Various forms of oral involvement have been reported in patients with neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1). Here, we analyze register-based associations between NF1 and hospital visits related to oral infections. The Finnish NF1 cohort encompasses all individuals with verified NF1 who have visited the Finnish central and university hospitals in 1987-2011.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContext: Lifestyle intervention reduces the incidence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in people with impaired glucose tolerance.
Objective: To find out whether participation in the earlier lifestyle intervention had an effect on the occurrence of clinically diagnosed retinopathy during a median of 22 years of follow-up time.
Methods: The study included 505 individuals from the Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study (DPS) (mean 55, range 40-64 years at the onset of the study) with impaired glucose tolerance who were originally randomized into the intervention (weight loss, healthy diet and physical activity (N=257) and usual care control groups (N=248).
Background: Modifying the choice architecture of behavioural contexts can facilitate health behaviour change, but existing evidence builds mostly on small-scale interventions limited in duration, targets, strategies, and settings. We evaluated the effectiveness of a one-year hybrid type 2 implementation-effectiveness trial aimed at promoting healthy eating and daily physical activity with subtle modifications to the choice architecture of heterogeneous worksites. The intervention was contextualised to and integrated into the routine operations of each worksite.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: We aimed to analyze hypertension in neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) in a Finnish population-based cohort in 1996-2014.
Methods: A cohort of 1365 individuals with confirmed NF1 was compared with a control cohort of 13,923 individuals matched for age, sex, and area of residence. Diagnoses of hypertension were retrieved from the Finnish Care Register for Health Care.
Purpose: To determine the risk for dementia in neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) using a Finnish nationwide cohort of individuals with NF1, and data from national registries.
Methods: A Finnish cohort of 1,349 individuals with confirmed NF1 according to the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) diagnostic criteria was compared with a control cohort of 13,870 individuals matched for age, sex, and area of residence. Dementia-related hospital visits were retrieved from the Finnish Care Register for Health Care using International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision (ICD-10) diagnosis codes G30 and F00-F03.