H. Tolonen

K. Kuulasmaa, H. Tolonen, M. Ferrario, 2005, European journal of cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation : official journal of the European Society of Cardiology, Working Groups on Epidemiology & Prevention and Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology.

Assessing the quality of risk factor survey data: lessons from the WHO MONICA Project

A. Dobson, H. Tolonen, S. Kulathinal, 2006, European journal of cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation : official journal of the European Society of Cardiology, Working Groups on Epidemiology & Prevention and Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology.

Pattern of declining blood pressure across replicate population surveys of the WHO MONICA project, mid-1980s to mid-1990s, and the role of medication

M. Woodward, H. Tunstall-Pedoe, K. Kuulasmaa, 2006, BMJ : British Medical Journal.

Effect on Trend Estimates of the Difference between Survey Respondents and Non-respondents: Results from 27 Populations in the WHO MONICA Project

A. Dobson, H. Tolonen, S. Kulathinal, 2005, European Journal of Epidemiology.

What are we missing? The profile of non-respondents in the Finnish Gambling 2015 survey

H. Tolonen, J. Kontto, A. Salonen, 2020, Scandinavian journal of public health.

Language as a determinant of participation rates in Finnish health examination surveys

E. Vartiainen, S. Männistö, Markku Peltonen, 2018, Scandinavian journal of public health.

Adjusting for non-response in the Finnish Drinking Habits Survey

H. Tolonen, T. Härkänen, J. Reinikainen, 2019, Scandinavian journal of public health.

Public health monitoring of hypertension, diabetes and elevated cholesterol: comparison of different data sources

T. Laatikainen, H. Tolonen, L. Paalanen, 2018, European journal of public health.

Cross-national comparisons of health indicators require standardized definitions and common data sources

L. Palmieri, H. Tolonen, J. Reinikainen, 2021, Archives of Public Health.

Change and determinants of total and context specific sitting in adults: A 7-year longitudinal study.

M. Hagströmer, P. Jousilahti, T. Laatikainen, 2019, Journal of science and medicine in sport.

Development of non-communicable disease risk factors in Finland: projections up to 2040.

P. Jousilahti, T. Laatikainen, S. Männistö, 2022, Scandinavian journal of public health.

Local problem solving in the Portuguese health examination survey: a mixed method study

H. Tolonen, S. Namorado, C. Dias, 2022, Archives of Public Health.

Standardisation of laboratories engaged in lipid analyses of population health examination surveys

J. Sundvall, K. Kuulasmaa, H. Tolonen, 2018, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.

Participation rates by educational levels have diverged during 25 years in Finnish health examination surveys

E. Vartiainen, J. Karvanen, P. Jousilahti, 2018, European journal of public health.

The InfAct proposal for a sustainable European health information infrastructure on population health: the Distributed Infrastructure on Population Health (DIPoH)

R. Sarmiento-Suárez, H. Tolonen, T. Ziese, 2022, Archives of Public Health.

Exposure to heavy metals and red blood cell parameters in children: A systematic review of observational studies

H. Tolonen, O. Santos, A. Virgolino, 2022, Frontiers in Pediatrics.

Harmonization of Human Biomonitoring Studies in Europe: Characteristics of the HBM4EU-Aligned Studies Participants

Marta Esteban López, J. Vlaanderen, L. S. Haug, 2022, International journal of environmental research and public health.

Health information for human biomonitoring studies.

H. Meltzer, H. Tolonen, A. Andersson, 2022, International journal of hygiene and environmental health.

Quality assessment of data on blood pressure in the WHO MONICA Project

H. Hense, K. Kuulasmaa, H. Tolonen, 1998 .

Energy-adjusted Dietary Inflammatory Index scores predict long-term cardiovascular disease mortality and other causes of death in an ecological analysis of the Seven Countries Study.

A. Kafatos, H. Tolonen, A. Menotti, 2020, European journal of preventive cardiology.

Experiences from the harmonization of Finnish national population-based health survey data

H. Tolonen, L. Paalanen, 2021, Scandinavian journal of public health.

Recommendations for design and analysis of health examination surveys under selective non-participation

J. Karvanen, H. Tolonen, T. Härkänen, 2018, European journal of public health.

Reasons for non-participation and ways to enhance participation in health examination surveys—the Health 2011 Survey

S. Koskinen, A. Lundqvist, H. Tolonen, 2017, European journal of public health.

Participation rates, quality of sampling frames and sampling fractions in the MONICA surveys

K. Kuulasmaa, H. Tolonen, H. K. Wolf, 1998 .

Learning from previous work and finding synergies in the domains of public and environmental health: EU-funded projects BRIDGE Health and HBM4EU

H. Tolonen, A. Andersson, M. Kolossa-Gehring, 2020, Archives of Public Health.

Quality Assessment of Coronary Event Registration Data in the WHO MONICA Project

H. Tunstall-Pedoe, P. Amouyel, M. Mähönen, 1999 .

Innovative use of data sources: a cross-sectional study of data linkage and artificial intelligence practices across European countries

L. Palmieri, H. Tolonen, H. Van Oyen, 2020, Archives of Public Health.

25-year Trends and Socio-demographic Differences in Response Rates: Finnish Adult Health Behaviour Survey

Hanna Tolonen, Ritva Prättälä, H. Tolonen, 2006, European Journal of Epidemiology.

Optimal selection of individuals for repeated covariate measurements in follow-up studies

Hanna Tolonen, Juha Karvanen, Jaakko Reinikainen, 2016, Statistical methods in medical research.

Effects of past and recent blood pressure and cholesterol level on coronary heart disease and stroke mortality, accounting for measurement error.

H. Boshuizen, A. Nissinen, A. Kafatos, 2006, American journal of epidemiology.

Cohort Profile: The National FINRISK Study.

V. Salomaa, E. Vartiainen, M. Perola, 2018, International journal of epidemiology.

Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

Gretchen A. Stevens, Tran Quoc Bao, S. R. Rao, 2021, The Lancet.

Contribution of trends in survival and coronar y-event rates to changes in coronary heart disease mortality: 10-year results from 37 WHO MONICA Project populations

H. Tunstall-Pedoe, M. Mähönen, K. Kuulasmaa, 1999, The Lancet.

Review of Health Examination Surveys in Europe.

J. Mindell, A. Aromaa, S. Graff-Iversen, 2008 .

Equalization of four cardiovascular risk algorithms after systematic recalibration: individual-participant meta-analysis of 86 prospective studies

J. Gallacher, J. Danesh, O. Franco, 2018, European heart journal.

Metabolic Syndrome and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: An Overview of Exposure and Health Effects

Mariana F. Fernández, H. Tolonen, V. Mustieles, 2021, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

The validation of the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register and Causes of Death Register data on stroke diagnoses

V. Salomaa, H. Tolonen, J. Sivenius, 2007, European journal of cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation : official journal of the European Society of Cardiology, Working Groups on Epidemiology & Prevention and Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology.

Estimation of contribution of changes in classic risk factors to trends in coronary-event rates across the WHO MONICA Project populations

A. Dobson, H. Tunstall-Pedoe, A. Evans, 2000, The Lancet.

Trends in obesity and energy supply in the WHO MONICA Project

J. Tuomilehto, J. Tuomilehto, K. Kuulasmaa, 2004, International Journal of Obesity.

Scoping Review—The Association between Asthma and Environmental Chemicals

H. Tolonen, B. Bocca, W. Wąsowicz, 2021, International journal of environmental research and public health.

Lifetime cumulative risk factors predict cardiovascular disease mortality in a 50-year follow-up study in Finland.

Juha Karvanen, Hanna Tolonen, Jaakko Reinikainen, 2015, International journal of epidemiology.

Quality assessment of data on smoking behaviour in the WHO MONICA Project

A. Evans, K. Kuulasmaa, H. Tolonen, 1999 .

Trends in coronary risk factors in the WHO MONICA project.

H. Hense, K. Kuulasmaa, S. Sans, 2001, International journal of epidemiology.

Age, date of examination and survey periods in the MONICA surveys

K. Kuulasmaa, H. Tolonen, M. Ferrario, 1998 .

Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

Gretchen A. Stevens, R. Malekzadeh, P. Elliott, 2019, Nature.

Harmonized human biomonitoring in European children, teenagers and adults: EU-wide exposure data of 11 chemical substance groups from the HBM4EU Aligned Studies (2014-2021).

J. Antignac, M. Imboden, N. Probst-Hensch, 2023, International journal of hygiene and environmental health.

Protocol of a research project ‘Projections of the burden of disease and disability in Finland – health policy prospects’ using cross-sectional health surveys and register-based follow-up

H. Tolonen, T. Härkänen, L. Paalanen, 2019, BMJ Open.

Determinants of 40-year all-cause mortality in the European cohorts of the Seven Countries Study

Paolo Emilio Puddu, Hanna Tolonen, A. Kafatos, 2011, European Journal of Epidemiology.

Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol

Gretchen A. Stevens, Tran Quoc Bao, S. R. Rao, 2020, Nature.

National trends in total cholesterol obscure heterogeneous changes in HDL and non-HDL cholesterol and total-to-HDL cholesterol ratio: a pooled analysis of 458 population-based studies in Asian and Western countries

Gretchen A. Stevens, M. Jarvelin, T. Lehtimäki, 2019, International journal of epidemiology.

Integrating technical and political views for a sustainable European Distributed Infrastructure on Population Health

H. Tolonen, T. Ziese, H. Van Oyen, 2022, Archives of Public Health.

Comparing data sources in estimating disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for ischemic heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a cross-sectional setting in Finland

P. Jousilahti, T. Laatikainen, H. Tolonen, 2020, Archives of Public Health.

Association of serum cholesterol with coronary heart disease mortality during 50-year follow-up in ten cohorts of the seven countries study.

A. Kafatos, H. Tolonen, A. Menotti, 2020, Nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases : NMCD.

Contribution of trends in survival and coronary-event rates to changes in coronary heart disease mortality: 10-year results from 37 WHO MONICA project populations. Monitoring trends and determinants in cardiovascular disease.

H. Tunstall-Pedoe, P. Amouyel, M. Mähönen, 1999, Lancet.

Are Changes in Mortality From Stroke Caused by Changes in Stroke Event Rates or Case Fatality?: Results From the WHO MONICA Project

J. Tuomilehto, M. Mähönen, C. Sarti, 2003, Stroke.

Do Trends in Population Levels of Blood Pressure and Other Cardiovascular Risk Factors Explain Trends in Stroke Event Rates?: Comparisons of 15 Populations in 9 Countries Within the WHO MONICA Stroke Project

J. Tuomilehto, M. Mähönen, D. Rastenytė, 2002, Stroke.

What is EHES and why it is needed

K. Kuulasmaa, H. Tolonen, 2013 .

What is required to combine human biomonitoring and health surveys?

L. Rambaud, L. Knudsen, H. Tolonen, 2022, International journal of hygiene and environmental health.

Baseline fatty acids, food groups, a diet score and 50-year all-cause mortality rates. An ecological analysis of the Seven Countries Study

D. Jacobs, A. Kafatos, D. Kromhout, 2017, Annals of medicine.

Trends in Stroke and Coronary Heart Disease in the WHO MONICA Project

T. Truelsen, M. Mähönen, H. Tolonen, 2003, Stroke.

Using multiple imputation and intervention-based scenarios to project the mobility of older adults

S. Koskinen, H. Tolonen, J. Kontto, 2022, BMC Geriatrics.

Correcting for non‐ignorable missingness in smoking trends

Juha Karvanen, Hanna Tolonen, Juho Kopra, 2015, 1502.03609.

Challenges in standardization of blood pressure measurement at the population level

A. Naska, S. Männistö, K. Kuulasmaa, 2015, BMC Medical Research Methodology.

Under-estimation of obesity, hypertension and high cholesterol by self-reported data: comparison of self-reported information and objective measures from health examination surveys.

J. Mindell, S. Männistö, S. Giampaoli, 2014, European journal of public health.

Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

Gretchen A. Stevens, T. F. Rinke de Wit, R. Malekzadeh, 2020, The Lancet.

Health data collection methods and procedures across EU member states: findings from the InfAct Joint Action on health information

H. Tolonen, E. Bernal-Delgado, H. Van Oyen, 2022, Archives of Public Health.

Enhancing Human Biomonitoring Studies through Linkage to Administrative Registers–Status in Europe

H. Meltzer, T. K. Jensen, H. Tolonen, 2022, International journal of environmental research and public health.

Environmental Substances Associated with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease—A Scoping Review

H. Tolonen, B. Bocca, H. R. Andersen, 2022, International journal of environmental research and public health.

Environmental Substances Associated with Osteoporosis–A Scoping Review

H. Tolonen, M. Kolossa-Gehring, H. Elonheimo, 2021, International journal of environmental research and public health.

The questionnaire design process in the European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU).

N. Probst-Hensch, M. Vinceti, T. Filippini, 2021, Environment international.

Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents’ growth and development

Mohammad Reza Mohammadi, Md. Mahmudur Rahman, Gretchen A. Stevens, 2023, Nature.

The strength of the multivariable associations of major risk factors predicting coronary heart disease mortality is homogeneous across different areas of the Seven Countries Study during 50-year follow-up

A. Kafatos, D. Kromhout, H. Tolonen, 2018, Acta cardiologica.

Systematic handling of missing data in complex study designs – experiences from the Health 2000 and 2011 Surveys

Risto Lehtonen, Teppo Juntunen, Hanna Tolonen, 2016 .

Marital status, educational level and household income explain part of the excess mortality of survey non-respondents

T. Laatikainen, H. Tolonen, R. Prättälä, 2010, European Journal of Epidemiology.

Comparison of metabolic syndrome prevalence using four different definitions – a population-based study in Finland

L. Palmieri, H. Tolonen, L. Paalanen, 2021, Archives of Public Health.

Re-calibration of coronary risk prediction: an example of the Seven Countries Study

A. Kafatos, D. Kromhout, H. Tolonen, 2017, Scientific Reports.

Do self-reported data accurately measure health inequalities in risk factors for cardiovascular disease?

H. Tolonen, B. Nunes, J. Perelman, 2019, International Journal of Public Health.

Differential self-report error by socioeconomic status in hypertension and hypercholesterolemia: INSEF 2015 study

H. Tolonen, B. Nunes, S. Namorado, 2018, European journal of public health.

European health examination surveys – a tool for collecting objective information about the health of the population

Kari Kuulasmaa, Hanna Tolonen, J. Mindell, 2018, Archives of Public Health.

Differences in participation rates and lessons learned about recruitment of participants – The European Health Examination Survey Pilot Project

K. Kuulasmaa, H. Tolonen, J. Heldal, 2015, Scandinavian journal of public health.

Increasing health examination survey participation rates by SMS reminders and flexible examination times

H. Tolonen, K. Borodulin, A. Aistrich, 2014, Scandinavian journal of public health.

Recommendations for organizing a standardized European Health Examination Survey

J. Mindell, A. Aromaa, S. Graff-Iversen, 2008 .

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE HEALTH EXAMINATION SURVEYS IN EUROPE

J. Mindell, A. Aromaa, S. Graff-Iversen, 2008 .

A step towards harmonising human biomonitoring study setup on European level: Materials provided and lessons learnt in HBM4EU.

H. Tolonen, M. Kolossa-Gehring, A. Castaño, 2023, International journal of hygiene and environmental health.

Implementation and coordination of an ethics framework in HBM4EU - Experiences and reflections.

L. Knudsen, H. Tolonen, M. Kolossa-Gehring, 2022, International journal of hygiene and environmental health.

Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight

Gretchen A. Stevens, Tran Quoc Bao, R. Malekzadeh, 2020, eLife.

Follow-Up Data Improve the Estimation of the Prevalence of Heavy Alcohol Consumption

J. Karvanen, P. Jousilahti, H. Tolonen, 2018, Alcohol and alcoholism.

Inequalities by education and marital status in the co-occurrence of cardiovascular risk factors in Finland persisted between 1997–2017

H. Tolonen, J. Kontto, T. Härkänen, 2020, Scientific Reports.

Methodological guidelines to estimate population-based health indicators using linked data and/or machine learning techniques

Rodolphe Thiébaut, Anne Gallay, Ivan Pristaš, 2021, Archives of Public Health.

Enhancing Survey Participation among Foreign-Born Populations

S. Koskinen, H. Tolonen, T. Härkänen, 2019, Finnish Yearbook of Population Research.

Selection bias was reduced by recontacting nonparticipants.

J. Karvanen, P. Jousilahti, K. Kuulasmaa, 2016, Journal of clinical epidemiology.

Family socioeconomic status and childhood adiposity in Europe - A scoping review.

T. Laatikainen, H. Tolonen, P. Mäki, 2022, Preventive medicine.

Cardiovascular Mortality in 10 Cohorts of Middle-Aged Men Followed-Up 60 Years until Extinction: The Seven Countries Study

D. Jacobs, A. Kafatos, H. Tolonen, 2023, Journal of cardiovascular development and disease.

Cardiovascular mortality in Northern and Southern European cohorts of the Seven Countries Study at 60-year follow-up

A. Kafatos, H. Tolonen, A. Menotti, 2023, Journal of cardiovascular medicine.

Cardiovascular risk factors predict age at death in 60-year follow-up of the Seven Countries Study

D. Jacobs, H. Tolonen, A. Menotti, 2022, Aging Clinical and Experimental Research.

Comparative ecologic relationships of saturated fat, sucrose, food groups, and a Mediterranean food pattern score to 50-year coronary heart disease mortality rates among 16 cohorts of the Seven Countries Study

D. Jacobs, A. Kafatos, D. Kromhout, 2018, European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

A Phased Approach for preparation and organization of human biomonitoring studies.

Marta Esteban López, H. Tolonen, M. Kolossa-Gehring, 2020, International journal of hygiene and environmental health.

Application of human biomonitoring data to support policy development, raise awareness and environmental public health protection among countries within the HBM4EU project.

E. Lebret, C. Thomsen, L. Knudsen, 2023, International journal of hygiene and environmental health.

Use of oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy in the WHO MONICA project.

Kari Kuulasmaa, Hanna Tolonen, K. Kuulasmaa, 2004, Maturitas.

Adjusting for selective non-participation with re-contact data in the FINRISK 2012 survey

J. Karvanen, P. Jousilahti, K. Kuulasmaa, 2017, Scandinavian journal of public health.

Partial substitution of red or processed meat with plant-based foods and the risk of type 2 diabetes

D. Albanes, P. Jousilahti, S. Männistö, 2023, Scientific Reports.

Combining self-reported and objectively measured survey data to improve hypertension prevalence estimates: Portuguese experience

H. Tolonen, B. Nunes, A. Machado, 2021, Archives of Public Health.

From monitoring to action: utilising health survey data in national policy development and implementation in Finland

M. Gissler, S. Koskinen, H. Tolonen, 2019, Archives of Public Health.

Validation of non-participation bias methodology based on record-linked Finnish register-based health survey data: a protocol paper

Hanna Tolonen, Megan A McMinn, Pekka Martikainen, 2019, BMJ Open.

Guidelines for the development and criteria for the adoption of Health Survey instruments

A. Aromaa, H. Oyen, H. Tolonen, 2022 .

HBM4EU feasibility studies: Lessons learned in combining health and human biomonitoring studies

H. Tolonen, A. Andersson, R. Baber, 2022, International journal of hygiene and environmental health.

The effects of long-term physical activity interventions in communities: Scoping review in the Nordic countries

P. Jousilahti, H. Tolonen, H. Wennman, 2021, Scandinavian journal of public health.

Projections for obesity, smoking and hypertension based on multiple imputation

H. Tolonen, T. Härkänen, J. Reinikainen, 2021, Scandinavian journal of public health.

Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4·4 million participants

Gretchen A. Stevens, M. M. Rahman, W. Rathmann, 2016, Lancet.

Challenges to Evidence Synthesis and Identification of Data Gaps in Human Biomonitoring

E. Samoli, K. Katsouyanni, H. Tolonen, 2021, International journal of environmental research and public health.

Basic Epidemiology 2nd Edition ▲ Who Library Cataloguing-in-publication Data

C. Mathers, T. Kjellstrom, R. Beaglehole, 2006 .

Implementation of the European health interview survey into the National FinSote survey in Finland

H. Tolonen, J. Ikonen, H. Kilpeläinen, 2020 .

Metabolic syndrome and endocrine disrupting chemicals: exposure and health effects

H. Tolonen, E. Haverinen, R. Lange, 2020 .

Environmental Substances Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease—A Scoping Review

H. Tolonen, A. Katsonouri, H. R. Andersen, 2021, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19·2 million participants

Gretchen A. Stevens, Tran Quoc Bao, M. M. Rahman, 2016, The Lancet.

National Health Examination Surveys: an essential piece of the health planning puzzle

J. Mindell, A. Bernabé-Ortiz, C. Donfrancesco, 2023, medRxiv.

A comparison of measured versus self-reported anthropometrics for assessing obesity in adults: a literature review

S. Männistö, H. Tolonen, M. Maukonen, 2018, Scandinavian journal of public health.

Blood pressure profiles, and awareness and treatment of hypertension in Europe - results from the EHES Pilot Project.

S. Männistö, H. Tolonen, P. Koponen, 2016, Public health.

Innovative use of data sources: A Cross-sectional study of Data Linkage Practices across European Countries

H. Oyen, H. Tolonen, P. Achterberg, 2020 .

Recommendations for design and analysis of health examination surveys under selective non-participation

J. Karvanen, H. Tolonen, T. Härkänen, 2018, European journal of public health.

A. Leyland, H. Tolonen, T. Härkänen, 2020, Epidemiology.