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Juha Pekkanen is affiliated with the University at Buffalo, State University of New York in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on areas related to health and environmental impacts.

The main subfields of Juha Pekkanen's work include Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Physiology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Speech and Hearing, and Immunology and Allergy. Their research covers several topics such as Asthma and respiratory diseases, Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Noise Effects and Management, Pediatric health and respiratory diseases, Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization, and Respiratory and Cough-Related Research.

Among the notable publications credited to them are:

  • Maturation of the gut microbiome during the first year of life contributes to the protective farm effect on childhood asthma, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • Changes in parental smoking during pregnancy and risks of adverse birth outcomes and childhood overweight in Europe and North America: An individual participant data meta-analysis of 229,000 singleton births, 2020, PLoS Medicine
  • Early-life respiratory tract infections and the risk of school-age lower lung function and asthma: a meta-analysis of 150,000 European children, 2022, European Respiratory Journal
  • Opinion: Gigacity - a source of problems or the new way to sustainable development, 2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Associations between sources of particle number and mortality in four European cities, 2021, Environment International

Juha Pekkanen frequently publishes in venues such as Indoor Air, Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, European Respiratory Journal, Scientific Reports, and The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice.

Their frequent coauthors include Anne M. Karvonen, Pirkka V. Kirjavainen, Martin Täubel, Elisabeth Schmaußer-Hechfellner, and Caroline Roduit.

Best Publications

  • Event generator tunes obtained from underlying event and multiparton scattering measurements

    V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan;W. Adam

  • Glucose tolerance and mortality: comparison of WHO and American Diabetes Association diagnostic criteria

    K Borch-Johnsen;A Neil;B Balkau;S Larsen

  • Plasma fibrinogen level and the risk of major cardiovascular diseases and nonvascular mortality: an individual participant meta-analysis.

    J Danesh;S Lewington;S G Thompson;Lowe Gdo.

  • Glucose tolerance and cardiovascular mortality - Comparison of fasting and 2-hour diagnostic criteria

    K. Borch-Johnsen;A. Neil;B. Balkau;S. Larsen

  • Confounding and effect modification in the short-term effects of ambient particles on total mortality: Results from 29 European cities within the APHEA2 project

    Klea Katsouyanni;Giota Touloumi;Evangelia Samoli;Alexandros Gryparis

  • Ten-Year Mortality from Cardiovascular Disease in Relation to Cholesterol Level among Men with and without Preexisting Cardiovascular Disease

    Juha Pekkanen;Shai Linn;Gerardo Heiss;Chirayath M. Suchindran

  • Non-eosinophilic asthma: importance and possible mechanisms

    J Douwes;P Gibson;J Pekkanen;N Pearce

  • Serum Total Cholesterol, Apolipoprotein E Epsilon 4 Allele, and Alzheimer's Disease

    Irma-Leena Notkola;Raimo Sulkava;Juha Pekkanen;Timo Erkinjuntti

  • Expert position paper on air pollution and cardiovascular disease

    David E. Newby;Pier M. Mannucci;Grethe S. Tell;Andrea A. Baccarelli

  • Relation of serum homocysteine and lipoprotein(a) concentrations to atherosclerotic disease in a prospective Finnish population based study

    G. Alfthan;J. Pekkanen;M. Jauhiainen;J. Pitkäniemi

  • Dietary factors determining diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance. A 20-year follow-up of the Finnish and Dutch cohorts of the Seven Countries Study.

    Edith J Feskens;Suvi M Virtanen;Leena Räsänen;Jaakko Tuomilehto

  • Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of 21,000 cases and 95,000 controls identifies new risk loci for atopic dermatitis

    Lavinia Paternoster;Marie Standl;Johannes Waage;Hansjoerg Baurecht

  • Changes in risk factors explain changes in mortality from ischaemic heart disease in Finland

    Vartiainen E;Puska P;Pekkanen J;Tuomilehto J

  • Particulate Air Pollution and Risk of ST-Segment Depression During Repeated Submaximal Exercise Tests Among Subjects With Coronary Heart Disease The Exposure and Risk Assessment for Fine and Ultrafine Particles in Ambient Air (ULTRA) Study

    Juha Pekkanen;Annette Peters;Gerard Hoek;Pekka Tiittanen

  • Impact of maternal body mass index and gestational weight gain on pregnancy complications: An individual participant data meta-analysis of European, North American and Australian cohorts

    Susana Santos;Ellis Voerman;Pilar Amiano;Henrique Barros

  • Body weight, cardiovascular risk factors, and coronary mortality. 15-year follow-up of middle-aged men and women in Eastern Finland

    Pekka Jousilahti;Jaakko Tuomilehto;Erkki Vartiainen;Juha Pekkanen

  • Renal effects of uranium in drinking water.

    Päivi Kurttio;Anssi Auvinen;Laina Salonen;Heikki Saha

  • Short-Term Effects of Ambient Particles on Cardiovascular and Respiratory Mortality

    Antonis Analitis;Klea Katsouyanni;Konstantina Dimakopoulou;Evangelia Samoli

  • Ultrafine particles in urban air and respiratory health among adult asthmatics

    Penttinen P;Timonen Kl;Tiittanen P;Mirme A

  • Infant vitamin D supplementation and allergic conditions in adulthood: Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966

    Elina HYPPöNEN;Ulla Sovio;Matthias Wjst;Swatee Patel;Swatee Patel

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