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Jarmo Virtamo is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spans medicine with a focus on several subfields, including pathology and forensic medicine, molecular biology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, genetics, and surgery. The scientist's work touches on topics such as Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies, gastric cancer management and outcomes, colorectal cancer screening and detection, cardiovascular function and risk factors, health and cognitive aging in relation to the environment, cardiovascular disease and adiposity, as well as lymphoma diagnosis and treatment.

Virtamo has authored publications primarily in two venues: UNC Libraries, where they have published seven papers, and the World Journal of Gastroenterology, with one publication. Their body of work includes studies of diverse medical conditions and risk factors.

Recent published papers include:

  • Comparison of operative link for gastritis assessment, operative link on gastric intestinal metaplasia assessment, and TAIM stagings among men with atrophic gastritis (2020, World Journal of Gastroenterology)
  • Genome-Wide Association Study for Incident Myocardial Infarction and Coronary Heart Disease in Prospective Cohort Studies: The CHARGE Consortium (2020, UNC Libraries)
  • Major types of dietary fat and risk of coronary heart disease: a pooled analysis of 11 cohort studies (2020, UNC Libraries)
  • Genome-wide association study identifies multiple susceptibility loci for diffuse large B cell lymphoma (2020, UNC Libraries)
  • Smoking and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Younger, Middle-Aged, and Older Adults (2021, UNC Libraries)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Virtamo include:

  • Berit L. Heitmann
  • Mark A. Pereira
  • Katarina Bälter
  • Uri Goldbourt
  • Göran Hallmans

The scientist's work in cardiology and cardiovascular medicine covers various risk factors such as smoking and dietary fat types and their relationship to coronary heart disease and myocardial infarction.

Virtamo's contributions to molecular biology and genetics are represented in genome-wide association studies identifying susceptibility loci for diseases like diffuse large B cell lymphoma. Their involvement in gastrointestinal research includes developing staging assessments for gastritis and gastric intestinal metaplasia, which are relevant to cancer screening and management.

The diversity of topics and collaboration with multiple co-authors across several research areas indicates a multidisciplinary approach to studying health outcomes and risk factors related to cardiovascular and gastrointestinal diseases, as well as cancer and aging.

Best Publications

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease

    Panos Deloukas;Stavroula Kanoni;Christina Willenborg;Martin Farrall

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • Genome-wide association study of prostate cancer identifies a second risk locus at 8q24

    Meredith Yeager;Nick Orr;Richard B Hayes;Kevin B Jacobs

  • Prostate cancer and supplementation with alpha-tocopherol and beta-carotene: incidence and mortality in a controlled trial

    O P Heinonen;D Albanes;J Virtamo;P R Taylor

  • Major types of dietary fat and risk of coronary heart disease: a pooled analysis of 11 cohort studies

    Marianne U. Jakobsen;Eilis J. O'Reilly;Berit L. Heitmann;Mark A. Pereira

  • α-Tocopherol and β-Carotene Supplements and Lung Cancer Incidence in the Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention Study: Effects of Base-line Characteristics and Study Compliance

    Demetrius Albanes;Olli P. Heinonen;Philip R. Taylor;Jarmo Virtamo

  • Multiple loci identified in a genome-wide association study of prostate cancer

    Gilles Thomas;Kevin B Jacobs;Meredith Yeager;Meredith Yeager;Peter Kraft

  • Genome-wide association study of circulating vitamin D levels

    Jiyoung Ahn;Kai Yu;Rachael Stolzenberg-Solomon;K. Claire Simon

  • Dietary fiber and risk of coronary heart disease: a pooled analysis of cohort studies.

    Mark A. Pereira;Eilis O'Reilly;Katarina Augustsson;Gary E. Fraser

  • Intake of Fatty Acids and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in a Cohort of Finnish Men: The Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention Study

    Pirjo Pietinen;Alberto Ascherio;Pasi Korhonen;Anne M. Hartman

  • Randomised trial of α-tocopherol and β-carotene supplements on incidence of major coronary events in men with previous myocardial infarction

    Janne M Rapola;Jarmo Virtamo;Samuli Ripatti;Jussi K Huttunen

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture

    Sonja I Berndt;Stefan Gustafsson;Stefan Gustafsson;Reedik Mägi;Reedik Mägi;Andrea Ganna

  • Identification of 23 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci using the iCOGS custom genotyping array

    Rosalind A. Eeles;Ali Amin Al Olama;Sara Benlloch;Edward J. Saunders

  • Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer

    Kevin B. Jacobs;Kevin B. Jacobs;Meredith Yeager;Meredith Yeager;Weiyin Zhou;Weiyin Zhou;Sholom Wacholder

  • REPRODUCIBILITY AND VALIDITY OF DIETARY ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS I. A SELF-ADMINISTERED FOOD USE QUESTIONNAIRE WITH A PORTION SIZE PICTURE BOOKLET

    Pirjo Pietinen;Anne M. Hartman;Eliina Haapa;Leena Räsänen

  • A Genome-wide Association Study of Lung Cancer Identifies a Region of Chromosome 5p15 Associated with Risk for Adenocarcinoma.

    Maria Teresa Landi;Nilanjan Chatterjee;Kai Yu;Lynn R. Goldin

  • Genome-wide association study of prostate cancer identifies a second risk locus at 8q24

    Adam S. Kibel

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture

    Sonja I. Berndt;Stefan Gustafsson;Reedik Maegi;Andrea Ganna

  • Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer

    Kevin B. Jacobs;Meredith Yeager;Weiyin Zhou;Sholom Wacholder

Frequent Co-Authors

Demetrius Albanes
Demetrius Albanes National Institutes of Health
David J. Hunter
David J. Hunter Harvard University
Stephen J. Chanock
Stephen J. Chanock National Institutes of Health
Philip R. Taylor
Philip R. Taylor Cardiff University
Pirjo Pietinen
Pirjo Pietinen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Peter Kraft
Peter Kraft Harvard University
Zhaoming Wang
Zhaoming Wang St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Kevin B. Jacobs
Kevin B. Jacobs Progenity (United States)
Rachael Z. Stolzenberg-Solomon
Rachael Z. Stolzenberg-Solomon National Institutes of Health
Meredith Yeager
Meredith Yeager Hood College

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