Programme

Wednesday 18 September

11:30

Registration opens at Tampere University, City centre campus, Main building, Main lobby, address Kalevantie 4

12:30-12:40

Welcome: Professor Anssi Auvinen, Tampere University, Room A1, 2nd floor

12:40-13:00

Opening words: Vice President Juha Teperi, Tampere University, Room A1, 2nd floor

13:00-13:50

Plenary session 1: Alex Broadbent (University of Johannesburg, South Africa): Philosophy of Epidemiology: How to identify causes?

14:00-15:00

Parallel session 1

See the session abstracts here.

Session 1 A) Innovative approaches to register research/Enhancing depth of register data
Room A1
Anton Nilsson: A Directed Acyclic Graph for Effect Heterogeneity
Ulf Strömberg: Cancer incidence mapping by clinical stage at diagnosis for monitoring spatial disparities in early detection of cancer
Ulrike Baum: Mitigation of biases in estimating hazard ratios under non-sensitive and non-specific observation of outcomes through register data
Carl Bonander: Generalizing the results from population-based cohort studies using register data

Session 1 B) Life course and intergenerational studies
Room A3
Christian Hakulinen: Parental income mobility during childhood and later risk of developing schizophrenia: a Danish birth cohort study
Suvi Rovio: Early life cardiovascular risk factors and midlife cognitive performance: The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study
Venla Berg: Parental substance misuse and children’s entry to parenthood: A genetically informed longitudinal test of fast reproductive strategy

Session 1 C) New data sources/Disability and longevity
Room A4
Jaakko Nevalainen: Possibilities and challenges of loyalty card data in health research
Juulia Jylhävä: The frailty index is a predictor of cause-specific mortality independent of familial effects from midlife onwards: a large cohort study
Tuija Mikkola: The potential for healthy aging – what proportion of adults have a possibility to age healthy?
Katja Pahkala: Subclinical atherosclerosis from childhood to early adulthood: association with dietary fat quality – The Special Turku Coronary Risk Factor Intervention Project (STRIP) (Lifecourse and intergenerational studies)

15:00-16:00

Coffee and poster viewing session, Main Auditorium foyer, 2nd floor

16:10-17:00

Plenary session 2: Mika Kivimäki (University College, London, UK & University of Helsinki, Finland): Effect of stress on health, disease and ageing

19:00-20:30

Welcome reception by City of Tampere at the Old City Hall, address Keskustori 10

Thursday 19 September

9:00-9:50

Plenary session 3: Max Petzold (University of Gothenburg, Sweden): Open data in epidemiology

10:00-11:00

Parallel session 2

See the session abstracts here.

Session 2 A) Child, Maternal and Reproductive Health (1)
Room A1
Stine Kloster: Advanced maternal age and risk of preterm birth among women with a congenital heart disease: A nationwide register-based cohort study
Riitta Luoto: Workability and quality of life seven years after delivery among women in risk of gestational diabetes
Leena Hakola: Cereal, Gluten, and Dietary Fiber Intake In Relation to the Risk of Islet Autoimmunity and Type 1 Diabetes
Melle Säve-Söderbergh: Associations between exposure to drinking water chlorination by-products and small-for-gestation-age – a nation-wide register-based prospective study including 500,000 singleton births

Session 2 B) Burden of Disease for the Individual and the Population
Room A3

Liisu Saavalainen: Cancer risk according to the type of Endometriosis
Svetlana Solovjeva: Impact of common musculoskeletal diseases and depression on work participation and working life years lost
Manola Bettio: Measuring the cancer burden in Europe: the European Cancer Information System (ECIS)
Jonas Björk: Frequent misunderstandings of commonly used epidemiological measures

Session 2 C) Neurological disease and cognitive function/Emerging challenges for public health
Room A4

Linda Ernstsen: Change in cardiorespiratory fitness and white matter hyperintensities: results from the HUNT Study
Christian Starck: Fertility and marital status in adults with childhood-onset epilepsy: a population-based cohort study
Anna-Maija Tolppanen: Risk of death in relation to antiepileptic drug use among community-dwelling persons with Alzheimer’s disease: a matched cohort study
Stine Schramm: Health behavioural risk factors and multimorbidity – a follow-up study in a Danish population

11:00-12:00

Lunch break, Restaurant Juvenes, 2nd floor

12:00-13:00

Parallel session 3

See the session abstracts here.

Session 3 A) Child, Maternal and Reproductive Health (2)
Room A1
Kristjana Einarsdottir: Preterm births in Iceland 1997-2016: Preterm birth rates by gestational age groups and type of preterm birth
Rejane Figueiredo: Antimicrobial use from birth to adolescence and association with Body Mass Index
Kalpana Bastola: Differences in caesarean section and neonatal outcomes among women of migrant origin in Finland – A population based study
Paula Häkkänen: Overweight development among primary school children: distinct sex-specific body mass index trajectories to guide school health care interventions

Session 3 B) Equity and vulnerable populations/Validity of register data
Room A3

Aliasghar Kiadaliri: Intersectionality and individual heterogeneity in incidence of gout: An intersectional multilevel analysis (Equity)
Sebastián Peña: Clustering of alcohol use, smoking and obesity as an explanation for the alcohol harm paradox: analysis of eight prospective cohort studies
Riku Perhoniemi: Determinants of disability pension applications and awarded disability pensions in Finland
Päivikki Koponen: Comparing register and survey data based prevalence estimates for major public health problems in Finland

Session 3 C) Other topics
Room A4
Morag Tolvi: In-hospital and 30-day mortality in Helsinki University Hospital over a 14-year period: is there a weekend effect?
Kirstine Wodschow: Geographical variations and social inequalities in atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter
Subas Neupane: Predicting prostate cancer survival: A prognostic model from the Finnish randomized screening trial
Joseph Muwonge Junior: Prevalence of children (0-17 years) with parental mental illness in Sweden: A Total Population Study

13:00-13:50

Plenary session 4: Mette Nørgaard (University of Aarhus, Denmark): The role of clinical epidemiology - why medical practice cannot be based only on results from experimental studies

14:00-15:00

Coffee and poster viewing session with Best Poster Award, Main Auditorium foyer, 2nd floor

15:10-16:00

Plenary session 5: Naja Hulvej Rod (University of Copenhagen, Denmark): From associations to effects: Do Big Data hide causal structures?

19:00-22:00

Dinner at Restaurant Ziberia, address Itäinenkatu 9

Friday 20 September

9:00-9:50

Plenary session 6: Paolo Vineis (Imperial College, London, UK): Epigenetic epidemiology

10:00-11:00

Parallel session 4

See the session abstracts here.

Session 4 A) Effectiveness and implementation/Evaluating interventions:
Room A1
Maija Jäntti: New colorectal cancer screening pilot programme
Anna-Maija Tolppanen: Agreement between Patient Global Impression Scale of Improvement (PGI-I), Pelvic Floor Distress Inventory and 15D in measuring the outcome of pelvic organ prolapse surgery in Finland
Taina Leinonen: Work participation trajectories and the effectiveness of vocational rehabilitation in Finland
Arto Palmu: Evaluation of the full public health effects by combining clinical trial design with collection of population-based routine health register data – example of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in infants

Session 4 B) Miscellaneous
Room A3
Karl Forsell: Hematologic malignancy on tankers: A case-referent study among male Swedish seafarers
Jouko Nätti: Perceived gender discrimination at work and disability pension due to depression among Finnish female employees
Anna-Maija Tolppanen: Preliminary evidence on temporal changes in comorbidities and risk factors in Moomin valley – an urgent need for systematic appraisal and more effective health policy

Session 4 C) Other topics
Room A4
Sören Möller: Methodological considerations on adjusting for Charlson Comorbidity Index
Hrafnhildur Gudjonsdottir: Cohort Profile: The Stockholm Diabetes Prevention Programme (SDPP)

11:00-12:00

Plenary session 7: Mika Gissler (Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland): How to survive GDPR? NB! Changed schedule!

12:00-13:00

Lunch break, Restaurant Juvenes, 2nd floor

13:00-13:30

Closing and announcement of Nordic Epidemiology 2021, Room A1