Aleksandra Kanina

Aleksandra Kanina

Phd Student
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Postal address: C8 Medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik, C8 MEB Sjölander, 171 77 Stockholm

About me

  • I am a doctoral student at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics with a strong interest in reproductive epidemiology and neurodevelopmental disorders.

    Utbildning
    2018 - 2020 Master´s in Public Health, Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet

    2016 - 2018 Medical Resident, Saint-Petersburg State university

    2010 - 2016 General Medicine, Saint-Petersburg State university

    Akademiska priser och utmärkelser
    2023 - APSARD, Research award for poster presentation

Research

  • I work on prenatal and early life exposure to stress and risks of autism and ADHD using Swedish population registers and Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa). The aim of my project to disentangle the effects of unmeasured familial confounding by using family-based study designs.

    Publication list:

    Kanina, A., Larsson, H., Sjölander, A. et al. Association between cumulative psychosocial adversity in the family and ADHD and autism: a family-based cohort study. Transl Psychiatry 13, 282 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-023-02571-7

    Martini MI, Kuja-Halkola R, Butwicka A, Du Rietz E,
  • D'Onofrio BM, Happe F, Kanina A, Larsson H, Lundstrom S, Martin J, Rosenqvist MA, Lichtenstein P, Taylor MJ. Sex Differences in Mental Health Problems and Psychiatric Hospitalization in Autistic Young Adults. JAMA Psychiatry. 2022
  • 79(12):1188–1198. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2022.3475

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Employments

  • Phd Student, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 2022-2024

Degrees and Education

  • Degree Of Master Of Medical Science 120 Credits, Karolinska Institutet, 2020

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