Maarit
Korhonen
Docent, Clinical Chemistry
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Areas of expertise
Pharmacoepidemiology
health services research
epidemiology
cardiovascular diseases
Biography
- MSc in Pharmacy, University of Kuopio,1986
- MSc in Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, 1995
- LicSc in Pharmacy, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland, 1996
- PhD in Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, 2004
- joined STATEAM, a research group led by Prof Risto Huupponen at the University of Turku, 2009
- Title of Docent in Epidemiology, University of Turku, 2012
- Visting Scholar, Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, 2015-2016
- Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 2016-2017
- Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Monash University, 2017-2019
- has worked as research director, senior adviser, senior researcher at the University of Turku 2009-2016, 2017-2018
Teaching
- has supervised seven PhD theses and over 20 Master’s theses of students with various backgrounds in pharmacy, medicine and public health.
Research
Main research interests:
- understanding patterns and determinants of physician prescribing and medication adherence in cardiovascular diseases
- assessment of real-world effectiveness and safety of cardiovascular medications, using observational data from large healthcare utilization databases
Publications
Impact of missing data mechanism on the estimate of change: a case study on cognitive function and polypharmacy among older persons. (2015)
Clinical Epidemiology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Cost-effectiveness of statin treatment for primary prevention in conditions of real-world adherence - Estimates from the Finnish prescription register (2015)
Atherosclerosis
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Co-prescribing of potentially interacting drugs during warfarin therapy - a population-based register study (2015)
Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Impact of Statin Adherence on Cardiovascular Morbidity and All-Cause Mortality in the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: A Population-Based Cohort Study in Finland (2015)
Value in Health
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Childhood Adversity as a Predictor of Non-Adherence to Statin Therapy in Adulthood (2015)
PLoS ONE
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Older Statin Initiators in Finland—Cardiovascular Risk Profiles and Persistence of Use (2014)
Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Lifestyle factors as predictors of nonadherence to statin therapy among patients with and without cardiovascular comorbidities. (2014)
Canadian Medical Association Journal
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Register-based predictors of adherenece among new statin users in Finland (2014)
Journal of Clinical Lipidology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Are statin trials in diabetes representative of real-world diabetes care: a population-based study on statin initiators in Finland. (2014)
BMJ Open
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Sequential Cohort Design Applying Propensity Score Matching to Analyze the Comparative Effectiveness of Atorvastatin and Simvastatin in Preventing Cardiovascular Events (2014)
PLoS ONE
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))