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The lecture is part of the Master of Public Health graduate program, but open to all interested.

Kivipelto was awarded for her groundbreaking work on the world’s first global initiative for preventing dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. With the prize funding, the researchers will study the potential benefit of metformin treatment added to lifestyle interventions.

Tasks measuring cognitive functions were best performed by older adults who participated in the lifestyle programme activities at least half of the time.

You, too, could be suffering from fatty liver – even if you don’t drink any alcohol. Often, weight gain causes fat to build up in the liver, but also genes, gut microbes, and even environmental chemicals play a role.

Some migrant-origin women have a lower likelihood of cervical cancer screening participation and some groups are unaware of the screening programmes in Finland.

The FINGER study is set to continue with a follow-up study conducted in Oulu, Kuopio, Seinäjoki, Turku, and Helsinki.

The combined effect of hypertension and fatty liver disease on mortality does not seem to exceed their separate effects, according to a 34-year follow-up study.

A new study explored psychological and physiological well-being among working-age Finnish adults.

The deleterious effects of metabolic and cardiovascular risk factors on arterial health can be reduced by increasing cardiorespiratory fitness already in childhood, a new study suggests.

Pain was associated with depressive symptoms and comorbidities and especially daily pain with poor self-rated health, according to the doctoral dissertation of Merja Karjalainen, Lic Med.