Sari Stenholm
Professor
samast@utu.fi +358 29 450 2755 +358 50 465 1745 Kiinamyllynkatu 10 Turku |
Public Health; Gerontology; Epidemiology; Obesity; Sarcopenia; Physical Fitness; Physical activity; Accelerometry; Aging; Retirement
Selected earlier employment
- 2015-2020
Academy Research Fellow, University of Turku - 2014-2015
Professor of gerontology, University of Tampere - 2013-2015
Senior Researcher, University of Turku - 2010-2013
Senior Researcher, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Turku /
Helsinki - 2007-2009
Visiting Post-doctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health, National
Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA - 2004-2007
Researcher, National Public Health Institute, Turku
Ongoing studies as a PI
Finnish
Retirement and Aging study (FIREA), 2013– (www.utu.fi/firea ).
- Aim: Examine changes in health behaviors, health, and
functioning before and after retirement transition - Funders: Academy of Finland, Ministry of Education and
Culture, Juho Vainio Foundation, Hospital District of Southwest Finland
REACT
intervention (Enhancing physical activity and healthy aging among recent
retirees – Randomized controlled in-home physical activity trial, NCT03320746),
2017–
intervention (Enhancing physical activity and healthy aging among recent
retirees – Randomized controlled in-home physical activity trial, NCT03320746),
2017–
Aim: Examine and evaluate the effectiveness of technology-supported
physical activity intervention among recent retireesFunders: Academy of Finland, Ministry of Education and
Culture, Juho Vainio Foundation
Factors
predicting extension of working life among aging workers, 2018–
predicting extension of working life among aging workers, 2018–
- Aim: Predictors and health consequences of extended
working life - Funder: Finnish Work Environment Fund
Awards and other honors
- Prize
for Promising researcher in gerontology, the Nordic Gerontology
Federation, 2014. - Paper
award, 2nd place, Finnish Society of Sport Sciences, 2016.
International research visits
- Visiting Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public
Health, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston, MA, USA, June 2017 – July 2017 - Visiting Scientist, National Institutes of Health,
National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA, September 2012 – October 2012 - Visiting Post-doctoral Fellow, National Institutes of
Health, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA, November 2007 –
November 2009
Publications
- 119 in international peer-reviewed journals and 5 in
Finnish peer-reviewed journals - 34 first authorship, 17 last authorship
- H index 26
Other academic activities
Editorial board membership
- Journals of Gerontology: Medical Sciences
- Scandinavian Journal for Work, Environment &
Health
Positions of trust
- Member of Advisory Board, Center for Healthy Aging,
University of Copenhagen - Member of Research Faculty at the Medical Faculty in
University of Turku - Member of Scientific Committee, Nordic Gerontological
Federation (NGF)
Research training merits
- Experience in supervising PhD students (2 completed,
10 ongoing) and postdoctoral fellows - Opponent (4 times) or
examiner for PhD thesis (3 times)
Grant reviewer
- Expert reviewing panel in the Swedish Research Council
- Several other grant reviews for international funding institutes
10 of 11
- Is change in availability of sports facilities associated with change in physical activity? A prospective cohort study (2015)
- Preventive Medicine
- Length of sick leave as a risk marker of hip fracture: a nationwide cohort study from Sweden (2015)
- Osteoporosis International
- Patterns of Weight Gain in Middle-Aged and Older US Adults, 1992-2010 (2015)
- Epidemiology
- Physiological Factors Contributing to Mobility Loss Over 9 Years of Follow-Up-Results From the InCHIANTI Study (2015)
- Journals of Gerontology, Series A
- The association between mental health symptoms and mobility limitation among Russian, Somali and Kurdish migrants: a population based study (2015)
- BMC Public Health
- The widening BMI distribution in the United States (2015)
- American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Age-related trajectories of physical functioning in work and retirement: The role of sociodemographic factors, lifestyle and disease (2014)
- Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
- Fall-related risk factors and heel quantitative ultrasound in the assessment of hip fracture risk: a 10-year follow-up of a nationally representative adult population sample (2014)
- Osteoporosis International
- Green and Blue Areas as Predictors of Overweight and Obesity in an 8-Year Follow-Up Study (2014)
- Obesity
- Low midlife blood pressure, survival, comorbidity, and health-related quality of life in old age: the Helsinki Businessmen Study (2014)
- Journal of Hypertension
- Midlife Obesity and Risk of Frailty in Old Age During a 22-Year Follow-up in Men and Women: The Mini-Finland Follow-up Survey (2014)
- Journals of Gerontology, Series A
- Obesity and muscle strength as long-term determinants of all-cause mortality-a 33-year follow-up of the Mini-Finland Health Examination Survey (2014)
- International Journal of Obesity
- Response to The Letter Overadjustment in Regression Analyses: Considerations When Evaluating Relationships Between Body Mass Index, Muscle Strength, and Body Size (2014)
- Journals of Gerontology, Series A
- Self-Rated Health in the Last 12 Years of Life Compared to Matched Surviving Controls: The Health and Retirement Study (2014)
- PLoS ONE
- The Prognostic Value of Repeated Measures of Lower Extremity Performance – Should We Measure More Than Once? (2014)
- Journals of Gerontology, Series A
- Weight Histories and Mortality Among Finnish Adults The Role of Duration and Peak Body Mass Index (2014)
- Epidemiology
- Are body mass index, waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio associated with leptin in 90-year-old people? (2013)
- European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- CROSS-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF OBESITY: UNITED STATES AND FINLAND (2013)
- Gerontologist
- JOINT ASSOCIATIONS OF OBESITY AND MUSCLE STRENGTH WITH MORTALITY: THE MINI-FINLAND HEALTH EXAMINATION SURVEY (2013)
- Gerontologist
- Leisure-Time Physical Activity in Midlife Is Related to Old Age Frailty (2013)
- Journals of Gerontology, Series A
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