Finn Rasmussen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 108274 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Finn Rasmussen |
| NOMBRES | Finn |
| APELLIDO | Rasmussen |
| FIRMA | RASMUSSEN F |
| AFILIACIONES | Karolinska Institutet |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7915-7809 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The association of mobility disability and obesity with risk of unemployment in two cohorts from Sweden
People with MD and/or obesity are vulnerable groups at risk of prolonged unemployment during their working life in a country with a highly developed welfare system
Adolescent mental health and unemployment over the lifespan
Cross-sectional associations between maternal self-efficacy and dietary intake and physical activity in four-year-old children of first-time Swedish mothers
Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015
BACKGROUND: Raised blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and chronic kidney disease. We estimated worldwide trends in mean systolic and mean diastolic blood pressure, and the prevalence of, and number of people with, raised blood pressure, defined as systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or higher or diastolic blood pressure of 90 mm Hg or higher. METHODS: For this analysis, we pooled national, subnational, or comm…
Long-term effects of youth unemployment on mental health
BACKGROUND: Ill health is a risk factor and a consequence of unemployment, which might vary depending on the national rate of unemployment. We investigated the long-term effect of youth unemployment on mental health and explored the possible interaction during periods of high (economic crisis) and low (non-crisis) unemployment rates. METHODS: A register-linked population-based cohort study was conducted including individuals aged 17-24 years. The…
No effects of increased alcohol availability during adolescence on alcohol-related morbidity and mortality during four decades
BACKGROUND: A strict high legal age limit for alcohol purchases decreases adolescents' access to alcohol, but little is known about long-term health effects. The aim was to estimate the effect of increased alcohol availability during adolescence on alcohol-related morbidity and mortality. METHODS: A nationwide register-based study using data from a natural experiment setting. In two regions of Sweden, strong beer (4.5%-5.6% alcohol by volume) bec…
Educational gains in cause-specific mortality
A negative educational gradient has been found for many causes of death. This association may be partly explained by confounding factors that affect both educational attainment and mortality. We correct the cause-specific educational gradient for observed individual background and unobserved family factors using an innovative method based on months lost due to a specific cause of death re-weighted by the probability of attaining a higher educatio…
The educational gradient of obesity increases among Swedish pregnant women
The prevalence of obesity as well as the social inequalities in obesity during pregnancy increased in Sweden between 1992 and 2010. Further understanding of social inequalities and geographical differentials in health behaviours of pregnant women is needed when planning public health interventions
Low IQ has become less important as a risk factor for early disability pension. A longitudinal population-based study across two decades among Swedish men
BACKGROUND: Low IQ has been shown to be an important risk factor for disability pension (DP) but whether the importance has changed over time remains unclear. It can be hypothesised that IQ has become more important for DP over time in parallel with a more demanding working life. The aim of this study was to investigate the relative risk of low IQ on the risk of DP before age 30 between 1971 and 2006. METHODS: This study covered the entire Swedis…
Impacts of mobility disability and high and increasing body mass index on health-related quality of life and participation in society
The greatest risk of low general health after 8 years was observed for respondents with both mobility disability and high BMI. These results indicate the importance of working preventively with persons with mobility disability and overweight status or obesity based on the risk of further weight gain
Primary prevention of childhood obesity through counselling sessions at Swedish child health centres
ISRCTN16991919
Association of paternal IQ in early adulthood with offspring mortality and hospital admissions for injuries
BACKGROUND: Higher intelligence (IQ) has been related to a lower risk of mortality and hospital admissions for injuries, but little is known about the effect of parental IQ on offspring outcomes. We explored associations of paternal IQ with mortality and hospitalisations for injuries from all external causes in offspring. METHODS: A cohort of 503 492 Swedish children under 5 years of age with information on paternal IQ was obtained by record link…
Sex of preceding sibling and anthropometrics of subsequent offspring at birth and in young adulthood
In many mammal species with sexual dimorphism producing sons is energetically more demanding to the mother than producing daughters. Although some studies in humans have suggested that offspring born after a brother have a smaller birth weight and adult height when compared with those born after a sister, little is known about this intergenerational cost of producing sons. We aimed to study whether the sex of preceding sibling is associated with …
The association between height and birth order
BACKGROUND: Birth order is associated with outcomes such as birth weight and adult socioeconomic position (SEP), but little is known about the association with adult height. This potential birth order-height association is important because height predicts health, and because the association may help explain population-level height trends. We studied the birth order-height association and whether it varies by family characteristics or birth cohor…
OP42 Mental Disorders Across the Adult Lifecourse and Future Coronary Heart Disease
Background Depression, anxiety, and psychotic disorders have been associated with an increased risk of developing coronary heart disease (CHD). The underlying mechanisms are uncertain. It is unclear whether the association between mental health and risk of CHD is present across a wider range of mental disorders, and whether it varies according to the chronicity of the disorder. We used data on over a million Swedish men who underwent psychiatric …
Associations of mortality with own height using son's height as an instrumental variable
Height is associated with mortality from many diseases, but it remains unclear whether the association is causal or due to confounding by social factors, genetic pleiotropy,(1) or existing ill-health. The authors investigated whether the association of height with mortality is causal by using a son's height as an instrumental variable (IV) for parents' height among the parents of a cohort of 1,036,963 Swedish men born between 1951 and 1980 who ha…
A national cohort study of parental socioeconomic status and non-fatal suicidal behaviour-the mediating role of school performance
School performance is an important mediator through which parental socioeconomic status translates into a risk for non-fatal suicidal behaviour. Prevention efforts aimed to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in non-fatal suicidal behaviour among young people will need to consider socioeconomic inequalities in school performance
Exposure to parental mortality and markers of morbidity, and the risks of attempted and completed suicide in offspring
BACKGROUND: There is evidence of parental risk factors for suicidal behaviour in offspring, but research on variations in their effects with offspring's age at first exposure is sparse. AIMS: To explore the effects of age at exposure to parental mortality and markers of morbidity on the risks of suicide and attempted suicide in offspring. METHODS: This was a case-control study effected through record linkage between Swedish registers. Individuals…
Associations of mortality rates with height using son's height as an instrumental variable
Objectives Height has been negatively associated with mortality from circulatory disease, but positively associated with mortality from most forms of cancer. These results are vulnerable to confounding, including the confounding effect of early stages of disease causing shrinkage and later death. To avoid these problems, we used the height of subjects' sons as an instrument for subjects' own height. Design A record linkage cohort study of over 2 …
Intelligence in Early Adulthood and Subsequent Risk of Assault
OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between low intelligence (IQ) and increased risk of assault. Previous studies have been relatively small, have not adjust for socioeconomic status, and have not examined method-specific assaults. METHODS: Cox proportional hazards regression was used to explore IQ associations with assault by any means and by four specific methods in a large prospective cohort of 1,120,988 Swedish men. Study members had IQ mea…
Association between intelligence and type-specific stroke
BACKGROUND: Inverse associations between IQ and stroke have been reported in a few studies, but none have investigated subtypes of stroke, nor have they studied fatal and non-fatal stroke separately. Stroke is a heterogenic disease and strength of associations with IQ and putative causal pathways cannot be assumed to be identical for different subtypes. METHODS: IQ was measured for 1.1 million Swedish men, born 1951 to 1976. Data from several nat…
Intelligence in early adulthood and subsequent risk of unintentional injury over two decades
BACKGROUND: There is growing evidence of an inverse association between intelligence (IQ) and unintentional injuries. METHODS: Analyses are based on a cohort of 1 109 475 Swedish men with IQ measured in early adulthood. Men were followed up for an average 24 years, and hospital admissions for unintentional injury were recorded. RESULTS: 198 133 (17.9%) men had at least one hospital admission for any unintentional injury during follow-up. The most…
School performance at age 16 among international adoptees
School performance at age 16 for 6448 intercountry adoptees to Sweden was compared with that of siblings and majority population peers. The school performance of Korean-born adoptees was on a par with nonadopted peers, but non-Korean adoptees’ school performance was lower, as was that of adoptees who were older at the time of adoption
Associations between IQ and cigarette smoking among Swedish male twins
Genetic regulation of growth from birth to 18 years of age
Growth is a complex process, and only little is known on the genetic regulation of it. We analyzed the effect of genetic and environmental factors on growth in a longitudinal Swedish cohort of 231 monozygotic and 144 dizygotic twin pairs born 1973–1979 with length or height measured annually from birth to age 18. The data were analyzed by two different multivariate variance component models for twin data using the Mx statistical package. At birth…
School performance at age 16 among international adoptees
School performance at age 16 for 6448 intercountry adoptees to Sweden was compared with that of siblings and majority population peers. The school performance of Korean-born adoptees was on a par with nonadopted peers, but non-Korean adoptees’ school performance was lower, as was that of adoptees who were older at the time of adoption
The association between height and birth order
BACKGROUND: Birth order is associated with outcomes such as birth weight and adult socioeconomic position (SEP), but little is known about the association with adult height. This potential birth order-height association is important because height predicts health, and because the association may help explain population-level height trends. We studied the birth order-height association and whether it varies by family characteristics or birth cohor…
Exposure to parental mortality and markers of morbidity, and the risks of attempted and completed suicide in offspring
BACKGROUND: There is evidence of parental risk factors for suicidal behaviour in offspring, but research on variations in their effects with offspring's age at first exposure is sparse. AIMS: To explore the effects of age at exposure to parental mortality and markers of morbidity on the risks of suicide and attempted suicide in offspring. METHODS: This was a case-control study effected through record linkage between Swedish registers. Individuals…
Adolescent mental health and unemployment over the lifespan
Cross-sectional associations between maternal self-efficacy and dietary intake and physical activity in four-year-old children of first-time Swedish mothers
Long-term effects of youth unemployment on mental health
BACKGROUND: Ill health is a risk factor and a consequence of unemployment, which might vary depending on the national rate of unemployment. We investigated the long-term effect of youth unemployment on mental health and explored the possible interaction during periods of high (economic crisis) and low (non-crisis) unemployment rates. METHODS: A register-linked population-based cohort study was conducted including individuals aged 17-24 years. The…
Association between intelligence and type-specific stroke
BACKGROUND: Inverse associations between IQ and stroke have been reported in a few studies, but none have investigated subtypes of stroke, nor have they studied fatal and non-fatal stroke separately. Stroke is a heterogenic disease and strength of associations with IQ and putative causal pathways cannot be assumed to be identical for different subtypes. METHODS: IQ was measured for 1.1 million Swedish men, born 1951 to 1976. Data from several nat…
Intelligence in early adulthood and subsequent risk of unintentional injury over two decades
BACKGROUND: There is growing evidence of an inverse association between intelligence (IQ) and unintentional injuries. METHODS: Analyses are based on a cohort of 1 109 475 Swedish men with IQ measured in early adulthood. Men were followed up for an average 24 years, and hospital admissions for unintentional injury were recorded. RESULTS: 198 133 (17.9%) men had at least one hospital admission for any unintentional injury during follow-up. The most…
Educational gains in cause-specific mortality
A negative educational gradient has been found for many causes of death. This association may be partly explained by confounding factors that affect both educational attainment and mortality. We correct the cause-specific educational gradient for observed individual background and unobserved family factors using an innovative method based on months lost due to a specific cause of death re-weighted by the probability of attaining a higher educatio…
Association between offspring intelligence and parental mortality
BACKGROUND: An inverse association of IQ with mortality has been observed in previous studies. Analyses of associations between offspring's IQ and parental mortality in biological and non-biological family relations may shed light on genetic and environmental influences. METHODS: In a target cohort of 1,235,375 Swedish men, 931,825 (75%) men had complete data on all variables used. IQ of offspring was measured at age 18 and mothers and father wer…
Sex of preceding sibling and anthropometrics of subsequent offspring at birth and in young adulthood
In many mammal species with sexual dimorphism producing sons is energetically more demanding to the mother than producing daughters. Although some studies in humans have suggested that offspring born after a brother have a smaller birth weight and adult height when compared with those born after a sister, little is known about this intergenerational cost of producing sons. We aimed to study whether the sex of preceding sibling is associated with …
Associations between IQ and cigarette smoking among Swedish male twins
Association of paternal IQ in early adulthood with offspring mortality and hospital admissions for injuries
BACKGROUND: Higher intelligence (IQ) has been related to a lower risk of mortality and hospital admissions for injuries, but little is known about the effect of parental IQ on offspring outcomes. We explored associations of paternal IQ with mortality and hospitalisations for injuries from all external causes in offspring. METHODS: A cohort of 503 492 Swedish children under 5 years of age with information on paternal IQ was obtained by record link…
Fetal and childhood growth and the risk of violent and non-violent suicide attempts
BACKGROUND: Inverse associations of birth length with suicide attempts have recently been reported. Whether growth during childhood alters this association is not known. The influences on patterns of growth in fetal life and childhood might be different for violent and non-violent suicide attempts. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of fetal and childhood growth and possible effect modification on suicide attempts, both violent and non-violent,…
Bo Fibiger
Len Masterman
Mothers' benefit of a self-care booklet and a self-care educational session at child health centres
Recurrence of acute otitis media at preschool age in Sweden
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The probability of recurrence of acute otitis media during the preschool years was investigated. SETTING--All children born in a semirural Swedish municipality were followed up from birth to their 7th birthday. DESIGN--Information about visits to physicians for acute otitis media was collected retrospectively at all primary health care centres and at paediatric and ear, nose, and throat departments. Check up visits after acute ot…
Height at age 18 years is a strong predictor of attained education later in life
BACKGROUND: Adult body height has been related to socioeconomic position in cross-sectional studies. Intelligence, shared family factors, and non-familial circumstances may contribute to associations between height and attained education, but their relative importance has been difficult to resolve. METHODS: A nation-wide record-linkage cohort study of over 950 000 Swedish men born 1950-75 followed with respect to attained education for up to 27 y…
Physical activity, diet and gene–environment interactions in relation to body mass index and waist circumference
Objective The aim of the present study was to examine the relationships between genetic susceptibility to obesity, physical activity (PA), dietary fibre, sugar and fat intakes and 4-year changes in body mass index (BMI) and attained waist circumference (WC) in a cohort of 287 monozygotic and 189 dizygotic young adult male twin pairs. Increased knowledge about interactions between genes and environment may provide insight into why some individuals…
Genetic regulation of growth from birth to 18 years of age
Growth is a complex process, and only little is known on the genetic regulation of it. We analyzed the effect of genetic and environmental factors on growth in a longitudinal Swedish cohort of 231 monozygotic and 144 dizygotic twin pairs born 1973–1979 with length or height measured annually from birth to age 18. The data were analyzed by two different multivariate variance component models for twin data using the Mx statistical package. At birth…
Consumption of fruit, vegetables, sweets and soft drinks are associated with psychological dimensions of eating behaviour in parents and their 12-year-old children
Objective We investigated associations between consumption of fruits, vegetables, sweets and soft drinks and the psychological dimensions of eating in parents and their children. The role of the parent’s characteristics for their children’s food intake was also explored. Design Food intake patterns were assessed by self-reported consumption of the respective foods. Eating behaviour was measured by the Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire and self…
Food consumption, eating behaviour and self-esteem among single v . married and cohabiting mothers and their 12-year-old children
Objective Being a single mother may have implications for health behaviours that can also affect the child. More information about the food intakes and body weights in single v . married/cohabiting mothers and in their children is needed. Psychological dimensions of eating behaviour and self-esteem are also of relevance to explore for single mothers and their children. Design Food style patterns were assessed by self-reported consumption of fruit…
Association between offspring intelligence and parental mortality
BACKGROUND: An inverse association of IQ with mortality has been observed in previous studies. Analyses of associations between offspring's IQ and parental mortality in biological and non-biological family relations may shed light on genetic and environmental influences. METHODS: In a target cohort of 1,235,375 Swedish men, 931,825 (75%) men had complete data on all variables used. IQ of offspring was measured at age 18 and mothers and father wer…
Fetal and childhood growth and the risk of violent and non-violent suicide attempts
BACKGROUND: Inverse associations of birth length with suicide attempts have recently been reported. Whether growth during childhood alters this association is not known. The influences on patterns of growth in fetal life and childhood might be different for violent and non-violent suicide attempts. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of fetal and childhood growth and possible effect modification on suicide attempts, both violent and non-violent,…
Intelligence in Early Adulthood and Subsequent Risk of Assault
OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between low intelligence (IQ) and increased risk of assault. Previous studies have been relatively small, have not adjust for socioeconomic status, and have not examined method-specific assaults. METHODS: Cox proportional hazards regression was used to explore IQ associations with assault by any means and by four specific methods in a large prospective cohort of 1,120,988 Swedish men. Study members had IQ mea…
Association between intelligence and type-specific stroke
BACKGROUND: Inverse associations between IQ and stroke have been reported in a few studies, but none have investigated subtypes of stroke, nor have they studied fatal and non-fatal stroke separately. Stroke is a heterogenic disease and strength of associations with IQ and putative causal pathways cannot be assumed to be identical for different subtypes. METHODS: IQ was measured for 1.1 million Swedish men, born 1951 to 1976. Data from several nat…
Intelligence in early adulthood and subsequent risk of unintentional injury over two decades
BACKGROUND: There is growing evidence of an inverse association between intelligence (IQ) and unintentional injuries. METHODS: Analyses are based on a cohort of 1 109 475 Swedish men with IQ measured in early adulthood. Men were followed up for an average 24 years, and hospital admissions for unintentional injury were recorded. RESULTS: 198 133 (17.9%) men had at least one hospital admission for any unintentional injury during follow-up. The most…
School performance at age 16 among international adoptees
School performance at age 16 for 6448 intercountry adoptees to Sweden was compared with that of siblings and majority population peers. The school performance of Korean-born adoptees was on a par with nonadopted peers, but non-Korean adoptees’ school performance was lower, as was that of adoptees who were older at the time of adoption
Associations between IQ and cigarette smoking among Swedish male twins
Associations of mortality rates with height using son's height as an instrumental variable
Objectives Height has been negatively associated with mortality from circulatory disease, but positively associated with mortality from most forms of cancer. These results are vulnerable to confounding, including the confounding effect of early stages of disease causing shrinkage and later death. To avoid these problems, we used the height of subjects' sons as an instrument for subjects' own height. Design A record linkage cohort study of over 2 …
Associations of mortality with own height using son's height as an instrumental variable
Height is associated with mortality from many diseases, but it remains unclear whether the association is causal or due to confounding by social factors, genetic pleiotropy,(1) or existing ill-health. The authors investigated whether the association of height with mortality is causal by using a son's height as an instrumental variable (IV) for parents' height among the parents of a cohort of 1,036,963 Swedish men born between 1951 and 1980 who ha…
A national cohort study of parental socioeconomic status and non-fatal suicidal behaviour-the mediating role of school performance
School performance is an important mediator through which parental socioeconomic status translates into a risk for non-fatal suicidal behaviour. Prevention efforts aimed to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in non-fatal suicidal behaviour among young people will need to consider socioeconomic inequalities in school performance
Exposure to parental mortality and markers of morbidity, and the risks of attempted and completed suicide in offspring
BACKGROUND: There is evidence of parental risk factors for suicidal behaviour in offspring, but research on variations in their effects with offspring's age at first exposure is sparse. AIMS: To explore the effects of age at exposure to parental mortality and markers of morbidity on the risks of suicide and attempted suicide in offspring. METHODS: This was a case-control study effected through record linkage between Swedish registers. Individuals…
The association between height and birth order
BACKGROUND: Birth order is associated with outcomes such as birth weight and adult socioeconomic position (SEP), but little is known about the association with adult height. This potential birth order-height association is important because height predicts health, and because the association may help explain population-level height trends. We studied the birth order-height association and whether it varies by family characteristics or birth cohor…
OP42 Mental Disorders Across the Adult Lifecourse and Future Coronary Heart Disease
Background Depression, anxiety, and psychotic disorders have been associated with an increased risk of developing coronary heart disease (CHD). The underlying mechanisms are uncertain. It is unclear whether the association between mental health and risk of CHD is present across a wider range of mental disorders, and whether it varies according to the chronicity of the disorder. We used data on over a million Swedish men who underwent psychiatric …
Impacts of mobility disability and high and increasing body mass index on health-related quality of life and participation in society
The greatest risk of low general health after 8 years was observed for respondents with both mobility disability and high BMI. These results indicate the importance of working preventively with persons with mobility disability and overweight status or obesity based on the risk of further weight gain
Primary prevention of childhood obesity through counselling sessions at Swedish child health centres
ISRCTN16991919
Association of paternal IQ in early adulthood with offspring mortality and hospital admissions for injuries
BACKGROUND: Higher intelligence (IQ) has been related to a lower risk of mortality and hospital admissions for injuries, but little is known about the effect of parental IQ on offspring outcomes. We explored associations of paternal IQ with mortality and hospitalisations for injuries from all external causes in offspring. METHODS: A cohort of 503 492 Swedish children under 5 years of age with information on paternal IQ was obtained by record link…
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