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Individuals who had more previous attempts to lose weight had higher body mass index, according to the doctoral dissertation.

The novel mHealth monitoring techniques, necklace-ECG, mHealth patch, and heart belt provided high quality ECG and ECG-based heart rate variability (HRV) data resulting in high sensitivity and specificity of AF detection.

Finland still lacks national and systematic EMS patient data and data of the benefits of Emergency Medical Services to these patients.

Exercise supports the treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease by impacting on several metabolic pathways in the body, a new study shows.

Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation funds a collaborative epilepsy research project between A.I.Virtanen Institute and KUH Epilepsy Center. The long term aim of the project is to improve the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy.

Results from the international EADB consortium provide further support for the role of brain protein accumulation and inflammation in Alzheimer’s disease.

Frontotemporal dementia patients with extrapyramidal symptoms have brainstem atrophy and reduced metabolism in certain areas of the brain significantly more often than patients without extrapyramidal symptoms, a new study shows.

“When we know more about the interactions between genes and lifestyles, it is possible to strive for increasingly individualised risk assessment and better targeted treatment of cardiovascular disease,” Professor Jari Laukkanen says.

Atrial fibrillation is the most common arrhythmia in women and men worldwide with a prevalence of approximately 1-4% in Western countries.

Liquid biopsy performed on serum samples taken from breast cancer patients can provide increasingly accurate information on cancer progression and enable earlier detection of cancer recurrence.