Author: Henok Karvonen

BMC Endocr Disord. 2022 Nov 18;22(1):284. doi: 10.1186/s12902-022-01197-y. ABSTRACT PURPOSE: To investigate whether exposure to systemic antibiotics influences the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and overweight/obesity. METHODS: The study sample comprised 2209 (110 with incident diabetes) participants from the population-based Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study (YFS) aged 24-39…

Neuropsychology. 2023 Jan;37(1):64-76. doi: 10.1037/neu0000877. Epub 2022 Nov 17. ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: An adverse psychosocial environment in childhood may harm cognitive development, but the associations for adulthood cognitive function remain obscure. We tested the hypothesis that adverse childhood psychosocial factors associate with poor cognitive function in midlife by leveraging the prospective…

Neurology. 2023 Feb 7;100(6):e568-e581. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000201489. Epub 2022 Nov 16. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Whether chronic autoimmune inflammatory diseases causally affect the risk of Alzheimer disease (AD) is controversial. We characterized the relationship between inflammatory diseases and risk of AD and explored the role of circulating inflammatory biomarkers in the…

Scand J Med Sci Sports. 2023 Mar;33(3):307-318. doi: 10.1111/sms.14261. Epub 2022 Nov 16. ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: Physical activity benefits cardiometabolic health, but little is known about its detailed links with serum lipoproteins, amino acids, and glucose metabolism at young age. We therefore studied the association of physical activity with a comprehensive…

J Hypertens. 2023 Jan 1;41(1):187-193. doi: 10.1097/HJH.0000000000003320. Epub 2022 Oct 27. ABSTRACT OBJECTIVES: Retirement is a major life event characterized by removal of work-related stressors and changes in health behaviours. The association between retirement and changes in blood pressure (BP), and particularly in ambulatory BP, has been scarcely studied. We…

Eur J Oral Sci. 2022 Dec;130(6):e12897. doi: 10.1111/eos.12897. Epub 2022 Oct 27. ABSTRACT We evaluated associations between dental anxiety and four temperament dimensions: effortful control, extraversion/surgency, negative affect and orienting sensitivity among 2558 parents in the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study. Dental anxiety was measured with the Modified Dental Anxiety Scale,…

Dis Model Mech. 2022 Oct 1;15(10):dmm049490. doi: 10.1242/dmm.049490. Epub 2022 Oct 26. ABSTRACT Isolated populations have been valuable for the discovery of rare monogenic diseases and their causative genetic variants. Finnish disease heritage (FDH) is an example of a group of hereditary monogenic disorders caused by single major, usually autosomal-recessive,…

Nordisk Alkohol Nark. 2022 Oct;39(5):568-584. doi: 10.1177/14550725221096908. Epub 2022 Jun 9. ABSTRACT Background and aim: Use of nicotine can harm adolescents’ brains and increase risk for future addiction to other drugs. Several international studies show that an acceptable attitude towards nicotine products increases the initiation or use of the products.

Eur J Nutr. 2023 Mar;62(2):847-856. doi: 10.1007/s00394-022-03035-2. Epub 2022 Oct 25. ABSTRACT PURPOSE: The aim was to study the associations between dietary intake of fatty acids in childhood and the risk of islet autoimmunity and type 1 diabetes (T1D). METHODS: The prospective Finnish Type 1 Diabetes Prediction and Prevention (DIPP)…

Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2023 Apr 20;123:110720. doi: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2023.110720. Epub 2023 Jan 14. ABSTRACT Recent advances in genome-wide association studies have enabled the estimation of genetic risk of complex traits, including neuroticism, with polygenic risk scores (PRS). Neuroticism PRS has been associated with psychiatric disorders and symptoms in adults, but…