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| Mati RahuSummaryAffiliation: National Institute for Health Development Country: Estonia Publications
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Experiences of a long-term randomized controlled prevention trial in a maiden environment: Estonian Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy trialSirpa Liisa Hovi
Finnish Office for Health Technology Assessment Finohta, National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health STAKES, PO Box 220, FI 00531 Helsinki, Finland
BMC Med Res Methodol 8:51. 2008..The purpose of this article is to describe the research process in a long-term randomized controlled trial and discuss the impact and consequences of changes in the research environment...- Who wants to join preventive trials?--Experience from the Estonian Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy Trial [ISRCTN35338757]Sirpa Liisa Hovi
National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health, STAKES, Health and Social Services, PO Box 220, FI 00531 Helsinki, Finland
BMC Med Res Methodol 5:12. 2005..The objective of this study was to find out how many women would be interested in a trial involving postmenopausal hormone therapy (PHT) and how the women's background characteristics and opinions correlated to their interest... 
Epidemiological research labelled as a violation of privacy: the case of EstoniaMati Rahu
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute for Health Development, Hiiu 42, 11619 Tallinn, Estonia
Int J Epidemiol 37:678-82. 2008..It provides a cautionary tale about the overzealous implementation of data protection as it affects health surveillance and research...
Cancer risk among Chernobyl cleanup workers in Estonia and Latvia, 1986-1998Mati Rahu
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute for Health Development, Tallinn, Estonia
Int J Cancer 119:162-8. 2006..Further follow-up of Chernobyl cleanup workers is warranted to clarify the possible health effects of radiation exposure...- Results from the Estonian postmenopausal hormone therapy trial [ISRCTN35338757]Piret Veerus
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute for Health Development TAI, Tallinn, Estonia
Maturitas 55:162-73. 2006..We aimed to compare the health effects of oral continuous combined hormone therapy with a placebo and non-treatment among healthy Estonian women... - Symptom reporting and quality of life in the Estonian Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy TrialPiret Veerus
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute for Health Development, Hiiu 42, 11619 Tallinn, Estonia
BMC Womens Health 8:5. 2008..The aim of the study was to determine the effect of postmenopausal hormone therapy on women's symptom reporting and quality of life in a randomized trial... - Postmenopausal hormone therapy increases use of health services: experience from the Estonian Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy Trial [ISRCTN35338757]Piret Veerus
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute for Health Development TAI, Tallinn, Estonia
Am J Obstet Gynecol 195:62-71. 2006..This study was undertaken to compare utilization of health services and health care costs in a randomized hormone therapy trial... - Suicide risk among chernobyl cleanup workers in estonia still increased: an updated cohort studyKaja Rahu
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute for Health Development, Tallinn, Estonia
Ann Epidemiol 16:917-9. 2006..The long-term nature of this elevated risk provides concrete evidence that psychological consequences represent the largest public health problem caused by the accident to date... - Contrasts in alcohol-related mortality in Estonia: education and ethnicityKaja Rahu
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute for Health Development, Tallinn, Estonia
Alcohol Alcohol 44:517-22. 2009..The aims of this study were to examine socio-demographic differences in alcohol-related mortality in Estonia, and how they changed over time... - Changes over fourteen years in adult obesity in Estonia: socioeconomic status and use of outpatient health servicesMare Tekkel
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute for Health Development, Tallinn, Estonia
Cent Eur J Public Health 18:186-91. 2010..From studied socioeconomic variables only age and education (among women) strongly affect the change in obesity level. Obese individuals used outpatient medical care slightly differently compared to individuals with a normal BMI... - Use of mammography and Pap smear in Estonia, a country without organized cancer screeningMare Tekkel
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute for Health Development, Hiiu 42, 11619, Tallinn, Estonia
Int J Public Health 52:109-16. 2007..To analyze mammography and Pap smear status in Estonia where no organized population-based cancer screening is available... - Cancer incidence and cause-specific mortality in male and female physicians: a cohort study in EstoniaKaire Innos
Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Tallinn, Estonia
Scand J Public Health 30:133-40. 2002..The pattern of cancer incidence and mortality seen in physicians in Estonia is similar to the pattern seen among professional classes in other countries... - Gender differences in factors associated with sexual intercourse among Estonian adolescentsKai Part
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Tartu Youth Counselling Centre, Tartu, Estonia
Scand J Public Health 39:389-95. 2011..To examine factors associated with early sexual intercourse among 15 to 16-year-old adolescents by gender... - Self-reported and serum cotinine-validated smoking in pregnant women in EstoniaKersti Pärna
Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Tallinn, Estonia
Matern Child Health J 9:385-92. 2005.... - Treatment adherence in the Estonian postmenopausal hormone therapy (EPHT) trial [ISRCTN35338757]Sigrid Vorobjov
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute for Health Development, Hiiu 42, 11619 Tallinn, Estonia
Maturitas 52:286-95. 2005..To investigate treatment adherence and factors related to non-adherence in the Estonian postmenopausal hormone therapy (EPHT) trial... - Diminishing trend in alcohol poisoning mortality in Estonia: reality or coding peculiarity?Kaja Rahu
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute for Health Development, Hiiu 42, 10619 Tallinn, Estonia
Alcohol Alcohol 46:485-9. 2011..To examine whether the changes in coding practice could reduce alcohol poisoning mortality rates in Estonia... - Health effects of the Chernobyl accident: fears, rumours and the truthMati Rahu
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Hiiu 42, 11619 Tallinn, Estonia
Eur J Cancer 39:295-9. 2003..Researchers in search of the truth through epidemiological reasoning are facing serious challenges which are reviewed within this article... - Effect of birth weight, maternal education and prenatal smoking on offspring intelligence at school ageKaja Rahu
National Institute for Health Development, The Estonian Centre of Behavioural and Health Sciences, Estonia
Early Hum Dev 86:493-7. 2010..We concluded that the statistical effect of birth weight, maternal education and smoking in pregnancy on offspring's IQ scores was remarkable and remained even if other factors have been taken into account... - HIV infection and risk behaviour of primary fentanyl and amphetamine injectors in Tallinn, Estonia: implications for interventionAve Talu
Estonian Drug Monitoring Centre, National Institute for Health Development, Hiiu 42, 11619 Tallinn, Estonia
Int J Drug Policy 21:56-63. 2010.... - Smoking and associated factors among adolescents in Tallinn, Helsinki and Moscow: a multilevel analysisKersti Pärna
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland
Scand J Public Health 31:350-8. 2003..To investigate variations in smoking and associated factors on individual and aggregate level among adolescents in Tallinn (Estonia), Helsinki (Finland) and Moscow (the Russian Federation)... - Sunlight exposure, antioxidants, and age-related macular degenerationAstrid E Fletcher
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, England
Arch Ophthalmol 126:1396-403. 2008..To examine the association of sunlight exposure and antioxidant level with age-related macular degeneration (AMD)... - Major improvements, but persisting inequalities in infant survival in Estonia 1992-2002Ilona Koupil
Centre for Health Equity Studies CHESS, Stockholm University Karolinska Institute 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Eur J Public Health 17:8-16. 2007..Inequality in adult health increased in Estonia during the transition period after 1991. We examined inequality in infant survival from 1992 to 2002... - Testicular cancer incidence in eight northern European countries: secular and recent trendsLorenzo Richiardi
Department of Medicine, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 13:2157-66. 2004..However, it is not known whether these patterns have attenuated in recent years and whether they are similar for seminomas and nonseminomas, the two main histologic groups of testicular cancer... - Patterns of smoking in EstoniaKersti Pärna
Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Addiction 97:871-6. 2002..To describe the pattern of current smoking and its relation to socio-demographic factors in Estonia... - Hereditary minisatellite mutations among the offspring of Estonian Chernobyl cleanup workersAnne Kiuru
Research and Environmental Surveillance, STUK Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, P O Box 14, 00881 Helsinki, Finland
Radiat Res 159:651-5. 2003..04, 95% CI 0.94-1.15) or the sex of the child (OR 0.95, 95% CI 0.50-1.79). Our results are consistent with both no effect of radiation on minisatellite mutations and a slight increase at dose levels exceeding 20 cSv... - Randomized trial with fruits and vegetables in prevention of cancerKeyvan Tadjalli-Mehr
German Cancer Research Centre, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Heidelberg, Germany
Acta Oncol 42:287-93. 2003..For a comparably short period the Baltic countries offer a time-window for a randomized trial. It is unlikely that the costs of such a trial would considerably exceed the costs of the available chemoprevention trials... - Factors associated with Estonian adolescents' sexuality-related knowledge: Findings from the 1994 and 1999 KISS studiesKai Part
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Eur J Contracept Reprod Health Care 13:173-81. 2008..To identify changes in factors associated with Estonian adolescents' sexuality-related knowledge. The relationship between self-reported school sexuality education and good sexuality-related knowledge is addressed... - Effect of Estonian law on prospects for public health researchMati Rahu
Lancet 362:2122. 2003 - Comparison of knowledge, attitudes and behaviour regarding smoking among Estonian and Finnish physiciansKersti Pärna
Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Estonia
Soz Praventivmed 50:378-88. 2005..To compare smoking behaviour, attitudes and opinions towards smoking and smoking cessation among Estonian and Finnish physicians... - Tuberculosis during fundamental societal changes in Estonia with special reference to extrapulmonary manifestationsLea Pehme
Department of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Tartu, 167 Riia St, 51014 Tartu, Estonia
Chest 127:1289-95. 2005.... - Blinding decreased recruitment in a prevention trial of postmenopausal hormone therapyElina Hemminki
Health and Social Services, National Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health STAKES, P O Box 220, 00531 Helsinki, Finland
J Clin Epidemiol 57:1237-43. 2004..To compare the effect of blind design (active drug and placebo) and nonblind design (active drug and no treatment) on recruitment... - Prevalence of age-related maculopathy in older Europeans: the European Eye Study (EUREYE)Cristina A Augood
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England
Arch Ophthalmol 124:529-35. 2006..9%). The prevalence of bilateral AMD was 1.4% (95% CI, 1.0%-1.8%). CONCLUSION: Age-specific prevalences of age-related maculopathy in the European Eye Study (EUREYE) are similar to other population-based studies in Western populations... - Is a poor pregnancy outcome related to young maternal age? A study of teenagers in Estonia during the period of major socio-economic changes (from 1992 to 2002)Kai Haldre
Tartu University Women s Clinic, Lossi 36, 51003 Tartu, Estonia
Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 131:45-51. 2007.... - Comparison of management and 30-day mortality of acute myocardial infarction in men versus women in EstoniaTiia Bakler
Department of Cardiology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Acta Cardiol 59:275-81. 2004..The objective of the study was to compare the baseline characteristics, management and 30-day mortality of AMI in men and women in Estonia... - Factors related to patient delay in pulmonary tuberculosis in EstoniaLea Pehme
Department of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Tartu, Estonia
Scand J Infect Dis 38:1017-22. 2006..The study shows that even in absence of barriers in accessing health care, the median patient delay can be longer than in most former studies, whereas males and rural residents are at greater risk... - Methods for a population-based study of the prevalence of and risk factors for age-related maculopathy and macular degeneration in elderly European populations: the EUREYE studyCristina Augood
Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, UK
Ophthalmic Epidemiol 11:117-29. 2004..The main outcome measure is grading of fundus photographs (for stage and type of ARM, using the International ARM Epidemiological Study Group grading system)... - Impact of rapid socio-economic changes on teenage pregnancies in Estonia during 1992-2001Kai Haldre
Tartu University Women s Clinic, Tartu, Estonia
Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 84:425-31. 2005..In this article, the impact of the changes on the reproductive behavior of teenage girls, measured by adolescent fertility and abortion rates between 1992 and 2001, is analyzed...