All Stories

  1. Childhood adversities and home atmosphere as determinants of resilience in old age: findings from the Helsinki birth cohort study

    Article • European Journal of Ageing, February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  2. How to support researchers in the primary care setting?

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, November 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  3. Biologically Informed Polygenic Scores for Brain Insulin Receptor Network Are Associated with Cardiometabolic Risk Markers and Diabetes in Women

    Article • Diabetes & Metabolism Journal, September 2024, Korean Diabetes Association (KAMJE)

    Dr. Niko Wasenius, Jari Lahti

  4. The brain insulin receptor gene network and associations with frailty index

    Article • Age and Ageing, May 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Niko Wasenius, Jari Lahti

  5. Social Mobility and Health-Related Quality of Life Trajectory Classes Among Older Women and Men

    Article • Journal of Aging and Health, April 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  6. Lifestyle-related factors in late midlife as predictors of frailty from late midlife into old age: a longitudinal birth cohort study

    Article • Age and Ageing, April 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  7. Frailty in Midlife as a Predictor of Changes in Body Composition from Midlife into Old Age: A Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study

    Article • Gerontology, January 2024, Karger Publishers

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  8. Healthy ageing from birth to age 84 years in the Helsinki Birth Cohort Study, Finland: a longitudinal study

    Article • The Lancet Healthy Longevity, September 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  9. Circulating Cytokine Levels and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Profile in Young Adult Offspring of Women with Type 1 Diabetes

    Article • Diabetes Therapy, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  10. Body Composition in Late Midlife as a Predictor of Accelerated Age-associated Deficit-accumulation From Late Midlife into Old Age: A Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series A, November 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  11. Depressive symptoms and mortality‐findings from Helsinki birth cohort study

    Article • Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, November 2022, Wiley

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  12. Higher pulse wave velocity in young adult offspring of mothers with type 1 diabetes: a case–control study

    Article • Cardiovascular Diabetology, September 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  13. Non-melancholic depressive symptoms are associated with above average fat mass index in the Helsinki birth cohort study

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  14. Adiposity-Related Predictors of Vascular Aging From a Life Course Perspective–Findings From the Helsinki Birth Cohort Study

    Article • Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, April 2022, Frontiers

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  15. Early-Life Factors as Predictors of Age-Associated Deficit Accumulation Across 17 Years From Midlife Into Old Age

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series A, January 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  16. Mental, Physical and Social Functioning in Independently Living Senior House Residents and Community-Dwelling Older Adults

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, November 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  17. The relationship between health-related quality of life and melancholic depressive symptoms is modified by brain insulin receptor gene network

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

    Dr. Niko Wasenius, Jari Lahti

  18. Evaluation of Afterschool Activity Programs’ (ASAP) Effect on Children’s Physical Activity, Physical Health, and Fundamental Movement Skills

    Article • Health Education & Behavior, October 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  19. Advanced glycation end products measured by skin autofluorescence are associated with melancholic depressive symptoms – Findings from Helsinki Birth Cohort Study

    Article • Journal of Psychosomatic Research, June 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  20. Skin Autofluorescence in Young Adult Offspring of Women with Type 1 Diabetes: A Cross-Sectional Case–Control Study

    Article • Diabetes Therapy, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  21. Higher carotid-radial pulse wave velocity is associated with non-melancholic depressive symptoms in men – findings from Helsinki Birth Cohort Study

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

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  22. Maternal body mass index, change in weight status from childhood to late adulthood and physical activity in older age

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, December 2020, Wiley

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  23. Low-cost exercise interventions improve long-term cardiometabolic health independently of a family history of type 2 diabetes: a randomized parallel group trial

    Article • BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care, November 2020, BMJ

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  24. Birth weight modifies the association between a healthy Nordic diet and office blood pressure in old age

    Article • Journal of Human Hypertension, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  25. Impaired glucose regulation, depressive symptoms, and health-related quality of life

    Article • BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care, October 2020, BMJ

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  26. Early exposure to social disadvantages and later life body mass index beyond genetic predisposition in three generations of Finnish birth cohorts

    Article • BMC Public Health, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Niko Wasenius, Jari Lahti

  27. Links between child BMI and type 2 diabetes are not influenced by educational and lifestyle factors

    Article • Diabetes Care, March 2020, American Diabetes Association

    Lise Bjerregaard, Lise Bjerregaard, Clare Wratten, Dr. Niko Wasenius

  28. Body composition and changes in health-related quality of life in older age: a 10-year follow-up of the Helsinki Birth Cohort Study

    Article • Quality of Life Research, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  29. Effect of maternal lifestyle intervention on metabolic health and adiposity of offspring: Findings from the Finnish Gestational Diabetes Prevention Study (RADIEL)

    Article • Diabetes & Metabolism, February 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  30. Physical Activity and Telomeres in Old Age: A Longitudinal 10-Year Follow-Up Study

    Article • Gerontology, January 2020, Karger Publishers

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  31. The associations of physical activity and physical capability with cardiovascular health among working‐age finnish women

    Article • Translational Sports Medicine, December 2019, Wiley

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  32. Power of lower extremities and age were the main determinants on the agility test for adults in a cohort of men aged 66–91 years

    Article • European Journal of Physiotherapy, September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Niko Wasenius, Professor Jaakko Kaprio

  33. Change in physical activity and health‐related quality of life in old age—A 10‐year follow‐up study

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, July 2019, Wiley

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  34. Phenotypic and genotypic differences between Indian and Scandinavian women with gestational diabetes mellitus

    Article • Journal of Internal Medicine, April 2019, Wiley

    Gunn-Helen Moen, Dr. Niko Wasenius

  35. Cohort Profile: The DynaHEALTH consortium – a European consortium for a life-course bio-psychosocial model of healthy ageing of glucose homeostasis

    Article • International Journal of Epidemiology, April 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  36. Association between dog ownership and type 2 diabetes in later life: the Helsinki birth cohort study

    Article • International Journal of Circumpolar Health, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mika Simonen, Dr. Niko Wasenius, Dr Hannes Lohi

  37. Dog Ownership from a Life Course Perspective and Leisure-time Physical Activity in Late Adulthood: The Helsinki Birth Cohort Study

    Article • American Journal of Health Behavior, November 2018, PNG Publications

    Dr Mika Simonen, Dr. Niko Wasenius, Dr Hannes Lohi

  38. Effect of maternal weight during pregnancy on offspring muscle strength response to resistance training in late adulthood

    Article • Advances in Medical Sciences, September 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Niko Wasenius, Dr Mika Simonen

  39. Plasma irisin is increased following 12 weeks of Nordic walking and associates with glucose homoeostasis in overweight/obese men with impaired glucose regulation

    Article • European Journal of Sport Science, August 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Mika E Venojärvi, Dr. Niko Wasenius

  40. The effect of a physical activity intervention on preschoolers’ fundamental motor skills — A cluster RCT

    Article • Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, July 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  41. Correction: Maternal gestational weight gain and objectively measured physical activity among offspring

    Article • PLOS One, January 2018, PLOS

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  42. Effects of a Preschool Intervention on Physical Activity and Body Composition

    Article • The Journal of Pediatrics, September 2017, Elsevier

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  43. Relationship between physical activity and physical performance in later life in different birth weight groups

    Article • Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, August 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Hanna Jantunen, Dr. Niko Wasenius, Dr Mika Simonen

  44. Maternal gestational weight gain and objectively measured physical activity among offspring

    Article • PLOS One, June 2017, PLOS

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  45. Objectively measured physical activity and physical performance in old age

    Article • Age and Ageing, November 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Mika Simonen, Dr. Niko Wasenius

  46. Mobility and muscle strength in male former elite endurance and power athletes aged 66−91 years

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, October 2016, Wiley

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  47. Interaction between rs10830963 polymorphism in MTNR1B and lifestyle intervention on occurrence of gestational diabetes

    Article • Diabetologia, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  48. Intellectual ability in young adulthood as an antecedent of physical functioning in older age

    Article • Age and Ageing, May 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Niko Wasenius, Jari Lahti

  49. Former male elite athletes and risk of hypertension in later life

    Article • Journal of Hypertension, August 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  50. Physical Activity, Body Composition and Metabolic Syndrome in Young Adults

    Article • PLOS One, May 2015, PLOS

    Dr. Niko Wasenius, Jari Lahti

  51. A former career as a male elite athlete—does it protect against type 2 diabetes in later life?

    Article • Diabetologia, November 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  52. 12 Weeks’ aerobic and resistance training without dietary intervention did not influence oxidative stress but aerobic training decreased atherogenic index in middle-aged men with impaired glucose regulation

    Article • Food and Chemical Toxicology, November 2013, Elsevier

    Mr Mika E Venojärvi, Dr. Niko Wasenius

  53. Physical dose of therapeutic exercises in institutional neck rehabilitation

    Article • Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, January 2013, Acta Dermato-Venereologica

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  54. Unfavorable influence of structured exercise program on total leisure-time physical activity

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, November 2012, Wiley

    Dr. Niko Wasenius

  55. Nordic walking decreased circulating chemerin and leptin concentrations in middle-aged men with impaired glucose regulation

    Article • Annals of Medicine, October 2012, Informa Healthcare

    Mr Mika E Venojärvi, Dr. Niko Wasenius