..Previous studies report contradictory findings regarding health effects of retirement. This study examines longitudinally the associations of retirement with mental health and physical functioning... - Adolescent leadership and adulthood fertility: revisiting the "central theoretical problem of human sociobiology"Markus Jokela
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, P O Box 9, FIN 00014, Finland
J Pers 77:213-29. 2009..The findings suggest that personality determinants of status achievement may predict increased reproductive success in contemporary humans... - Lower fertility associated with obesity and underweight: the US National Longitudinal Survey of YouthMarkus Jokela
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Am J Clin Nutr 88:886-93. 2008..It has been hypothesized that body weight predicts the number of children that a person will have: obese and underweight persons are hypothesized to have fewer children than do their normal-weight counterparts... - Low childhood IQ and early adult mortality: the role of explanatory factors in the 1958 British Birth CohortMarkus Jokela
University of Helsinki, Department of Psychology, Helsinki, Finland
Pediatrics 124:e380-8. 2009..To examine whether the association between childhood IQ and later mortality risk was explained by early developmental advantages or mediated by adult sociodemographic factors and health behaviors... - Characteristics of the first child predict the parents' probability of having another childMarkus Jokela
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, FIN 00014, Finland
Dev Psychol 46:915-26. 2010..PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)... - Sibling analysis of adolescent intelligence and chronic diseases in older adulthoodMarkus Jokela
Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
Ann Epidemiol 21:489-96. 2011..We examined whether associations of adolescent intelligence with chronic diseases in adulthood are explained by socioeconomic factors, health behaviors, or common sources of variance in intelligence and chronic disease risk... - Natural course of recurrent psychological distress in adulthoodMarkus Jokela
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
J Affect Disord 130:454-61. 2011.... - Antidepressant medication use and risk of hyperglycemia and diabetes mellitus: a noncausal association?Mika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, United Kingdom
Biol Psychiatry 70:978-84. 2011..To examine this, we assessed the associations of antidepressant use with change in glucose levels and incidence of undiagnosed and diagnosed diabetes... - Socioeconomic differences in cardiometabolic factors: social causation or health-related selection? Evidence from the Whitehall II Cohort Study, 1991-2004Marko Elovainio
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL Medical School, University College London, United Kingdom
Am J Epidemiol 174:779-89. 2011..008). These findings suggest that health-related selection operates at younger ages and that social causation contributes to socioeconomic differences in cardiometabolic health in midlife... - Childhood behavior problems and health at midlife: 35-year follow-up of a Scottish birth cohortSophie von Stumm
Department of Psychology, University of Chichester, England, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 52:992-1001. 2011..To identify plausible pathways that may account for this association, we explored the extent to which childhood behavior problems relate to health behaviors and health outcomes at midlife... - Do pre-employment influences explain the association between psychosocial factors at work and coronary heart disease? The Whitehall II studyTaina Hintsa
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, PO Box 9, Helsinki, FIN 00014, Finland
Occup Environ Med 67:330-4. 2010.... - Common mental disorder and obesity: insight from four repeat measures over 19 years: prospective Whitehall II cohort studyMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT
BMJ 339:b3765. 2009..To examine potential reciprocal associations between common mental disorders and obesity, and to assess whether dose-response relations exist... - Antidepressant use before and after the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes: a longitudinal modeling studyMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Diabetes Care 33:1471-6. 2010..To examine antidepressant use before and after the diagnosis of diabetes... - Moderating effect of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) activation in the association between depressive symptoms and carotid atherosclerosis: evidence from the Young Finns studyMarko Elovainio
Institute of Behavioural Sciences, P O Box 9, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
J Affect Disord 133:611-4. 2011..We tested the hypothesis that depressive symptoms are associated with atherosclerosis only when combined with other risk factors, such as inflammation indicated by indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) activation... - Metabolic syndrome over 10 years and cognitive functioning in late midlife: the Whitehall II studyTasnime N Akbaraly
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Diabetes Care 33:84-9. 2010..We examined this association in late midlife, with particular focus on cumulative effects and the role of socioeconomic circumstances... - Validating the Framingham Hypertension Risk Score: results from the Whitehall II studyMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London, United Kingdom
Hypertension 54:496-501. 2009..5%; 95% CI: -2.5% to 1.5%). These data suggest that the Framingham hypertension risk score provides a valid tool with which to estimate near-term risk of developing hypertension... - Hyperglycemia, type 2 diabetes, and depressive symptoms: the British Whitehall II studyMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Diabetes Care 32:1867-9. 2009..To examine the recent suggestion that impaired fasting glucose may protect against depression, whereas a diagnosis of diabetes might then result in depression... - Association of age at menarche with cardiovascular risk factors, vascular structure, and function in adulthood: the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns studyMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Am J Clin Nutr 87:1876-82. 2008..It is unclear whether age at menarche is an independent determinant of future cardiovascular risk... - The influence of urban/rural residency on depressive symptoms is moderated by the serotonin receptor 2A geneMarkus Jokela
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, FIN 00014, Finland
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 144:918-22. 2007..The HTR2A gene may be involved in the development of depression by influencing how individuals respond to environmental conditions... - The serotonin receptor 2A gene moderates the influence of parental socioeconomic status on adulthood harm avoidanceMarkus Jokela
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, PO Box 9, Helsinki 00014, Finland
Behav Genet 37:567-74. 2007..We conclude that the T102C polymorphism of the HTR2A gene may be involved in the development of temperament by moderating the influence of environmental conditions... - Socioeconomic position, psychosocial work environment and cerebrovascular disease among women: the Finnish public sector studyMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Int J Epidemiol 38:1265-71. 2009..This has led to the suggestion that poor psychosocial work environments provide important additional explanatory power. However, little evidence is available for women... - Temperament and migration patterns in FinlandMarkus Jokela
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Psychol Sci 19:831-7. 2008..These data suggest that temperament predicts the self-selection of environments on a demographic scale and may be relevant in understanding population dynamics... - Long working hours and cognitive function: the Whitehall II StudyMarianna Virtanen
Centre of Expertise for Work Organizations, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland
Am J Epidemiol 169:596-605. 2009..This study shows that long working hours may have a negative effect on cognitive performance in middle age... - Hostility, metabolic syndrome, inflammation and cardiac control in young adults: The Young Finns StudyMarko Elovainio
Department of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
Biol Psychol 87:234-40. 2011..05), and higher levels of inflammation (? = 0.09, p < 0.01). We concluded that hostility is associated with metabolic syndrome and systemic inflammation in women and these conditions may be factors linking hostility to CHD... - Associations of personality profiles with various aspects of well-being: a population-based studyKim Josefsson
IBS, Unit of Personality, Work, and Health Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
J Affect Disord 133:265-73. 2011..In a previous Israeli study personality was strongly associated with well-being. However, it is not well known which aspects of this association are culture-specific, and which are common to most cultures... - Examining overweight and obesity as risk factors for common mental disorders using fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) genotype-instrumented analysis: The Whitehall II Study, 1985-2004Mika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, University College London, United Kingdom
Am J Epidemiol 173:421-9. 2011..Mendelian randomization analyses supported the status of long-term obesity as a risk factor for CMD in men-a finding that should be interpreted cautiously because the function of the FTO gene is unknown... - Overall diet history and reversibility of the metabolic syndrome over 5 years: the Whitehall II prospective cohort studyTasnime N Akbaraly
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Diabetes Care 33:2339-41. 2010..We examined the impact of adherence to the Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI), a set of dietary guidelines targeting major chronic diseases, on metabolic syndrome (MetS) reversion in a middle-aged population... - Association between common mental disorder and obesity over the adult life courseMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, WC1E 6BT London, UK
Br J Psychiatry 195:149-55. 2009..Prospective data on the association between common mental disorders and obesity are scarce, and the impact of ageing on this association is poorly understood... - Decline in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentration: lipid-lowering drugs, diet, or physical activity? Evidence from the Whitehall II studyKim Bouillon
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Heart 97:923-30. 2011..To examine the association of lipid-lowering drugs, change in diet and physical activity with a decline in low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol in middle age... - Genetic variants in the DRD2 gene moderate the relationship between stressful life events and depressive symptoms in adults: cardiovascular risk in young Finns studyMarko Elovainio
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Psychosom Med 69:391-5. 2007..A number of studies suggest that variants in dopamine receptor genes, such as DRD2, are associated with depression but it is unclear if such variants also modify the association between life events and depression... - Change in job strain and progression of atherosclerosis: The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns studyTom Rosenström
Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Unit of Personality, Work and Health Psychology, University of Helsinki, Heksinki, Finland
J Occup Health Psychol 16:139-50. 2011..These data suggest that temporal changes in job demands and control are associated with IMT in men via multiple mechanisms... - Body mass index in adolescence and number of children in adulthoodMarkus Jokela
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Epidemiology 18:599-606. 2007..We examined whether adolescent body mass index (BMI; kg/m) predicted the number of children in adulthood 21 years later... - Lipid trajectories as predictors of depressive symptoms: the Young Finns StudyMarko Elovainio
National Institute for Health and Welfare, and Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Health Psychol 29:237-45. 2010..The aim of this study was to identify common trajectories of lipid levels across childhood and early adulthood life span... - Socioeconomic status and the development of depressive symptoms from childhood to adulthood: a longitudinal analysis across 27 years of follow-up in the Young Finns studyMarko Elovainio
National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
Soc Sci Med 74:923-9. 2012..We concluded that the effect of childhood SES on depressive symptoms diminishes over time, but a higher level of, and especially faster decline of, depressive symptoms predicts the adulthood occupational SES gradient... - Serotonin receptor 2A gene and the influence of childhood maternal nurturance on adulthood depressive symptomsMarkus Jokela
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, FIN 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:356-60. 2007..Gene-environment interactions are assumed to be involved in the development of depression... - Substantial intergenerational increases in body mass index are not explained by the fetal overnutrition hypothesis: the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns StudyMika Kivimaki
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Am J Clin Nutr 86:1509-14. 2007.... - "Change in job strain and progression of atherosclerosis: The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns study": Correction to Rosenström et al. (2011)Tom Rosenström
Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Unit of Personality, Work and Health Psychology, University of Helsinki
J Occup Health Psychol 16:201. 2011..The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns study" by Tom Rosenström, Mirka Hintsanen, Mika Kivimäki, Markus Jokela, Markus Juonala, Jorma S. Viikari, Olli T... - Divergent influence of different type A dimensions on job strain and effort-reward imbalanceTaina Hintsa
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
J Occup Environ Med 52:1-7. 2010..We examined whether different Type A behavior dimensions have divergent influence on work stress... - Associations between dimensional personality measures and preclinical atherosclerosis: the cardiovascular risk in Young Finns studyTom Rosenström
IBS, Unit of Personality, Work and Health Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
J Psychosom Res 72:336-43. 2012..The analysis was designed to tolerate non-linear development in which the same personality profiles can have multiple final outcomes and different antecedent profiles can have the same final outcome... - Trajectories of glycaemia, insulin sensitivity, and insulin secretion before diagnosis of type 2 diabetes: an analysis from the Whitehall II studyAdam G Tabak
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Lancet 373:2215-21. 2009..We aimed to characterise trajectories of fasting and postload glucose, insulin sensitivity, and insulin secretion in individuals who develop type 2 diabetes... - Personality Profiles Identify Depressive Symptoms over Ten Years? A Population-Based StudyKim Josefsson
IBS, Unit of Personality, Work, and Health Psychology, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Depress Res Treat 2011:431314. 2011..These associations were very similar in cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis. Personality profiles help in understanding the complex associations between depressive symptoms and personality... - Event-related potentials suggest early interaction between syntax and semantics during on-line sentence comprehensionMaria Palolahti
Cognitive Science Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, P O B 9, Siltavuorenpenger 20 C, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Neurosci Lett 384:222-7. 2005..In contrast, the later syntax-related P600 component was observed as being more pronounced over the posterior areas of the right hemisphere... - Gender differences in teachers' perceptions of students' temperament, educational competence, and teachabilitySari Mullola
Centre for Research on Teaching, Department of Teacher Education, University of Helsinki, Finland IBS, Unit of Personality, Work, and Health Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research CKIR, Aalto University, Finland
Br J Educ Psychol 82:185-206. 2012..Conclusions.?Teachers' ratings varied systematically by their gender and age, and by students' gender. This bias may have an effect on school grades and needs be taken into consideration in teacher education...