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Markku Peltonen is affiliated with the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) in Finland. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions in surgery, physiology, public health, environmental and occupational health, psychiatry and mental health, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The scientist's work covers multiple research topics, including:

  • Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Obesity and Health Practices
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Frailty in Older Adults
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Markku Peltonen are:

  • World-Wide FINGERS Network: A global approach to risk reduction and prevention of dementia (2020), Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Life Expectancy after Bariatric Surgery in the Swedish Obese Subjects Study (2020), New England Journal of Medicine
  • The effect of adherence on cognition in a multidomain lifestyle intervention (FINGER) (2021), Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Association of Bariatric Surgery With Cancer Incidence in Patients With Obesity and Diabetes: Long-term Results From the Swedish Obese Subjects Study (2021), Diabetes Care
  • Effect of a multi-domain lifestyle intervention on cardiovascular risk in older people: the FINGER trial (2022), European Heart Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Markku Peltonen include:

  • Lena Carlsson
  • Per-Arne Svensson
  • Kajsa Sjöholm
  • Magdalena Taube
  • Johanna C. Andersson-Assarsson

Markku Peltonen has published extensively in various scientific journals, with notable publication venues including:

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia (14 publications)
  • Diabetes Care (4 publications)
  • International Journal of Obesity (4 publications)
  • The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health (2 publications)
  • JAMA Network Open (2 publications)

The scientist has also contributed to book publications, with one known book published by Cambridge University Press titled The Political Thought of the English Free State, 1649-1653 in 2022, which has accrued citations.

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

  • Lifestyle, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Risk Factors 10 Years after Bariatric Surgery

    L. Sjöström;A.-K. Lindroos;M. Peltonen

  • 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

  • A 2 year multidomain intervention of diet, exercise, cognitive training, and vascular risk monitoring versus control to prevent cognitive decline in at-risk elderly people (FINGER): a randomised controlled trial

    Tiia Ngandu;Tiia Ngandu;Jenni Lehtisalo;Alina Solomon;Alina Solomon;Esko Levälahti

  • 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

  • Sustained reduction in the incidence of type 2 diabetes by lifestyle intervention: follow-up of the Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study

    Jaana Lindström;Pirjo Ilanne-Parikka;Markku Peltonen;Sirkka Aunola

  • Bariatric Surgery and Long-term Cardiovascular Events

    Lars Sjöström;Markku Peltonen;Peter Jacobson;C. David Sjöström

  • A century of trends in adult human height

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

  • Association of Bariatric Surgery With Long-term Remission of Type 2 Diabetes and With Microvascular and Macrovascular Complications

    Lars Sjöström;Markku Peltonen;Peter Jacobson;Sofie Ahlin

  • Bariatric Surgery and Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes in Swedish Obese Subjects

    Lena M S Carlsson;Markku Peltonen;Sofie Ahlin;Åsa Anveden

  • Prediction of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and liver fat using metabolic and genetic factors.

    Anna Kotronen;Markku Peltonen;Antti Hakkarainen;Ksenia Sevastianova

  • Effects of bariatric surgery on cancer incidence in obese patients in Sweden (Swedish Obese Subjects Study): a prospective, controlled intervention trial

    Lars Sjöström;Lars Sjöström;Anders Gummesson;C David Sjöström;Kristina Narbro

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

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

  • Thirty-five-year trends in cardiovascular risk factors in Finland

    Erkki Vartiainen;Tiina Laatikainen;Markku Peltonen;Anne Juolevi

  • A European Evidence-Based Guideline for the Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes

    B. Paulweber;P. Valensi;J. Lindström;N. M. Lalic

  • The Finnish Geriatric Intervention Study to Prevent Cognitive Impairment and Disability (FINGER): Study design and progress

    Miia Kivipelto;Alina Solomon;Alina Solomon;Satu Ahtiluoto;Tiia Ngandu;Tiia Ngandu

  • Diabetes, Alzheimer disease, and vascular dementia: A population-based neuropathologic study

    S. Ahtiluoto;T. Polvikoski;M. Peltonen;A. Solomon

  • Improved lifestyle and decreased diabetes risk over 13 years: long-term follow-up of the randomised Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study (DPS)

    J. Lindström;M. Peltonen;J. G. Eriksson;P. Ilanne-Parikka

  • Lifestyle intervention with weight reduction: first-line treatment in mild obstructive sleep apnea.

    Henri P. I. Tuomilehto;Juha M. Seppä;Markku M. Partinen;Markku Peltonen

Frequent Co-Authors

Tiina Laatikainen
Tiina Laatikainen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Jaakko Tuomilehto
Jaakko Tuomilehto University of Helsinki
Lena M. S. Carlsson
Lena M. S. Carlsson University of Gothenburg
Sirkka Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi
Sirkka Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi Oulu University Hospital
Lars Sjöström
Lars Sjöström University of Gothenburg
Timo E. Strandberg
Timo E. Strandberg University of Helsinki
Johan G. Eriksson
Johan G. Eriksson National University of Singapore
Miia Kivipelto
Miia Kivipelto University of Eastern Finland
Erkki Vartiainen
Erkki Vartiainen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Pekka Jousilahti
Pekka Jousilahti Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

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