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Increased sedentary time from childhood through young adulthood caused increased body fat and abdominal fat. However, light physical activity may completely reverse the adverse process.

The University of Eastern Finland receives a total of 1.8 million euros in funding for infrastructure projects. UEF participates five funded consortiums.

The challenge has been launched by the UEF Cancer AI research team with the aim to develop an architecture capable of automatically estimating the breast percentage density from mammograms.

A total of 11 Finnish female scientists were ranked in the top 1,000.

The results of the PhD study indicated genes that are differentially expressed in hematological cancers and its subtypes, which could serve as potential targets for new targeted therapies.

UEF Brain Research Unit takes part in an EU project aiming to develop a fast, reliable, cost-effective and digitally enabled point-of-care in-vitro diagnostic system for early Alzheimer's disease detection.

Common oral infections, periodontal diseases and caries, are associated with inflammatory metabolic profiles related to an increased risk of cardiometabolic diseases.

At the first event of its kind, six European research projects join together in a series of consultations focusing on Public Involvement in dementia and brain health research.

Dr Andrew Agbaje has received multiple international awards for his research, which deals with childhood obesity, its prevention and the effects of physical inactivity on cardiometabolic health.

Those who were stronger, faster and more agile, in other words, had better neuromuscular fitness since childhood, had larger Crus I grey matter volume in adolescence.