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  1. Alcohol consumption, smoking, and weight loss outcomes: findings from a 12-month digital lifestyle intervention

    Article • European Journal of Public Health, April 2026, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  2. Does loneliness impact intentional weight loss? The role of obesity-related disadvantages and comorbidities

    Article • Preventive Medicine, January 2026, Elsevier

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  3. Association between sleep and weight loss in a 12-month digital lifestyle intervention

    Article • Obesity Medicine, November 2025, Elsevier

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  4. The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on weight loss in the digital Healthy Weight Coaching program

    Article • Obesity Research & Clinical Practice, May 2025, Elsevier

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  5. Exploring successes, barriers, and enablers in the one-year digital Healthy Weight Coaching

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, November 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  6. An updated study protocol for a real-life digital 12-month weight management program, the Healthy Weight Coaching

    Article • Annals of Medicine, September 2024, Taylor & Francis

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  7. Loneliness and its cross-sectional associations with health, health behaviours, and perceptions in Finnish patients with overweight or obesity taking part in the Healthy Weight Coaching

    Article • Preventive Medicine, August 2024, Elsevier

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  8. The use of dietary supplements, and the association between supplemental vitamin D and glycaemic control in adult individuals with type 1 diabetes

    Article • Diabetic Medicine, February 2024, Wiley

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  9. Clustering of risk behaviours and associations between risk behaviours and cardio-metabolic risk factors in adult individuals with type 1 diabetes

    Article • Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, February 2024, Elsevier

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  10. Mental, physical, and social well-being and quality of life in healthy young adult twin pairs discordant and concordant for body mass index

    Article • PLOS One, December 2023, PLOS

    Bram Berntzen, PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  11. Development and validation of a weight-loss predictor to assist weight loss management

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  12. Weight Loss Trajectories in Healthy Weight Coaching: Cohort Study

    Article • JMIR Formative Research, March 2022, JMIR Publications Inc.

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  13. Symptoms of depression are associated with reduced leisure-time physical activity in adult individuals with type 1 diabetes

    Article • Acta Diabetologica, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  14. Dietary intake and hospitalisation due to diabetic ketoacidosis and hypoglycaemia in individuals with type 1 diabetes

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  15. Computational modelling of self-reported dietary carbohydrate intake on glucose concentrations in patients undergoing Roux-en-Y gastric bypass versus one-anastomosis gastric bypass

    Article • Annals of Medicine, January 2021, Taylor & Francis

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  16. Association between symptoms of depression, diabetes complications and vascular risk factors in four European cohorts of individuals with type 1 diabetes – InterDiane Consortium

    Article • Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, December 2020, Elsevier

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  17. Depression Is Associated With Progression of Diabetic Nephropathy in Type 1 Diabetes

    Article • Diabetes Care, November 2020, American Diabetes Association

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  18. Waist-height ratio and waist are the best estimators of visceral fat in type 1 diabetes

    Article • Scientific Reports, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  19. Effectiveness of a web-based real-life weight management program: Study design, methods, and participants’ baseline characteristics

    Article • Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, September 2020, Elsevier

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  20. Perceived Stress and Adherence to the Dietary Recommendations and Blood Glucose Levels in Type 1 Diabetes

    Article • Journal of Diabetes Research, July 2020, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  21. Meal timing, meal frequency, and breakfast skipping in adult individuals with type 1 diabetes – associations with glycaemic control

    Article • Scientific Reports, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  22. Dietary carbohydrate intake and cardio-metabolic risk factors in type 1 diabetes

    Article • Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, September 2019, Elsevier

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  23. Dietary intake in type 1 diabetes at different stages of diabetic kidney disease

    Article • Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, September 2019, Elsevier

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  24. Associations of dietary macronutrient and fibre intake with glycaemia in individuals with Type 1 diabetes

    Article • Diabetic Medicine, November 2018, Wiley

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  25. Association between diet and measures of arterial stiffness in type 1 diabetes – Focus on dietary patterns and macronutrient substitutions

    Article • Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, November 2018, Elsevier

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  26. Adherence to special diets and its association with meeting the nutrient recommendations in individuals with type 1 diabetes

    Article • Acta Diabetologica, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  27. Association between habitual coffee consumption and metabolic syndrome in type 1 diabetes

    Article • Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, May 2018, Elsevier

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  28. Association between depressive symptoms and dietary intake in patients with type 1 diabetes

    Article • Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, May 2018, Elsevier

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  29. Regression of albuminuria and its association with incident cardiovascular outcomes and mortality in type 1 diabetes: the FinnDiane Study

    Article • Diabetologia, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  30. Dietary patterns reflecting healthy food choices are associated with lower serum LPS activity

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  31. The serum uric acid concentration is not causally linked to diabetic nephropathy in type 1 diabetes

    Article • Kidney International, May 2017, Elsevier

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  32. Intestinal alkaline phosphatase at the crossroad of intestinal health and disease - a putative role in type 1 diabetes

    Article • Journal of Internal Medicine, April 2017, Wiley

    Markku Lehto, PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  33. Association between adherence to dietary recommendations and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein level in type 1 diabetes

    Article • Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, April 2017, Elsevier

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  34. The association between macronutrient intake and the metabolic syndrome and its components in type 1 diabetes

    Article • British Journal Of Nutrition, February 2017, Cambridge University Press

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  35. The Self-reported Use of Probiotics is Associated with Better Glycaemic Control and Lower Odds of Metabolic Syndrome and its Components in Type 1 Diabetes

    Article • Journal of Probiotics & Health, January 2017, OMICS Publishing Group

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  36. Endotoxins are associated with visceral fat mass in type 1 diabetes

    Article • Scientific Reports, December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  37. Dietary patterns are associated with various vascular health markers and complications in type 1 diabetes

    Article • Journal of Diabetes and its Complications, August 2016, Elsevier

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  38. Fear of hypoglycaemia and self-management in type 1 diabetes

    Article • Journal of Clinical & Translational Endocrinology, June 2016, Elsevier

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  39. High-fat meals induce systemic cytokine release without evidence of endotoxemia-mediated cytokine production from circulating monocytes or myeloid dendritic cells

    Article • Acta Diabetologica, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  40. Renin–angiotensin–aldosterone–blockade is associated with decreased use of antidepressant therapy in patients with type 1 diabetes and diabetic nephropathy

    Article • Acta Diabetologica, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  41. Patients with type 1 diabetes show signs of vascular dysfunction in response to multiple high-fat meals

    Article • Nutrition & Metabolism, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  42. Association of dietary sodium intake with atherogenesis in experimental diabetes and with cardiovascular disease in patients with Type 1 diabetes

    Article • Clinical Science, May 2013, Portland Press Ltd.

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  43. Barriers to self-management of diabetes

    Article • Diabetic Medicine, March 2013, Wiley

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  44. Sense of coherence, food selection and leisure time physical activity in type 1 diabetes

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, November 2012, SAGE Publications

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  45. New Susceptibility Loci Associated with Kidney Disease in Type 1 Diabetes

    Article • PLoS Genetics, September 2012, PLOS

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola, Prof Alexander P Maxwell, Henrik Falhammar

  46. Purchase of antidepressant agents by patients with type 1 diabetes is associated with increased mortality rates in women but not in men

    Article • Diabetologia, October 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  47. The Association Between Dietary Sodium Intake, ESRD, and All-Cause Mortality in Patients With Type 1 Diabetes

    Article • Diabetes Care, February 2011, American Diabetes Association

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  48. The cross-sectional associations between sense of coherence and diabetic microvascular complications, glycaemic control, and patients' conceptions of type 1 diabetes

    Article • Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  49. Energy and nutrient intakes and adherence to dietary guidelines among Finnish adults with type 1 diabetes

    Article • Annals of Medicine, November 2010, Taylor & Francis

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  50. Many patients with Type 1 diabetes estimate their prandial insulin need inappropriately

    Article • Journal of Diabetes, August 2010, Wiley

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  51. Depression is associated with the metabolic syndrome among patients with type 1 diabetes

    Article • Annals of Medicine, July 2010, Taylor & Francis

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  52. Health-related quality of life in patients with type 1diabetes--association with diabetic complications (the FinnDiane Study)

    Article • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, December 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  53. Probiotics Reduce the Prevalence of Oral Candida in the Elderly—a Randomized Controlled Trial

    Article • Journal of Dental Research, February 2007, SAGE Publications

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola

  54. Short-term consumption of probiotic-containing cheese and its effect on dental caries risk factors

    Article • Archives of Oral Biology, November 2002, Elsevier

    PhD, Adjunct professor Aila Ahola