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View article: Are healthier diets culturally affordable in Africa? evidence from four African countries
Are healthier diets culturally affordable in Africa? evidence from four African countries Open
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View article: Having lunch at the staff canteen and plant food consumption among 19–39-year-old Finnish employees
Having lunch at the staff canteen and plant food consumption among 19–39-year-old Finnish employees Open
View article: Objectively measured 24-h movement behaviours of child-guardian pairs in low-to-middle income households in Nairobi City County, Kenya
Objectively measured 24-h movement behaviours of child-guardian pairs in low-to-middle income households in Nairobi City County, Kenya Open
View article: Plant food consumption and emotional well-being: the Helsinki Health Study among 19–39-year-old employees
Plant food consumption and emotional well-being: the Helsinki Health Study among 19–39-year-old employees Open
View article: Building nutritionally meaningful classification for grocery product groups: the LoCard Food Classification process – ERRATUM
Building nutritionally meaningful classification for grocery product groups: the LoCard Food Classification process – ERRATUM Open
View article: Building nutritionally meaningful classification for grocery product groups: the LoCard Food Classification process
Building nutritionally meaningful classification for grocery product groups: the LoCard Food Classification process Open
Analysing customer loyalty card data is a novel method for assessing nutritional quality and changes in a population’s food consumption. However, prior to its use, the thousands of grocery products available in stores must be reclassified …
View article: Dairy intake and body composition and cardiometabolic traits among adults: Mendelian randomization analysis of 182041 individuals from 18 studies
Dairy intake and body composition and cardiometabolic traits among adults: Mendelian randomization analysis of 182041 individuals from 18 studies Open
BACKGROUND: Associations between dairy intake and body composition and cardiometabolic traits have been inconsistently observed in epidemiological studies, and the causal relationship remains ill-defined. METHODS: We performed Mendelian ra…
View article: Evaluating Affordability of Healthier Diets in Four African Countries
Evaluating Affordability of Healthier Diets in Four African Countries Open
Between 702 and 828 million people around the world were affected by hunger in 2021. The prevalence of undernourishment relentlessly continues to affect the world, and particularly Sub-Saharan Africa (23.2% in 2021). Exacerbated inequaliti…
View article: A tendency toward evening chronotype associates with less healthy diet among preschoolers: cross-sectional findings from the DAGIS study
A tendency toward evening chronotype associates with less healthy diet among preschoolers: cross-sectional findings from the DAGIS study Open
Study Objectives Evidence suggests that adolescents and adults with a later chronotype have poorer sleep habits and are more susceptible to unhealthy behaviors, but little is known about these associations in younger children. The objectiv…
View article: Latent classes of unhealthy behaviours and their associations with subsequent sickness absence: a prospective register-linkage study among Finnish young and early midlife employees
Latent classes of unhealthy behaviours and their associations with subsequent sickness absence: a prospective register-linkage study among Finnish young and early midlife employees Open
Objectives Unhealthy behaviours are associated with increased sickness absence (SA), but few studies have considered person-oriented approach in these associations. Using latent class analysis, we examined clustering of unhealthy behaviour…
View article: Building nutritionally meaningful product groups for loyalty card data: the LoCard Food Classification process
Building nutritionally meaningful product groups for loyalty card data: the LoCard Food Classification process Open
Analysing customer loyalty card data is a novel method for assessing dietary quality and changes in a population’s food consumption. However, prior to its use, the thousands of grocery products available in stores must be reclassified into…
View article: LoCard Food Classification
LoCard Food Classification Open
How the data was compiled: The grocery purchase data including 3574 product groups was received from the retailer for research purposes. The data was reclassified into appropriate categories suitable for the use of nutrition and health res…
View article: LoCard Food Classification
LoCard Food Classification Open
How the data was compiled: The grocery purchase data including 3574 product groups was received from the retailer for research purposes. The data was reclassified into appropriate categories suitable for the use of nutrition and health res…
View article: Wealth and Sedentary Time Are Associated With Dietary Patterns Among Preadolescents in Nairobi City, Kenya
Wealth and Sedentary Time Are Associated With Dietary Patterns Among Preadolescents in Nairobi City, Kenya Open
Consumption of foods often deemed unhealthy (eg, snacks and fast food) was more frequent among preadolescents whose families were wealthier. Interventions that seek ways to promote healthy lifestyles among families residing in urban areas …
View article: Wealth and obesity in pre-adolescents and their guardians: A first step in explaining non-communicable disease-related behaviour in two areas of Nairobi City County
Wealth and obesity in pre-adolescents and their guardians: A first step in explaining non-communicable disease-related behaviour in two areas of Nairobi City County Open
The prevalence of non-communicable diseases is increasing in lower-middle-income countries as these countries transition to unhealthy lifestyles. The transition is mostly predominant in urban areas. We assessed the association between weal…
View article: Clustering of unhealthy behaviours and subsequent sickness absence among Finnish municipal employees
Clustering of unhealthy behaviours and subsequent sickness absence among Finnish municipal employees Open
Background Unhealthy behaviours are associated with increased sickness absence (SA), but few studies have explored these associations using person-oriented approach. We aimed to identify latent classes of unhealthy behaviours among female …
View article: Inflammatory Biomarkers in Elite Cross-Country Skiers After a Competition Season: A Case–Control Study
Inflammatory Biomarkers in Elite Cross-Country Skiers After a Competition Season: A Case–Control Study Open
Purpose Whether elite athletes, who have been exposed to vigorous-intensity exercise combined with other stressors, have elevated systemic low-grade inflammation, remains largely unclear. To address this question, we studied the levels of …
View article: Multiple socioeconomic circumstances and trajectories of fruit and vegetable consumption: the Helsinki Health Study
Multiple socioeconomic circumstances and trajectories of fruit and vegetable consumption: the Helsinki Health Study Open
Aims: Fruit and vegetable consumption is essential in disease prevention. Socioeconomic differences in consumption have been observed but evidence from longitudinal studies incorporating multiple socioeconomic indicators is lacking. We exa…
View article: Applying Mendelian randomization to appraise causality in relationships between nutrition and cancer
Applying Mendelian randomization to appraise causality in relationships between nutrition and cancer Open
Dietary factors are assumed to play an important role in cancer risk, apparent in consensus recommendations for cancer prevention that promote nutritional changes. However, the evidence in this field has been generated predominantly throug…
View article: Association between overall diet quality and postmenopausal breast cancer risk in five Finnish cohort studies
Association between overall diet quality and postmenopausal breast cancer risk in five Finnish cohort studies Open
There is limited evidence for any dietary factor, except alcohol, in breast cancer (BC) risk. Therefore, studies on a whole diet, using diet quality indices, can broaden our insight. We examined associations of the Nordic Diet (mNDI), Medi…
View article: Applying Mendelian randomization to appraise causality in relationships between nutrition and cancer
Applying Mendelian randomization to appraise causality in relationships between nutrition and cancer Open
Dietary factors are assumed to play an important role in cancer risk, apparent in consensus recommendations for cancer prevention that promote nutritional changes. However, the evidence in this field has been generated predominantly throug…
View article: Intergenerational social mobility and body mass index trajectories – A follow-up study from Finland
Intergenerational social mobility and body mass index trajectories – A follow-up study from Finland Open
View article: Explaining non-communicable disease-related behavior in Nairobi City County, Kenya, in the context of family and poverty: Study design, methods, and population characteristics (Preprint)
Explaining non-communicable disease-related behavior in Nairobi City County, Kenya, in the context of family and poverty: Study design, methods, and population characteristics (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND The prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is increasing in the lower middle-income countries as these countries transition to unhealthy lifestyles which are mostly predominant in urban areas. OBJECTIVE The purpose of…
View article: Maternal pre-pregnancy overweight and gestational diabetes and dietary intakes among young adult offspring
Maternal pre-pregnancy overweight and gestational diabetes and dietary intakes among young adult offspring Open
View article: Genetic Associations of Chronotype in the Finnish General Population
Genetic Associations of Chronotype in the Finnish General Population Open
Individuals with a later chronotype (evening types) tend to have unhealthier behaviors and increased morbidity and mortality as compared with those with an earlier chronotype (morning types). However, the role of genetics in explaining eve…
View article: Body Mass Index Trajectory–Specific Changes in Economic Circumstances: A Person-Oriented Approach Among Midlife and Ageing Finns
Body Mass Index Trajectory–Specific Changes in Economic Circumstances: A Person-Oriented Approach Among Midlife and Ageing Finns Open
Economic disadvantage is related to a higher risk of adulthood obesity, but few studies have considered whether changes in economic circumstances depend on a person’s body mass index (BMI) trajectory. We identified latent BMI trajectories …
View article: The contribution of physical working conditions to sickness absence of varying length among employees with and without common mental disorders
The contribution of physical working conditions to sickness absence of varying length among employees with and without common mental disorders Open
Aims: The aim was to examine whether the contribution of physical work exposures to the risk of sickness absence (SA) is different between those with and without common mental disorders (CMD). Methods: We used questionnaire data on four wo…
View article: Associations of chronotype with clock genes polymorphisms
Associations of chronotype with clock genes polymorphisms Open
Introduction Individuals with a later timing of circadian rhythms (evening types) tend to have unhealthier behaviors compared to those with an earlier timing (morning types). Previous studies have shown that evening types have unhealthier …
View article: Maternal pre-pregnancy overweight and gestational diabetes and dietary intakes among young adult offspring
Maternal pre-pregnancy overweight and gestational diabetes and dietary intakes among young adult offspring Open
Background/Objectives\nMaternal pre-pregnancy overweight/obesity and gestational diabetes (GDM) are associated with increased fat deposition in adult offspring. The purpose of this study was to identify if maternal pre-pregnancy overweight…
View article: Genetic Associations of Chronotype in the Finnish General Population
Genetic Associations of Chronotype in the Finnish General Population Open
Individuals with a later chronotype (evening types) tend to have unhealthier behaviors and increased morbidity and mortality as compared with those with an earlier chronotype (morning types). However, the role of genetics in explaining eve…