Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition - News

Active and passive tobacco exposure during childhood and adolescence represents a critical preventable risk factor for premature cardiovascular disease, according to a new narrative review.

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.

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

The unique Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes offer new insight into planetary health, faith and wellbeing, and data engineering.

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

A recent study is the first to report that the fatty acid composition of blood and the enzyme activity associated with it predict the development of bone mineral density from childhood to adolescence.

The findings open the door for microbiome-based precision therapies for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) and complex metabolic disorders.

The University of Eastern Finland has been awarded over 320,000 euros of Team Finland Knowledge programme funding, and over 347,000 euros of Erasmus+ Global Mobility funding.