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Pietarsaari was founded in 1652 on the location of the Pedersöre harbour, which was of great importance for the tar trade. Nowadays this 93 km2 town has 19 730 inhabitants, half of them Swedish-speaking and the other half Finnish-speaking
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PIETARSAARI HOSPITAL
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The Botnia Study was begun here in 1995 by the head of the Department of Internal Medicine of the Malm hospital, Bo Isomaa and laboratory nurse Leena Sarelin. The district's special feature is the large share of MODY-diabetes and a follow-up study is conducted on the carriers of the MODY-gene mutations. A study is also being performed on the complications of the different subtypes of diabetes.
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Leena Sarelin
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Bo Isomaa
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