ARTICLES

Most of our publications have been published in major general medicine, cardiovascular and pediatric journals. Full list in chronological order below.

Publication list

Kartiosuo N, Raitakari OT, Juonala M, Viikari JSA, Sinaiko AR, Venn AJ, Jacobs DR Jr, Urbina EM, Woo JG, Steinberger J, Bazzano LA, Daniels SR, Magnussen CG, Rahimi K, Dwyer T. Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Childhood and Adulthood and Cardiovascular Disease in Middle Age. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Jun 3;7(6):e2418148.

Wu F, Jacobs DR Jr, Daniels SR, Kähönen M, Woo JG, Sinaiko AR, Viikari JSA, Bazzano LA, Steinberger J, Urbina EM, Venn AJ, Raitakari OT, Dwyer T, Juonala M, Magnussen CG. Non-High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Levels From Childhood to Adulthood and Cardiovascular Disease Events. JAMA. 2024 Jun 4;331(21):1834-1844

Wu F, Juonala M, Jacobs DR Jr, Daniels SR, Kähönen M, Woo JG, Sinaiko AR, Viikari JSA, Bazzano LA, Burns TL, Steinberger J, Urbina EM, Venn AJ, Raitakari OT, Dwyer T, Magnussen CG. Childhood Non-HDL Cholesterol and LDL Cholesterol and Adult Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Events. Circulation. 2024 Jan 16;149(3):217-226.

Raitakari O, Kartiosuo N, Pahkala K, Hutri-Kähönen N, Bazzano LA, Chen W, Urbina EM, Jacobs DR Jr, Sinaiko A, Steinberger J, Burns T, Daniels SR, Venn A, Woo JG, Dwyer T, Juonala M, Viikari J. Lipoprotein(a) in Youth and Prediction of Major Cardiovascular Outcomes in Adulthood. Circulation. 2023 Jan 3;147(1):23-31.

Comment in: Khoury M and Clarke SL. The Value of Measuring Lipoprotein(a) in Children. Circulation. 2023;147:32–34

Cleland V, Tian J, Buscot MJ, Magnussen CG, Bazzano L, Burns TL, Daniels S, Dwyer T, Hutri-Kahonen N, Ikonen J, Jacobs D, Juonala M, Prineas R, Raitakari O, Sinaiko A, Steinberger J, Urbina EM, Woo JG, Venn A. Body-mass index trajectories from childhood to mid-adulthood and their sociodemographic predictors: Evidence from the International Childhood Cardiovascular Cohort (i3C) Consortium. EClinicalMedicine. 2022 May 12;48:101440. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101440. eCollection 2022 Jun

Jacobs DR Jr, Woo JG, Sinaiko AR, Daniels SR, Ikonen J, Juonala M, Kartiosuo N, Lehtimäki T, Magnussen CG, Viikari JSA, Zhang N, Bazzano LA, Burns TL, Prineas RJ, Steinberger J, Urbina EM, Venn AJ, Raitakari OT, Dwyer T. Childhood Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Adult Cardiovascular Events. N Engl J Med. 2022;386:1877-88.

Nuotio J, Laitinen TT, Sinaiko AR, Woo JG, Urbina EM, Jacobs DR Jr, Steinberger J, Prineas RJ, Sabin MA, Burgner DP, Minn H, Burns TL, Bazzano LA, Venn AJ, Viikari JSA, Hutri-Kähönen N, Daniels SR, Raitakari OT, Magnussen CG, Juonala M, Dwyer T. Obesity during childhood is associated with higher cancer mortality rate during adulthood: the i3C Consortium. Int J Obes (Lond). 2022 Mar;46(3):646-654.

Khoury M, Khoury P, Bazzano L, Burns TL, Daniels S, Dwyer T, Ikonen J, Jacobs DR Jr, Juonala M, Kähönen M, Prineas R, Raitakari OT, Steinberger J, Venn A, Viikari J, Woo JG, Sinaiko A, Urbina EM. Prevalence Implications of the 2017 American Academy of Pediatrics Hypertension Guideline and Associations with Adult Hypertension. J Pediatr. 2021 Oct 4:S0022-3476(21)00959-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.09.056.

Zhang Y, Woo JG, Urbina EM, Jacobs DR Jr, Moran AE, de Ferranti SD. Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Trajectories and Prevalence of High Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Consistent With Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia in US Children. JAMA Pediatr. 2021;175(10):1071-1074.

Harville EW, Crook CE, Bazzano LA, Woo JG, Burns TL, Raitakari O, Urbina EM, Venn A, Jacobs DR Jr, Steinberger J, Sinaiko A, Dwyer T, Juonala M; i3C Consortium. Cardiovascular risk factors before and during pregnancy: Does pregnancy unmask or initiate risk? J Obstet Gynaecol Res. 2021 Sep 5. doi: 10.1111/jog.14971.

 

Hu T, Gall SL, Widome R, Bazzano LA, Burns TL, Daniels SR, Dwyer T, Ikonen J, Juonala M, Kähönen M, Prineas RJ, Raitakari O, Sinaiko AR, Steinberger J, Urbina EM, Venn A, Viikari J, Woo JG, Jacobs DR Jr. Childhood/Adolescent Smoking and Adult Smoking and Cessation: The International Childhood Cardiovascular Cohort (i3C) Consortium. J Am Heart Assoc. 2020 Apr 7;9:e014381

Juonala M, Wu F, Sinaiko A, Woo JG, Urbina EM, Jacobs D, Steinberger J, Prineas R, Koskinen J, Sabin MA, Burgner DP, Burns TL, Bazzano L, Venn A, Viikari JSA, Hutri-Kähönen N, Daniels SR, Dwyer T, Raitakari OT, Magnussen CG. Non-HDL Cholesterol Levels in Childhood and Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Adulthood. Pediatrics. 2020 Apr;145(4). pii: e20192114.

Comment in: Arteaga SS, Gillman MW. Promoting Ideal Cardiovascular Health Through the Life Span. Pediatrics. 2020 Apr;145(4). pii: e20200159

Yan Y, Bazzano LA, Juonala M, Raitakari OT, Viikari JSA, Prineas R, Dwyer T, Sinaiko A, Burns TL, Daniels SR, Woo JG, Khoury PR, Urbina EM, Jacobs DR Jr, Hu T, Steinberger J, Venn A, Chen W. Long-Term Burden of Increased Body Mass Index from Childhood on Adult Dyslipidemia: The i3C Consortium Study. J Clin Med. 2019 Oct 18;8(10). pii: E1725. doi: 10.3390/jcm8101725.

Woo JG, Zhang N, Fenchel M, Jacobs DR Jr, Hu T, Urbina EM, Burns TL, Raitakari O, Steinberger J, Bazzano L, Prineas RJ, Jaquish C, Juonala M, Ryder JR, Daniels SR, Sinaiko A, Dwyer T, Venn A. Prediction of adult class II/III obesity from childhood BMI: the i3C consortium. Int J Obes (Lond). 2019 Oct 9. doi: 10.1038/s41366-019-0461-6.

Kartiosuo N, Ramakrishnan R, Lemeshow S, Juonala M, Burns TL, Woo JG, Jacobs DR Jr, Daniels SR, Venn A, Steinberger J, Urbina EM, Bazzano L, Sabin MA, Hu T, Prineas RJ, Sinaiko AR, Pahkala K, Raitakari O, Dwyer T. Predicting overweight and obesity in young adulthood from childhood body-mass index: comparison of cutoffs derived from longitudinal and cross-sectional data. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2019 Nov;3(11):795-802.

Urbina EM, Khoury PR, Bazzano L, Burns TL, Daniels S, Dwyer T, Hu T, Jacobs DR Jr, Juonala M, Prineas R, Raitakari O, Steinberger J, Venn A, Woo JG, Sinaiko A. Relation of Blood Pressure in Childhood to Self-Reported Hypertension in Adulthood. Hypertension. 2019 Jun;73(6):1224-1230.

Koskinen J, Juonala M, Dwyer T, Venn A, Petkeviciene J, Čeponienė I, Bazzano L, Chen W, Sabin MA, Burns TL, Viikari JSA, Woo JG, Urbina EM, Prineas R, Hutri-Kähönen N, Sinaiko A, Jacobs DR Jr, Steinberger J, Daniels S, Raitakari O, Magnussen CG. Utility of Different Blood Pressure Measurement Components in Childhood to Predict Adult Carotid Intima-Media Thickness. Hypertension. 2019 Feb;73(2):335-341.

Comment in: Flynn JT. Childhood Blood Pressure Matters. Hypertension. 2018;73:296–298

Sinaiko AR, Jacobs DR Jr, Woo JG, Bazzano L, Burns T, Hu T, Juonala M, Prineas R, Raitakari O, Steinberger J, Urbina E, Venn A, Jaquish C, Dwyer T. The International Childhood Cardiovascular Cohort (i3C) consortium outcomes study of childhood cardiovascular risk factors and adult cardiovascular morbidity and mortality: Design and recruitment. Contemp Clin Trials. 2018 Jun;69:55-64.

Sun C, Ponsonby AL, Carlin JB, Bui M, Magnussen CG, Burns TL, Lehtimaki T, Wardrop NH, Juonala M, Viikari JSA, Venn AJ, Raitakari OT, Dwyer T. Childhood adiposity, adult adiposity, and the ACE gene insertion/deletion polymorphism: evidence of gene-environment interaction effects on adult blood pressure and hypertension status in adulthood. J Hypertens. 2018;36:2168-2176.

Koskinen J, Juonala M, Dwyer T, Venn A, Thomson R, Bazzano L, Berenson GS, Sabin MA, Burns TL, Viikari JSA, Woo JG, Urbina EM, Prineas R, Hutri-Kähönen N, Sinaiko A, Jacobs D, Steinberger J, Daniels S, Raitakari OT, Magnussen CG. Impact of Lipid Measurements in Youth in Addition to Conventional Clinic-Based Risk Factors on Predicting Preclinical Atherosclerosis in Adulthood: International Childhood Cardiovascular Cohort Consortium. Circulation. 2018 Mar 20;137(12):1246-1255

Comment in: Turer CB, Brady TM, de Ferranti SD. Obesity, Hypertension, and Dyslipidemia in Childhood Are Key Modifiable Antecedents of Adult Cardiovascular Disease. A Call to Action. Circulation. 2018;137:1256–1259

Koskinen J, Magnussen CG, Sinaiko A, Woo J, Urbina E, Jacobs DR Jr, Steinberger J, Prineas R, Sabin MA, Burns T, Berenson G, Bazzano L, Venn A, Viikari JSA, Hutri-Kähönen N, Raitakari O, Dwyer T, Juonala M. Childhood Age and Associations Between Childhood Metabolic Syndrome and Adult Risk for Metabolic Syndrome, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Carotid Intima Media Thickness: The International Childhood Cardiovascular Cohort Consortium. J Am Heart Assoc. 2017 Aug 16;6(8). pii: e005632.

Harville EW, Chen W, Bazzano L, Oikonen M, Hutri-Kähönen N, Raitakari O. Indicators of fetal growth and adult liver enzymes: the Bogalusa Heart Study and the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study. J Dev Orig Health Dis. 2017 Apr;8(2):226-235.

Dwyer T, Sinaiko AR, Raitakari OT. Body-Mass Index in Adolescence and Cardiovascular Death in Adulthood. N Engl J Med. 2016 Sep 29;375(13):1299-301.

Huynh QL, Blizzard CL, Raitakari O, Sharman JE, Magnussen CG, Dwyer T, Juonala M, Kähönen M, Venn AJ. Vigorous physical activity and carotid distensibility in young and mid-aged adults. Hypertens Res. 2015 May;38(5):355-60.

Hintsanen M, Puttonen S, Smith K, Törnroos M, Jokela M, Pulkki-Råback L, Hintsa T, Merjonen P, Dwyer T, Raitakari OT, Venn A, Keltikangas-Järvinen L. Five-factor personality traits and sleep: Evidence from two population-based cohort studies. Health Psychol. 2014 Oct;33(10):1214-23. 

Gall S, Huynh QL, Magnussen CG, Juonala M, Viikari JS, Kähönen M, Dwyer T, Raitakari OT, Venn A. Exposure to parental smoking in childhood or adolescence is associated with increased carotid intima-media thickness in young adults: evidence from the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns study and the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health Study. Eur Heart J. 2014;35:2484-91.

Comment in: Lau EM, Celermajer DS. Protecting our children from environmental tobacco smoke: one of our great healthcare challenges. Eur Heart J. 2014 Sep 21;35(36):2452-3.

Juhola J, Magnussen CG, Berenson GS, Venn A, Burns TL, Sabin MA, Srinivasan SR, Daniels SR, Davis PH, Chen W, Kähönen M, Taittonen L, Urbina E, Viikari JS, Dwyer T, Raitakari OT, Juonala M. Combined effects of child and adult elevated blood pressure on subclinical atherosclerosis: the International Childhood Cardiovascular Cohort Consortium. Circulation. 2013;128:217-24

Comment in: Zachariah JP. Improving blood pressure in children is protective over the long term. Circulation. 2013 Jul 16;128(3):198-9.

Laitinen TT, Pahkala K, Venn A, Woo JG, Oikonen M, Dwyer T, Mikkilä V, Hutri-Kähönen N, Smith KJ, Gall SL, Morrison JA, Viikari JS, Raitakari OT, Magnussen CG, Juonala M. Childhood lifestyle and clinical determinants of adult ideal cardiovascular health: The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study, the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health Study, the Princeton Follow-up Study. Int J Cardiol. 2013;169:126-32.

Oikonen M, Laitinen TT, Magnussen CG, Steinberger J, Sinaiko AR, Dwyer T, Venn A, Smith KJ, Hutri-Kähönen N, Pahkala K, Mikkilä V, Prineas R, Viikari JS, Morrison JA, Woo JG, Chen W, Nicklas T, Srinivasan SR, Berenson G, Juonala M, Raitakari OT. Ideal cardiovascular health in young adult populations from the United States, Finland, and Australia and its association with cIMT: the international childhood cardiovascular cohort consortium. J Am Heart Assoc. 2013;2:e000244.

Dwyer T, Sun C, Magnussen CG, Raitakari OT, Schork NJ, Venn A, Burns TL, Juonala M, Steinberger J, Sinaiko AR, Prineas RJ, Davis PH, Woo JG, Morrison JA, Daniels SR, Chen W, Srinivasan SR, Viikari JS, Berenson GS. Cohort Profile: the international childhood cardiovascular cohort (i3C) consortium. Int J Epidemiol. 2013;42:86-96

Magnussen CG, Koskinen J, Juonala M, Chen W, Srinivasan SR, Sabin MA, Thomson R, Schmidt MD, Nguyen QM, Xu JH, Skilton MR, Kähönen M, Laitinen T, Taittonen L, Lehtimäki T, Rönnemaa T, Viikari JS, Berenson GS, Raitakari OT. A diagnosis of the metabolic syndrome in youth that resolves by adult life is associated with a normalization of high carotid intima-media thickness and type 2 diabetes mellitus risk: the bogalusa heart and cardiovascular risk in young Finns studies. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012;60:1631-9.

Juonala M, Magnussen CG, Venn A, Gall S, Kähönen M, Laitinen T, Taittonen L, Lehtimäki T, Jokinen E, Sun C, Viikari JS, Dwyer T, Raitakari OT. Parental smoking in childhood and brachial artery flow-mediated dilatation in young adults: the cardiovascular risk in young Finns study and the childhood determinants of adult health study. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2012;32:1024-31.

Comment in: Suzuki T, Tomiyama H, Higashi Y. Vascular dysfunction even after 20 years in children exposed to passive smoking: alarming results and need for awareness. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2012 Apr;32(4):841-2.

Hernesniemi JA, Seppälä I, Lyytikäinen LP, Mononen N, Oksala N, Hutri-Kähönen N, Juonala M, Taittonen L, Smith EN, Schork NJ, Chen W, Srinivasan SR, Berenson GS, Murray SS, Laitinen T, Jula A, Kettunen J, Ripatti S, Laaksonen R, Viikari J, Kähönen M, Raitakari OT, Lehtimäki T. Genetic profiling using genome-wide significant coronary artery disease risk variants does not improve the prediction of subclinical atherosclerosis: the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study, the Bogalusa Heart Study and the Health 2000 Survey–a meta-analysis of three independent studies. PLoS One. 2012;7(1):e28931.

Juonala M, Magnussen CG, Berenson GS, Venn A, Burns TL, Sabin MA, Srinivasan SR, Daniels SR, Davis PH, Chen W, Sun C, Cheung M, Viikari JS, Dwyer T, Raitakari OT. Childhood adiposity, adult adiposity, and cardiovascular risk factors. N Engl J Med. 2011;365(20):1876-85.

Comment in: Rocchini AP. Childhood obesity and coronary heart disease. N Engl J Med. 2011 Nov 17;365(20):1927-9.

Oikonen M, Tikkanen E, Juhola J, Tuovinen T, Seppälä I, Juonala M, Taittonen L, Mikkilä V, Kähönen M, Ripatti S, Viikari J, Lehtimäki T, Havulinna AS, Kee F, Newton-Cheh C, Peltonen L, Schork NJ, Murray SS, Berenson GS, Chen W, Srinivasan SR, Salomaa V, Raitakari OT. Genetic variants and blood pressure in a population-based cohort: the cardiovascular risk in young Finns study. Hypertension. 2011;58(6):1079-85.

Magnussen CG, Thomson R, Juonala M, Viikari JS, Dwyer T, Raitakari OT, Venn A. Use of B-mode ultrasound to examine preclinical markers of atherosclerosis: image quality may bias associations between adiposity and measures of vascular structure and function. J Ultrasound Med. 2011;30:363-9.

Juonala M, Magnussen CG, Venn A, Dwyer T, Burns TL, Davis PH, Chen W, Srinivasan SR, Daniels SR, Kähönen M, Laitinen T, Taittonen L, Berenson GS, Viikari JSA, Raitakari OT. The influence of age on associations between childhood risk factors and carotid intima-media thickness in adulthood. The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study, the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health Study, the Bogalusa Heart Study and the Muscatine Study for the International Childhood Cardiovascular Cohort (i3C) Consortium. Circulation 2010; 122:2514-20.

Comment in: Gidding SS. Assembling evidence to justify prevention of atherosclerosis beginning in youth. Circulation. 2010 Dec 14;122(24):2493-4.

Smith EN, Chen W, Kähönen M, Kettunen J, Lehtimäki T, Peltonen L, Raitakari OT, Salem RM, Schork NJ, Shaw M, Srinivasan SR, Topol EJ, Viikari JS, Berenson GS, Murray SS. Longitudinal genome-wide association of cardiovascular disease risk factors in the Bogalusa heart study. PLoS Genet. 2010 Sep 9;6(9). pii: e1001094.

Magnussen CG, Koskinen J, Chen W, Thomson R, Schmidt MD, Srinivasan SR, Kivimäki M, Mattsson N, Kähönen M, Laitinen T, Taittonen L, Rönnemaa T, Viikari JS, Berenson GS, Juonala M, Raitakari OT. Pediatric metabolic syndrome predicts adulthood metabolic syndrome, subclinical atherosclerosis, and type 2 diabetes mellitus but is no better than body mass index alone: the Bogalusa Heart Study and the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study. Circulation. 2010;122:1604-11.

Magnussen CG, Venn A, Thomson R, Juonala M, Srinivasan SR, Viikari JS, Berenson GS, Dwyer T, Raitakari OT. The association of pediatric low- and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol dyslipidemia classifications and change in dyslipidemia status with carotid intima-media thickness in adulthood evidence from the cardiovascular risk in Young Finns study, the Bogalusa Heart study, and the CDAH (Childhood Determinants of Adult Health) study. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2009;53:860-9.

Comment in: Daniels SR. Can lipid and lipoprotein concentrations in childhood predict adult atherosclerosis? J Am Coll Cardiol. 2009 Mar 10;53(10):870-1.

Magnussen CG, Raitakari OT, Thomson R, Juonala M, Patel DA, Viikari JS, Marniemi J, Srinivasan SR, Berenson GS, Dwyer T, Venn A. Utility of currently recommended pediatric dyslipidemia classifications in predicting dyslipidemia in adulthood: evidence from the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health (CDAH) study, Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study, and Bogalusa Heart Study.  Circulation. 2008 ;117:32-42.

Comment in: Steinberger J, Kelly AS. Challenges of existing pediatric dyslipidemia guidelines: call for reappraisal. Circulation. 2008 Jan 1;117(1):9-10.

 

i3C supported publications

Ryder JR, Jacobs DR Jr, Sinaiko AR, Kornblum AP, Steinberger J. Longitudinal changes in weight status from childhood and adolescence to adulthood. J Pediatr 2019;214:187-192.

Razavi AC, Potts KS, Kelly TN, Bazzano LA. Sex, gut microbiome, and cardiovascular disease risk. Biol Sex Differ. 2019;10:29.

Wang Y, Xiong X, Bazzano L, Harville EW. Childhood cardiovascular health and subfertility: the Bogalusa Heart Study. Pediatr Res. 2018;84:625-631.

Li Y, Zhang T, Han T, Li S, Bazzano L, He J, Chen W. Impact of cigarette smoking on the relationship between body mass index and insulin: Longitudinal observation from the Bogalusa Heart Study. Diabetes Obes Metab. 2018;20:1578-1584

Zhang T, Li S, Bazzano L, He J, Whelton P, Chen W. Trajectories of childhood blood pressure and adult left ventricular hypertrophy: The Bogalusa Heart Study. Hypertension. 2018;72:93-101.

Shen W, Zhang T, Li S, Zhang H, Xi B, Shen H, Fernandez C, Bazzano L, He J, Chen W. Race and sex differences of long-term blood pressure profiles from childhood and adult hypertension: The Bogalusa Heart Study. Hypertension. 2017;70:66-74.

Xi B, Zhang T, Li S, Harville E, Bazzano L, He J, Chen W. Can pediatric hypertension criteria be simplified? A prediction analysis of subclinical cardiovascular outcomes from the Bogalusa Heart Study. Hypertension. 2017;69:691-696.

Zhang H, Zhang T, Li S, Guo Y, Shen W, Fernandez C, Harville E, Bazzano LA, Urbina EM, He J, Chen W. Long-term excessive body weight and adult left ventricular hypertrophy are linked through later-life body size and blood pressure: The Bogalusa Heart Study. Circ Res. 2017;120:1614-1621.