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| Cinzia SartiSummaryAffiliation: National Public Health Institute Country: Finland Publications
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Are changes in mortality from stroke caused by changes in stroke event rates or case fatality? Results from the WHO MONICA ProjectCinzia Sarti
Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, National Public Health Institute, Mannerheimintie 166, 00300 Helsinki, Finland
Stroke 34:1833-40. 2003....
A genome-wide scan for type 1 diabetes susceptibility genes in nuclear families with multiple affected siblings in FinlandQing Qiao
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland
BMC Genet 8:84. 2007....- International trends in mortality from stroke, 1968 to 1994C Sarti
National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Stroke 31:1588-601. 2000..We present rates and trends in mortality from stroke up to 1994, with a particular emphasis on the last 10-year period. Data are presented for men and women in 51 industrialized and developing countries from different parts of the world... - The relationship between cholesterol and stroke: implications for antihyperlipidaemic therapy in older patientsC Sarti
Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Drugs Aging 17:33-51. 2000..The tolerability of lipid-lowering drugs in the elderly and the cost effectiveness of primary prevention of stroke using lipid-lowering drugs also needs to be assessed in the elderly... - The metabolic syndrome: prevalence, CHD risk, and treatmentCinzia Sarti
Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
J Diabetes Complications 20:121-32. 2006..This review examines the underlying causes and prevalence of the metabolic syndrome and its impact on CHD morbidity and mortality and discusses the role of statins in optimizing its management... - Body mass index, waist circumference, and waist-hip ratio on the risk of total and type-specific strokeGang Hu
Department of Health Promotion and Chronic Diseases Prevention, National Public Health Institute, Mannerheimintie 166, FIN 00300 Helsinki, Finland
Arch Intern Med 167:1420-7. 2007..Adiposity is an established risk factor for cardiovascular disease, but the relationship of adiposity with the risk of cerebrovascular disease is still to some extent unclear... - The impact of history of hypertension and type 2 diabetes at baseline on the incidence of stroke and stroke mortalityGang Hu
Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Stroke 36:2538-43. 2005..We evaluated prospectively the joint association of history of hypertension and type 2 diabetes on the incidence of stroke and stroke mortality... - Leisure time, occupational, and commuting physical activity and the risk of strokeGang Hu
Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Stroke 36:1994-9. 2005..We assessed the relationship of different types of physical activity with total and type-specific stroke risk... - New susceptibility loci associated with kidney disease in type 1 diabetesNiina Sandholm
Folkhalsan Institute of Genetics, Folkhalsan Research Center, Biomedicum Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
PLoS Genet 8:e1002921. 2012..1 × 10(-7)), a gene with type 2 diabetes DN differential expression and in the same intron as a variant with cis-eQTL expression of ERBB4. All these detected associations represent new signals in the pathogenesis of DN... - Population-based assessment of familial clustering of diabetic nephropathy in type 1 diabetesValma Harjutsalo
National Public Health Institute, Mannerheimintie 166, FIN 00300 Helsinki, Finland
Diabetes 53:2449-54. 2004..Although the majority of sibpairs with type 1 diabetes are discordant for DN, its presence in one sibling doubles the risk for the other diabetic siblings... - Continuous 15-year decrease in incidence and mortality of stroke in Finland: the FINSTROKE studyJuhani Sivenius
University Hospital of Kuopio, Brain Research and Rehabilitation Center Neuron, Kuopio, Finland
Stroke 35:420-5. 2004..The purpose of this study was to analyze the incidence and mortality trends in stroke events among persons 25 to 74 years of age in Finland during 1983 to 1997... - The prevention of dementia with antihypertensive treatment: new evidence from the Systolic Hypertension in Europe (Syst-Eur) studyFrancoise Forette
Department of Geriatrics, Hopital Broca, CHU Cochin, University of Paris V, 54 56 Rue Pascal, 75013 Paris, France
Arch Intern Med 162:2046-52. 2002..After the double-blind, placebo-controlled Systolic Hypertension in Europe (Syst-Eur) trial ended in February 1997, randomized patients were offered active study medication for a further period of observation... - Diabetes worsens the outcome of acute ischemic strokeMinna M Kaarisalo
Turku City Hospital, Turku, Finland
Diabetes Res Clin Pract 69:293-8. 2005..To characterize acute stroke events in diabetic patients in a population-based stroke register and to determine the influence of diabetes on the outcome of acute stroke... - Eleven-year trends of stroke in Turku, FinlandPirjo Immonen-Räihä
General Practice, Raisio Region Hospital, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
Neuroepidemiology 22:196-203. 2003..Due to an increase in elderly people in the background population, the total number of strokes remained stable. Thus, in spite of the observed declining trends in incidence, the need for stroke care has not diminished... - Declining incidence and mortality of stroke in persons aged > or = 75 years in Finland; the FINSTROKE studyAapo Lehtonen
Turku City Hospital, Turku, Finland
Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil 11:466-70. 2004..The aim of the present study was to analyse the trends in incidence, mortality and prognosis of acute stroke events in persons aged > or = 75 years in Finland... - Long-term mortality in nationwide cohorts of childhood-onset type 1 diabetes in Japan and FinlandKeiko Asao
Division of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Diabetes Care 26:2037-42. 2003..The increased risk of death from type 1 diabetes seems to vary by sex, age at diagnosis, and calendar time period of diagnosis. Further investigation, especially on cause-specific mortality, is warranted in the two countries... - Effects of immediate versus delayed antihypertensive therapy on outcome in the Systolic Hypertension in Europe TrialJan A Staessen
J Hypertens 22:847-57. 2004..Immediate compared with delayed treatment prevented 17 strokes or 25 major cardiovascular events per 1000 patients followed up for 6 years. These findings underscore the necessity of early treatment of isolated systolic hypertension... - A comparative study with rosuvastatin in subjects with metabolic syndrome: results of the COMETS studyAnton F H Stalenhoef
Department of Medicine, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Eur Heart J 26:2664-72. 2005..The efficacy and safety of rosuvastatin, atorvastatin, and placebo were compared in patients with the metabolic syndrome... - Predictive value of clinic and ambulatory heart rate for mortality in elderly subjects with systolic hypertensionPaolo Palatini
Clinica Medica 4, University of Padova, Via Giustiniani 2, 35128 Padua, Italy
Arch Intern Med 162:2313-21. 2002..To examine the association of clinic and ambulatory heart rate with total, cardiovascular, and noncardiovascular death in a cohort of elderly subjects with isolated systolic hypertension from the Systolic Hypertension in Europe Trial... - Quality of life on randomized treatment for isolated systolic hypertension: results from the Syst-Eur TrialAstrid E Fletcher
Centre for Ageing and Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
J Hypertens 20:2069-79. 2002..To compare quality of life in elderly patients with isolated systolic hypertension allocated randomly to groups to receive placebo or active treatment in the Systolic Hypertension in the Elderly Trial... - Prognostic significance of renal function in elderly patients with isolated systolic hypertension: results from the Syst-Eur trialPeter W de Leeuw
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
J Am Soc Nephrol 13:2213-22. 2002..It is concluded that higher levels of serum creatinine and trace or overt proteinuria are associated with an increased number of cardiovascular events and with a higher mortality in patients with isolated systolic hypertension... - Prognostic significance of electrocardiographic voltages and their serial changes in elderly with systolic hypertensionRobert H Fagard
Hypertension and Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Unit, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Hypertension 44:459-64. 2004..86; P< or =0.05), but not of stroke or mortality. In conclusion, electrocardiographic voltages at baseline and their serial changes during follow-up predict subsequent events in older patients with systolic hypertension...