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Eero Kajantie is affiliated with the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) in Finland. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with significant contributions in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Clinical Psychology.

The scientist's work covers several major topics including Birth, Development, and Health, Infant Development and Preterm Care, Neonatal Respiratory Health Research, Gestational Diabetes Research and Management, Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies, Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, as well as Neonatal and fetal brain pathology.

They have published extensively in various peer-reviewed journals, with frequent publication venues including

  • Scientific Reports
  • Pediatric Research
  • PLoS ONE
  • JAMA Network Open
  • Acta Paediatrica

Among recent papers coauthored or authored by Eero Kajantie are

  • Associations Between Maternal Antenatal Corticosteroid Treatment and Mental and Behavioral Disorders in Children (2020, JAMA)
  • Genetic predisposition to hypertension is associated with preeclampsia in European and Central Asian women (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Association of Very Preterm Birth or Very Low Birth Weight With Intelligence in Adulthood (2021, JAMA Pediatrics)
  • Association between DNA methylation and ADHD symptoms from birth to school age: a prospective meta-analysis (2020, Translational Psychiatry)
  • Mortality Among Young Adults Born Preterm and Early Term in 4 Nordic Nations (2021, JAMA Network Open)

Eero Kajantie collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including

  • Katri Räikkönen
  • Hannele Laivuori
  • Johan G. Eriksson
  • Marius Lahti-Pulkkinen
  • Mika Gissler

Their research efforts contribute to understanding critical aspects of maternal and child health, with emphasis on prenatal and perinatal influences on lifelong health outcomes. The integration of genetics, epigenetics, and long-term cohort analyses features prominently in their published studies.

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    Hana Lango Allen;Karol Estrada;Guillaume Lettre;Sonja I. Berndt

  • Trajectories of growth among children who have coronary events as adults.

    David J P Barker;Clive Osmond;Tom J Forsén;Eero Kajantie

  • The effects of sex and hormonal status on the physiological response to acute psychosocial stress.

    Eero Kajantie;Eero Kajantie;David I.W. Phillips

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    E. K. Speliotes;C. J. Willer;S. I. Berndt;K. L. Monda

  • Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

    Aysu Okbay;Bart M L Baselmans;Jan-Emmanuel De Neve;Patrick Turley

  • Glucose Regulation in Young Adults with Very Low Birth Weight

    Petteri Hovi;Sture Andersson;Johan G Eriksson;Anna-Liisa Järvenpää

  • The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study

    Thomas W. Winkler;Anne E. Justice;Mariaelisa Graff;Llilda Barata

  • Boys live dangerously in the womb.

    Johan G. Eriksson;Eero Kajantie;Eero Kajantie;Clive Osmond;Kent Thornburg

  • Birthweight and mortality in adulthood: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Kari R Risnes;Lars J Vatten;Jennifer L Baker;Karen Jameson

  • Growth and chronic disease: findings in the Helsinki Birth Cohort

    David J. P. Barker;Clive Osmond;Eero Kajantie;Johan G. Eriksson

  • Genome Analyses of >200,000 Individuals Identify 58 Loci for Chronic Inflammation and Highlight Pathways that Link Inflammation and Complex Disorders.

    S Ligthart;A Vaez;U Võsa;M G Stathopoulou

  • Genome-Wide Association Identifies Nine Common Variants Associated With Fasting Proinsulin Levels and Provides New Insights Into the Pathophysiology of Type 2 Diabetes

    R J Strawbridge;J Dupuis;I Prokopenko;A Barker

  • Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

    Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez;Bin Zhou;Marisa K. Sophiea;James Bentham

  • Patterns of growth among children who later develop type 2 diabetes or its risk factors

    J. G. Eriksson;C. Osmond;E. Kajantie;T. J. Forsén

  • Trans-ancestry meta-analyses identify rare and common variants associated with blood pressure and hypertension

    Praveen Surendran;Fotios Drenos;Robin Young;Helen Warren

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    H. Lango Allen;K. Estrada;G. Lettre;S. I. Berndt

  • Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

    Aysu Okbay;Bart M. L. Baselmans;Jan-Emmanuel De Neve;Patrick Turley

Frequent Co-Authors

Johan G. Eriksson
Johan G. Eriksson National University of Singapore
Katri Räikkönen
Katri Räikkönen University of Helsinki
Anu-Katriina Pesonen
Anu-Katriina Pesonen University of Helsinki
Jari Lahti
Jari Lahti University of Helsinki
Kati Heinonen
Kati Heinonen University of Helsinki
Clive Osmond
Clive Osmond University of Southampton
David J. P. Barker
David J. P. Barker University of Southampton
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin Imperial College London
Olli T. Raitakari
Olli T. Raitakari Turku University Hospital
Elisabeth B. Binder
Elisabeth B. Binder Max Planck Society

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