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Tiina Laatikainen is affiliated with the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare in Finland and has contributed extensively to the field of Medicine, with a primary focus on Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, General Health Professions, and Physiology.

Their research topics encompass several key areas including:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Diabetes Management and Research
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology

Laatikainen has contributed to numerous scientific publications, with frequent publishing venues including:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • European Journal of Public Health
  • BMC Health Services Research
  • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
  • BMC Public Health

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Laatikainen include:

  • Life expectancy associated with different ages at diagnosis of type 2 diabetes in high-income countries: 23 million person-years of observation (2023, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology)
  • Association Between the Gut Microbiota and Blood Pressure in a Population Cohort of 6953 Individuals (2020, Journal of the American Heart Association)
  • The effect of adherence on cognition in a multidomain lifestyle intervention (FINGER) (2021, Alzheimer's & Dementia)
  • Effect of a multi-domain lifestyle intervention on cardiovascular risk in older people: the FINGER trial (2022, European Heart Journal)
  • Policy implementation and priorities to create healthy food environments using the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI): A pooled level analysis across eleven European countries (2022, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe)

Laatikainen frequently collaborates with other researchers, notably:

  • Tiia Ngandu
  • Hilkka Soininen
  • Miia Kivipelto
  • Timo Strandberg
  • Riitta Antikaínen

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

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

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

  • 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

  • A century of trends in adult human height

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

  • Environmental biodiversity, human microbiota, and allergy are interrelated

    Ilkka Hanski;Leena von Hertzen;Nanna Fyhrquist;Kaisa Koskinen

  • Risk score for the prediction of dementia risk in 20 years among middle aged people: a longitudinal, population-based study.

    Miia Kivipelto;Miia Kivipelto;Miia Kivipelto;Tiia Ngandu;Tiia Ngandu;Tiina Laatikainen;Bengt Winblad;Bengt Winblad

  • 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

  • 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

  • Elevated resting heart rate is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease in healthy men and women

    Marie Therese Cooney;Erkki Vartiainen;Tinna Laakitainen;Anne Juolevi

  • Impact of smoking and smoking cessation on cardiovascular events and mortality among older adults: meta-analysis of individual participant data from prospective cohort studies of the CHANCES consortium

    Ute Mons;Aysel Müezzinler;Aysel Müezzinler;Carolin Gellert;Ben Schöttker

  • Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

    Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez;Bin Zhou;Marisa K. Sophiea;James Bentham

  • Associations of Chronotype and Sleep With Cardiovascular Diseases and Type 2 Diabetes

    Ilona Merikanto;Tuuli Lahti;Tuuli Lahti;Hannu Puolijoki;Mauno Vanhala

  • Explaining the Decline in Coronary Heart Disease Mortality in Finland between 1982 and 1997

    Tiina Laatikainen;Julia Critchley;Erkki Vartiainen;Veikko Salomaa

  • Long-term and recent trends in hypertension awareness, treatment, and control in 12 high-income countries: an analysis of 123 nationally representative surveys

    Bin Zhou;Goodarz Danaei;Gretchen A. Stevens;Honor Bixby

  • Trends in self-reported sleep duration and insomnia-related symptoms in Finland from 1972 to 2005: a comparative review and re-analysis of Finnish population samples

    Erkki Kronholm;Timo Partonen;Tiina Laatikainen;Markku Peltonen

  • Health behaviours as explanations for educational level differences in cardiovascular and all-cause mortality: a follow-up of 60 000 men and women over 23 years.

    Mikko Laaksonen;Kirsi Talala;Tuija Martelin;Ossi Rahkonen

Frequent Co-Authors

Erkki Vartiainen
Erkki Vartiainen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Markku Peltonen
Markku Peltonen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Miia Kivipelto
Miia Kivipelto University of Eastern Finland
Pekka Jousilahti
Pekka Jousilahti Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Jaakko Tuomilehto
Jaakko Tuomilehto University of Helsinki
Timo E. Strandberg
Timo E. Strandberg University of Helsinki
Hilkka Soininen
Hilkka Soininen University of Eastern Finland
Veikko Salomaa
Veikko Salomaa Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Tari Haahtela
Tari Haahtela University of Helsinki
Satu Männistö
Satu Männistö Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

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