Programme

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Session 1 A) Innovative approaches to register research/Enhancing depth of register data
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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
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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
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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)

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Session 2 A) Child, Maternal and Reproductive Health (1)
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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
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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
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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

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Session 3 A) Child, Maternal and Reproductive Health (2)
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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
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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
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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

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Session 4 A) Effectiveness and implementation/Evaluating interventions:
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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
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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
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Sören Möller: Methodological considerations on adjusting for Charlson Comorbidity Index
Hrafnhildur Gudjonsdottir: Cohort Profile: The Stockholm Diabetes Prevention Programme (SDPP)

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