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Arja Rimpelä
Researcher at University of Tampere
Publications - 260
Citations - 10720
Arja Rimpelä is an academic researcher from University of Tampere. The author has contributed to research in topics: Adolescent health & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 50, co-authored 253 publications receiving 9940 citations. Previous affiliations of Arja Rimpelä include University of Helsinki & University of Oulu.
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Bullying at school--an indicator of adolescents at risk for mental disorders.
TL;DR: Finnish adolescents surveyed about bullying and victimization in relation to psychosomatic symptoms, depression, anxiety, eating disorders and substance use found that eating disorders were associated with involvement in bullying in any role, among boys with being bully-victims.
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Bullying, depression, and suicidal ideation in Finnish adolescents: school survey
TL;DR: Adolescents who are being bullied and those who are bullies are at an increased risk of depression and suicide, and interventions aimed at reducing bullying in schools, as well as psychiatric assessment and treatment of bullies andThose who are bullied, might also prevent depression and suicidal ideation.
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Radiation dose and second cancer risk in patients treated for cancer of the cervix.
John D. Boice,G. Engholm,Ruth A. Kleinerman,Maria Blettner,Marilyn Stovall,Hermann Lisco,William C. Moloney,Donald F. Austin,Antonio Bosch,Diane Cookfair,Edward T. Krementz,Howard B. Latourette,James A. Merrill,Lester J. Peters,Milford D. Schulz,Hans H. Storm,Elisabeth Bjorkholm,Folke Pettersson,C. M.Janine Bell,Michel P Coleman,Patricia Fraser,Frank Neal,P. Prior,N. Won Choi,Thomas Greg Hislop,Maria Koch,Nancy Kreiger,Dorothy Robb,D Robson,D. H. Thomson,H. Lochmuller,Dietrich von Fournier,Rolf Frischkorn,Kjell E. Kjorstad,Arja Rimpelä,Marie Helene Pejovic,Vera Pompe Kirn,Hanna Stankusova,Franco Berrino,Kristjan Sigurdsson,George B. Hutchison,Brian MacMahon,Gerda Engholm +42 more
TL;DR: Risks were highest among long-term survivors and appeared concentrated among women irradiated at relatively younger ages, and radiation was not found to increase the overall risk of cancers of the small intestine, colon, ovary, vulva, connective tissue, breast, Hodgkin's disease, multiple myeloma, or chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
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Back, neck, and shoulder pain in Finnish adolescents: national cross sectional surveys.
TL;DR: Pain in the neck, shoulder, and lower back is becoming morecommon in Finnish adolescents, which suggests a new disease burden of degenerativemusculoskeletal disorders in future adults.
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Frequent computer-related activities increase the risk of neck-shoulder and low back pain in adolescents.
TL;DR: Frequent computer-related activities are an independent risk factor for neck-shoulder pain and low back pain in adolescents, and daily use of computers exceeding 2-3 h seems to be a threshold for NSP and exceeding 5 h for LBP.