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Jussi Vahtera
Researcher at Turku University Hospital
Publications - 680
Citations - 43694
Jussi Vahtera is an academic researcher from Turku University Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Cohort study. The author has an hindex of 109, co-authored 646 publications receiving 38715 citations. Previous affiliations of Jussi Vahtera include Finnish Institute of Occupational Health & University of Turku.
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Socioeconomic position, psychosocial work environment and cerebrovascular disease among women: the Finnish public sector study
Mika Kivimäki,Mika Kivimäki,David Gimeno,David Gimeno,Jane E. Ferrie,G. David Batty,Tuula Oksanen,Markus Jokela,Marianna Virtanen,Paula Salo,Tasnime N. Akbaraly,Marko Elovainio,Jaana Pentti,Jussi Vahtera +13 more
TL;DR: In this contemporary cohort of employed women, job demands-alone and in combination with job control-suppressed rather than explained socioeconomic differences in cerebrovascular disease are found.
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Trajectories of self-rated health in the last 15 years of life by cause of death
Sari Stenholm,Sari Stenholm,Mika Kivimäki,Mika Kivimäki,Mika Kivimäki,Marja Jylhä,Ichiro Kawachi,Hugo Westerlund,Jaana Pentti,Marcel Goldberg,Marie Zins,Jussi Vahtera,Jussi Vahtera,Jussi Vahtera +13 more
TL;DR: In this article, a nested case-control study included 915 deceased men and women and 2578 controls matched for sex, baseline age, occupational grade and marital status, and the trajectories of poor self-rated health up to 15 years were compared among people who subsequently died to those who survived.
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Antidepressant Medication Use and Risk of Hyperglycemia and Diabetes Mellitus—A Noncausal Association?
Mika Kivimäki,Mika Kivimäki,G. David Batty,Markus Jokela,Klaus P. Ebmeier,Jussi Vahtera,Jussi Vahtera,Marianna Virtanen,Eric J. Brunner,Adam G. Tabak,Adam G. Tabak,Daniel R. Witte,Meena Kumari,Archana Singh-Manoux,Archana Singh-Manoux,Mark Hamer +15 more
TL;DR: The link between antidepressant use and diabetes risk may not be causal in nature and antidepressant use was not associated with undiagnosed diabetes at any follow-up examination nor with higher fasting or 2-hour postload plasma glucose levels or increasing glucose levels over time.
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Effects of depressive symptoms and coronary heart disease and their interactive associations on mortality in middle-aged adults: the Whitehall II cohort study
Hermann Nabi,Martin J. Shipley,Jussi Vahtera,Martica H. Hall,Jyrki Korkeila,Michael Marmot,Mika Kivimäki,Archana Singh-Manoux +7 more
TL;DR: Evidence is provided that depressive symptoms are associated with an increased risk of all-cause and cardiovascular death and that this risk is particularly marked in depressive participants with co-morbid CHD.
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Lack of predictability at work and risk of acute myocardial infarction: an 18-year prospective study of industrial employees.
Ari Väänänen,Aki Koskinen,Matti Joensuu,Mika Kivimäki,Jussi Vahtera,Anne Kouvonen,Paavo Jäppinen +6 more
TL;DR: Prospective evidence suggests that low predictability at work is an important component of job control, increasing long-term risk of acute MI among middle-aged employees.