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| M VirtanenSummaryAffiliation: Finnish Institute of Occupational Health Country: Finland Publications
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Serum adiponectin and progression of diabetic nephropathy in patients with type 1 diabetesMarkku Saraheimo
Folkhalsan Institute of Genetics, Folkhalsan Research Center, Biomedicum Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Diabetes Care 31:1165-9. 2008..The purpose of this study was to elucidate whether serum adiponectin is associated with progression of diabetic nephropathy in type 1 diabetic patients...
From insecure to secure employment: changes in work, health, health related behaviours, and sickness absenceM Virtanen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Department of Psychology, Topeliuksenkatu 41 a A, FIN 00250 Helsinki, Finland
Occup Environ Med 60:948-53. 2003..To determine whether change in employment status (from fixed term to permanent employment) is followed by changes in work, health, health related behaviours, and sickness absence...
Temporary employment and health: a reviewMarianna Virtanen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland
Int J Epidemiol 34:610-22. 2005..We aimed to review evidence on the relationship between temporary employment and health, and to see whether the association is dependent on outcome measure, instability of employment, and contextual factors...- Selection from fixed term to permanent employment: prospective study on health, job satisfaction, and behavioural risksM Virtanen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
J Epidemiol Community Health 56:693-9. 2002..To examine health, job satisfaction, and behavioural risks as antecedents of selection from fixed term to permanent employment... - Job strain as a predictor of disability pension: the Finnish Public Sector StudyS Laine
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 a A, FI 00250 Helsinki, Finland
J Epidemiol Community Health 63:24-30. 2009..To examine whether high job strain (a combination of high job demands and low job control) is a risk factor for disability pension... - Contribution of non-work and work-related risk factors to the association between income and mental disorders in a working population: the Health 2000 StudyM Virtanen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 aA, FI 00250 Helsinki, Finland
Occup Environ Med 65:171-8. 2008..To examine the contribution of non-work and work factors to the association between income and DSM-IV depressive and anxiety disorders in a working population... - Workplace social capital and co-occurrence of lifestyle risk factors: the Finnish Public Sector StudyA Väänänen
Centre of Expertise for Work Organizations, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 a A, FI 00250 Helsinki, Finland
Occup Environ Med 66:432-7. 2009.... - Work disability following major organisational change: the Whitehall II studyM Virtanen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Unit of Epertise for Work Organizations, Helsinki, FIN 00250, Finland
J Epidemiol Community Health 64:461-4. 2010..We examined whether a major organisational change--the transfer of public sector work to executive agencies run on private sector lines--was associated with an increased risk of work disability... - Increased absence due to sickness among employees with fibromyalgiaM Kivimaki
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 aA, FI 00250 Helsinki, Finland
Ann Rheum Dis 66:65-9. 2007..Little is known about the effect of fibromyalgia on absence due to sickness in working populations... - Sickness absence among female employees with migraine and co-existing conditionsK Maki
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Cephalalgia 28:1136-44. 2008..15 to 1.23. These findings suggest that migraine is associated with increased risk of recorded sickness absence independent of depression and respiratory disorders... - The association between team climate at work and mental health in the Finnish Health 2000 StudyM Sinokki
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Lemminkäisenkatu 14 18 B, FI 20520 Turku, Finland
Occup Environ Med 66:523-8. 2009..This study investigated whether team climate at work was associated with DSM-IV depressive, anxiety and alcohol use disorders and subsequent antidepressant medication in a random sample of Finnish employees... - Occupational burnout as a predictor of disability pension: a population-based cohort studyK Ahola
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland
Occup Environ Med 66:284-90; discussion 282-3. 2009..The diagnosis for which the disability pension was granted was also examined in relation to the level of burnout... - Measles history and atopic diseases: a population-based cross-sectional studyM Paunio
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland
JAMA 283:343-6. 2000..Many recent cross-sectional studies have suggested that lack of early exposure to communicable diseases, including measles, in affluent countries may have increased rates of atopic disease... - Sickness absence as a risk factor for job termination, unemployment, and disability pension among temporary and permanent employeesM Virtanen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Department of Psychology, Helsinki, Finland
Occup Environ Med 63:212-7. 2006..This study examined sickness absence as a risk factor for job termination, unemployment, and disability pension among temporary and permanent workers... - Workplace bullying and the risk of cardiovascular disease and depressionM Kivimaki
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, PO Box 9, FIN 00014, Finland
Occup Environ Med 60:779-83. 2003..To examine exposure to workplace bullying as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and depression in employees... - Work stress and new-onset migraine in a female employee populationK Maki
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Cephalalgia 28:18-25. 2008..2%. If the observed association is causal, our findings suggest that high effort-reward imbalance might function as a modifiable risk factor for new-onset migraine... - Contingent employment, health and sickness absenceM Virtanen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Department of Psychology, Helsinki
Scand J Work Environ Health 27:365-72. 2001..This study explored the health and sickness absences of contingent employees... - Association between organizational inequity and incidence of psychiatric disorders in female employeesM Kivimaki
University of Helsinki, Department of Psychology, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland
Psychol Med 33:319-26. 2003..It also refers to respectful and considerate treatment of individuals by supervisors (relational justice)... - A national short-term follow-Up study of extremely low birth weight infants born in Finland in 1996-1997V Tommiska
Hospital for Children and Adolescents, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Pediatrics 107:E2. 2001..abstract truncated).. - Effort/reward imbalance and sedentary lifestyle: an observational study in a large occupational cohortA Kouvonen
Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Occup Environ Med 63:422-7. 2006..To investigate the association between effort/reward imbalance (ERI) at work and sedentary lifestyle... - Sickness absence among Finnish special and general education teachersJ Ervasti
Centre of Expertise for Work Organizations, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 a A, FI 00250 Helsinki, Finland
Occup Med (Lond) 61:465-71. 2011..e. sickness absence), remains scarce. It is possible that teachers are not a homogeneous group but include subgroups with particularly high risk of sickness absence, such as special education teachers... - A comparison of prospective and retrospective assessments of diet in a study of colorectal cancerN Malila
National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Nutr Cancer 32:146-53. 1998.... - Violence and psychological distress among police officers and security guardsT M Leino
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41aA, FI 00250 Helsinki, Finland
Occup Med (Lond) 61:400-6. 2011..Still research on specific forms of violence and a potential pathway through which violence may affect distress is scarce... - Job strain in relation to body mass index: pooled analysis of 160 000 adults from 13 cohort studiesS T Nyberg
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki
J Intern Med 272:65-73. 2012..Evidence of an association between job strain and obesity is inconsistent, mostly limited to small-scale studies, and does not distinguish between categories of underweight or obesity subclasses... - Lifetime alcohol consumption and breast cancer: a case-control study in FinlandS Mannisto
National Public Health Institute, Department of Nutrition, Helsinki, Finland
Public Health Nutr 3:11-8. 2000..To study the association between lifetime alcohol consumption and the risk of breast cancer... - Intake of flavonols and flavones and risk of coronary heart disease in male smokersT Hirvonen
Department of Nutrition, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Epidemiology 12:62-7. 2001..89 (95% confidence interval = 0.71-1.11). Thus, intake of flavonols and flavones was inversely associated with nonfatal myocardial infarction, whereas there was a weaker association with coronary death... - Multiple norovirus outbreaks among workplace canteen users in Finland, July 2006P Makary
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, National Public Health Institute KTL, Helsinki, Finland
Epidemiol Infect 137:402-7. 2009..Tracing back the vegetables to the farm level proved unsuccessful. This was the largest foodborne norovirus outbreak in Finland... - Acute infections, infection pressure, and atopyM Paunio
Department of Health, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Helsinki, Finland
Clin Exp Allergy 36:634-9. 2006..We thus investigated associations between acute infections, infection pressure (i.e. number of daily child contacts) and atopy in one of the largest population-based medical surveys ever published in the medical literature... - A national two year follow up study of extremely low birthweight infants born in 1996-1997V Tommiska
Hospital for Children and Adolescents, University of Helsinki, Finland
Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 88:F29-35. 2003..The prognosis in the regional subcohort seemed to improve during the short study period, but this needs to be confirmed... - Lipid abnormalities predict progression of renal disease in patients with type 1 diabetesN Tolonen
Folkhalsan Institute of Genetics, Folkhalsan Research Center, University of Helsinki, Biomedicum Helsinki C318b, Haartmaninkatu 8, PO Box 63, 00014, Helsinki, Finland
Diabetologia 52:2522-30. 2009..We studied the impact of baseline lipid variables on the progression of renal disease in a large nationwide prospective cohort of patients with type 1 diabetes... - Dietary and serum alpha-tocopherol, beta-carotene and retinol, and risk for colorectal cancer in male smokersN Malila
National Public Health Institute, Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Helsinki, Finland
Eur J Clin Nutr 56:615-21. 2002..To study the association between dietary and serum antioxidant vitamins and carotenoids and risk for colorectal cancer in male smokers... - Organizational fairness and psychological distress in hospital physiciansR Sutinen
Occupational Health Unit, Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa, Finland
Scand J Public Health 30:209-15. 2002..We explored whether problems in decision-making procedures and treatment of employees, as expressed in the theory of organizational fairness, may contribute to psychological distress in hospital physicians... - Work stress and health in primary health care physicians and hospital physiciansP Virtanen
Tampere School of Public Health, 33014 University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
Occup Environ Med 65:364-6. 2008..Method: A cohort of 226 GPs and 523 consultants from Finland responded to a questionnaire survey. The responses were linked to data on registered sickness absence... - Dietscan: a common approach for analysing dietary patternsH F Balder
Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
IARC Sci Publ 156:27-9. 2002 - Increased sickness absence in diabetic employees: what is the role of co-morbid conditions?M Kivimaki
International Institute for Society and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Diabet Med 24:1043-8. 2007..Diabetes is thought to be associated with increased risk of sickness absence in working populations. We examined the contribution of co-morbidity to this association... - Intakes of fruits and vegetables, carotenoids and vitamins A, E, C in relation to the risk of bladder cancer in the ATBC cohort studyD S Michaud
Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
Br J Cancer 87:960-5. 2002..These findings suggest that fruit and vegetable intakes are not likely to be associated with bladder cancer risk. However, these results may not be generalisable to non-smokers...