• Gestational Age, Parent Education, and Education in Adulthood 

      Bilsteen, Josephine; Alenius, Suvi; Bråthen, Magne; Børch, Klaus; Ekstrøm, Claus Thorn; Kajantie, Eero Olavi; Lashkarian, Mariam; Nurhonen, Markku; Risnes, Kari Ravndal; Sandin, Sven; Wel, Kjetil A. van der; Wolke, Dieter; Nybo Andersen, Anne-Marie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      BACKGROUND: Adults born preterm (<37 weeks) have lower educational attainment than those born term. Whether this relationship is modified by family factors such as socioeconomic background is, however, less well known. We ...
    • Preterm birth and the risk of chronic disease multimorbidity in adolescence and early adulthood: A population-based cohort study 

      Heikkilä, Katriina; Pulakka, Anna; Metsälä, Johanna; Alenius, Suvi; Hovi, Petteri; Gissler, Mika; Sandin, Sven; Kajantie, Eero Olavi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Background People who were born prematurely have high risks of many individual diseases and conditions in the early part of the life course. However, our knowledge of the burden of multiple diseases (multimorbidity) ...
    • Risk-taking behavior of adolescents and young adults born preterm 

      Alenius, Suvi; Kajantie, Eero Olavi; Sund, Reijo; Nurhonen, Markku; Haaramo, Peija; Näsänen-Gilmore, Pieta; Vääräsmäki, Marja; Lemola, Sakari; Räikkönen, Katri; Schnitzlein, Daniel D.; Wolke, Dieter; Gissler, Mika; Hovi, Petteri (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Objectives To study sexually transmitted Chlamydia trachomatis infections (STCTs), teenage pregnancies, and payment defaults in individuals born preterm as proxies for engaging in risk-taking behavior. Study design Our ...
    • School grades and educational attainments of adolescents and young adults born preterm 

      Alenius, Suvi; Kajantie, Eero Olavi; Sund, Reijo; Nurhonen, Markku; Haaramo, Peija; Näsänen-Gilmore, Pieta; Lemola, Sakari; Räikkönen, Katri; Schnitzlein, Daniel D.; Wolke, Dieter; Gissler, Mika; Hovi, Petteri (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Attendance in special education (SE) is more common among individuals born preterm than among those born at term. Less is known about school grades of those born preterm in mainstream education (ME), and how these grades ...