MARCH 10-14, 2009
Jaska and Jyrki will attend American Heart Association's
Joint Conference - 49th Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention -and- Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism - 2009, Florida, USA.
Title of Jaska's oral presentation is
Glycemic Load, Glycemic Index and the Risk of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Middle-Aged Finnish Men.
Other presentation is Jyrki's poster Serum Long-Chain n-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Risk of Atrial Fibrillation in Men.
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We would like to thank the following for
supporting our work
in the year 2008-2009:
Fulbright Center
Academy of Finland
Danisco Research Foundation
Eemil Aaltonen Foundation
Finnish Cultural Foundation
Finnish Graduate School of Psychiatry
Juho Vainio Foundation
University of Kuopio
Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation
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OUR RESEARCHERS AT TELEVISION
Jaska is talking about health effects of chocolate in Prisma Studio
, TV1 Wednesday 17.12.2008, 18.30.
Anna is presenting her results of health effects of herbs in Tutkiva juttu: Luonto lääkekaappina in Thursday 11.12.2008, 20.30.
DECEMBER 2008
Anu was accepted to Finnish Graduate School of Psychiatry. She is the first nutritionist ever to be part in this graduate school. Interdisciplinary is the word of the day. Congratulations!
Recent results of Jyrki's Fish Project:
Fish consumption and risk of subclinical brain abnormalities on MRI in older adults.
Neurology 2008;71:439-46.
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Fish consumption and risk of major chronic disease in men. Am J Clin Nutr 2008;88:1618-25.
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AUGUST 2008
Our letter to editor "Bold Conclusions with an Inadequate evidence" was published in Americal Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2008;88:477-8; author reply 478-9.
SUMMER 2008, our recent publications
Jaakko Mursu et al: Flavonoid intake and the risk of ischaemic stroke and CVD mortality in middle-aged Finnish men: the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study. Br J Nutr 2008;100:890-5.
Jaakko Mursu et al: Intake of flavonoids and risk of cancer in Finnish men: The Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study. Int J Cancer 2008;123:660-3.
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Karppi J, Nurmi T, et al:
Simultaneous measurement of retinol, alpha-tocopherol and six carotenoids in human plasma by using an isocratic reversed-phase HPLC method. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2008;867:226-32.
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APRIL 2008
More results of the Eurolive Study "Changes in LDL fatty acid composition as a response to olive oil treatment are inversely related to lipid oxidative damage: The EUROLIVE study". J Am Coll Nutr 2008;27:314-20.
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APRIL 4, 2008
Jaakko has been appointed the Young Epidemiologist of the year 2008 by the Finnish Epidemiological Society. Here is his winning presentation Ravinnon flavonoidien merkitys syöpätaudeissa; Sepelvaltimotaudin vaaratekijätutkimuksen (SVVT) tuloksia (in Finnish). Congratulations!
MARCH 29, 2008
Anna Nurmi succesfully defended her doctoral thesis "Health from Herbs? Antioxidant Studies on Selected Lamiaceae Herbs in vitro and in Humans". Her thesis was done in collaboration with University of Helsinki, Faculty of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmaceutical Biology and our Research Institute.
Congratulations and thanks for a very nice Thai-style doctoral party.
JANUARY, 2008
Jyrki will be back from his 2.5 year visit to Harvard, Boston, USA. At the same time he will start his 3-year Academy Fellow post.
NOVEMBER 24, 2007
Jaakko, Tarja, Anna and Sari will attend 3rd International Conference on Polyphenols and Health (ICPH2007) and the International Conference on Food Factors for Health Promotion (ICOFF2007), in Kyoto, Japan. During the conferences are also The 3rd of International Food Ingredients &
Additives Exhibition and Health Food Exposition with 180 exhibitors, 200 booths and 10,000 attendees. Feelings from Japan will be here during the conferences.
OCTOBER 14, 2007
Our letter Coffee intake and the incidence of hypertension was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. PDF
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2007
Assistant Professor Anna Christina Pinheiro Fernandes from University of Chile
was visiting our Institute. She was practising analytical methods for lignans as part of her PhD studies and studying association of enterolactone with other CHD risk factors in the kIHD Study. We started good and hopefully long-lasting collaboration together and had also very nice social events together.
JUNE 1, 2007
Jaakko defended his doctoral thesis The role of polyphenols in cardiovascular diseases (Ravinnon flavonoidien merkitys sydän- ja verisuonitaudeissa). Congratulations! Professor Antti Aro from National Health Institute, Helsinki was the opponent and Sari the custodian.
Jaska's latest publication The intake of flavonoids and carotid atherosclerosis: the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study was published in the British Journal of Nutrition 2007;98:814-8.
Jaska's thesis is here.
MARCH 14-15, 2007
Tarja gave a presentation in NJF seminar on Beneficial health substances from berries and minor crops. Tarja's presentation Absorption and metabolism of berry polyphenols is here.
Later this year you can meet Tarja in June at the International Conference on Lignans, Alkylresorcinols and Health.
FEBRUARY 14, 2007
Our letter about risks and benefits of fish intake was published in JAMA. PDF
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The biggest perch caught by Jyrki (1160 g, 45 cm).
Back then he didn't know about the possible high mercury content
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FEBRUARY 7, 2007
Anu attented seminar Työikäisten ravitsemus held in Kuopio. If you wasn't there, here is her presentation Diet and mental health (in Finnish). PDF
JANUARY 31, 2007
Voutilainen et al: Functional COMT Val158Met Polymorphism, Risk of Acute Coronary Events and Serum Homocysteine: The Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study was published in
PLoS ONE. PDF
JANUARY 18, 2007
Jaska gave a lecture about health effects of chocolate in release of the Reader's Digest's new book Syö itsesi terveeksi. PDF
JANUARY 2007
Tarja's three years postdoctoral research project funded by the
Academy of Finland started. Topic of the project is Role of dietary phenolic
compounds and their metabolites in human: health promoters or xenobiotics? Brochure about methods available in our Laboratory of Bioactive Phenolic Compounds is here in PDF.
DECEMBER 26th, 2006
Our next interaction article was published in open access peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE. Pertti Happonen et al: Catechol-O-Methyltransferase Gene Polymorphism Modifies the Effect of Coffee Intake on Incidence of Acute Coronary Events. PloS ONE 2006;1:e117.
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NOVEMBER 16th, 2006
More results about EU-founded Eurolive study: Anja Machowetz et al: Effect of olive oils on biomarkers of oxidative DNA stress in Northern and Southern Europeans. FASEB J. 2006 Nov 16; [Epub ahead of print] PDF
OCTOBER 5th, 2006
The IgNobel 2006 ceremony was held at Sanders Theatre, Harvard University. Quite an event... There were real Nobel price winners,
such as last year's Physics price winner Roy Glauber and 1976 Chemistry
price winner William Lipscombe. Benoit Mandelbrot, the father of fractals,
was one of the 24/7 lecturers. That means 24 seconds to give a lecture
about your research topic in technical terms and then in seven words give
a clear, accurate summary. Every now and then hundreds of paper airplanes
were dropped from the balcony on the VIP guests who were sitting on the
stage. And then swept away with brooms for another drop...
The 2006 IgNobel price winner of the
Nutrition price was Wasmia Al-Houty of Kuwait University and Faten Al-Mussalam of the Kuwait Environment
Public Authority. The abstract of their research paper states: "Adult dung
beetles, Scarabaeus cristatus, consume the fluid components of dung and
bury whole dung as food for their larvae. When dung from three herbivorous
animals, horse, camel and sheep, was offered, the beetles preferred the
more fluid horse dung to the others. Sheep dung was preferred to the camel
dung. The dungs of two carnivores, dog and fox, were also accepted but to
a lesser extent than the herbivore dung." Congratulations to the winners!
Here are
some photos from the Event!
SEPTEMBER 18, 2006
Article about coffee consumption and the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus was published in American Journal of Epidemiology. Nina P. Paynter, Hsin-Chieh Yeh, Sari Voutilainen, Maria Ines Schmidt, Gerardo Heiss, Aaron R Folsom, Frederick L Brancati, WH Linda Kao. Coffee and Sweetened Beverage Consumption and the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. American Journal of Epidemiology, Advance Access, September 18, 2006.
SEPTEMBER 5, 2006
Results of the Eurolive Study was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine; Maribel Covas et al. The effect of polyphenols in olive oil on heart disease risk factors: a randomized trial. Ann Intern Med. 2006 Sep 5;145(5):333-41.
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SEPTEMBER 2006
New book about Sports nutrition has been published. Jaska is one of the writers.
AUGUST 2006, our recent publications
Results of the FENOLI-study: Anna Nurmi et al: Consumption of Juice Fortified with Oregano Extract Markedly Increases Excretion of Phenolic Acids but Lacks Short- and Long-Term Effects on Lipid Peroxidation in Healthy Nonsmoking Men.
J Agric Food Chem 2006;54:5790-5796.
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Anna Nurmi et al: Ingestion of Oregano Extract Increases Excretion of Urinary Phenolic Metabolites in Humans. J Agric Food Chem 2006;54:6916-23.
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Review article: Sari Voutilainen et al:
Carotenoids and cardiovascular health.
Am J Clin Nutr 2006;83:1265-71.
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Results of the KIHD cohort study: Jyrki Virtanen et al:
High dietary methionine intake increases the risk of acute coronary events in middle-aged men.
Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis 2006;16:113-20.
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Review article in Finnish: Tommi Tolmunen et al: Ravinto ja mielialahäiriöt.
Duodecim 2006;122:791-8.
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Review article: Jyrki Virtanen et al: Mercury as a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases.
J Nutr Biochem 2006 Jun 15; [Epub ahead of print]
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March 2-5, 2006
Jyrki attented 46th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention held in Phoenix, Arizona. His poster High Mercury-to-Selenium Ratio in the Body Increases 15-year Mortality in Men is here.
February 24, 2006
35th anniversary of the Research Institute of Public Health. Open hours and scientific mini-symposium. More information is available here. Welcome!
Nutritional researchers at the Research Institute of Public Health at late 80's, Professors Kauhanen and Salonen.
January 13, 2006
One long and detail PhD work end when MD Tomi-pekka Tuomainen succesfully defended his doctoral thesis "Body Iron, Atherosclerosis and Coronary Heart Disease (Elimistön rauta ateroskleroosin ja sydäninfarktin vaaratekijänä)". Here, is the abstract of his work (in Finnish).
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We would like to thank the following for
supporting our work in the year 2006-2007:
Academy of Finland
Orion Pharma Research Foundation
Juho Vainio Foundation
Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation
Finnish Cultural Foundation
University of Kuopio
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December 10, 2005
MD Jari Laukkanen from our research institute defended his doctoral thesis "Exercise testing in the prediction of cardiovascular diseases and mortality: A prospective population study in men (Rasituskoelöydösten merkitys sydän- ja verisuonitautien riskiä ennustavina tekijöinä. Epidemiologinen seurantatutkimus)". Congratulations!
November 2005
Radio Kantti presented a program serial about obesity, which is based on Jaska's interview (in Finnish). Hyvän elämän eväät –luentosarjassa terveystieteiden maisteri, ravitsemusterapeutti Jaakko Mursu Kuopion yliopistosta pyrkii ohjaamaan kuulijansa pysyvään, elinikäiseen painonhallintaan.
August 12, 2005
Jyrki succesfully defended his doctoral thesis "Homocysteine, folate and cardiovascular diseases (Homokysteiini, folaatti ja sydän- ja verisuonitaudit)". Professor Pekka Jousilahti from National Health Institute, Helsinki was the opponent and Dr. Sari Voutilainen the custodian.
Congratulations and thanks for a very nice doctoral party, it was first time when polices participated! Jyrki's doctoral thesis is here.
August 2005
Jyrki's article "Serum homocysteine, folate and risk of stroke: Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor (KIHD) Study" was published in European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation (Virtanen et al. Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil 2005;4:369-75).
June 1, 2005
Our collaboration project "Antioxidant activity, metabolism and health effects of foods" (METELI) with the Finnish technology agency (Tekes), University of Helsinki and food industry has finished. Main results of the project are presented in the final meeting of the project and as a poster in Tekes's meeting. (unfortunately in Finnish)
June 2005
It is summer now, even here in Finland!
April, 2005
Jaska
was hired as a nutrition expert of KUPS, a traditional football team of Kuopio.
April, 2005
Jyrki presented a poster on mercury and heart diseases in FASEB meeting in San Diego.
March 18, 2005
Jaakko's article Polyphenol-rich phloem enhances the resistance of total serum lipids to oxidation in men" was published in Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
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March 2005
Jyrki’s next article Homocysteine as a risk factor for CVD mortality in men with other CVD risk factors" was published in Journal of Internal Medicine.
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March, 2005
Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor (KIHD)
Study's 18-year examinations have started.
March, 2005
The Finnish
Society of Epidemiology's annual meeting and the research contest
2005 will be held in Helsinki in March 30.
February 25, 2005
Tommi succesfully defended his doctoral thesis "Depression, B vitamins and homocysteine", congratulations! Here's a link
to the report by YLE (Finnish Broadcasting Company).
February, 2005
Tommi's publications
on serum folate and homocysteine were published in the American Journal
of Clinical Nutrition
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and in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.
Those were the last unpublished articles from Tommi's doctoral thesis.
February 5, 2005
Miss Finland 2005 was crowned. That day was also
the 45th anniversary of the crowning of Miss
Finland Tarja Nurmi the second time in a row! Finnish people often
recognize the similarity of our chemist and a beauty queen
from early 60's, but now it has also been noticed overseas. 
February 1, 2005
Jyrki was invited by the Physicians for Social
Responsibility to give a presentation about mercury and CVD in Washington.
A news article about the event is here
and the presentation here.
February 2005
Jaakko's (et al.) article "The effects of
coffee consumption on lipid peroxidation and plasma total homocysteine
concentrations: a clinical trial" was published in the Free Radical
Biology & Medicine. PDF and
News about the trial is in Finnish in Verkkoklinikka’s website.
January 31
Jyrki met professor Eric Rimm at the Harvard
School of Public Health, where Jyrki will start his post doctoral
research about fish, fish oils and cardiovascular diseases next fall.
January 2005
The article by Jyrki (et al.) "Mercury, fish oils,
and risk of acute coronary events and cardiovascular disease, coronary
heart disease, and all-cause mortality in men in eastern Finland"
was published in the Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology.
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We would like to thank the following for
supporting our work in the year 2004-2005:
Academy of Finland
Alfred Kordelin Foundation
ASLA-Fulbright Foundation
European Union
Finnish Cultural Foundation
Finnish Foundation for Cardiovascular Research
Juho Vainio Foundation
Tekes
University of Kuopio
Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation
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December 17, 2004
Jyrki and Jaakko visited Copenhagen and attended
the final meeting of the EUROLIVE study.
December 2004
Sari and Tiina wrote a review article about carotenoids
and CVD. PDF
November 1, 2004
Jaakko's (et al.) article "Dark chocolate
consumption increases HDL cholesterol concentration and chocolate fatty
acids may inhibit lipid peroxidation in healthy humans" was published
in the Free Radical Biology & Medicine. Can be found in pdf here and summary in Finnish here.
October 24, 2004
We have a new junior member in our group! Anu had
a healthy baby boy, Aapo. Congratulations!
September, 2004
Pertti Happonen's (et al.) article
"Coffee drinking is dose-dependently related to the risk of acute
coronary events in middle-aged men" was published in the Journal
of Nutrition.
August, 2004
Sari's (et al.) article "Serum folate and homocysteine
and the incidence of acute coronary events: the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart
Disease Risk Factor Study" was published in the American Journal
of Clinical Nutrition. Find it here.
Editorial about the subject in the same issue here.
August 25-28, 2004
participated in the XXII International Conference
on Polyphenols in Helsinki, Finland. His presentation "Effects
of meal composition on postprandial serum lipids and lipid peroxidation
in healthy men: preliminary results from a clinical trial" can
be found here.
June 17-19, 2004
3rd
Nordic Conference in Epidemiology was held here in the University
of Kuopio. Conference participants came from 18 countries. The most
distant attendee was from Chile. Here are
some photos from the post-congress boat trip in the Lake Kallavesi to
the Timberjack's lodge, where everyone could enjoy from smoke sauna
with a swim in a cold lake, good food and live music.
May 28, 2004
Congratulations to the latest PhD in our group,
Tarja! The thesis can be downloaded here.
May 28, 2004.
Tarja will defend her doctoral thesis ”High
performance liquid chromatography and coulometric electrode array detection:
analysis methods for biological samples containing lignans and isoflavonoids”
at 12 AM at the Mikroteknia auditorium, University of Kuopio. Dr Peter
Hollman will be the opponent and professor Jukka T. Salonen the custodian.
May 1, 2004
Hauskaa vappua! Have a nice first of May!
Apr 26, 2004
Sari will be back home from her trip to North Carolina.
Apr 1, 2004 Anu graduated as a MSc, clinical nutritionist. Congratulations
from all of us!
Mar 18-19, 2004.
The warmest congratulations to the 20-year
old Department of Clinical Nutrition! Tiina, Anu, Jaakko and Jyrki attended
the 20th Anniversary Symposium of the Department of Clinical Nutrition,
each having a poster presentation. The posters can be seen in the Publications&Abstracts
page.
Feb 12, 2004
Sari has been re-elected as the Treasurer of the Finnish
Epidemiological Society.
Feb 16-Mar 20, 2004
Collaboration with the University of Newcastle,
UK. Mr. Abdulbaset Nagah from the research group of Dr. Chris Seal is
visiting our lab. He is practising analytical methods for lignans as
part of his PhD studies. Tarja is supervising him.
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Mar 3-6, 2004
Sari, Tiina and Jyrki will attend the American
Heart Association's 44th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease
Epidemiology and Prevention in San Francisco.
Nov 18, 2003
You can meet Tarja and Jaakko next time at the 1st
International Conference on Polyphenols and Health in Vichy, France,
November 18-21, 2003. You are invited to visit Tarja's posters and challenge
her into scientific discussion. You can check the topic of the poster
from our list of abstracts.
Oct 29, 2003
Sari will spend the next six months in Chapel Hill
at the University of North Carolina.
Oct 2, 2003
Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded at the gala ceremony
in Harvard's Sanders Theatre. Unfortunately we were not on the winners'
list. We will do our best again next year! http://www.improbable.com/ig/ig-top.html
Oct 1, 2003
Our first article about the effect of nutrition in
the development of depression has been published! Way to go, Tommi!
Remember to eat vegetables and fruits. PDF
June 14, 2003
Tiina woke up as a brand new PhD. Congratulations,
Tiina! Tiina's doctoral thesis as PDF
June 13, 2003
Tiina's day of doctoral dissertation. We got one
more doctor among us.
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