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Timo A. Lakka is affiliated with the University of Eastern Finland in Finland. Their research spans a broad range of topics within medicine, with a particular focus on public health, physiology, molecular biology, cardiology, and pediatrics. Their body of work encompasses 184 publications primarily in the field of medicine and its specialized subfields such as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (47 publications), Physiology (41 publications), Molecular Biology (31 publications), Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (18 publications), and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (17 publications).

The main topics covered in their research include obesity, physical activity, and diet (64 publications), nutritional studies and diet (30 publications), adipose tissue and metabolism (26 publications), birth, development, and health (22 publications), physical activity and health (22 publications), children's physical and motor development (20 publications), and diet and metabolism studies (20 publications).

Lakka has co-authored publications frequently with several researchers, including Eero A. Haapala (47 collaborations), Sonja Soininen (21 collaborations), Ursula Schwab (20 collaborations), Niina Lintu (19 collaborations), and Heikki A. Koistinen (18 collaborations).

Their work has been published in several recurring academic venues, with the highest number of contributions appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (12 publications), followed by Diabetes (7 publications), Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports (5 publications), UNC Libraries (4 publications), and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (3 publications).

Among their recent research papers are:

  • Novel loci for childhood body mass index and shared heritability with adult cardiometabolic traits, 2020, PLoS Genetics
  • European fitness landscape for children and adolescents: updated reference values, fitness maps and country rankings based on nearly 8 million test results from 34 countries gathered by the FitBack network, 2023, British Journal of Sports Medicine
  • An Overview on the Associations between Health Behaviors and Brain Health in Children and Adolescents with Special Reference to Diet Quality, 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Genome-wide association study and functional characterization identifies candidate genes for insulin-stimulated glucose uptake, 2023, Nature Genetics
  • Genome-wide association study of placental weight identifies distinct and shared genetic influences between placental and fetal growth, 2023, Nature Genetics

Lakka is also credited with book publications, including a work published by the University of Eastern Finland titled Hyvällä mielellä Pohjois-Savo -hankkeen esiselvitys: toimenpide-ehdotus ja vaikuttavuuden arviointisuunnitelma (2021).

Best Publications

  • THE METABOLIC SYNDROME AND TOTAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE MORTALITY IN MIDDLE-AGED MEN

    Hanna-Maaria Lakka;David E. Laaksonen;Timo A. Lakka;Leo K. Niskanen

  • Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels

    Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso

  • 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 provides insights into the genetic architecture and pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes

    Andrew P Morris;Benjamin F Voight;Benjamin F Voight;Tanya M Teslovich;Teresa Ferreira

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

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

  • Metabolic syndrome and development of diabetes mellitus: application and validation of recently suggested definitions of the metabolic syndrome in a prospective cohort study.

    David E. Laaksonen;Hanna-Maaria Lakka;Leo K. Niskanen;George A. Kaplan

  • Novel genetic associations for blood pressure identified via gene-alcohol interaction in up to 570K individuals across multiple ancestries

    Mary F. Feitosa;Aldi T. Kraja;Daniel I. Chasman;Yun J. Sung

  • Relation of leisure-time physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness to the risk of acute myocardial infarction in men

    Timo A. Lakka;Juha M. Venalainen;Rainer Rauramaa;Riitta Salonen

  • Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease

    Ron Do;Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta

  • Uric Acid Level as a Risk Factor for Cardiovascular and All-Cause Mortality in Middle-Aged Men: A Prospective Cohort Study

    Leo K. Niskanen;David E. Laaksonen;Kristiina Nyyssönen;Georg Alfthan

  • Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility.

    Anubha Mahajan;Min Jin Go;Weihua Zhang;Jennifer E. Below

  • A genome-wide approach accounting for body mass index identifies genetic variants influencing fasting glycemic traits and insulin resistance.

    Alisa K. Manning;Alisa K. Manning;Alisa K. Manning;Robert A. Scott;Jonna L. Grimsby

  • Low levels of leisure-time physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness predict development of the metabolic syndrome.

    David E. Laaksonen;Hanna-Maaria Lakka;Jukka T. Salonen;Leo K. Niskanen

  • Large-scale association analyses identify new loci influencing glycemic traits and provide insight into the underlying biological pathways

    Robert A Scott;Vasiliki Lagou;Ryan P Welch;Eleanor Wheeler

  • Physical Activity in the Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes The Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study

    David E. Laaksonen;Jaana Lindström;Timo A. Lakka;Johan G. Eriksson

  • Risk of acute coronary events and serum concentration of asymmetrical dimethylarginine

    Veli-Pekka Valkonen;Hannu Päivä;Jukka T Salonen;Timo A Lakka

  • 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

  • Physical activity attenuates the influence of FTO variants on obesity risk: A meta-analysis of 218,166 adults and 19,268 children

    Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen;Lu Qi;Soren Brage;Stephen J. Sharp

  • The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study

    Thomas W. Winkler;Anne E. Justice;Mariaelisa Graff;Llilda Barata

  • Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility

    Anubha Mahajan;Min Jin Go;Weihua Zhang;Jennifer E. Below

Frequent Co-Authors

Rainer Rauramaa
Rainer Rauramaa University of Eastern Finland
Jaakko Tuomilehto
Jaakko Tuomilehto University of Helsinki
Paul W. Franks
Paul W. Franks Lund University
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Olli T. Raitakari
Olli T. Raitakari Turku University Hospital
Terho Lehtimäki
Terho Lehtimäki Tampere University
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Michael Boehnke
Michael Boehnke University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam

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