P
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.
Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Changes in Morbidity and Mortality During Comprehensive Community Programme to Control Cardiovascular Diseases During 1972-7 in North Karelia
TL;DR: Mortality from CVD and the incidence of AMI and stroke fell during the five years studied, and changes in mortality and morbidity of CVD accorded with the initial objectives of the programme.
Journal ArticleDOI
Fatty Acid Composition of Serum Lipid Fractions in Relation to Gender and Quality of Dietary Fat
TL;DR: Triglycerides appear to be the best reflectors of dietary polyunsaturated and saturated fat, but the intake of monounsaturated fat is poorly reflected in all serum lipid fractions, while intake of fish is mirrored in all Sera, best in cholesteryl esters and phospholipids.
Journal ArticleDOI
Sex-specific relevance of diabetes to occlusive vascular and other mortality: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual data from 980 793 adults from 68 prospective studies
Louisa Gnatiuc,William G. Herrington,Jim Halsey,J. Tuomilehto,X Fang,HC Kim,Dirk De Bacquer,Annette J. Dobson,Michael H. Criqui,Jacobs,D Leon,Sae Peters,H. Ueshima,Paul Sherliker,Richard Peto,Ryan L. Collins,Rachel R. Huxley,Jonathan Emberson,Mark Woodward,Sarah Lewington,Noriaki Aoki,Hisatomi Arima,E. Arnesen,A. Aromaa,Gerd Assmann,David Bachman,Colin Baigent,H. Bartholomew,Athanase Benetos,C. Bengtsson,David L.H. Bennett,Cecilia Björkelund,Henry Blackburn,K. Bonaa,Elaine M. Boyle,Robyn J. Broadhurst,J. Carstensen,Lloyd E. Chambless,Z. Chen,SK Chew,Robert Clarke,Christopher E. Cox,J. D. Curb,R. D'Agostino,C Date,G Davey Smith,G. De Backer,Satvinder S. Dhaliwal,XF Duan,Pierre Ducimetière,Stephen W. Duffy,Heather Eliassen,P. Elwood,Jean Phillipe Empana,MH Garcia-Palmieri,P. Gazes,Graham G. Giles,Charles R Gillis,Uri Goldbourt,D. F. Gu,M. Guasch-Ferre,L. Guize,Lise Lund Håheim,Carole L. Hart,S. Hashimoto,T Hashimoto,D. Heng,I. Hjermann,S. C. Ho,Michael Hobbs,David J Hole,Ingar Holme,Hiroshi Horibe,Atsushi Hozawa,F. Hu,K. Hughes,M. Iida,K. Imai,Y. Imai,Hiroyasu Iso,Rodney Jackson,Konrad Jamrozik,S. H. Jee,Gorm B. Jensen,C. Q. Jiang,NB Johansen,Torben Jørgensen,Pekka Jousilahti,Mieko Kagaya,Julian E. Keil,J. Keller,I. S. Kim,Y. Kita,Akihiko Kitamura,Yutaka Kiyohara,Paul Knekt,Matthew Knuiman,Marcel Kornitzer,Daan Kromhout,Richard A. Kronmal,Tai Hing Lam,Matthew Law,J. Lee,Paul Leren,Daniel Levy,YH Li,Lauren Lissner,Russell V. Luepker,Mary A. Luszcz,Stephen MacMahon,Hiroshi Maegawa,Michael Marmot,Yasuko Matsutani,T W Meade,Jerry Morris,R. W. Morris,T. Murayama,Y. Naito,Kei Nakachi,M. Nakamura,Tadachika Nakayama,James D. Neaton,Paul J. Nietert,Y. Nishimoto,Robyn Norton,Akihiko Nozaki,T. Ohkubo,Akira Okayama,W. H. Pan,Pekka Puska,N Qizilbash,A. Reunanen,Eric B. Rimm,Alicia Rodgers,Shigeyuki Saitoh,Kiyomi Sakata,Shinichi Sato,Peter Schnohr,Helmut Schulte,Randi Selmer,Deborah Sharp,X. Shifu,Kazuaki Shimamoto,M J Shipley,Halit Silbershatz,Paul D. Sorlie,Piyamitr Sritara,Il Suh,Susan E. Sutherland,P. Sweetnam,Akiko Tamakoshi,H. Tanaka,T. Thomsen,S. Tominaga,M. Tomita,Sven Törnberg,Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe,Aage Tverdal,Erkki Vartiainen,Nicholas J. Wald,SG Wannamethee,Tim Welborn,Peter H. Whincup,Gary Whitlock,Walter C. Willett,Jean Woo,Z. L. Wu,S. X. Yao,John Yarnell,T. Yokoyama,N. Yoshiike,X. H. Zhang +171 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used Cox regression models to assess the relevance of diabetes (any type) to occlusive vascular mortality (ischaemic heart disease, ischaemic stroke, or other atherosclerotic deaths) by age, sex, and other major vascular risk factors, and to assess whether the associations of blood pressure, total cholesterol, and body-mass index (BMI) are modified by diabetes.
Journal ArticleDOI
Relation of blood pressure, serum lipids, and smoking to the risk of cerebral stroke. A longitudinal study in Eastern Finland.
TL;DR: Age, smoking, blood pressure, and history of previous stroke and diabetes turned out to be independent predictors of both cerebral infarction and other strokes in men.
Journal ArticleDOI
Health in All Policies—The Finnish Initiative: Background, Principles, and Current Issues
Pekka Puska,Timo Ståhl +1 more
TL;DR: The initiative and the principles have encouraged further developments in Finland and have been linked with related developments within the EU and the World Health Organization (WHO).