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New research sheds light on the mechanisms associating obesity with inflammation by exploring tiny membrane particles, known as extracellular vesicles, secreted by human adipocytes.

The programme integrates neuroscience, data science, innovation management, and social and legal studies across three UEF faculties.

The study is the first large-scale genome-wide association study related to NPH in the world.

Being born in autumn or winter is associated with asthma and allergic rhinitis in Finland, a new registry-based study shows.

A new major study by the University of Eastern Finland, the University of Oulu and Neurocenter Finland explored early-onset dementia in the working-age population in Finland.

The combined effect of environmental exposures and unhealthy lifestyle habits can affect children’s cardiometabolic health in a way that exceeds their separate effects.

A study conducted at the UEF found distinct signatures in CD8-positive T cells in blood samples from children with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes and in autoantibody-positive children who later developed type 1 diabetes.

The TrueHear project was granted approximately 480,000 euros from Business Finland’s Research to Business call.

Andrew Agbaje’s abstract on the effect of childhood sedentariness on liver health was selected for an Outstanding Abstract Award at the Endocrine Society’s ENDO 2024 congress in Boston.

In a new multinational study, persons with very early Alzheimer's disease showed a reduced rate of cognitive-functional decline after a six-month multidomain lifestyle intervention combined with medical food.