Research at the Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine

Research projects

The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study (YFS) - Epidemiologic study on atherosclerotic precursors in Finnish children and young adults

The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study is one of the largest follow-up studies into cardiovascular risk from childhood to adulthood. The main aim is to determine the contribution made by childhood lifestyle, biological, and psychological measures to the risk of cardiovascular diseases in adulthood.

Project Leader: Academy Professor Olli Raitakari

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The STRIP Project - A Prospective Randomized Trial of Atherosclerosis Prevention in Infancy and Childhood - An Epidemiological Study

The STRIP study is unique worldwide; no other study has started dietary intervention in infancy and continued it for 20 years, and simultaneously collected data with repeated measurements on a vast number of risk factors and subclinical markers for cardiovascular health.

The main purpose of the STRIP Study (Special Turku Coronary Risk Factor Intervention Project) is the prevention of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease by a dietary intervention which began in infancy and has continued to early adulthood. The trial was launched in 1990 when 1062 7-month-old children and their families were enrolled. Half of the families have received individualized dietary and other life-style counseling at least twice a year whereas the rest of the families have served as a control group. The STRIP Study intervention continued until the participants reached the age of 20 years.

Project Leader: Academy Professor Olli Raitakari

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Recent publications of the Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine

Concordance of genetic risk across migraine subgroups: Impact on current and future genetic association studies (2015)

Cephalalgia
Nyholt DR, Anttila V, Winsvold BS, Kurth T, Stefansson H, Kallela M, Malik R, de Vries B, Terwindt GM, Ikram MA, Stam AH, Ligthart L, Freilinger T, Alexander M, Muller-Myhsok B, Schreiber S, Meitinger T, Aromaa A, Eriksson JG, Kaprio J, Boomsma DI, van Duijn C, Raitakari O, Jarvelin MR, Zwart JA, Quaye L, Strachan DP, Kubisch C, Ferrari MD, van den Maagdenberg AMJM, Dichgans M, Wessman M, Smith GD, Stefansson K, Chasman DI, Palotie A
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))

Habitual sleep duration is associated with BMI and macronutrient intake and may be modified by CLOCK genetic variants (2015)

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Dashti HS, Follis JL, Smith CE, Tanaka T, Cade BE, Gottlieb DJ, Hruby A, Jacques PF, Lamon-Fava S, Richardson K, Saxena R, Scheer FAJL, Kovanen L, Bartz TM, Perala MM, Jonsson A, Frazier-Wood AC, Kalafati IP, Mikkila V, Partonen T, Lemaitre RN, Lahti J, Hernandez DG, Toft U, Johnson WC, Kanoni S, Raitakari OT, Perola M, Psaty BM, Ferrucci L, Grarup N, Highland HM, Rallidis L, Kahonen M, Havulinna AS, Siscovick DS, Raikkonen K, Jorgensen T, Rotter JI, Deloukas P, Viikari JSA, Mozaffarian D, Linneberg A, Seppala I, Hansen T, Salomaa V, Gharib SA, Eriksson JG, Bandinelli S, Pedersen O, Rich SS, Dedoussis G, Lehtimaki T, Ordovaas JM
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))

The association between lower educational attainment and depression owing to shared genetic effects? Results in ~25,000 subjects (2015)

Molecular Psychiatry
Peyrot WJ, Lee SH, Milaneschi Y, Abdellaoui A, Byrne EM, Esko T, de Geus EJ, Hemani G, Hottenga JJ, Kloiber S, Levinson DF, Lucae S, Martin NG, Medland SE, Metspalu A, Milani L, Noethen MM, Potash JB, Rietschel M, Rietveld CA, Ripke S, Shi J, Willemsen G, Zhu Z, Boomsma DI, Wray NR, Penninx BW
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))
Keywords
Cardiovascular Medicine (CAPC)