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Genomes and GenesSpecies | A Keski-RahkonenSummaryAffiliation: University of Helsinki Country: Finland Publications
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Are computer and cell phone use associated with body mass index and overweight? A population study among twin adolescentsHanna Reetta Lajunen
Dept of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
BMC Public Health 7:24. 2007..Overweight in children and adolescents has reached dimensions of a global epidemic during recent years. Simultaneously, information and communication technology use has rapidly increased...- Serotonin transporter binding of [123I]ADAM in bulimic women, their healthy twin sisters, and healthy women: a SPET studyAnu K Koskela
Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, HUSLAB Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
BMC Psychiatry 7:19. 2007..We hypothesized clearly reduced SERT binding in BN women as opposed to healthy women, and intermediate SERT binding in unaffected co-twins... 
Incidence and outcomes of bulimia nervosa: a nationwide population-based studyA Keski-Rahkonen
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland
Psychol Med 39:823-31. 2009..Little is known about the epidemiology of bulimia nervosa outside clinical settings. We report the incidence, prevalence and outcomes of bulimia nervosa using for the first time a nationwide study design...
Epidemiology and course of anorexia nervosa in the communityAnna Keski-Rahkonen
Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Am J Psychiatry 164:1259-65. 2007..The authors sought to describe the onset and outcomes of anorexia nervosa in the general population...- Breakfast skipping and health-compromising behaviors in adolescents and adultsA Keski-Rahkonen
Department of Public Health, PO Box 41, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
Eur J Clin Nutr 57:842-53. 2003..To investigate which sociodemographic factors and behaviors are associated with breakfast skipping in adolescents and adults... - Eating styles, overweight and obesity in young adult twinsA Keski-Rahkonen
Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Eur J Clin Nutr 61:822-9. 2007..To explore the association of eating styles with overweight and obesity in young adults, controlling for identical genetic background in monozygotic twins... - Reliability of self-reported eating disorders: Optimizing population screeningAnna Keski-Rahkonen
Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
Int J Eat Disord 39:754-62. 2006..The objective of this study was to assess whether short self-report eating disorder screening questions are useful population screening methods... - Intentional weight loss in young adults: sex-specific genetic and environmental effectsAnna Keski-Rahkonen
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland
Obes Res 13:745-53. 2005..To explore eating styles associated with intentional weight loss (IWL) and to determine whether the genetic liability in IWL is entirely shared with genetic liability affecting BMI... - The process of recovery in eating disorder sufferers' own words: an Internet-based studyAnna Keski-Rahkonen
Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
Int J Eat Disord 37:S80-6; discussion S87-9. 2005..Internet-based support groups have many potential therapeutic applications. Motivational aspects need to be taken into account in promoting recovery... - Body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness in young adult twinsAnna Keski-Rahkonen
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Int J Eat Disord 37:188-99. 2005..We explored correlates of the Eating Disorder Inventory subscales Body Dissatisfaction (BD) and Drive for Thinness (DT) and genetic and environmental influences on these traits... - Genetic and environmental factors in breakfast eating patternsAnna Keski-Rahkonen
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland
Behav Genet 34:503-14. 2004..Cultural transmission was nonsignificant. The relative influence of genetic and family factors on adolescent breakfast eating frequency differs by sex and is generation-specific... 
Genetic and environmental effects on body mass index during adolescence: a prospective study among Finnish twinsH R Lajunen
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Int J Obes (Lond) 33:559-67. 2009..To study genetic and environmental factors affecting body mass index (BMI) and BMI phenotypic correlations across adolescence...- Muscle dissatisfaction and muscle-enhancing substance use: a population-based twin study in young adult menAnu Raevuori
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland
Twin Res Hum Genet 9:431-7. 2006..Both genetic and unique (nonfamilial) environmental factors are involved in muscle dissatisfaction in the population. Nongenetic factors (both familial and nonfamilial) appear to best explain the use of muscle-enhancing substances... - Brain serotonin transporter binding of [123I]ADAM: within-subject variation between summer and winter dataAnu Koskela
Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, HUSLAB Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
Chronobiol Int 25:657-65. 2008..Our results suggest that factors other than season are more important in causing within-subject variation of brain SERT binding between summer and winter... - Prospective associations of early-onset Axis I disorders with developing eating disordersElina Sihvola
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Compr Psychiatry 50:20-5. 2009..The purpose of this study is to analyze the developmental relationships of adolescent-onset Axis I mental disorders and eating disorders (EDs)... - Lifetime anorexia nervosa in young men in the community: five cases and their co-twinsAnu Raevuori
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Int J Eat Disord 41:458-63. 2008..To describe patterns, comorbidity, and outcomes from a case series of anorexia nervosa (AN) among young men from the general population and their co-twins... - Genetic and environmental factors affecting self-esteem from age 14 to 17: a longitudinal study of Finnish twinsAnu Raevuori
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland
Psychol Med 37:1625-33. 2007..We analysed genetic and environmental influences on self-esteem and its stability in adolescence... - Minor depression in adolescence: phenomenology and clinical correlatesElina Sihvola
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland
J Affect Disord 97:211-8. 2007.... - Anorexia and bulimia nervosa in same-sex and opposite-sex twins: lack of association with twin type in a nationwide study of Finnish twinsAnu Raevuori
Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Dr, Unit 23, New York, NY 10032, USA
Am J Psychiatry 165:1604-10. 2008.... - Epidemiology of anorexia nervosa in men: a nationwide study of Finnish twinsAnu Raevuori
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
PLoS ONE 4:e4402. 2009..To examine the epidemiology of anorexia nervosa in men, we screened Finnish male twins born in 1975-79... - Leisure activity patterns and their associations with overweight: a prospective study among adolescentsHanna Reetta Lajunen
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
J Adolesc 32:1089-103. 2009..Studying leisure activities related to overweight may help focus specific interventions on high risk groups... - Brain serotonin 1A receptor binding in bulimia nervosaJari Tiihonen
Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Biol Psychiatry 55:871-3. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that brain 5-HT(1A) receptor binding is increased in several cortical areas in patients with bulimia nervosa during their state of impulsive binge eating... - A practice guideline for treatment of eating disorders in children and adolescentsHanna Ebeling
Unit for Child Psychiatry, University of Oulu, University Hospital of Oulu, PO Box 26, FIN-90029 OYS, Finland
Ann Med 35:488-501. 2003..Medication is useful in the treatment of bulimia nervosa and certain comorbid symptoms of anorexia nervosa. Early admission to treatment and active therapy are associated with a more favourable prognosis... - Genetic epidemiology, endophenotypes, and eating disorder classificationCynthia M Bulik
Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 7160, USA
Int J Eat Disord 40:S52-60. 2007..To explore how genetic epidemiology has informed the identification of endophenotypes and how endophenotypes may inform future classification of eating disorders...