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Jaana Pentti is affiliated with the University of Turku in Finland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine, Health Professions, and Social Sciences, with specific focus on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, Health, and Demography.

The scientist's work addresses multiple health-related topics, including:

  • Workplace Health and Well-being
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Retirement, Disability, and Employment
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility

Jaana Pentti has contributed to a range of scientific articles published in several venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • European Journal of Ageing
  • BMJ Open
  • The Lancet Public Health
  • Health & Place
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Recent papers include:

  • Association between socioeconomic status and the development of mental and physical health conditions in adulthood: a multi-cohort study, 2020, The Lancet Public Health
  • Association of Healthy Lifestyle With Years Lived Without Major Chronic Diseases, 2020, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Hospital-treated infectious diseases and the risk of dementia: a large, multicohort, observational study with a replication cohort, 2021, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Reproducibility of nine tests to measure spinal mobility and trunk muscle strength, 2020, Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Association Between Depression and Physical Conditions Requiring Hospitalization, 2023, JAMA Psychiatry

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Jaana Pentti include:

  • Jussi Vahtera
  • Mika Kivimäki
  • Sari Stenholm
  • Jenni Ervasti
  • Marianna Virtanen

In addition to journal articles, Jaana Pentti has published a book through Itä-Suomen yliopisto eBooks titled Parempaa unta: tutkimus työstä, kokonaiskuormituksesta, unesta ja palautumisesta ikääntyneillä työntekijöillä in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data.

    Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Solja T. Nyberg;G. David Batty;G. David Batty;Eleonor I. Fransson;Eleonor I. Fransson;Eleonor I. Fransson

  • Long working hours and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke : a systematic review and meta-analysis of published and unpublished data for 603 838 individuals

    Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Markus Jokela;Solja T. Nyberg;Archana Singh-Manoux;Archana Singh-Manoux

  • Association between socioeconomic status and the development of mental and physical health conditions in adulthood: a multi-cohort study.

    Mika Kivimäki;G David Batty;G David Batty;Jaana Pentti;Martin J Shipley

  • Overweight, obesity, and risk of cardiometabolic multimorbidity: pooled analysis of individual-level data for 120 813 adults from 16 cohort studies from the USA and Europe

    Mika Kivimaki;Mika Kivimaki;Mika Kivimaki;Eeva Kuosma;Jane E. Ferrie;Jane E. Ferrie;Ritva Luukkonen

  • Factors underlying the effect of organisational downsizing on health of employees: longitudinal cohort study

    Mika Kivimäki;Jussi Vahtera;Jaana Pentti;Jane E Ferrie

  • Effect of organisational downsizing on health of employees

    Jussi Vahtera;Mika Kivimaki;Jaana Pentti

  • Job strain as a risk factor for clinical depression: systematic review and meta-analysis with additional individual participant data

    Ida E. H. Madsen;S. T. Nyberg;L. L. Magnusson Hanson;J. E. Ferrie

  • Organisational downsizing, sickness absence, and mortality: 10-town prospective cohort study

    Jussi Vahtera;Mika Kivimäki;Jaana Pentti;Anne Linna

  • Effect of change in the psychosocial work environment on sickness absence: a seven year follow up of initially healthy employees

    Jussi Vahtera;Mika Kivimäki;Jaana Pentti;Töres Theorell

  • Body mass index and risk of dementia: Analysis of individual-level data from 1.3 million individuals

    Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Ritva Luukkonen;G. David Batty;G. David Batty;Jane E. Ferrie

  • Self-rated health before and after retirement in France (GAZEL): a cohort study

    Hugo Westerlund;Hugo Westerlund;Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Archana Singh-Manoux;Archana Singh-Manoux;Maria Melchior

  • Obesity and loss of disease-free years owing to major non-communicable diseases: a multicohort study.

    Solja T Nyberg;G David Batty;Jaana Pentti;Jaana Pentti;Marianna Virtanen

  • Psychosocial factors predicting employee sickness absence during economic decline

    M Kivimäki;J Vahtera;L Thomson;A Griffiths

  • Work stress, smoking status, and smoking intensity: an observational study of 46 190 employees

    Anne Kouvonen;Mika Kivimäki;Marianna Virtanen;Jaana Pentti

  • Sickness absence as a predictor of mortality among male and female employees

    J Vahtera;J Pentti;M Kivimäki

  • Job Strain as a Risk Factor for Leisure-Time Physical Inactivity: An Individual-Participant Meta-Analysis of Up to 170,000 Men and Women: The IPD-Work Consortium

    Eleonor I Fransson;Katriina Heikkila;Solja T Nyberg;Marie Zins

  • Perceived job insecurity as a risk factor for incident coronary heart disease: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Marianna Virtanen;Solja T Nyberg;G David Batty;G David Batty;Markus Jokela

  • Temporary Employment and Risk of Overall and Cause-specific Mortality

    Mika Kivimäki;Jussi Vahtera;Marianna Virtanen;Marko Elovainio

  • Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease

    Mika Kivimäki;Solja T Nyberg;G David Batty;Eleonor I Fransson

  • Perceived job insecurity as a risk factor for incident coronary heart disease: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Marianna Virtanen;Solja T. Nyberg;G. David Batty;Markus Jokela

Frequent Co-Authors

Mika Kivimäki
Mika Kivimäki University College London
Jussi Vahtera
Jussi Vahtera Turku University Hospital
Marianna Virtanen
Marianna Virtanen University of Eastern Finland
Jane E. Ferrie
Jane E. Ferrie University College London
Hugo Westerlund
Hugo Westerlund Stockholm University
G. David Batty
G. David Batty University College London
Sakari Suominen
Sakari Suominen University of Turku
Lars Alfredsson
Lars Alfredsson Karolinska Institute
Marko Elovainio
Marko Elovainio University of Helsinki

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