Regional trends in avoidable hospitalisations due to complications among population with diabetes in Finland in 1996-2011: a register-based cohort study.

Objectives: Diabetes requires continuous medical care including prevention of acute complications and risk reduction for long-term complications. Diabetic complications impose a substantial burden on public health and care delivery. We examined trends in regional differences in hospitalisations due to diabetes-related complications among the total diabetes population in Finland.

Impact of health counselling on cardiovascular disease risk in middle aged men: influence of socioeconomic status.

Background: The inverse association between socioeconomic status and cardiovascular disease is well documented. We examined whether the impact of health counselling on cardiovascular risk factors in middle-aged men differed according to socioeconomic status.

Methods: We used data from a community based study assessing the risk for cardiovascular disease among middle-aged men in Helsinki, Finland.

Waist circumference a good indicator of future risk for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Background: Abdominal obesity is a more important risk factor than overall obesity in predicting the development of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. From a preventive and public health point of view it is crucial that risk factors are identified at an early stage, in order to change and modify behaviour and lifestyle in high risk individuals.

Methods: Data from a community based study was used to assess the risk for type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and prevalence of metabolic syndrome in middle-aged men.