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Petteri Hovi

Researcher at National Institutes of Health

Publications -  125
Citations -  4548

Petteri Hovi is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Low birth weight & Birth weight. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 113 publications receiving 3913 citations. Previous affiliations of Petteri Hovi include National Institute for Health and Welfare & Helsinki University Central Hospital.

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Glucose Regulation in Young Adults with Very Low Birth Weight

TL;DR: Young adults with a very low birth weight have higher indexes of insulin resistance and glucose intolerance and higher blood pressure than those born at term and adjustment for the lower lean body mass in the very-low-birth-weight subjects did not attenuate these relationships.
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Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Young Adults Who Were Born Preterm

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated cardiometabolic risk factors in young adults who were born at any degree of prematurity in the Preterm Birth and Early Life Programming of Adult Health and Disease (ESTER) Study, a population-based cohort study of individuals born in 1985-1989 in Northern Finland.
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Very Low Birth Weight and Behavioral Symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Young Adulthood : The Helsinki Study of Very-Low-Birth-Weight Adults

TL;DR: Rather than very low birth weight per se, intrauterine growth retardation, as reflected by small for gestational age status in the very-low-birth-weight subjects, confers a risk for behavioral and emotional adversity related to ADHD in young adulthood.
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Depression in young adults with very low birth weight: the Helsinki study of very low-birth-weight adults.

TL;DR: This is the first study (to the authors' knowledge) to show that intrauterine growth pattern may modify associations between VLBW and depression, and may pose a risk of depression in young adulthood.
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Decreased bone mineral density in adults born with very low birth weight: a cohort study.

TL;DR: Skeletal health in 144 adults born preterm with very low birth weight and show that as adults these individuals have significantly lower bone mineral density than do their term-born peers.