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Sari Stenholm
Professor

- Professor,
Public Health (Department of Clinical Medicine)

samast@utu.fi

+358 29 450 2755

+358 50 465 1745

Kiinamyllynkatu 10

Turku

: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7560-0930

Researchgate

Homepage for FIREA study

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–

Aim: Examine and evaluate the effectiveness of technology-supported
physical activity intervention among recent retirees
Funders: Academy of Finland, Ministry of Education and
Culture, Juho Vainio Foundation

Factors
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

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Social networks and patterns of health risk behaviours over two decades: A multi-cohort study (2017)
- Journal of Psychosomatic Research
Kauppi M, Elovainio M, Stenholm S, Virtanen M, Aalto V, Koskenvuo M, Kivimaki M, Vahtera J
Trajectories of risky drinking around the time of statutory retirement: a longitudinal latent class analysis (2017)
- Addiction
Halonen JI, Stenholm S, Pulakka A, Kawachi I, Aalto V, Pentti J, Lallukka T, Virtanen M, Vahtera J, Kivimaki M
Work stress, anthropometry, lung function, blood pressure, and blood-based biomarkers: a cross-sectional study of 43,593 French men and women (2017)
- Scientific Reports
Linda L. Magnusson Hanson, Hugo Westerlund, Marcel Goldberg, Marie Zins, Jussi Vahtera, Naja Hulvej Rod, Sari Stenholm, Andrew Steptoe, Mika Kivimäki
Association Between Distance From Home to Tobacco Outlet and Smoking Cessation and Relapse (2016)
- JAMA Internal Medicine
Anna Pulakka, Jaana I. Halonen, Ichiro Kawachi, Jaana Pentti, Sari Stenholm, Markus Jokela, Ilkka Kaate, Markku Koskenvuo, Jussi Vahtera, Mika Kivimäki
Association of Physical Activity History With Physical Function and Mortality in Old Age (2016)
- Journals of Gerontology, Series A
Sari Stenholm, Annemarie Koster, Heli Valkeinen, Kushang V. Patel, Stefania Bandinelli, Jack M. Guralnik, Luigi Ferrucci
Association of Self-Rated Health in Midlife With Mortality and Old Age Frailty: A 26-Year Follow-Up of Initially Healthy Men. (2016)
- Journals of Gerontology, Series A
Huohvanainen E, Strandberg AY, Stenholm S, Pitkälä KH, Tilvis RS, Strandberg T
Change in Neighborhood Disadvantage and Change in Smoking Behaviors in Adults: A Longitudinal, Within-individual Study (2016)
- Epidemiology
Jaana I. Halonen, Anna Pulakka, Sari Stenholm, Jaana Pentti, Ichiro Kawachi, Mika Kivimäki, Jussi Vahtera
Changes in physical activity during transition to retirement : a cohort study (2016)
- International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
Sari Stenholm, Anna Pulakka, Ichiro Kawachi, Tuula Oksanen, Jaana I. Halonen, Ville Aalto, Mika Kivimaki, Jussi Vahtera
Changes in sleep duration during transition to statutory retirement (2016)
- Journal of Sleep Research
Myllyntausta S, Salo P, Kronholm E, Oksanen T, Aalto V, Kivimaki M, Vahtera J, Stenholm S
Cohort Profile: The Helsinki Businessmen Study (HBS) (2016)
- International Journal of Epidemiology
Strandberg TE1, Salomaa V2, Strandberg AY3, Vanhanen H4, Sarna S5, Pitkälä K, Rantanen K, Savela S, Pienimäki T, Huohvanainen E, Stenholm S, Räikkönen K, Tilvis RS, Tienari PJ, Huttunen J.
Short Physical Performance Battery and all-cause mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis (2016)
- BMC Medicine
Pavasini R, Guralnik J, Brown JC, di Bari M, Cesari M, Landi F, Vaes B, Legrand D, Verghese J, Wang CL, Stenholm S, Ferrucci L, Lai JC, Bartes AA, Espaulella J, Ferrer M, Lim JY, Ensrud KE, Cawthon P, Turusheva A, Frolova E, Rolland Y, Lauwers V, Corsonello A, Kirk GD, Ferrari R, Volpato S, Campo G
Smoking, physical inactivity and obesity as predictors of healthy and disease-free life expectancy between ages 50 and 75: a multicohort study (2016)
- International Journal of Epidemiology
Stenholm S, Head J, Kivimäki M, Kawachi I, Aalto V, Zins M, Goldberg M, Zaninotto P, Magnuson Hanson L, Westerlund H, Vahtera J
The contribution of travel-related urban zones, cycling and pedestrian networks and green space to commuting physical activity among adults - a cross-sectional population-based study using geographical information systems (2016)
- BMC Public Health
Maki-Opas TE, Borodulin K, Valkeinen H, Stenholm S, Kunst AE, Abel T, Harkanen T, Kopperoinen L, Itkonen P, Prattala R, Karvonen S, Koskinen S
The ethnic gap in mobility: a comparison of Russian, Somali and Kurdish origin migrants and the general Finnish population (2016)
- BMC Public Health
Rask S, Sainio P, Castaneda AE, Harkanen T, Stenholm S, Koponen P, Koskinen S
Trajectories of self-rated health in the last 15 years of life by cause of death (2016)
- European Journal of Epidemiology
Stenholm S, Kivimäki M, Jylhä M, Kawachi I, Westerlund H, Pentti J, Goldberg M, Zins M, Vahtera J.
Väestö ikääntyy - miten ikäihmiset liikkuvat vuonna 2050? (2016)
- Liikunta ja tiede
Stenholm Sari
Association of Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference With Physical Functioning: The Vitality 90+ Study (2015)
- Journals of Gerontology, Series A
Lisko Inna, Stenholm Sari, Raitanen Jani, Hurme Mikko, Hervonen Antti, Jylhä Marja, Tiainen Kristiina
Childhood Psychosocial Adversity and Adult Neighborhood Disadvantage as Predictors of Cardiovascular Disease A Cohort Study (2015)
- Circulation
Halonen JI, Stenholm S, Pentti J, Kawachi I, Subramanian SV, Kivimaki M, Vahtera J
Clinical and laboratory characteristics of active and healthy aging (AHA) in octogenarian men (2015)
- Aging Clinical and Experimental Research
Rantanen KK, Strandberg TE, Stenholm SS, Strandberg AY, Pitkala KH, Salomaa VV, Tilvis RS
Comorbidity and Functional Trajectories From Midlife to Old Age: The Health and Retirement Study. (2015)
- Journals of Gerontology, Series A
Stenholm S, Westerlund H, Head J, Hyde M, Kawachi I, Pentti J, Kivimäki M, Vahtera J