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| Tuija TammelinSummaryAffiliation: Finnish Institute of Occupational Health Country: Finland Publications
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Adolescent participation in sports and adult physical activityTuija Tammelin
Oulu Regional Institute of Occupational Health, Oulu, Finland
Am J Prev Med 24:22-8. 2003..We evaluated the association between participation in different types of adolescent sports and physical activity in adulthood...- Physical activity and social status in adolescence as predictors of physical inactivity in adulthoodTuija Tammelin
Oulu Regional Institute of Occupational Health, Oulu, Finland
Prev Med 37:375-81. 2003..Physical inactivity is related to an increased risk of certain chronic diseases. The aim here was to evaluate how physical activity and social status in adolescence are associated with physical inactivity in adulthood... - Change in the level of physical activity from adolescence into adulthood and obesity at the age of 31 yearsT Tammelin
Oulu Regional Institute of Occupational Health, Oulu, Finland
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 28:775-82. 2004..To evaluate how a change in the level of leisure-time physical activity from adolescence into adulthood is associated with overall and abdominal obesity at the age of 31 y... - A review of longitudinal studies on youth predictors of adulthood physical activityTuija Tammelin
Oulu Regional Institute of Occupational Health, Laboratory of Physiology, Oulu, Finland
Int J Adolesc Med Health 17:3-12. 2005..This literature review is also addressed to researchers to provide ideas for further studies in this area... - Physical activity and sedentary behaviors among Finnish youthTuija Tammelin
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Oulu, Finland
Med Sci Sports Exerc 39:1067-74. 2007..d(-1)) and to examine associations between physical activity and different sedentary behaviors... 
Impact of self-reported musculoskeletal pain on health-related quality of life among young adultsMarkus Paananen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Aapistie 1, Oulu, Finland
Pain Med 12:9-17. 2011..To investigate how self-reported musculoskeletal pain and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are associated among young adults...
Body mass index is associated with lumbar disc degeneration in young Finnish males: subsample of Northern Finland birth cohort study 1986Jani Takatalo
Institute of Clinical Medicine, Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Oulu, PL 5000, Oulu, 90014, Finland
BMC Musculoskelet Disord 14:87. 2013..Therefore, we investigated whether body mass index (BMI), smoking, and physical activity are associated with lumbar DD among young adults...- Neck and shoulder pains in relation to physical activity and sedentary activities in adolescenceJuha Auvinen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Oulu, Finland
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 32:1038-44. 2007..A cross-sectional survey among adolescents aged 15-16 years... - Occupational physical activity is related to physical fitness in young workersTuija Tammelin
Oulu Regional Institute of Occupational Health, Finland
Med Sci Sports Exerc 34:158-65. 2002..We evaluated the association between occupational physical activity and fitness in young workers, taking into account leisure-time physical activity, body size, and smoking... - Cardiorespiratory fitness of males and females of northern Finland birth cohort of 1966 at age 31T Tammelin
Oulu Regional Institute of Occupational Health, 90220 Oulu, Finland
Int J Sports Med 25:547-52. 2004..These reference values can be used in the interpretation of fitness test results and in physical activity counselling... - Classification of Work Ability Index among young employeesVeikko Kujala
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health Oulu, Finland
Occup Med (Lond) 55:399-401. 2005..The reference values of the Work Ability Index (WAI) are best known for people aged over 45 years. However, the WAI score is highly dependent on age and population-based reference values for young employees are needed... - Cardiorespiratory fitness of finnish adolescentsT Tammelin
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Oulu, Finland
Int J Sports Med 28:853-9. 2007..Reference values of cardiorespiratory fitness were provided for 2690 males and 2685 females aged 15 to 16 years... - Work ability index of young employees and their sickness absence during the following yearVeikko Kujala
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Aapistie 1, FI 90220 Oulu, Finland
Scand J Work Environ Health 32:75-84. 2006..The work ability index is widely used in occupational health care. The aim of this study was to determine the extent to which a low index among young employees is predictive of sickness absence during the following year... - Metabolic signatures of insulin resistance in 7,098 young adultsPeter Würtz
Computational Medicine Research Group, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Diabetes 61:1372-80. 2012..0005). Nonetheless, metabolic signatures extending beyond obesity and lipid abnormalities reflected the degree of insulin resistance evidenced in young, normoglycemic adults with sex-specific fingerprints... - Associations of physical activity and inactivity with low back pain in adolescentsJ Auvinen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Oulu and Helsinki, Finland
Scand J Med Sci Sports 18:188-94. 2008..We conclude that very active participation in physical activities in both sexes and a high amount of sitting in girls are related to self-reported LBP... - Prevalence of metabolic syndrome at age 16 using the International Diabetes Federation paediatric definitionJ Pirkola
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
Arch Dis Child 93:945-51. 2008....