Mikael
Ekblad
Assistant Professor, General Practice
Links
Areas of expertise
Prenatal Smoking/Nicotine Exposure
Fetal and Child Development
Maternal Health
Parental-Fetal/Child Attachment, Primary Health Care
Biography
MD, PhD, Specialist in General Practice
Professor (tenure track) in General Practice
I'm responsible for the postgraduate education in General Practice.
Research
My research focuses on the effects of prenatal smoking/nicotine exposure on maternal and child health. I have established a maternity and child health clinic study (the KESALATU Study), which is an ongoing prospective follow-up study in primary health care of Central Satakunta in Finland. I'm also expirienced in utilizing the Finnish Medical Registers e.g., the Medical Birth Register.
Publications
Parental Five-to-Fifteen questionnaire in identifying motor difficulties at 5 years in children with later motor impairment: A longitudinal follow-up study of very preterm infants (2025)
Early Human Development
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Association Between Maternal Smoking, Isolated Proteinuria During Pregnancy and Preterm Birth: A Finnish Registry Analysis (2025)
Kidney International Reports
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
The effect of unintended pregnancy on the development of parental-fetal attachment: a prospective cohort study (2025)
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Lifetime psychiatric morbidity and maternal smoking behavior in consecutive pregnancies: A Finnish register study (2025)
Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Interaction of maternal smoking and gestational diabetes mellitus on newborn head circumference and birthweight (2024)
Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Multifactorial prevention program for cardiovascular disease in primary care: hypertension status and effect on mortality (2024)
Journal of Human Hypertension
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Glycemic status and effect on mortality: Multifactorial prevention programme for cardiovascular disease in Finnish primary care (2024)
Primary Care Diabetes
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Depressive symptoms and smoking : Effect on mortality in a primary care cohort (2024)
Journal of Psychosomatic Research
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
How should a general practitioner say no to a patient? (2023)
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
(B1 Vertaisarvioimaton kirjoitus tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Five-to-Fifteen-Parental Perception of Developmental Profile from Age 5 to 8 Years in Children Born Very Preterm (2023)
Journal of Personalized Medicine
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )