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The community's symposium presentations highlighted how interdisciplinary approaches are essential for understanding the complexity of cardiovascular diseases and advancing their prevention, diagnostics and therapeutics.

A team of researchers at the University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital explores the commercialisation of a hearing rehabilitation innovation.

According to the researchers, future studies should focus particularly on the role of psychosocial determinants in explaining modal shifts towards active and sustainable commuting.

Neurons produced from frontotemporal dementia patients’ skin biopsies using modern stem cell technology recapitulate the synaptic loss and dysfunction detected in the patients’ brains.

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Adolescent athletes’ cardiovascular system may adapt to increased cardiorespiratory fitness by increasing blood pressure, arterial stiffness and heart growth, a new study shows.

NSAID-exacerbated respiratory disease, N-ERD, is associated with measurable changes in concentrations of lipid mediators involved in inflammation and pain modulation, a new study shows.

Professor Alice Lichtenstein has visited Kuopio annually, since the 1990s, to give PhD students of nutrition lectures on topics spanning from study design to cardiovascular diseases and the microbiome.

The findings show that group-based and online counselling is sufficient to support lifestyle changes among individuals with a high genetic risk of type 2 diabetes.

Low labour market participation for non-retirement related reasons may be an early indicator of dementia already years before the first evident symptoms occur. Other erly social of dementia were also identified.