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Traffic deaths and superstition on Friday the 13thSimo Näyhä
Department of Public Health Science and General Practice, University of Oulu, Oulu FIN 00014, Finland
Am J Psychiatry 159:2110-1. 2002..This study compared deaths from traffic accidents on Friday the 13th with those on other Fridays in a national population...- Heat mortality in Finland in the 2000sSimo Näyhä
Department of Public Health Science and General Practice, University of Oulu, Finland
Int J Circumpolar Health 66:418-24. 2007..To estimate the magnitude of heat-related mortality in Finland in the 2000s... - Environmental temperature and mortalitySimo Näyhä
Department of Public Health Science and General Practice, University of Oulu, Finland
Int J Circumpolar Health 64:451-8. 2005..Both cold and heat are significant public health hazards which should be taken into account in health care and education of health professionals... - Suicide mortality in Finnish Lapland by small areas, with reference to temporal trendsSimo Näyhä
Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Int J Circumpolar Health 68:224-34. 2009..To determine the regional patterns and the temporal trends of suicides in Finnish Lapland... 
Smoking differences between employees in faculties of the University of Tartu, Estonia, and changes during the country's transitionSimo Näyhä
Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, POB 5000, Finland
BMC Public Health 11:153. 2011..The present study was conducted to see whether such differences still exist and how the patterns had changed during the country's first transitional decade...
Cold-related symptoms among the healthy and sick of the general population: National FINRISK Study data, 2002S Nayha
Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, Finland
Public Health 125:380-8. 2011..To determine the prevalence of cold-related symptoms among the general population, especially people with pre-existing diseases...- Association of modic changes, Schmorl's nodes, spondylolytic defects, high-intensity zone lesions, disc herniations, and radial tears with low back symptom severity among young Finnish adultsJani Takatalo
Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 37:1231-9. 2012..A cross-sectional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study... - Does lumbar disc degeneration on magnetic resonance imaging associate with low back symptom severity in young Finnish adults?Jani Takatalo
Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 36:2180-9. 2011..A cross-sectional magnetic resonance imaging study with questionnaires on low back pain (LBP) and functional limitations... - Prevalence of cold-related complaints, symptoms and injuries in the general population: the FINRISK 2002 cold substudyVeli Pekka Raatikka
Department of Public Health Science and General Practice, University of Oulu, P O Box 5000, 90014 Oulu, Finland
Int J Biometeorol 51:441-8. 2007.... - Association of abdominal obesity with lumbar disc degeneration--a magnetic resonance imaging studyJani Takatalo
Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
PLoS ONE 8:e56244. 2013..To evaluate whether midsagittal (abdominal) obesity in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), waist circumference (WC) and body fat percentage are associated with lumbar disc degeneration in early adulthood... - Cold-related respiratory symptoms in the general populationTerttu Harju
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Clin Respir J 4:176-85. 2010..However, the prevalence of such symptoms in the general population and the threshold temperatures at which the symptoms start to emerge are poorly known... - Real-life epidemiology of food allergy testing in Finnish childrenKaisa Pyrhönen
Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Pediatr Allergy Immunol 22:361-8. 2011..However, the occurrence and determinants of FA testing in a general child population have remained unknown... - Occurrence of frostbite in the general population--work-related and individual factorsTiina M Mäkinen
Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, PO Box 5000, Oulu 90014, Finland
Scand J Work Environ Health 35:384-93. 2009..To examine the occurrence of frostbite in the general population and the related risk factors... - 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... - Health and well-being of movers in rural and urban areas--a grid-based analysis of northern Finland birth cohort 1966Tiina Lankila
Department of Geography, University of Oulu, Finland Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Soc Sci Med 76:169-78. 2013.... - Recurrent traumatic brain injury is predicted by the index injury occurring under the influence of alcoholSatu Winqvist
Department of Neurology, University of Oulu, Finland
Brain Inj 22:780-5. 2008..Little is known of the role of alcohol intoxication as a risk factor for recurrent traumatic brain injuries (TBI). This study was a population-based longitudinal study to investigate this problem... - Prevalence of degenerative imaging findings in lumbar magnetic resonance imaging among young adultsJani Takatalo
Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 34:1716-21. 2009..A cross-sectional imaging study of young adults... - Obesity and low-grade inflammation among young Finnish men with early-onset alopeciaPäivi Hirsso
University of Oulu, Department of Public Health Science and General Practice, Oulu, Finland
Dermatology 214:125-9. 2007..Previous investigations have revealed an association of androgenetic alopecia (AGA), especially in younger subjects with severe early-onset AGA, with ischemic heart disease... - Cold and the risk of cardiovascular diseases. A reviewSimo Näyhä
Oulu Regional Institute of Occupational Health, Department of Public Health Science and General Practice, University of Oulu, Finland
Int J Circumpolar Health 61:373-80. 2002..In Finland the winter excess mortality from coronary heart disease has been levelling off during recent decades, but it still represents approximately 6% of annual deaths due to this condition... - Occurrence of parent-reported food hypersensitivities and food allergies among children aged 1-4 yrKaisa Pyrhönen
Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Pediatr Allergy Immunol 20:328-38. 2009.... - Adolescents' physical activity in relation to family income and parents' educationMarko T Kantomaa
Department of Public Health Science and General Practice, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Prev Med 44:410-5. 2007..This study aimed to evaluate the relationship of family income and parents' level of education with physical activity in Finnish adolescents... - Factors affecting outdoor exposure in winter: population-based studyTiina M Mäkinen
Centre for Arctic Medicine, Thule Institute, University of Oulu, P O Box 5000, 90014, University of Oulu, Finland
Int J Biometeorol 51:27-36. 2006..In conclusion, the subjects reported spending 4% of their total time under cold exposure, most of it (71%) during leisure time. Both occupational and leisure-time cold exposure is greater among men than women... - Heredity of food allergies in an unselected child population: an epidemiological survey from FinlandKaisa Pyrhönen
South Karelia District of Social and Health Services, Lappeenranta, Finland
Pediatr Allergy Immunol 22:e124-32. 2011..2-1.4) for each additional allergic manifestation in the parents. Positive FA tests in the offspring were relatively strongly associated with the reports of allergic phenotypes and the number of these phenotypes in their biologic parents... - SKARP--A population-based cohort study of childhood food-associated symptoms perceived by parents and food allergies diagnosed by physicians: design, methods and participationKaisa Pyrhönen
South Karelia District of Social and Health Services, Lappeenranta, Finland
Scand J Public Health 39:194-202. 2011..Few epidemiological studies exist on food-associated symptoms and allergies in large unselected child populations... - [Exposure to cold and the symptoms thereof]Mika Rytkönen
Oulun yliopisto, Arktisen lääketieteen keskus, Thule Instituutti, Oulun yliopisto
Duodecim 121:419-23. 2005 - Self-reported health in urban-rural continuum: a grid-based analysis of Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966Tiina Lankila
Department of Geography, University of Oulu, PO Box 3000, 90014, Oulu, Finland
Int J Public Health 57:525-33. 2012..To evaluate the association of self-reported health with residential area type defined by the population density in individual's local environment using a population-based cohort in Finland... - Are sunlight deprivation and influenza epidemics associated with the onset of acute leukemia?Timo Timonen
Department of Internal Medicine, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
Haematologica 92:1553-6. 2007..Reoccurring at the same time annually, darkness-related vitamin D deficiency and influenza could cause successive and co-operative mutations leading to AL with a short latency... - 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... - Cause-specific mortality of grand multiparous women in FinlandMarianne Hinkula
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oulu University Hospital, University of Oulu, PL 24, FIN 90029 OYS, Oulu, Finland
Am J Epidemiol 163:367-73. 2006..08, 1.13) was increased. According to this study, overall mortality among grand multiparous women is not elevated. Low mortality from cancers is offset by higher mortality from cardiovascular conditions and diabetes mellitus... - Incidence of frostbite and ambient temperature in Finland, 1986-1995. A national study based on hospital admissionsKimmo Juopperi
Oulu Regional Institute of Occupational Health, Oulu, Finland
Int J Circumpolar Health 61:352-62. 2002..The association of frostbite with ambient temperature in Finland is not known. The present study determined the incidence of frostbite and its association with sex, age and ambient temperature in a nationwide sample... - Smoking differences between university faculties in Tartu, Estonia, and Oulu, Finland, after the disruption of communismRauno Heikkinen
Department of Physiology, University of Oulu, Finland
Soz Praventivmed 51:381-91. 2006..g. sports). The relatively high percentage of smokers in the Tartu medical faculty compared with that in Oulu can be interpreted as delayed diffusion of medical information beyond the former Iron Curtain... - 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...