Current News at the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences

On this year’s list of the best sports-related university units in the world, the JYU Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences was ranked in position 22. The list includes 300 sports-related units from universities across the world.

This year’s list of the world’s most cited researchers includes three professors from the University of Jyväskylä’s Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences: Professor Martin Hagger, visiting Professor David Lubans and visiting Professor Francisco B.

A study conducted in collaboration between the University of Jyväskylä and the University of Eastern Finland found that high aerobic fitness does not protect children from metabolic syndrome.

A study at the University of Jyväskylä found that men are biologically older than women. The observed sex difference is partially explained by men's more frequent smoking and larger body size.

A study at the University of Jyväskylä compared a traditional endurance training program with a program that was individually adjusted based on recovery status.

Eight weeks of regular sauna bathing and exercise was found to be superior to regular exercise alone for the improvement of three major cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in the general population.

Education at JYU among the best of the world.
JYU’s research in education ranked 44th in the Shanghai Ranking.

The estrogen deficiency following menopause is thought to impair women’s ability to use fat as an energy source.

M.Sc. Saara Haapanen defends her doctoral dissertation in Sport and Exercise Psychology "Cross-cultural study of social environmental and individual antecedents of psychobiosocial states in high-level Finnish and North American athletes".

Women have a longer life expectancy than man; thus, they account for a large proportion of aging society.

A study conducted in the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, revealed that menopausal transition increases women’s body fat especially in the waist area.

In midlife, the risk of cardiometabolic diseases increases in women more rapidly than in men.