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Department of Community Medicine oia000@post.uit.no +4777644835 Tromsø

Olena Iakunchykova



  • Olena Iakunchykova, Henrik Schirmer, James Michael Roe, Øystein Sørensen, Tom Wilsgaard, Laila Arnesdatter Hopstock et al.:
    Longitudinal and concurrent C-reactive protein and diet associations with cognitive function in the population-based Tromsø study
    Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 2025 DOI
  • Tom Wilsgaard, Wayne Rosamond, Henrik Schirmer, Haakon Lindekleiv, Zachi I. Attia, Francisco Lopez-Jimenez et al.:
    A New Biomarker of Aging Derived From Electrocardiograms Improves Risk Prediction of Incident Cardiovascular Disease
    JACC: Advances 2025 DOI
  • Olena Iakunchykova, Theis Lange, David Adrew Leon :
    Multiplicative and additive interactions between risk factors for coronary heart disease
    Annals of Epidemiology 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • James Michael Roe, Didac Vidal-Piñeiro, Øystein Sørensen, Håkon Grydeland, Esten Høyland Leonardsen, Olena Iakunchykova et al.:
    Brain change trajectories in healthy adults correlate with Alzheimer’s related genetic variation and memory decline across life
    Nature Communications 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Olena Iakunchykova, Esten Høyland Leonardsen, Yunpeng Wang :
    Genetic evidence for causal effects of immune dysfunction in psychiatric disorders: where are we?
    Translational Psychiatry 2024 DOI
  • Olena Iakunchykova, Mengyu Pan, Inge Amlien, James Michael Roe, Kristine B Walhovd, Anders Martin Fjell et al.:
    Genetic evidence for the causal effects of C–reactive protein on self-reported habitual sleep duration
    Brain, Behavior, and Immunity - Health (BBI - Health) 2024 DOI
  • Mengyu Pan, James Michael Roe, Ron Nudel, Andrew J. Schork, Olena Iakunchykova, Anders Martin Fjell et al.:
    Circulating S100B levels at birth and risk of six major neuropsychiatric or neurological disorders: a two-sample Mendelian Randomization Study
    Translational Psychiatry 2023 DOI
  • Olena Iakunchykova, Henrik Schirmer, Torgil Riise Vangberg, Yunpeng Wang, Ernest D. Benavente, René van Es et al.:
    Machine-learning-derived heart and brain age are independently associated with cognition
    European Journal of Neurology 2023 DOI / ARKIV
  • Esten Høyland Leonardsen, Didac Vidal-Piñeiro, James Michael Roe, Oleksandr Frei, Alexey Shadrin, Olena Iakunchykova et al.:
    Genetic architecture of brain age and its casual relations with brain and mental disorders
    Molecular Psychiatry 2023 DOI / ARKIV
  • Sarah Cook, Marit Dahl Solbu, Anne Elise Eggen, Olena Iakunchykova, Maria Averina, Laila Arnesdatter Hopstock et al.:
    Comparing prevalence of chronic kidney disease and its risk factors between population-based surveys in Russia and Norway
    BMC Nephrology 2022 DOI / ARKIV
  • Olena Iakunchykova, Henrik Schirmer, Darryl Leong, Sofia Malyutina, Andrew Ryabikov, Maria Averina et al.:
    Heavy alcohol drinking and subclinical echocardiographic abnormalities of structure and function
    Open heart 2021 DOI / ARKIV
  • Olena Iakunchykova, Maria Averina, Tom Wilsgaard, Sofia Malyutina, Alexander V Kudryavtsev, Sarah Cook et al.:
    What factors explain the much higher diabetes prevalence in Russia compared with Norway? Major sex differences in the contribution of adiposity
    BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care 2021 DOI / ARKIV
  • Olena Iakunchykova, Maria Averina, Tom Wilsgaard, Hugh Watkins, Sofia Malyutina, Yulia Ragino et al.:
    Why does Russia have such high cardiovascular mortality rates? Comparisons of blood-based biomarkers with Norway implicate non-ischaemic cardiac damage.
    Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2020 DOI / ARKIV
  • Sergi Trias-Llimós, Lisa Pennells, Aage Tverdal, Alexander V Kudryavtsev, Sofia Malyutina, Laila Arnesdatter Hopstock et al.:
    Quantifying the contribution of established risk factors to cardiovascular mortality differences between Russia and Norway
    Scientific Reports 2020 DOI / ARKIV
  • Sarah Anne Cook, Laila Arnesdatter Hopstock, Anne Elise Eggen, Katie Bates, Olena Iakunchykova, Anna Kontsevaya et al.:
    Pharmacological management of modifiable cardiovascular risk factors (blood pressure and lipids) following diagnosis of myocardial infarction, stroke and diabetes: Comparison between population-based studies in Russia and Norway
    BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2020 DOI / ARKIV
  • Olena Iakunchykova, Maria Averina, Alexander V Kudryavtsev, Tom Wilsgaard, Andrey Soloviev, Henrik Schirmer et al.:
    Evidence for a direct harmful effect of alcohol on myocardial health: A large cross-sectional study of consumption patterns and cardiovascular disease risk biomarkers from northwest Russia, 2015 to 2017
    Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA) 2020 DOI / ARKIV
  • Arya Panthalanickal Vijayakumar, Tom Wilsgaard, Henrik Schirmer, Haakon Lindekleiv, Zachi I Attia, Francisco Lopez-Jimenez et al.:
    Associations of educational level with ECG-derived cardiovascular ageing in a population-based cohort: a mediation analysis from the Tromsø Study
    BMJ Open 2025 DOI
  • Olena Iakunchykova, Michael E. Benros, Yunpeng Wang :
    Author reply – Letter to the Editor “elevated C-reactive protein and IL-6 signalling are not the only determinants of sleep quality and duration”
    Brain, Behavior, and Immunity - Health (BBI - Health) 2024 DOI
  • Olena Iakunchykova, Henrik Schirmer, Torgil Riise Vangberg, Yunpeng Wang, Ernest Diez Benavente, Rene Van Es et al.:
    Machine-learning derived measures of vascular and brain age are independently associated with cognitive function
    European Journal of Preventive Cardiology (EJPC) 2023
  • Arya Panthalanickal Vijayakumar, Tom Wilsgaard, Henrik Schirmer, Haakon Lindekleiv, Zachi I Attia, Francisco Lopez-Jimenez et al.:
    Associations of educational level with cardiovascular aging described with a novel machine learning derived biomarker based on electrocardiograms
    2023
  • Olena Iakunchykova :
    ECG age, brain age, and cognitive function in the Tromsø study
    2022
  • Olena Iakunchykova, Maria Averina, Alexander V Kudryavtsev, Andrei Soloviev, Tom Wilsgaard, David Adrew Leon :
    CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE BIOMARKER PROFILES AMONG HARMFUL AND HAZARDOUS DRINKERS: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY FROM NORTH WEST RUSSIA
    Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2019 DOI

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