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Hanna Tolonen is affiliated with the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare in Finland. Their research activity is centered primarily in the field of Medicine, with a specific emphasis on subfields such as Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Health.

Their research topics cover a diverse range of subjects including Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention, Health disparities and outcomes, Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals, Nutritional Studies and Diet, Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging, Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies, and Data Quality and Management.

Recent papers published by Hanna Tolonen include:

  • Life expectancy associated with different ages at diagnosis of type 2 diabetes in high-income countries: 23 million person-years of observation (2023) in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Harmonized human biomonitoring in European children, teenagers and adults: EU-wide exposure data of 11 chemical substance groups from the HBM4EU Aligned Studies (2014-2021) (2023) in International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
  • Metabolic Syndrome and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: An Overview of Exposure and Health Effects (2021) in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Harmonization of Human Biomonitoring Studies in Europe: Characteristics of the HBM4EU-Aligned Studies Participants (2022) in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Scoping Review-The Association between Asthma and Environmental Chemicals (2021) in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Hanna Tolonen collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including Luigi Palmieri, Marike Kolossa-Gehring, Laura Paalanen, Hanna Elonheimo, and Paolo Emilio Puddu.

Their research has been published extensively in a range of venues with the most frequent being:

  • European Journal of Public Health (27 publications)
  • Archives of Public Health (13 publications)
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (9 publications)
  • International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health (8 publications)
  • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health (5 publications)

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

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4.4 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Yuan Lu;Kaveh Hajifathalian;James Bentham

  • 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

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • Contribution of trends in survival and coronar y-event rates to changes in coronary heart disease mortality: 10-year results from 37 WHO MONICA Project populations

    Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe;Kari Kuulasmaa;Markku Mähönen;Hanna Tolonen

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Estimation of contribution of changes in classic risk factors to trends in coronary-event rates across the WHO MONICA Project populations

    Kari Kuulasmaa;Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe;Annette Dobson;Stephen Fortmann

  • World Health Organization cardiovascular disease risk charts: revised models to estimate risk in 21 global regions

    Stephen Kaptoge;Lisa Pennells;Dirk De Bacquer;Marie Therese Cooney

  • 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

  • Trends in obesity and energy supply in the WHO MONICA project

    K. Silventoinen;K. Silventoinen;S. Sans;H. Tolonen;D. Monterde

  • 25-year trends and socio-demographic differences in response rates: Finnish adult health behaviour survey.

    Hanna Tolonen;Satu Helakorpi;Kirsi Talala;Ville Helasoja

  • Cohort Profile: The National FINRISK Study.

    Katja Borodulin;Hanna Tolonen;Pekka Jousilahti;Antti Jula

  • Trends in coronary risk factors in the WHO MONICA Project

    Alun Evans;Hanna Tolonen;Hans-Werner Hense;Marco Ferrario

  • Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol

    Cristina Taddei;Bin Zhou;Honor Bixby;Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco

  • Trends in Stroke and Coronary Heart Disease in the WHO MONICA Project

    Thomas Truelsen;Markku Mähönen;Hanna Tolonen;Kjell Asplund

  • A comparison of measured versus self-reported anthropometrics for assessing obesity in adults: a literature review:

    Mirkka Maukonen;Satu Männistö;Hanna Tolonen

  • The validation of the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register and Causes of Death Register data on stroke diagnoses

    Hanna Tolonen;Veikko Salomaa;Jorma Torppa;Juhani Sivenius

  • Sample selection, recruitment and participation rates in health examination surveys in Europe – experience from seven national surveys

    Jennifer S. Mindell;Simona Giampaoli;Antje Goesswald;Panagiotis Kamtsiuris

  • Monica Monograph, and Multimedia Sourcebook : World's Largest Study of Heart Disease, Stroke, Risk Factor, and Population trends 1979-2002

    Tunstall-Pedeo Hugh;Kari Kuulasmaa;Hanna Tolonen

  • Are changes in mortality from stroke caused by changes in stroke event rates or case fatality? Results from the WHO MONICA Project.

    Cinzia Sarti;Birgitta Stegmayr;Hanna Tolonen;Markku Mähönen

Frequent Co-Authors

Tommi Härkänen
Tommi Härkänen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Seppo Koskinen
Seppo Koskinen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Satu Männistö
Satu Männistö Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Annika Rosengren
Annika Rosengren Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Lauren Lissner
Lauren Lissner University of Gothenburg
Vilmundur Gudnason
Vilmundur Gudnason University of Iceland
Johanna M. Geleijnse
Johanna M. Geleijnse Wageningen University & Research
Louise A. Baur
Louise A. Baur University of Sydney
Annette Peters
Annette Peters Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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