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Improved diagnostic accuracy for hypertension
(Turun yliopisto, 2020-06-27)
Practical and accurate blood pressure (BP) measurement techniques are needed to ensure adequate diagnostics and treatment of hypertension. Recently, novel monitors have appeared on the market including timer-equipped home ...
Vascular function in kidney transplant recipients and in patients with renovascular disease
(Turun yliopisto, 2021-10-29)
Cardiovascular mortality is 20 times higher in patients with chronic kidney disease and 3─5 times higher in patients with a kidney transplant than in the age-matched general population, which is partly explained by endothelial ...
The Many faces of vasculitis: diagnostic challenges and economic burden
(Turun yliopisto, 2021-09-10)
The systemic vasculitides are characterized by inflammation of the blood vessel walls. Most vasculitides are idiopathic but sometimes a triggering event, e.g., medication, can be identified. Vessels of any type and size ...
Nutritional determinants & cardiometabolic risk outcomes in children and adolescents with obesity
(Turun yliopisto, 2020-11-20)
Total energy intake, physical activity, body size and body composition determine total energy expenditure. An imbalance between total energy intake and total energy expenditure causes obesity. Overweight and obesity remains ...
Childhood socioeconomic status and cardiometabolic health in adulthood - The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study
(Turun yliopisto, 2020-10-30)
The association of conventional childhood and adulthood cardiometabolic risk factors and adulthood socioeconomic status with adulthood cardiometabolic health is well-established. However, the association between childhood ...
Novel aspects of insulin resistance: focus on the brain. Studies using positron emission tomography
(2020-09-11)
We are currently facing a global epidemic of obesity, which poses a great challenge for the global health. Insulin resistance is the common soil that links obesity and type 2 diabetes. Whereas most lifestyle interventions ...
Insulin sensitivity and endocannabinoid function as risk factors for obesity: Positron emission tomography studies of insulin sensitivity and CB1 receptors
(Turun yliopisto, 2024-01-19)
Obesity is a chronic disease with epidemic proportions, and it causes serious threats for human health and wellbeing. Obesity results from long-term positive energy balance, and is characterized by excessive fat accumulation. ...
Effects of exercise training on bone marrow metabolism
(Turun yliopisto, 2024-05-24)
Bone marrow (BM) is the porous tissue found inside bones that consists of adipose tissue, hematopoietic cells, and other stem cells. BM adipose tissue has been shown to have high basal glucose uptake in humans, exceeding ...
Novel Imaging Approaches for the Detection of Hemodynamically Significant Coronary Artery Disease: Quantitative Flow Ratio and Artificial Intelligence-Based Ischemia Algorithm
(Turun yliopisto, 2024-06-08)
ABSTRACT
In coronary artery disease (CAD), the decision on revascularization is based on the hemodynamic significance of stenoses. However, this cannot directly be determined from the first-line anatomical imaging methods ...
Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase in cardiometabolic health
(Turun yliopisto, 2024-05-11)
Regulation of immune response is an important factor in determining progress of cardiometabolic diseases that may ultimately lead to atherosclerotic endpoints and premature death. Previous investigations have emphasized ...