Finn Rasmussen

Municipal policies and plans of action aiming to promote physical activity and healthy eating habits among schoolchildren in Stockholm, Sweden: a cross-sectional study (2009)

Guldbrandsson, Karin, Wennerstad, Karin, Rasmussen, Finn

Abstract Background Promoting physical activity and healthy eating habits by structural measures that reach most children in a society is presumably the most sustainable way of preventing development...

Association of body size and muscle strength with incidence of coronary heart disease and cerebrovascular diseases: a population-based cohort study of one million Swedish men (2009)

Silventoinen, Karri, Magnusson, Patrik K E, Tynelius, Per, Batty, G David, Rasmussen, Finn

Background Muscle strength and body size may be associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke risk. However, perhaps because of a low number of cases, existing evidence is inconsistent....

School performance and hospital admissions due to self-inflicted injury: a Swedish national cohort study (2009)

Jablonska, Beata, Lindberg, Lene, Lindblad, Frank, Rasmussen, Finn, Östberg, Viveca, Hjern, Anders

Background Self-inflicted injury in youth has increased in many Western countries during recent decades. Education is the most influential societal determinant of living conditions in young people...

Adolescent mental health predicts quitting smoking in adulthood: a longitudinal analysis (2008)

Hemmingsson, Tomas, Kriebel, David, Tynelius, Per, Rasmussen, Finn, Lundberg, Ingvar

Objectives: Several studies have reported an association between cigarette smoking and psychiatric illness. A common finding is that the prevalence of psychiatric illness among former smokers is much...

Birth Weight and Systolic Blood Pressure in Adolescence and Adulthood: Meta-Regression Analysis of Sex- and Age-specific Results from 20 Nordic Studies (2007)

Gamborg, Michael, Byberg, Liisa, Rasmussen, Finn, Andersen, Per Kragh, Baker, Jennifer L., Bengtsson, Calle, ...

The authors investigated the shape, sex- and age-dependency, and possible confounding of the association between birth weight and systolic blood pressure (SBP) in 197,954 adults from 20 Nordic...

Growth Trajectory Matters: Interpreting the Associations among Birth Weight, Concurrent Body Size, and Systolic Blood Pressure in a Cohort Study of 378,707 Swedish Men (2007)

Lawlor, Debbie A., Leon, David A., Rasmussen, Finn

The interpretation of the inverse association of birth weight with adult blood pressure after adjustment for concurrent size has been debated. In a large sample (n = 378,707) of Swedish men aged 18...

Growth Trajectory Matters: Interpreting the Associations among Birth Weight, Concurrent Body Size, and Systolic Blood Pressure in a Cohort Study of 378,707 Swedish Men (2007)

Lawlor, Debbie A, Leon, David A, Rasmussen, Finn

The interpretation of the inverse association of birth weight with adult blood pressure after adjustment for concurrent size has been debated. In a large sample (n = 378,707) of Swedish men aged 18...

Height at age 18 years is a strong predictor of attained education later in life: cohort study of over 950 000 Swedish men (2006)

Magnusson, Patrik K E, Rasmussen, Finn, Gyllensten, Ulf B

Background Adult body height has been related to socioeconomic position in cross-sectional studies. Intelligence, shared family factors, and non-familial circumstances may contribute to associations...

Association of Body Mass Index with Suicide Mortality: A Prospective Cohort Study of More than One Million Men (2006)

Magnusson, Patrik K. E., Rasmussen, Finn, Lawlor, Debbie A., Tynelius, Per, Gunnell, David

The authors investigated the association of body mass index (BMI) with suicide in a record linkage study based on the Swedish Military Service Conscription Register, the Population and Housing...

Association of Childhood Socioeconomic Position with Cause-specific Mortality in a Prospective Record Linkage Study of 1,839,384 Individuals (2006)

Lawlor, Debbie A., Sterne, Jonathan A. C., Tynelius, Per, Davey Smith, George, Rasmussen, Finn

Previous studies have lacked sufficient power to assess associations between early-life socioeconomic position and adult cause-specific mortality. The authors examined associations of parental social...

Height at age 18 years is a strong predictor of attained education later in life: cohort study of over 950 000 Swedish men (2006)

Magnusson, Patrik K. E., Rasmussen, Finn, Gyllensten, Ulf B.

Background Adult body height has been related to socioeconomic position in cross-sectional studies. Intelligence, shared family factors, and non-familial circumstances may contribute to associations...

Association of Body Mass Index with Suicide Mortality: A Prospective Cohort Study of More than One Million Men (2005)

Magnusson, Patrik K. E., Rasmussen, Finn, Lawlor, Debbie A., Tynelius, Per, Gunnell, David

The authors investigated the association of body mass index (BMI) with suicide in a record linkage study based on the Swedish Military Service Conscription Register, the Population and Housing...

Association of Body Mass Index with Suicide Mortality: A Prospective Cohort Study of More than One Million Men (2005)

Magnusson, Patrik K. E., Rasmussen, Finn, Lawlor, Debbie A., Tynelius, Per, Gunnell, David

The authors investigated the association of body mass index (BMI) with suicide in a record linkage study based on the Swedish Military Service Conscription Register, the Population and Housing...

Patterns of Fetal and Childhood Growth and the Development of Psychosis in Young Males: A Cohort Study (2003)

Gunnell, David, Rasmussen, Finn, Fouskakis, Dimitris, Tynelius, Per, Harrison, Glynn

Factors influencing fetal and childhood growth may affect a person’s risk of developing schizophrenia. Associations of size at birth and body size in young adulthood with schizophrenia and other...

Gestational Age and Growth Rate of Fetal Mass Are Inversely Associated with Systolic Blood Pressure in Young Adults: An Epidemiologic Study of 165,136 Swedish Men Aged 18 Years (2000)

Leon, David A., Johansson, Malin, Rasmussen, Finn

The objective of this study was to identify specific components of fetal growth that may underlie the observed association between birth weight and later blood pressure. A record linkage was made...

Ethnic differences in being overweight and obesity among male military conscripts born in Sweden between 1973 and 1975 (1999)

OLDENBURG, C.E. MICHAEL, COTTEN-OLDENBURG, NIKI U., RASMUSSEN, FINN

Background: Ethnic differences in being overweight and obesity were studied among 18 year old males in Sweden. Methods. This nationwide study was based on a record linkage between the Medical Birth...

Paternal age and schizophrenia: a population based cohort study

Sipos, Attila, Rasmussen, Finn, Harrison, Glynn, Tynelius, Per, Lewis, Glyn, Leon, David A, ...

Objective To investigate the association of paternal age at conception with the risk of offspring developing schizophrenia.

Paternal age and schizophrenia: a population based cohort study

Sipos, Attila, Rasmussen, Finn, Harrison, Glynn, Tynelius, Per, Lewis, Glyn, Leon, David A, ...

Objective To investigate the association of paternal age at conception with the risk of offspring developing schizophrenia.

IQ in Early Adulthood, Socioeconomic Position, and Unintentional Injury Mortality by Middle Age: A Cohort Study of More Than 1 Million Swedish Men

Batty, G. David, Gale, Catharine R., Tynelius, Per, Deary, Ian J., Rasmussen, Finn

The authors evaluated the little-examined association between intelligence (IQ) and injury mortality and, for the first known time, explored the extent to which IQ might explain established...

Combined effects of overweight and smoking in late adolescence on subsequent mortality: nationwide cohort study

Neovius, Martin, Sundström, Johan, Rasmussen, Finn

Objective To investigate the combined effects on adult mortality of overweight and smoking in late adolescence.