A major activity of the unit is to plan and implement the National FINRISK Study and to coordinate its data analyses and reporting. It is a large population survey on risk factors of chronic, noncommunicable diseases. The survey is carried out since 1972 every five years using independent, random and representative population samples from different parts of Finland. The main results from the previous FINRISK 2007 survey are published (the
report with summary in English).
The National FINRISK Study 2007 Survey was carried out in 5 areas in Finland (map) and 2000 inhabitants aged 25-74 years were invited to participate in each area. Among the findings were that Finns continue to gain weight.
Data from the FINRISK surveys are used for many different research projects and for national health monitoring needs.
The recent research activities deal, in addition to cardiovascular diseases and the classical risk factors, also with e.g. asthma and allergy, alcohol, socioeconomic factors and genetic epidemiology.
The FINRISK Study is a part of the MORGAM Project (MONICA Risk, Genetics, Archiving and Monigraph), sponsored by the EU and MDECODE (Molecular Diversity and Epidemiology of COmmon DiseasE) program coordinated by the University of Michigan.
The FINRISK Study list of publications
