Finnish prenatal study of autism and autism spectrum disorders (FIPS-A): Overview and design

KM Lampi, PN Banerjee, M Gissler… - Journal of Autism and …, 2011 - Springer
This article presents an overview of the Finnish Prenatal Study of Autism and Autism
Spectrum Disorders (FIPS-A), a new study designed to examine the relationship between …

Maternal and child's thyroid function and child's intellect and scholastic performance

F Päkkilä, T Männistö, AL Hartikainen, A Ruokonen… - Thyroid, 2015 - liebertpub.com
Background: Maternal hypothyroidism and/or hypothyroxinemia have been associated with
child's poor neuropsychological development, but the results have been inconsistent …

[HTML][HTML] Use of doxycycline to decrease the growth rate of abdominal aortic aneurysms: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study

M Mosorin, J Juvonen, F Biancari, J Satta… - Journal of vascular …, 2001 - Elsevier
Objective: Eradication of Chlamydia pneumoniae infection and inhibition of elastolytic matrix
metalloproteinases with doxycycline have been suggested to reduce the growth rates of …

Perinatal outcome of children born to mothers with thyroid dysfunction or antibodies: a prospective population-based cohort study

T Mannisto, M Vaarasmaki, A Pouta… - The Journal of …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Context: There are only a few large prospective studies involving evaluation of the effect of
maternal thyroid dysfunction on offspring and observations are inconsistent. Objective: The …

Elevated circulating levels of inflammatory cytokines in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm

J Juvonen, HM Surcel, J Satta, AM Teppo… - … , and vascular biology, 1997 - Am Heart Assoc
The basic feature in the pathogenesis of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is the
degradation of extracellular matrix components. This process is induced partly by cytokines …

Th1/Th2 profiles in tuberculosis, based on the proliferation and cytokine response of blood lymphocytes to mycobacterial antigens.

HM Surcel, M Troye-Blomberg, S Paulie… - …, 1994 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Proliferation and cytokine production profiles by blood mononuclear cells in response to in
vitro stimulation with mycobacterial antigens were compared in patients with active …

Thyroid dysfunction and autoantibodies during pregnancy as predictive factors of pregnancy complications and maternal morbidity in later life

T Mannisto, M Vaarasmaki, A Pouta… - The Journal of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Context: Knowledge is scarce concerning the significance of thyroid dysfunction/antibodies
during pregnancy in regard to pregnancy complications/later maternal morbidity. Objective …

A comparison of childhood and adult type I diabetes mellitus

J Karjalainen, P Salmela, J Ilonen… - New England Journal …, 1989 - Mass Medical Soc
The incidence rate of insulin-dependent (Type I) diabetes mellitus is bimodal: one peak
occurs close to puberty, and the other in the fifth decade. To evaluate possible differences in …

Elevated maternal C-reactive protein and autism in a national birth cohort

AS Brown, A Sourander, S Hinkka-Yli-Salomäki… - Molecular …, 2014 - nature.com
Autism is a complex neuropsychiatric syndrome with a largely unknown etiology.
Inflammation during pregnancy may represent a common pathway by which infections and …

Vitamin D status during pregnancy and risk of multiple sclerosis in offspring of women in the Finnish Maternity Cohort

KL Munger, J Åivo, K Hongell… - JAMA …, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Vitamin D has been associated with a decreased risk of multiple sclerosis (MS)
in adulthood; however, some, but not all, previous studies have suggested that in utero …