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Marianna Virtanen is affiliated with the University of Eastern Finland in Finland. Their research primarily spans health professions and psychology, with specific interests in general health professions, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, demography, and health.

Their work concentrates on a range of topics including workplace health and well-being, employment and welfare studies, retirement, disability and employment, health disparities and outcomes, sleep and work-related fatigue, stress and burnout research, and mental health treatment and access.

Among the recent papers authored by Marianna Virtanen are the following:

  • Association between socioeconomic status and the development of mental and physical health conditions in adulthood: a multi-cohort study (2020), published in The Lancet Public Health
  • Association of Healthy Lifestyle With Years Lived Without Major Chronic Diseases (2020), published in JAMA Internal Medicine
  • General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-6), and Mental Health Index (MHI-5): psychometric and predictive properties in a Finnish population-based sample (2020), published in Psychiatry Research
  • Association of social isolation, loneliness and genetic risk with incidence of dementia: UK Biobank Cohort Study (2022), published in BMJ Open
  • Long working hours and risk of 50 health conditions and mortality outcomes: a multicohort study in four European countries (2021), published in The Lancet Regional Health - Europe

Frequent co-authors in Virtanen's work include:

  • Mika Kivimäki
  • Jaana Pentti
  • Jussi Vahtera
  • Jenni Ervasti
  • Sari Stenholm

Publications by Marianna Virtanen are commonly featured in the following venues:

  • European Journal of Public Health
  • European Journal of Ageing
  • Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

In addition to journal articles, Virtanen has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Itä-Suomen yliopisto eBooks titled Parempaa unta: tutkimus työstä, kokonaiskuormituksesta, unesta ja palautumisesta ikääntyneillä työntekijöillä (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

  • Work stress in the etiology of coronary heart disease - a meta-analysis

    Mika Kivimäki;Marianna Virtanen;Marko Elovainio;Anne Kouvonen

  • Temporary employment and health: a review

    Marianna Virtanen;Mika Kivimäki;Matti Joensuu;Pekka Virtanen

  • 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

  • Workplace bullying and the risk of cardiovascular disease and depression

    M Kivimäki;M Virtanen;M Vartia;M Elovainio

  • 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

  • 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

  • Contribution of risk factors to excess mortality in isolated and lonely individuals: an analysis of data from the UK Biobank cohort study

    Marko Elovainio;Marko Elovainio;Christian Hakulinen;Christian Hakulinen;Laura Pulkki-Råback;Marianna Virtanen

  • 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

  • PERSONALITY AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS: INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANT META-ANALYSIS OF 10 COHORT STUDIES.

    Christian Hakulinen;Marko Elovainio;Marko Elovainio;Laura Pulkki-Råback;Marianna Virtanen

  • Long Working Hours and Coronary Heart Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Marianna Virtanen;Katriina Heikkilä;Markus Jokela;Jane E. Ferrie

  • Long working hours and symptoms of anxiety and depression: a 5-year follow-up of the Whitehall II study

    Marianna Virtanen;Jane E. Ferrie;Archana Singh-Manoux;Martin J. Shipley

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

    Anne Kouvonen;Mika Kivimäki;Marianna Virtanen;Jaana Pentti

  • 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

  • Effort-reward imbalance, procedural injustice and relational injustice as psychosocial predictors of health: Complementary or redundant models?

    Mika Kivimäki;Jussi Vahtera;Marko Elovainio;Marianna Virtanen

  • Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease

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

  • PERSONALITY AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS: INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANT META-ANALYSIS OF 10 COHORT STUDIES

    Christian Hakulinen;Marko Elovainio;Laura Pulkki-Raback;Marianna Virtanen

Frequent Co-Authors

Mika Kivimäki
Mika Kivimäki University College London
Jussi Vahtera
Jussi Vahtera Turku University Hospital
Jaana Pentti
Jaana Pentti University of Turku
Marko Elovainio
Marko Elovainio University of Helsinki
Jane E. Ferrie
Jane E. Ferrie University College London
G. David Batty
G. David Batty University College London
Markus Jokela
Markus Jokela University of Helsinki
Sakari Suominen
Sakari Suominen University of Turku
Lars Alfredsson
Lars Alfredsson Karolinska Institute

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