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Tarja
Saaresranta
Professor, Pulmonary Diseases and Clinical Allergology
Specialist, Pulmonary Diseases and Clinical Allergology
MD, PhD, Professor
sleep-disordered breathing, sleep in middle-aged women, chronic respiratory failure, telemonitoring

Contact

+358 29 450 4571
+358 46 921 6342
Lemminkäisenkatu 3 b
20014
Turku

Areas of expertise

sleep-disordered breathing
chronic respiratory failure

Biography

Current positions

  • Professor of Pulmonary Diseases (50%)

Chief Specialist (50%), Division of Medicine, Dept of Pulmonary Diseases, Turku University Hospital
Coordinating Director (20%), Sleep and Breathing Centre, Turku University Hospital

  • ​​​​​​​Education and degrees awarded

• Specialist in Respiratory Allergology, University of Turku, Finland, 2005
• Degree in Administration and Leadership in Health Care, University of Turku, Finland, 2005
• Registered Educator in Sleep Medicine, Finnish Sleep Research Society, 2005
• Special Competence in Sleep Medicine, Finnish Medical Association, 2001
• PhD, Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, University of Turku, Finland, 2000
• Pulmonary Medicine Specialist, University of Turku, Finland, 1993
• Medical Degree, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, 1986
• Title of docent: Pulmonary Medicine, University of Turku, Finland, 2005


Teaching

sleep disorders

sleep-disorderd breathing

chronic respiratory failure

Research

Main research interests:

sleep-disordered breathing; sleep in menopausal women; treatment of chronic respiratory failure


Publications

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Beat-to-beat cardiac repolarization lability increases during hypoxemia and arousals in obstructive sleep apnea patients (2024)

American journal of physiology : heart and circulatory physiology
Ebrahimian Serajeddin, Sillanmäki Saara, Hietakoste Salla, Kulkas Antti, Töyräs Juha, Bailón Raquel, Hernando David, Lombardi Carolina, Grote Ludger, Bonsignore Maria R., Saaresranta Tarja, Pépin Jean-Louis, Leppänen Timo, Kainulainen Samu
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

Temporal and sleep stage‐dependent agreement in manual scoring of respiratory events (2024)

Journal of Sleep Research
Pitkänen, Minna; Pitkänen, Henna; Nath, Rajdeep Kumar; Nikkonen, Sami; Kainulainen, Samu; Korkalainen, Henri; Ólafsdóttir, Kristín Anna; Arnardottir, Erna Sif; Sigurdardottir, Sigridur; Penzel, Thomas; Fanfulla, Francesco; Anttalainen, Ulla; Saaresranta, Tarja; Grote, Ludger; Hedner, Jan; Staats, Richard; Töyräs, Juha; Leppänen, Timo
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )

Sleep apnoea phenotypes in women: A cluster analysis from the ESADA cohort (2024)

Sleep Medicine
Pataka, A.; Pepin, J. L.; Bonsignore, M. R.; Schiza, S.; Saaresranta, T.; Bouloukaki, I.; Steiropoulos, P.; Trakada, G.; Riha, R.; Dogas, Z.; Testelmans, D.; Basoglu, O. K.; Mihaicuta, S.; Fanfulla, F.; Grote, L.; Bailly, S.; ESADA Study Group
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )