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The study looked at how consideration of body size and composition affects the association between aerobic fitness and metabolic syndrome.

Typically, proteins accumulating in the brain of patients with FTD and harming their neurons are either TDP-43 or tau proteins.

A triple increase in body fat was not associated with signs of subclinical atherosclerosis progression likely due to the significant increase in muscle mass.

UEF Bioinformatics Center and THL Biobank announce a new service for genetic imputation using a Finnish haplotype reference panel.

The University of Eastern Finland has appointed eight new Senior University Lecturers and one new Senior Clinical Lecturer, to start in their positions on 1 December 2022.

Another goal of the HealthFerm project is to support the transition to more sustainable, more plant-based diets.

The topic of the doctoral research is related to genetic variants that can reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.

More than 60% of family caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease experienced at least mild depressive symptoms already at the time the diagnosis. In one third of them, depressive symptoms worsened during a five-year follow-up.

The new project aims to compare how music, or lack thereof, affects students’ nervousness and capability to focus during a preclinical dental course.

Poor periodontal health and tooth loss seem to increase the risk of cognitive decline and dementia, concludes a systematic review of 47 longitudinal studies.