Behnam Tajik
Visiting Researcher
Postdoc Research Fellow – Research coordinator
Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences
A nutritionist and A Postdoc Research Fellow in Health science. My research interests lie primarily in the role of dietary factors on the cardiometabolic diseases, mainly cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes.
Coordinator of UEF/Africa Pilot – Southern African and Finnish Higher Education Institutions’ for Health and Well-being network (SAFINET) for Facilitating collaboration between Southern African and UEF’s academia in Health science.
Research groups
Publications
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Associations of serum n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid concentrations with heart rate at rest, during and after exercise in men
Esmaili, Haleh; Tajik, Behnam; Tuomainen, Tomi-Pekka; Kurl, Sudhir; Salonen, Jukka T; Virtanen, Jyrki K, 2025, Nutrition metabolism and cardiovascular diseases, 35, 7, 103873. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Associations of the serum n-6 PUFA concentrations with exercise-induced myocardial ischaemia in middle-aged and older men
Esmaili, Haleh; Tajik, Behnam; Tuomainen, Tomi-Pekka; Kurl, Sudhir; Salonen, Jukka T; Virtanen, Jyrki K, 2024, British journal of nutrition, 132, 11, 1522-1529. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Frailty alone and interactively with obesity predicts heart failure: Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study
Tajik, Behnam; Voutilainen, Ari; Sankaranarayanan, Rajiv; Lyytinen, Arja; Kauhanen, Jussi; Lip, Gregory YH; Tuomainen, Tomi‐Pekka; Isanejad, Masoud, 2023, ESC heart failure, 10, 4, 2354-2361. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Frailty predicts incident atrial fibrillation in women but not in men: The Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study
Tajik, Behnam; Voutilainen, Ari; Lyytinen, Arja; Kauhanen, Jussi; Lip, Gregory Y. H.; Tuomainen, Tomi-Pekka; Isanejad, Masoud, 2023, Cardiology, 148, 6, 574-580. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Associations of the serum n-6 PUFA with exercise cardiac power in men
Esmaili, Haleh; Tajik, Behnam; Tuomainen, Tomi-Pekka; Kurl, Sudhir; Salonen, Jukka T; Virtanen, Jyrki K, 2022, British journal of nutrition, 2023; 129, 8, 1388-1397. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Economic Recession and the Long Term Risk of Psychiatric Disorders and Alcohol Related Diseases—A Cohort Study From Eastern Finland
Jarroch, Rand; Tajik, Behnam; Tuomainen, Tomi-Pekka; Kauhanen, Jussi, 2022, Frontiers in psychiatry, 13, 794888. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Effects of whey and soy protein supplementation on inflammatory cytokines in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Prokopidis, Konstantinos; Mazidi, Mohsen; Sankaranarayanan, Rajiv; Tajik, Behnam; McArdle, Anne; Isanejad, Masoud, 2022, British journal of nutrition, 2023; 129, 5, 759-770. A2 Review article, Literature review, Systematic review -
Exercise and nutritional interventions on sarcopenia and frailty in heart failure: a narrative review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses
Prokopidis, Konstantinos; Isanejad, Masoud; Akpan, Asangaedem; Stefil, Maria; Tajik, Behnam; Giannos, Panagiotis; Venturelli, Massimo; Sankaranarayanan, Rajiv, 2022, ESC heart failure, 9, 5, 2787-2799. A2 Review article, Literature review, Systematic review -
Lipid levels, apolipoproteins, and risk of incident atrial fibrillation in men: A report from the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study (KIHD)
Tajik, Behnam; Tuomainen, Tomi-Pekka; Jarroch, Rand; Kauhanen, Jussi; Lip, Gregory Y H; Isanejad, Masoud, 2022, Journal of clinical lipidology, 16, 4, 447-454. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Lipid profile, lipid ratios, apolipoproteins, and risk of cardiometabolic multimorbidity in men: The Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study
Tajik, Behnam; Voutilainen, Ari; Kauhanen, Jussi; Mazidi, Moshen; Lip, Gregory Y. H.; Tuomainen, Tomi‐Pekka; Isanejad, Masoud, 2022, Lipids, 57, 2, 141-149. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research