Rejane Augusta de Oliveira Figueiredo
The Arctic University of Norway, Norway
Biography
Rejane Figueiredo is a statistician, with master degree in Statistical and Phd in Epidemiology. Her interest areas are obesity in childhood and adolescence, metabolism and cancer. She is working at The Finnish Health in Teens study (Fin-HIT). Fin-HIT is a cohort study including more than 10 000 Finnish preadolescents in the age 9-12 years. Fin-HIT enables to study a series of etiological hypotheses regarding the role of exposures and mediating factors, including genetic susceptibility, epigenetics, and microbiota on the development of body size.