Samuel Sandboge

Kohtalonkysymys Mitä voimme suojella, jos ei ole enää terveyttä eikä hyvinvointia?

I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed for the Finnish Medical Journal. I talk about how we teach #PlanetaryHealth at the University of Helsinki and about the PlanetaryHealth[.]now MOOC launching this autumn. Read the full article (in Finnish) here:

www.laakarilehti.fi/terveydenhuo...

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YouTube video by Samuel Sandboge Becoming an agent of change - a panel discussion from the PlanetaryHealth.now MOOC

How do you become an Agent of Change? As our environment faces mounting pressures from environmental change, we must strive to move beyond apathy/anxiety, towards awareness and transformative action. In this panel discussion we explore these topics

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🧪 #Greensky #PlanetaryHealth

[2/2] "Conversely, among the children born very-to-moderately preterm, ACT exposure was associated with a significantly lower risk of infectious diseases at ages 5-10 compared with nonexposed children of the same gestational age."

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Antenatal corticosteroid treatment and infectious diseases in children and adolescents aged 5-16 years While maternal antenatal corticosteroid treatment (ACT) improves outcomes of infants born preterm, it is associated with an increased risk of infectio…

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Finnish cohort study (n=669474) finds that ACT [antenatal corticosteroid treatment] exposure among those born late preterm or term ➡️ significantly higher risk of infectious diseases at ages 5-10 vs. nonexposed children of the same gestational age.

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[3/3] For optimal immersion, consider listening to the episode while taking a walk in nature. 🌳🌻☀️🌍🌿

#PlanetaryHealth #ClimateUniversity
#NaturebasedHealthPromotion #Sustainability

[2/3] The episode, which will be included in the upcoming Climate University and University of Helsinki MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) PlanetaryHealth[.]now, explores the health benefits of spending time in nature.

Episode 1: Nature-based Health Promotion Stream Episode 1: Nature-based Health Promotion by Samuel Sandboge on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

[1/3] Summer is here and nature is in bloom! 🌼 Join Dr Annika Kolster and me for the first ever episode of the Planetary Health Now podcast!

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Today I had the great pleasure of attending the EduFair event at Helsinki University’s Faculty of Medicine. I spoke about some of the pedagogical methods used in the upcoming Planetary Health MOOC and additionally presented a poster on possible future research opportunities related to the course.

Determination of steroid reference intervals in a pregnancy population Steroids, including mineralocorticoids, glucocorticoids, and sex hormones play a critical role in pregnancy. Liquid chromatography tandem mass spectro…

📣 New findings from Lahti-Pulkkinen et al.

- New method for defining ranges for 18 steroids in pregnancy

- Progestogens, mineralo- & glucocorticoids & estrogens increase across pregnancy

- Androgens: no consistent change from early to late pregnancy

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…potentially mediating the previously established association between VLBW birth and cardiometabolic risk.

I am very grateful to my coauthors, to grant providers, and of course - most importantly - to the study participants!

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#DOHaD #postdoc 🧪

Body Composition in Adults Born at Very Low Birthweight—A Sibling Study Background Individuals born preterm at very low birthweight (VLBW, < 1500 g) tend to attain a smaller adult body size compared with term-born peers but less is known regarding specific body composit...

📣 New research:

In this Finnish cohort comprising 77 young adults born #preterm at very low birth weight, #VLBW, <1500g) & 70 term-born siblings, we found that those born at VLBW had more centralized fat distribution & lower appendicular skeletal muscle mass compared with their siblings…

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Media Release: IPBES Nexus Assessment

Interlinked Global Crises: Biodiversity, Water, Food, Health & Climate Change

>70 response options assessed for maximum co-benefits across cascading or compounding challenges

Unaccounted-for costs of current approaches at least US$10-25 trillion per year

@ipbes.bsky.social #NexusAssessment 🌱

Samuel Sandboge on LinkedIn: #researchretrospective #dnr #medicalethics #hlrrådet #dnar #ResearchRetrospective Looking back at our study “DNAR orders: attitudes, perceptions and practices of Swedish physicians and nurses” published in BMC…

In the linked post, I summarize some of the study findings and reflect on the process leading up to the finished article.

www.linkedin.com/posts/samuel...

#dnr #medicalethics 🧪

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New #ResearchRetrospective re: our 2021 study ”DNAR orders: attitudes, perceptions and practices of Swedish physicians and nurses”.

Survey indicated that patient participation in #DNAR decisions has increased over the years.

bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

#dnr #medicalethics 🧪

Lower bone mineral density in preterm born adults, compared to term-born siblings - THL Young adults born preterm with a very low birth weight (<1500 grams) have lower bone mineral density than their term-born siblings.

The study was performed in collaboration between researchers at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), the University of Helsinki, Helsinki University Hospital, and the University of Oulu. 🧪

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The differences in bone mineral density were smaller than those seen in previous studies - i.e., studies using unrelated individuals rather than siblings as controls.

The sibling study design allows control for potential familial confounding, i.e. shared genetic, and/or environmental factors.

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A barchart showing higher frequencies of low femoral neck bone mineral density Z-scores among those born at very low birth weight and, vice versa, higher frequencies of high femoral neck bone mineral density Z-scores of sibling control born at term.

New #ResearchRetrospective

In this study, published in Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology (@wiley.com) in 2022, we found that adults born preterm at very low birth weight (#VLBW, <1.5kg) had lower bone mineral density than their term-born siblings.

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I was blown away by all of the exciting, cool #EdTech projects and implementations presented at the event and will write about some of them in upcoming posts. 🧪

Samuel Sandboge presenting the upcoming Planetary Health MOOC at the Reimagining Online Learning’ event, ThinkCorner, Helsinki, 2024-12-10; Image credit Sasa Tkalcan, Global Campus

Continuing the theme of my previous post, I had the great pleasure of presenting the #PlanetaryHealth #MOOC at the ’Reimagining Online Learning’ seminar at #Tiedekulma, Helsinki earlier this week!

(Photo credit Saša Tkalcan, #GlobalCampus) 🧪

Today I had the privilege of giving a lecture on #PlanetaryHealth for a small group of #Erasmus exchange students at the University of Helsinki. It was very inspiring to hear how medical students from other parts of Europe relate to the topic. 🧪🌍

Det var fint att höra! Jag förhåller mig ödmjuk inför att studiens fynd givetvis måste replikeras innan man kan dra alltför starka slutsatser. Samtidigt är jag stolt över att den, såvitt jag vet, är den första randomiserade kliniska prövningen i ämnet. 🌞💊

Kul att också du är på Bluesky, förresten!

A man (the author of the post) picking an apple from an apple tree.

Thank you everyone for the warm welcome to Bluesky! 🦋 To begin with, my posts will alternate between #ResearchRetrospectives and topics relating to the development of the new @helsinkiuni.bsky.social #PlanetaryHealth 🌍 #MOOC.

Climate crisis deepens with 2024 ‘certain’ to be hottest year on record Average global temperature in November was 1.62C above preindustrial levels, bringing average for the year to 1.60C

#ClimateCrisis crisis deepens with 2024 ‘virtually certain’ to be hottest year on record, says @CopernicusECMWF

- It will also be the first to have an average temperature of more than 1.5C above preindustrial levels

Story by me
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Thank you! 🙏

🙏 Thank you for your comment, I will be writing more about the course’s topics and its development in upcoming posts. 🌍

A larger dose of vitamin D may decrease psychiatric symptoms at school age | Tampere universities It is estimated that every eighth child suffers from a mental health disorder. Several predictors of children’s mental problems have been identified, but much remains uncharted. Previous research s...

[3/3] A more detailed description of our findings from the #VIDI randomized clinical trial, can be found in this press release:

www.tuni.fi/en/news/larg...

I am very grateful to associate professor and PI Kati Heinonen at the #UniversityofTampere and all other coauthors!

#ResearchRetrospective 🧪

[2/3] Worldwide, 8% of children and 15% of adolescents have a mental disorder and much is still left to discover regarding underlying causes. Finding clues towards potentially decreasing the prevalence of these disorders is of the utmost importance!

#devpsych #dohad #mentalhealth #psychiatry 🧪

Effect of Vitamin D3 Supplementation in First 2 Years of Life on Psychiatric Symptoms at Ages 6-8 Years This secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial investigates the effect of increased vitamin D supplementation up to age 2 years on the risk of internalizing, externalizing, and total psychiatr...

[1/3]Last year, we reported that children who received 3x daily #vitaminD supplementation (30 µg vs 10 µg) between ages 0-2y were less likely to have clinically significant internalizing problems (i.e. depressed mood, anxiety, and withdrawn behaviour) at age 6-8y.

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Wonderful, many thanks! 🙏

Hi Monica,

I would like to be added to the feed, please. I am an MD and PhD - currently dividing my time between research (#DOHaD, incl. physiology related research) and course development (Planetary Health 🌍).

Here is a link to my ORCiD:

orcid.org/0000-0003-13...

Kind regards,
Samuel