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Pekka Puska
Community-based cardiovascular prevention programs: theory and practice.
I-Min Lee; Felipe Lobelo; Pekka Puska; Eric J Shiroma; Steven N Blair; Peter T Katzmarzyk
Effect of physical inactivity on major non-communicable diseases worldwide: an analysis of burden of disease and life expectancy.
Ritva Prättälä; Pekka Puska
Social determinants of health behaviours and social change.

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2013: Pekka Puska
Community-based cardiovascular prevention programs: theory and practice.
Archives of Iranian medicine 2013;16(1):2-3.
2012: I-Min Lee; Felipe Lobelo; Pekka Puska; Eric J Shiroma; Steven N Blair; Peter T Katzmarzyk
Effect of physical inactivity on major non-communicable diseases worldwide: an analysis of burden of disease and life expectancy.
Lancet 2012;380(9838):219-29.
2012: Ritva Prättälä; Pekka Puska
Social determinants of health behaviours and social change.
European journal of public health 2012;22(2):166.
2012: Marjaana Lahti-Koski; Mari Olli; Satu Helakorpi; Erkki Vartiainen; Pekka Puska
Awareness and use of the Heart Symbol by Finnish consumers.
Public health nutrition 2012;15(3):476-82.
2012: Anastasiya Verho; Erkki Vartiainen; Tiina Laatikainen; Pekka Puska
Changes in alcohol behaviour among adolescents in North-West Russia between 1995 and 2004.
Journal of environmental and public health 2012;2012():736249.
2011: Pekka Puska
Non-communicable diseases--neglected diseases in global health work?
European journal of public health 2011;21(3):269.
2011: Jean Claude Mbanya; S B Squire; Eduardo Cazap; Pekka Puska
Mobilising the world for chronic NCDs.
Lancet 2011;377(9765):536-7.
2010: Pekka Puska
From Framingham to North Karelia: from descriptive epidemiology to public health action.
Progress in cardiovascular diseases 2010;53(1):15-20.
2010: Erkki Vartiainen; Tiina Laatikainen; Markku Peltonen; Anne Juolevi; Satu Männistö; Jouko Sundvall; Pekka Jousilahti; Veikko Salomaa; Liisa Valsta; Pekka Puska
Thirty-five-year trends in cardiovascular risk factors in Finland.
International journal of epidemiology 2010;39(2):504-18.
2010: Pekka Puska; Timo Ståhl
Health in all policies-the Finnish initiative: background, principles, and current issues.
Annual review of public health 2010;31():315-28 3 p following 328.
2009: Pekka Puska
Commentary on active living: from research to practice?
American journal of preventive medicine 2009;36(2 Suppl):S57-9.
2009: Connie Diekman; Ibrahim Elmadfa; Bert Koletzko; Pekka Puska; Ricardo Uauy; Hans Zevenbergen
Summary statement of the International Expert Meeting: health significance of fat quality of the diet. Barcelona, Spain, February 1-2, 2009.
Annals of nutrition & metabolism 2009;54 Suppl 1():39-40.
2009: Pekka Puska
Fat and heart disease: yes we can make a change--the case of North Karelia (Finland).
Annals of nutrition & metabolism 2009;54 Suppl 1():33-8.
2009: Ricardo Uauy; Pekka Puska
Health significance of fat quality of the diet. Preface.
Annals of nutrition & metabolism 2009;54 Suppl 1():1.
2009: Seppo Koskinen; Pekka Puska
From social determinants to reducing health inequalities.
International journal of public health 2009;54(2):53-4.
2008: Tiina Vlasoff; Tiina Laatikainen; Vesa Korpelainen; Mihail Uhanov; Svetlana Pokusajeva; Anastasiya Rogacheva; Kerttu Tossavainen; Erkki Vartiainen; Pekka Puska
Ten year trends in chronic disease risk factors in the Republic of Karelia, Russia.
European journal of public health 2008;18(6):666-73.
2008: Lars-Erik Holm; Jesper Fisker; Björn-Inge Larsen; Pekka Puska; Matthías Halldórsson
[Snuff doesn't save lives - only smoking cessation does!].
Läkartidningen 2008;105(48-49):3501-2.
2008: Ulla Kemppainen; Kerttu Tossavainen; Erkki Vartiainen; Veikko Jokela; Pekka Puska; Vladimir Pantelejev; Mihail Uhanov
Environmental factors as predictors of alcohol use among ninth-grade adolescents in Pitkaranta (Russian Karelia) and in eastern Finland.
Scandinavian journal of public health 2008;36(7):769-77.
2008: Pekka Puska
What are the drivers of the new paradigm?
European journal of public health 2008;18(3):219.
2008: Bernard C K Choi; D V McQueen; Pekka Puska; K A Douglas; M Ackland; stefano campostrini; Alberto Barceló; Sylvie Stachenko; Ali H Mokdad; R Granero; S J Corber; Alain-jacques Valleron; H A Skinner; R Potemkina; M C Lindner; D Zakus; L M de Salazar; Anita W P Pak; Z Ansari; J C Zevallos; M Gonzalez; A Flahault; R E Torres
Enhancing global capacity in the surveillance, prevention, and control of chronic diseases: seven themes to consider and build upon.
Journal of epidemiology and community health 2008;62(5):391-7.
2008: Pekka Puska; Marjaana Lahti Koski; Timo Ruoko
The Finnish Heart Association. Interview by Robert Short.
Circulation 2008;117(9):f52-4.
2007: Jeffrey P Koplan; Courtenay Dusenbury; Pekka Jousilahti; Pekka Puska
The role of national public health institutes in health infrastructure development.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2007;335(7625):834-5.
2007: Pekka Puska
Health in all policies.
European journal of public health 2007;17(4):328.
2007: Bernard C K Choi; John Frank; Jennifer S Mindell; Anna O Orlova; Vivian Lin; Alain D M G Vaillancourt; Pekka Puska; Tikki Pang; Harvey A Skinner; Marsha Marsh; Ali H Mokdad; Shun-Zhang Yu; M Cristina Lindner; Gregory Sherman; Sandhi Maria Barreto; Lawrence W Green; Lawrence W Svenson; Peter Sainsbury; Yongping Yan; Zuo-Feng Zhang; Juan C Zevallos; Suzanne C Ho; Ligia M de Salazar
Vision for a global registry of anticipated public health studies.
American journal of public health 2007;97 Suppl 1():S82-7.
2007: Pekka Puska
Blame the patients or blame the politicians?
International journal of public health 2007;52(6):331-2.
2007: Pekka Puska
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Duodecim; lääketieteellinen aikakauskirja 2007;123(15):1792-3.
2006: Ulla Kemppainen; Kerttu Tossavainen; Erkki Vartiainen; Veikko Jokela; Pekka Puska; Vladimir Pantelejev; Mihail Uhanov
Environmental factors as predictors of smoking among ninth-grade adolescents in Pitkäranta (Russian Karelia) and in eastern Finland.
Research in nursing & health 2006;29(6):543-55.
2006: Pekka Puska
WHO Director-General election: public-health infrastructures.
Lancet 2006;368(9545):1401-3.
2006: Helena Gylling; Radhakrishnan A Rajaratnam; Erkki Vartiainen; Pekka Puska; Tatu A Miettinen
Changes in serum level and metabolism of cholesterol with plant stanol esters in postmenopausal women with and without coronary artery disease.
Menopause (New York, N.Y.) 2006;13(2):286-93.
2005: Bernard C K Choi; Tikki Pang; Vivian Lin; Pekka Puska; Gregory Sherman; Michael Goddard; Michael J Ackland; Peter Sainsbury; Sylvie Stachenko; Howard Morrison; Clarence Clottey
Can scientists and policy makers work together?
Journal of epidemiology and community health 2005;59(8):632-7.
2005: Jeffrey P Koplan; Pekka Puska; Pekka Jousilahti; Kathy Cahill; Jussi Huttunen
Improving the world's health through national public health institutes.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2005;83(2):154-7.
2005: Meri Simojoki; Riitta Luoto; Antti Uutela; Hannu Rita; John D Boice; Joseph K McLaughlin; Pekka Puska
Use of plant stanol ester margarine among persons with and without cardiovascular disease: early phases of the adoption of a functional food in Finland.
Nutrition journal 2005;4():20.
2004: Roy J Shephard; Becky Lankenau; Michael Pratt; Andrea Neiman; Pekka Puska; Hamadi Benaziza; Adrian Bauman
Physical Activity Policy Development: a synopsis of the WHO/CDC Consultation, September 29 through October 2, 2002, Atlanta, Georgia.
Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) 2004;119(3):346-51.
2004: Pekka Puska; Vesa Korpelainen; Lars H Høie; Eva Skovlund; Knut T Smerud
Isolated soya protein with standardised levels of isoflavones, cotyledon soya fibres and soya phospholipids improves plasma lipids in hypercholesterolaemia: a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of a yoghurt formulation.
The British journal of nutrition 2004;91(3):393-401.
2004: Riitta Luoto; Meri Simojoki; Antti Uutela; John D Boice; Joseph K McLaughlin; Pekka Puska
Consistency of use of plant stanol ester margarine in Finland.
Public health nutrition 2004;7(1):63-8.
2004: Pekka Puska; Paula Lehtomäki; Harriet Eckstein; Hannu Juvonen
[Sources of medicine for developing countries].
Duodecim; lääketieteellinen aikakauskirja 2004;120(23):2833-40.
2004: Pekka Puska; I Keller
[Primary prevention of non-communicable diseases. Experiences from population based intervention in Finland for the global work of WHO].
Zeitschrift für Kardiologie 2004;93 Suppl 2():II37-42.
2003: Ricardo Fuentes; Tuulikki Uusitalo; Pekka Puska; Jaakko Tuomilehto; Aulikki Nissinen
Blood cholesterol level and prevalence of hypercholesterolaemia in developing countries: a review of population-based studies carried out from 1979 to 2002.
European journal of cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation : official journal of the European Society of Cardiology, Working Groups on Epidemiology & Prevention and Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology 2003;10(6):411-9.
2003: Pekka Puska; Ville Helasoja; Ritva Prättälä; Anu Kasmel; Jurate Klumbiene
Health behaviour in Estonia, Finland and Lithuania 1994-1998. Standardized comparison.
European journal of public health 2003;13(1):11-7.
2003: Maarit Korhonen; Mika Kastarinen; Matti Uusitupa; Pekka Puska; Aulikki Nissinen
The effect of intensified diet counseling on the diet of hypertensive subjects in primary health care: a 2-year open randomized controlled trial of lifestyle intervention against hypertension in eastern Finland.
Preventive medicine 2003;36(1):8-16.
2002: Mika Kastarinen; Pekka Puska; Maarit H Korhonen; Juha N Mustonen; Veikko Salomaa; Jouko Sundvall; Jaakko O Tuomilehto; M I J Uusitupa; Aulikki Nissinen
Non-pharmacological treatment of hypertension in primary health care: a 2-year open randomized controlled trial of lifestyle intervention against hypertension in eastern Finland.
Journal of hypertension 2002;20(12):2505-12.
2002: Urpo Kiiskinen; Erkki Vartiainen; Pekka Puska; Markku Pekurinen
Smoking-related costs among 25 to 59 year-old males in a 19-year individual follow-up.
European journal of public health 2002;12(2):145-51.
2002: Mika Kastarinen; Jaakko Tuomilehto; Erkki Vartiainen; Pekka Jousilahti; Aulikki Nissinen; Pekka Puska
Smoking trends in hypertensive and normotensive Finns during 1982-1997.
Journal of human hypertension 2002;16(5):299-303.
2002: Tiina Laatikainen; Hannu Alho; Erkki Vartiainen; Pekka Jousilahti; Pekka Sillanaukee; Pekka Puska
Self-reported alcohol consumption and association to carbohydrate-deficient transferrin and gamma-glutamyltransferase in a random sample of the general population in the Republic of Karelia, Russia and in North Karelia, Finland.
Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) 2002;37(3):282-8.
2002: Tiina Laatikainen; Laura Delong; Svetlana Pokusajeva; Mihail Uhanov; Erkki Vartiainen; Pekka Puska
Changes in cardiovascular risk factors and health behaviours from 1992 to 1997 in the Republic of Karelia, Russia.
European journal of public health 2002;12(1):37-43.
2002: Erkki Vartiainen; Timo Seppälä; Pirjo Lillsunde; Pekka Puska
Validation of self reported smoking by serum cotinine measurement in a community-based study.
Journal of epidemiology and community health 2002;56(3):167-70.
2002: Heikki M Hemmilä; Sirkka Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi; Sinikka Levoska; Pekka Puska
Long-term effectiveness of bone-setting, light exercise therapy, and physiotherapy for prolonged back pain: a randomized controlled trial.
Journal of manipulative and physiological therapeutics 2002;25(2):99-104.
2002: Pekka Puska
Nutrition and global prevention on non-communicable diseases.
Asia Pacific journal of clinical nutrition 2002;11 Suppl 9():S755-8.
2002: Ulla Kemppainen; Kerttu Tossavainen; Erkki Vartiainen; Vladimir Pantelejev; Pekka Puska
Smoking patterns among ninth-grade adolescents in the Pitkäranta district (Russia) and in eastern Finland.
Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) 2002;19(1):30-9.
2001: Helios Pardell; Eulàlia Roure; W Drygas; E Morava; E Nüssel; Pekka Puska; Mihail Uhanov; Mikko Laaksonen; Ricard Tresserras; Esteve Saltó; Lluís Salleras
East-west differences in reported preventive practices. A comparative study of six European areas of the WHO-CINDI programme.
European journal of public health 2001;11(4):393-6.
2001: M Anttolainen; Riitta Luoto; Antti Uutela; John D Boice; W J Blot; Joseph K McLaughlin; Pekka Puska
Characteristics of users and nonusers of plant stanol ester margarine in Finland: an approach to study functional foods.
Journal of the American Dietetic Association 2001;101(11):1365-8.
2001: Ville Helasoja; Ritva Prättälä; Jurate Klumbiene; Janina Petkeviciene; Anu Kasmel; A Lipand; Antti Uutela; Pekka Puska
Smoking and passive smoking in Estonia, Lithuania and Finland. Identifying target groups of tobacco policy.
European journal of public health 2001;11(2):206-10.
2001: Sami Heistaro; Pekka Jousilahti; E Lahelma; Erkki Vartiainen; Pekka Puska
Self rated health and mortality: a long term prospective study in eastern Finland.
Journal of epidemiology and community health 2001;55(4):227-32.
2001: Sami Heistaro; Tiina Laatikainen; Erkki Vartiainen; Pekka Puska; Antti Uutela; S Pokusajeva; Mihail Uhanov
Self-reported health in the Republic of Karelia, Russia and in north Karelia, Finland in 1992.
European journal of public health 2001;11(1):74-80.
2001: Mikko Laaksonen; AL McAlister; Tiina Laatikainen; W Drygas; E Morava; E Nüssel; R Oganov; Helios Pardell; Mihail Uhanov; Pekka Puska
Do health behaviour and psychosocial risk factors explain the European east-west gap in health status?
European journal of public health 2001;11(1):65-73.
2001: Meri Paavola; Erkki Vartiainen; Pekka Puska
Smoking cessation between teenage years and adulthood.
Health education research 2001;16(1):49-57.
2001: Aulikki Nissinen; X Berrios; Pekka Puska
Community-based noncommunicable disease interventions: lessons from developed countries for developing ones.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2001;79(10):963-70.
2001: Pirjo Pietinen; Marjaana Lahti-Koski; Erkki Vartiainen; Pekka Puska
Nutrition and cardiovascular disease in Finland since the early 1970s: a success story.
The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2001;5(3):150-4.
2000: T Korhonen; AL McAlister; Mikko Laaksonen; Tiina Laatikainen; Pekka Puska
International quit and win 1996: standardized evaluation in selected campaign countries.
Preventive medicine 2000;31(6):742-51.
2000: S Sun; Tellervo Korhonen; Antti Uutela; HJ Korhonen; Pekka Puska; Y Jun; Y Chonghua; G Zeyu; W Yonghao; X Wenqing
International Quit and Win 1996: comparative evaluation study in China and Finland.
Tobacco control 2000;9(3):303-9.
2000: Pekka Puska
Nutrition and mortality: the Finnish experience.
Acta cardiologica 2000;55(4):213-20.
2000: P Jousilahti; Jaakko Tuomilehto; Erkki Vartiainen; J Eriksson; Pekka Puska
Relation of adult height to cause-specific and total mortality: a prospective follow-up study of 31,199 middle-aged men and women in Finland.
American journal of epidemiology 2000;151(11):1112-20.
2000: Mika Kastarinen; Aulikki Nissinen; Erkki Vartiainen; Pekka Jousilahti; HJ Korhonen; Pekka Puska
Blood pressure levels and obesity trends in hypertensive and normotensive Finnish population from 1982 to 1997.
Journal of hypertension 2000;18(3):255-62.
2000: Mika Kastarinen; Jaakko Tuomilehto; Erkki Vartiainen; Pekka Jousilahti; Jouko Sundvall; Pekka Puska; Aulikki Nissinen
Trends in lipid levels and hypercholesterolemia in hypertensive and normotensive finnish adults from 1982 to 1997.
Journal of internal medicine 2000;247(1):53-62.
1999: Erkki Vartiainen; Pekka Puska; P Jousilahti; HJ Korhonen
Cardiovascular diseases and risk factors in Finland.
Preventive medicine 1999;29(6 Pt 2):S124-9.
1999: P Jousilahti; Erkki Vartiainen; HJ Korhonen; Pekka Puska; Jaakko Tuomilehto
Is the effect of smoking on the risk for coronary heart disease even stronger than was previously thought?
Journal of cardiovascular risk 1999;6(5):293-8.
1999: T Laatikainen; Erkki Vartiainen; Pekka Puska
Comparing smoking and smoking cessation process in the Republic of Karelia, Russia and North Karelia, Finland.
Journal of epidemiology and community health 1999;53(9):528-34.
1999: M Närhinen; M A Berg; Aulikki Nissinen; Pekka Puska
Supermarket sales data: a tool for measuring regional differences in dietary habits.
Public health nutrition 1999;2(3):277-82.
1999: Z Yu; G Song; Z Guo; G Zheng; H Tian; Erkki Vartiainen; Pekka Puska; Aulikki Nissinen
Changes in blood pressure, body mass index, and salt consumption in a Chinese population.
Preventive medicine 1999;29(3):165-72.
1999: Tellervo Korhonen; E L Urjanheimo; P Mannonen; HJ Korhonen; Antti Uutela; Pekka Puska
Quit and Win campaigns as a long-term anti-smoking intervention in North Karelia and other parts of Finland.
Tobacco control 1999;8(2):175-81.
1999: Mikko Laaksonen; Antti Uutela; E Vartiainen; Pekka Jousilahti; Satu Helakorpi; Pekka Puska
Development of smoking by birth cohort in the adult population in eastern Finland 1972-97.
Tobacco control 1999;8(2):161-8.
1999: Tellervo Korhonen; Antti Uutela; HJ Korhonen; E L Urjanheimo; Pekka Puska
Smoking cessation advice from health professionals: process evaluation of a community-based program.
Patient education and counseling 1999;36(1):13-21.
1998: Sami Heistaro; Erkki Vartiainen; Markku Heliövaara; Pekka Puska
Trends of back pain in eastern Finland, 1972-1992, in relation to socioeconomic status and behavioral risk factors.
American journal of epidemiology 1998;148(7):671-82.
1998: Mika Kastarinen; Veikko Salomaa; Erkki Vartiainen; Pekka Jousilahti; Jaakko Tuomilehto; Pekka Puska; Aulikki Nissinen
Trends in blood pressure levels and control of hypertension in Finland from 1982 to 1997.
Journal of hypertension 1998;16(9):1379-87.
1998: Jaakko Tuomilehto; O P Ryynänen; A Koistinen; Daiva Rastenyte; Aulikki Nissinen; Pekka Puska
Low diastolic blood pressure and mortality in a population-based cohort of 16913 hypertensive patients in North Karelia, Finland.
Journal of hypertension 1998;16(9):1235-42.
1998: Urpo Kiiskinen; Erkki Vartiainen; Pekka Puska; A Aromaa
Long-term cost and life-expectancy consequences of hypertension.
Journal of hypertension 1998;16(8):1103-12.
1998: Erkki Vartiainen; J Pekkanen; S Koskinen; Pekka Jousilahti; Veikko Salomaa; Pekka Puska
Do changes in cardiovascular risk factors explain the increasing socioeconomic difference in mortality from ischaemic heart disease in Finland?
Journal of epidemiology and community health 1998;52(7):416-9.
1998: M Närhinen; Aulikki Nissinen; Pekka Puska
Sales data of a supermarket--a tool for monitoring nutrition interventions.
Public health nutrition 1998;1(2):101-7.
1998: Tellervo Korhonen; Antti Uutela; HJ Korhonen; Pekka Puska
Impact of mass media and interpersonal health communication on smoking cessation attempts: a study in North Karelia, 1989-1996.
Journal of health communication 1998;3(2):105-18.
1998: Erkki Vartiainen; Meri Paavola; A McAlister; Pekka Puska
Fifteen-year follow-up of smoking prevention effects in the North Karelia youth project.
American journal of public health 1998;88(1):81-5.
1998: Riitta Luoto; Ritva Prättälä; Antti Uutela; Pekka Puska
Impact of unhealthy behaviors on cardiovascular mortality in Finland, 1978-1993.
Preventive medicine 1998;27(1):93-100.
1997: T Korhonen; S Su; HJ Korhonen; Antti Uutela; Pekka Puska
Evaluation of a national Quit and Win contest: determinants for successful quitting.
Preventive medicine 1997;26(4):556-64.
1997: Heikki M Hemmilä; Sirkka Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi; Sinikka Levoska; Pekka Puska
Does folk medicine work? A randomized clinical trial on patients with prolonged back pain.
Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation 1997;78(6):571-7.
1997: Urpo Kiiskinen; Erkki Vartiainen; Markku Pekurinen; Pekka Puska
Does prevention of cardiovascular diseases lead to decreased cost of illness? Twenty years of experience from Finland.
Preventive medicine 1997;26(2):220-6.
1996: S Heistaro; Erkki Vartiainen; Pekka Puska
Trends in self-rated health in Finland 1972-1992.
Preventive medicine 1996;25(5):625-32.
1994: Pekka Jousilahti; Jaakko Tuomilehto; HJ Korhonen; Erkki Vartiainen; Pekka Puska; A Nissinen
Trends in cardiovascular disease risk factor clustering in eastern Finland: results of 15-year follow-up of the North Karelia Project.
Preventive medicine 1994;23(1):6-14.
1994: P I Leino; M A Berg; Pekka Puska
Is back pain increasing? Results from national surveys in Finland during 1978/9-1992.
Scandinavian journal of rheumatology 1994;23(5):269-76.
1992: Ritva Prättälä; M A Berg; Pekka Puska
Diminishing or increasing contrasts? Social class variation in Finnish food consumption patterns, 1979-1990.
European journal of clinical nutrition 1992;46(4):279-87.
1992: Ossi Rahkonen; M A Berg; Pekka Puska
The development of smoking in Finland from 1978 to 1990.
British journal of addiction 1992;87(1):103-10.