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Effect of environmental and genetic factors on education-associated disparities in weight and weight gain: a study of Finnish adult twinsKarri Silventoinen
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 80:815-22. 2004..Disparities in body mass index (BMI) between persons with different educational levels in Western countries are well documented, but the background of these education-associated disparities remains poorly understood...- Appropriateness of anthropometric obesity indicators in assessment of coronary heart disease risk among Finnish men and womenKarri Silventoinen
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55454 1015, USA
Scand J Public Health 31:283-90. 2003..The aim of the study was to compare the appropriateness of different obesity indicators in the assessment of coronary heart disease (CHD) risk... - The association between body height and coronary heart disease among Finnish twins and singletonsKarri Silventoinen
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, USA
Int J Epidemiol 32:78-82. 2003..However, the mechanisms behind this association are still largely unknown. We will examine the role of genetic and familial factors behind the association in a large twin data set... - Assortative mating by body height and BMI: Finnish twins and their spousesKarri Silventoinen
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55454 1015, USA
Am J Hum Biol 15:620-7. 2003..Our results show that assortative mating needs to be considered in population genetic studies of body height and weight... - Heritability of body height and educational attainment in an international context: comparison of adult twins in Minnesota and FinlandKarri Silventoinen
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Am J Hum Biol 16:544-55. 2004..Nonfamilial factors affecting education are possibly different in Minnesota than in Finland, since in Finland they are partly associated with the factors affecting height... - Comparison of body mass index, waist circumference, and waist/hip ratio in predicting incident diabetes: a meta-analysisGabriela Vazquez
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 South Second Street, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Epidemiol Rev 29:115-28. 2007..Although the clinical perspective focusing on central obesity is appealing, further research is needed to determine the usefulness of waist circumference or waist/hip ratio over body mass index... - The Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire, body mass index, and responses to sweet and salty fatty foods: a twin study of genetic and environmental associationsKaisu Keskitalo
Departments of Food Technology and Mental Health and Alcohol Studies, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Am J Clin Nutr 88:263-71. 2008..The relation between body weight and energy-dense foods remains unclear... 
Combined genome scans for body stature in 6,602 European twins: evidence for common Caucasian lociMarkus Perola
Department of Molecular Medicine, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
PLoS Genet 3:e97. 2007..To facilitate the genetic studies of stature we have also set up a website that lists all stature genome scans published and their most significant loci (http://www.genomeutwin.org/stature_gene_map.htm)...- Genetic regulation of growth in height and weight from 3 to 12 years of age: a longitudinal study of Dutch twin childrenKarri Silventoinen
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Twin Res Hum Genet 10:354-63. 2007..Environmental factors affecting height and BMI during growth period are also important, and further studies are needed to identify these factors and test whether they interact with genetic factors... - 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... - Recurrent dieting and smoking among Finnish men and womenSuoma E Saarni
Department of Public Health, PO Box 41, University of Helsinki, and Department of Psychiatry, Helsinki University Hospital, Finland
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:1851-9. 2007..To examine the association of smoking with recurrent dieting and BMI among Finnish adults... - Genetic and environmental contributions to food use patterns of young adult twinsKaisu Keskitalo
Department of Food Technology, University of Helsinki, P O Box 66, FI 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
Physiol Behav 93:235-42. 2008..In addition, the results illuminate the importance of the sex-specific genetic effects on food use... 
Genetic influences on growth traits of BMI: a longitudinal study of adult twinsJacob v B Hjelmborg
Statistics and Epidemiology, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Obesity (Silver Spring) 16:847-52. 2008..To investigate the interplay between genetic factors influencing baseline level and changes in BMI in adulthood...- Does obesity modify the effect of blood pressure on the risk of cardiovascular disease? A population-based cohort study of more than one million Swedish menKarri Silventoinen
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Circulation 118:1637-42. 2008..Given the inconsistency of this result, we tested it using a large population-based cohort data set... - Heritability of body size and muscle strength in young adulthood: a study of one million Swedish menKarri Silventoinen
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Genet Epidemiol 32:341-9. 2008..This may have inflated heritability estimates in previous twin studies. Nonetheless, we showed that genetic factors affect muscle strength and part of these genes are common to different strength indicators and body size... - Genetics of pubertal timing and its associations with relative weight in childhood and adult height: the Swedish Young Male Twins StudyKarri Silventoinen
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Pediatrics 121:e885-91. 2008..Because the genetic background of these associations is not thoroughly investigated, we aimed to analyze it in a longitudinal twin cohort... - Genetic and environmental factors affecting self-rated health from age 16-25: a longitudinal study of Finnish twinsKarri Silventoinen
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, P O Box 41, Mannerheimintie 172, FIN 00014, Helsinki, Finland
Behav Genet 37:326-33. 2007..An important challenge for further research is to identify environmental influences contributing to self-rated health independently of, or in interaction with, genetic factors... - Association between height and coronary heart disease mortality: a prospective study of 35,000 twin pairsKarri Silventoinen
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Am J Epidemiol 163:615-21. 2006..14, 95% CI: 1.01, 1.28). The inverse association between height and CHD mortality found within monozygotic discordant twin pairs suggests that this association is because of environmental factors that directly affect height and CHD risk... - Joint effects of physical activity, body mass index, waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio with the risk of cardiovascular disease among middle-aged Finnish men and womenGang Hu
Diabetes and Genetic Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, National Public Health Institute, Mannerheimintie 166, FIN 00300 Helsinki, Finland
Eur Heart J 25:2212-9. 2004..To assess joint associations of physical activity and different indicators of obesity (body mass index, waist circumference, and waist-to-hip ratio) with the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD)... - gamma-Glutamyltransferase, obesity, and the risk of type 2 diabetes: observational cohort study among 20,158 middle-aged men and womenDuk Hee Lee
Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, 1Ga Dongin Dong, Jung Gu, Daegu, South Korea 700 422
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 89:5410-4. 2004..In conclusion, in women as well as men, serum GGT level within its normal range predicted type 2 diabetes and may modify the well-known association between body mass index and type 2 diabetes... - The validity of the Finnish Diabetes Risk Score for the prediction of the incidence of coronary heart disease and stroke, and total mortalityKarri Silventoinen
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil 12:451-8. 2005.... - Physical activity, body mass index, and risk of type 2 diabetes in patients with normal or impaired glucose regulationGang Hu
Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, National Public Health Institute, Mannerheimintie 166, FIN 00300 Helsinki, Finland
Arch Intern Med 164:892-6. 2004..Sedentary lifestyle, obesity, and impaired glucose regulation are associated with the risk of type 2 diabetes. However, the joint associations of these risk factors are not known... - Relative weight and income at different levels of socioeconomic statusSirpa Sarlio-Lähteenkorva
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland
Am J Public Health 94:468-72. 2004..We examined the association of relative weight with individual income at different levels of socioeconomic status among gainfully employed Finnish women and men... - Genetic and environmental influences on pubertal timing assessed by height growthKaroliina Wehkalampi
Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Helsinki University Hospital, 00290 Helsinki, Finland
Am J Hum Biol 20:417-23. 2008..Future comparison of the results of periodic evaluations allows estimation of possible changes in the effects of environment on timing of puberty. In such studies, HD:SDS can be used as a practical marker of pubertal timing... - Smoking cessation by socioeconomic status and marital status: the contribution of smoking behavior and family backgroundUlla Broms
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland
Nicotine Tob Res 6:447-55. 2004..91, 95% CI=1.02-15.02). Indicators of socioeconomic status were important predictors of smoking cessation even when we adjusted for previous smoking behavior. For men, marriage was associated with an increased probability of cessation.. - Genetic regulation of growth from birth to 18 years of age: the Swedish young male twins studyKarri Silventoinen
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Am J Hum Biol 20:292-8. 2008..These results suggest that genetic regulation of growth is rather uniform, which is encouraging for further efforts to identify genes affecting growth... - Same genetic components underlie different measures of sweet taste preferenceKaisu Keskitalo
Department of Food Technology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Am J Clin Nutr 86:1663-9. 2007..Sweet taste preferences are measured by several often correlated measures... - Determinants of variation in adult body heightKarri Silventoinen
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland
J Biosoc Sci 35:263-85. 2003..Future studies combining different scientific traditions in auxology are needed to create a more holistic view of body height... - Association between intelligence and coronary heart disease mortality: a population-based cohort study of 682 361 Swedish menKarri Silventoinen
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil 14:555-60. 2007..We investigated associations between intelligence and coronary heart disease mortality and explored if they are confounded or modified by socio-economic position... - Factors contributing to sense of coherence among men and womenSalla Maarit Volanen
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Finland
Eur J Public Health 14:322-30. 2004..e. childhood living conditions, work and family life, and social relationships, with sense of coherence (SOC) among Finnish men and women. A particular interest was devoted to interactions between sex and GRR... - Mental health functioning (SF-36) and intentions to retire early among ageing municipal employees: the Helsinki Health StudyKaroliina Harkonmäki
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland
Scand J Public Health 34:190-8. 2006..To examine the associations of mental health functioning with intentions to retire early among ageing municipal employees... - Selective international migration by social position, health behaviour and personalityKarri Silventoinen
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Eur J Public Health 18:150-5. 2008..We analysed differences in psycho-social and health behavioural factors between international migrants and non-migrants prior to migration in a large cohort of Finnish twins... - Genetic architecture of smoking behavior: a study of Finnish adult twinsUlla Broms
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland
Twin Res Hum Genet 9:64-72. 2006..This has implications for defining phenotypes in searches for genes underlying smoking behaviors... - Serum gamma-glutamyltransferase predicts non-fatal myocardial infarction and fatal coronary heart disease among 28,838 middle-aged men and womenDuk Hee Lee
Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Jung Gu, Daegu, South Korea 700 422
Eur Heart J 27:2170-6. 2006..This study examined if serum GGT predicted coronary heart disease (CHD), especially differentiating non-fatal myocardial infarction (MI) and fatal CHD event, among the general population or participants with type-2 diabetes... - Sense of coherence and its determinants: a comparative study of the Finnish-speaking majority and the Swedish-speaking minority in FinlandSalla Maarit Volanen
Department of Public Health, University of Turku, Finland
Scand J Public Health 34:515-25. 2006..This study investigated (1) the level of sense of coherence (SOC), (2) the structure of generalized resistance resources (GRRs), and (3) associations of GRRs with SOC among Finnish- and Swedish-speaking Finns... - The effects of childhood circumstances, adult socioeconomic status, and material circumstances on physical and mental functioning: a structural equation modelling approachMikko Laaksonen
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Ann Epidemiol 17:431-9. 2007..We sought to examine the importance of childhood circumstances, adult socioeconomic status, and material circumstances to physical and mental functioning among middle-aged women and men... - Food neophobia shows heritable variation in humansAntti Knaapila
Department of Food Technology, University of Helsinki, FI 00014, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Physiol Behav 91:573-8. 2007..The results from both populations suggest that about two thirds of variation in food neophobia is genetically determined... - 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... - 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... - [Genes, environment and intelligence]Karri Silventoinen
Duodecim 121:125-6. 2005 - Educational inequalities in the metabolic syndrome and coronary heart disease among middle-aged men and womenKarri Silventoinen
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, PO Box 41, Mannerheimintie 172, FIN 00014, Finland
Int J Epidemiol 34:327-34. 2005..We investigated this question in a prospective study of middle-aged men and women... - Heritability of adult body height: a comparative study of twin cohorts in eight countriesKarri Silventoinen
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland
Twin Res 6:399-408. 2003..Our results indicate that, in general, there are only minor differences in the genetic architecture of height between affluent Caucasian populations, especially among men...