Publications by authors named "R Luukkonen"
Perceived mental health skills and competence among occupational health physicians.
Occup Med (Lond)
November 2024
Background: Mental-health-based consultations in occupational health (OH) are increasing due to ongoing changes in working life.
Aims: We studied the self-assessed mental health competence of trainees and trainers in OH specialist physician training.
Methods: We conducted an online survey from June to August 2022.
Background: After COVID-19 infection, 10-20% of patients suffer from varying symptoms lasting more than 12 weeks (Long COVID, LC). Exercise intolerance and fatigue are common in LC. The aim was to measure the maximal exercise capacity of the LC patients with these symptoms and to analyze whether this capacity was related to heart rate (HR) responses at rest and during exercise and recovery, to find out possible sympathetic overactivity, dysautonomia or chronotropic incompetence.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Promoting health is an important part of occupational health (OH) professionals' daily practice. Occupational health services (OHS) support work ability and prevent both work-related diseases and lifestyle-related illnesses.
Objective: We focused on how interprofessional collaboration (IPC), regardless of whether the OHS provider is public, private or in-house, influences the implementation of smoking cessation treatment and support (SCTS).
Article Synopsis
- Environmental particulate matter (PM) exposure is linked to higher mortality rates from various diseases, prompting a study on the impact of occupational exposure to vapors, gasses, dusts, and fumes (VGDF).
- Using data from the FinEsS study in Helsinki, researchers analyzed a 24-year follow-up of mortality rates, comparing those with high VGDF exposure to those with no exposure.
- Results indicated that individuals with high VGDF exposure had significantly increased risks of dying from cardiovascular issues, respiratory diseases, and dementia, highlighting the importance of reducing such occupational exposures.
Introduction: Spinal muscular atrophy, Jokela type (SMAJ) is a rare autosomal dominantly hereditary form of spinal muscular atrophy caused by a point mutation c.197G>T in . is known to be involved in the regulation of mitochondrial function even though patients with SMAJ do not present with multiorgan symptoms of mitochondrial disease.
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