Publications by authors named "T Lanki"
Active commuting can be beneficial for health. We examined whether active commuting by walking or cycling was associated with a lower risk of sickness absence in a Finnish public sector cohort of 28 485 employees. We used negative binomial regression to test associations of weekly active commuting in kilometers (no, low, moderate, and high dose) with all-cause sickness absence.
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- The quality of a neighborhood significantly impacts residents' overall quality of life and health, especially as urbanization increases.
- A study analyzed survey data from over 2,000 adults in Finland, finding that 80% viewed their neighborhoods as liveable, with key factors being socioeconomic status, urban location, green views, and satisfaction with safety and green spaces.
- The research emphasizes the importance of involving residents in neighborhood decision-making to enhance perceptions of liveability, with only minor effects seen from residents being more settled in their neighborhoods.
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- This study investigated the relationship between transportation noise and atrial fibrillation (AF) using data from 11 Nordic cohorts, totaling over 161,000 participants.
- Researchers found that higher road traffic noise exposure is linked to an increased risk of developing AF, particularly in women and overweight individuals.
- Aircraft noise also showed a potential association with AF risk, while railway noise did not appear to be related; overall, road and aircraft noise combined raised the risk significantly.
Objectives: Air pollution and traffic noise are detrimental to cardiovascular health. However, the effects of different sources of these exposures on cardiovascular biomarkers remain unclear. We explored the associations of long-term exposure to source-specific air pollution (vehicular exhausts and residential woodsmoke) at low concentrations and road-traffic noise with systemic inflammation and cardiovascular disease biomarkers.
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