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The new textbook "Molecular Immunology: How Science Works" by Professor Carsten Carlberg and Dr Eunike Velleuer provides an essential background in molecular immunology.
T-cell factor 7-like 2 (TCF7L2) is a DNA-binding transcription factor that regulates metabolic genes and pathways, and its gene carries genetic variants associated with the risk of type 2 diabetes.
The doctoral conferment festivities in Kuopio culminated in the ceremonial conferment of degrees at the Music Centre in Kuopio on Friday. Doctorates were conferred upon 122 doctoral graduates as well as upon 13 honorary doctors. For the first time in a long while, the conferment procession was seen on the streets of Kuopio.
The COVID-19 pandemic has seriously affected healthcare service usage among patients with type 2 diabetes in North Karelia, but essential care was facilitated by processes that strongly relied on telemedicine already before the pandemic.
Pregnant women’s use of alcohol correlates with that of their partner, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital shows.
Nearly 30% of the 250 older care clients studied reported poor appetite, 20% had problems with chewing, 14% had problems with swallowing, and nearly 20% reported eating problems related to teeth or dentures.
Individuals who had more previous attempts to lose weight had higher body mass index, according to the doctoral dissertation.
The novel mHealth monitoring techniques, necklace-ECG, mHealth patch, and heart belt provided high quality ECG and ECG-based heart rate variability (HRV) data resulting in high sensitivity and specificity of AF detection.
Finland still lacks national and systematic EMS patient data and data of the benefits of Emergency Medical Services to these patients.