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The University of Eastern Finland is launching a major recruitment initiative to attract internationally distinguished scholars to permanent, full-time professorships.

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.

A new infrastructure called FIRE is being built in Finland to accelerate the use of administrative registers for research.

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.

After TBI, some people develop epilepsy months or even years later. The doctoral research of Pedro Andrade, MSc, explores how and why this happens, using advanced brain monitoring techniques in animal models.

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.

The widely used antidepressant fluoxetine does more than boost serotonin levels: it changes how brain cells manage their energy and rebuild their connections.