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Pekka Puska
Researcher at National Institutes of Health
Publications - 316
Citations - 31002
Pekka Puska is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Risk factor. The author has an hindex of 71, co-authored 313 publications receiving 29164 citations. Previous affiliations of Pekka Puska include National Institute for Health and Welfare & World Heart Federation.
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Evaluation of a national Quit and Win contest: determinants for successful quitting.
TL;DR: The recruitment of smokers and the maintained cessation were more successful in the demonstration area and the difference between areas was explained by differences in the combined professional and lay support and by the sex and age distributions.
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Psychology in action. Mass communication and community organization for public health education.
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Improving the world's health through national public health institutes
TL;DR: The current nature and status of national public health institutes (NPHIs) are described and the elements that might make them increasingly effective in preventing disease and promoting health in an increasingly interdependent world are considered.
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Interdependence of associations of physical activity, smoking, and alcohol and coffee consumption with serum high-density lipoprotein and non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol--a population study in eastern Finland.
Jukka T. Salonen,Pertti Happonen,Riitta Salonen,Heikki J. Korhonen,Aulikki Nissinen,Pekka Puska,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Erkki Vartiainen +7 more
TL;DR: The data suggest that the elevating effect of regular physical exercise on serum high-density lipoprotein cholesterol may be absent in smokers, whereas that of alcohol is greater in smokers than nonsmokers.
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Low diastolic blood pressure and mortality in a population-based cohort of 16913 hypertensive patients in North Karelia, Finland.
Jaakko Tuomilehto,Olli-Pekka Ryynänen,Koistinen A,Daiva Rastenyte,Aulikki Nissinen,Pekka Puska +5 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that there is an association between low diastolic blood pressure and mortality for treated hypertensive patients aged 50–69 years, and the clinical importance of this relationship for patients without any cardiovascular complications of hypertension seems negligible.