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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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Association of changes in work shifts and shift intensity with change in fatigue and disturbed sleep: A within-subject study
Mikko Härmä,Kati Karhula,Annina Ropponen,Sampsa Puttonen,Aki Koskinen,Anneli Ojajärvi,Tarja Hakola,Jaana Pentti,Tuula Oksanen,Jussi Vahtera,Mika Kivimäki +10 more
TL;DR: Among shift workers with fatigue or sleep problems, decreasing the proportion of night shifts and quick returns and giving preference to quickly forward-rotating shift systems may reduce fatigue.
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Using sickness absence records to predict future depression in a working population: prospective findings from the GAZEL cohort.
Maria Melchior,Jane E. Ferrie,Kristina Alexanderson,Marcel Goldberg,Mika Kivimäki,Archana Singh-Manoux,Jussi Vahtera,Hugo Westerlund,Marie Zins,Jenny Head +9 more
TL;DR: Sickness absence records may help identify workers vulnerable to future depression, and future depression was predicted both by psychiatric and nonpsychiatric sickness absence.
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Living alone and alcohol-related mortality: a population-based cohort study from Finland.
Kimmo Herttua,Pekka Martikainen,Jussi Vahtera,Jussi Vahtera,Mika Kivimäki,Mika Kivimäki,Mika Kivimäki +6 more
TL;DR: It is shown that living alone is associated with a substantially increased risk of alcohol-related mortality, irrespective of gender, socioeconomic status, or cause of death, and that this effect was exacerbated after a price reduction in alcohol in 2004.
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Do psychological attributes matter for adherence to antihypertensive medication? The Finnish Public Sector Cohort Study.
Hermann Nabi,Jussi Vahtera,Archana Singh-Manoux,Archana Singh-Manoux,Jaana Pentti,Tuula Oksanen,David Gimeno,Marko Elovainio,Marko Elovainio,Marianna Virtanen,Timo Klaukka,Mika Kivimäki,Mika Kivimäki +12 more
TL;DR: High sense of coherence may influence antihypertensive medication-adherence behaviour for asymptomatic illnesses, such as hypertension, in which patients often do not feel or perceive the immediate consequences of skipping medication doses.
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Sense of coherence and disability pensions. A nationwide, register based prospective population study of 2196 adult Finns
TL;DR: It seems probable that a weak SOC in people of 50 years or younger increases the likelihood of grant of a disability pension.