Mikael Ekblad
moekbl@utu.fi Kiinamyllynkatu 10 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8369-4359 |
Areas of expertise
Prenatal Smoking/Nicotine Exposure; Fetal and Child Development; Maternal Health; Parental-Fetal/Child Attachment, Primary Health Care
Prenatal Smoking/Nicotine Exposure; Fetal and Child Development; Maternal Health; Parental-Fetal/Child Attachment, Primary Health Care
Research community or research topic
Keski-Satakunnan terveydenhuollon kuntayhtymän äitiys- ja lastenneuvolatutkimuksen (KESÄLATU) vastuullinen johtaja
Keski-Satakunnan terveydenhuollon kuntayhtymän äitiys- ja lastenneuvolatutkimuksen (KESÄLATU) vastuullinen johtaja
Biography
MD, PhD, Specialist in General Practice
Professor (tenure track) in General Practice
I'm responsible for the postgraduate education in General Practice.
Research
My research focuses on the effects of prenatal smoking/nicotine exposure on maternal and child health. I have established a maternity and child health clinic study (the KESALATU Study), which is an ongoing prospective follow-up study in primary health care of Central Satakunta in Finland. I'm also expirienced in utilizing the Finnish Medical Registers e.g., the Medical Birth Register.
Teaching
Publications 
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- Association Between Maternal Smoking, Isolated Proteinuria During Pregnancy and Preterm Birth: A Finnish Registry Analysis (2025)
- Kidney International Reports
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Lifetime psychiatric morbidity and maternal smoking behavior in consecutive pregnancies: A Finnish register study (2025)
- Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Depressive symptoms and smoking : Effect on mortality in a primary care cohort (2024)
- Journal of Psychosomatic Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Glycemic status and effect on mortality: Multifactorial prevention programme for cardiovascular disease in Finnish primary care (2024)
- Primary Care Diabetes
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Interaction of maternal smoking and gestational diabetes mellitus on newborn head circumference and birthweight (2024)
- Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Multifactorial prevention program for cardiovascular disease in primary care: hypertension status and effect on mortality (2024)
- Journal of Human Hypertension
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Alkoholin käyttö raskauden ensiviikkoina on edelleen yleistä (2023)
- Lääkärilehti
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Five-to-Fifteen-Parental Perception of Developmental Profile from Age 5 to 8 Years in Children Born Very Preterm (2023)
- Journal of Personalized Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - How should a general practitioner say no to a patient? (2023)
- Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Maternal smoking during pregnancy negatively affects brain volumes proportional to intracranial volume in adolescents born very preterm (2023)
- Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - New insights into smoking and urinary tract infections during pregnancy using pregnancy-pair design: A population-based register study (2023)
- Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Pre-pregnancy body surface area and risk for gestational diabetes mellitus (2023)
- Acta Diabetologica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Renal hyperfiltration revisited—Role of the individual body surface area on mortality (2023)
- European Journal of Internal Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Association of Smoking During Pregnancy With Compromised Brain Development in Offspring (2022)
- JAMA Network Open
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - New theory about the pathophysiology of preeclampsia derived from the paradox of positive effects of maternal smoking (2022)
- Journal of Hypertension
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Raskaus ja tupakointi (2022) Tupakka- ja nikotiiniriippuvuus Ekblad Mikael, Juusela Maria
(D2 Article in a professional compilation book) - Treatment of nicotine dependence needs be strengthened in primary health care (2022)
- Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Design of a prospective follow-up study on early parenthood and smoking behaviour during pregnancy in Finnish primary healthcare (2021)
- Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Nicotine Replacement Therapy during Pregnancy and Child Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review (2021)
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Nikotiinin vaikutus sikiön kasvuun ja kehitykseen (2021)
- Lääkärilehti
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal )
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