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Teemu
Niiranen
Professor, Internal Medicine
MD, PhD

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Areas of expertise

Cardiovascular epidemiology
cohort studies
blood pressure
hypertension
blood pressure measurement

Biography

Teemu Niiranen, MD, PhD, is a physician-scientist and a clinical hypertension specialist with a track record of productivity in hypertension research, successful mentoring, international research grant procurement, and inter-institutional international collaborations. His research on hypertension in large population cohorts has led to >200 publications that are cited by the European, American, British, and Japanese clinical hypertension guidelines. These publications include first- or last-author articles in BMJ, Circulation, European Heart Journal, Nature Communications and JAMA Cardiology.

After finishing his PhD and clinical training, Dr. Niiranen received in-depth training in cardiovascular disease epidemiology and omics during a post-doctoral period at the Framingham Heart Study, the oldest and most prestigious cardiovascular cohort study in the world. After his post-doctoral period, he was selected as one of the new Group Leaders of the University of Turku Collegium of Science and Medicine and in 2020, the professor of internal medicine at the university. He is also employed as a Medical Specialist by the National Institute for Health and Welfare and chairs the work of the Cardiometabolic Clinical Expert Group of the FinnGen study, a project that has genotyped up to 500 000 unique Finnish blood samples and merged this genetic data with nationwide healthcare registers.

Dr. Niiranen has received young investigator awards from the American and Finnish Societies of Hypertension, and the American Heart Association. He is the chair of the Finnish Hypertension Society and is currently mentoring, or has mentored 12 PhD students. He is an editorial board member of Hypertension, the leading journal in hypertension research.

Teaching

Semester leadership: Fall Semester, Clinical research path for fourth year medical students.

Course leadership: PGS1728: Getting Started with Medical Research (Year 4); PGS1741: Clinical Research Literature Exam (Year 4)

Course teaching: MEDI0117: General Propedeutics (Year 4)

Pedagogic training: Medical Pedagogy course (10 credits)

Research

In addition to general cardiovascular epidemiology, Dr. Niiranen's research has focused on the epidemiology of hypertension in large scale population cohorts. His studies particularly focused on home monitoring of blood pressure and more recently he has moved into examining the relation between hypertension and omics (genome, metagenome and metabolome).

Publications

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Outcome-Driven Thresholds for Increased Home Blood Pressure Variability (2017)

Hypertension
Juhanoja EP, Niiranen TJ, Johansson JK, Puukka PJ, Thijs L, Asayama K, Langen VL, Hozawa A, Aparicio LS, Ohkubo T, Tsuji I, Imai Y, Stergiou GS, Jula AM, Staessen JA
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19.1 million participants (2017)

Lancet
Zhou B, Bentham J, Di Cesare M, Bixby H, Danaei G, Cowan MJ, Paciorek CJ, Singh G, Hajifathalian K, Bennett JE, Taddei C, Bilano V, Carrillo-Larco RM, Djalalinia S, Khatibzadeh S, Lugero C, Peykari N, Zhang WZ, Lu Y, Stevens GA, Riley LM, Bovet P, Elliott P, Gu DF, Ikeda N, Jackson RT, Joffres M, Kengne AP, Laatikainen T, Lam TH, Laxmaiah A, Liu J, Miranda JJ, Mondo CK, Neuhauser HK, Sundstrom J, Smeeth L, Soric M, Woodward M, Ezzati M, Abarca-Gomez L, Abdeen ZA, Rahim HA, Abu-Rmeileh NM, Acosta-Cazares B, Adams R, Aekplakorn W, Afsana K, Aguilar-Salinas CA, Agyemang C, Ahmadvand A, Ahrens W, Al Raddadi R, Al Woyatan R, Ali MM, Alkerwi A, Aly E, Amouyel P, Amuzu A, Andersen LB, Anderssen SA, Angquist L, Anjana RM, Ansong D, Aounallah-Skhiri H, Araujo J, Ariansen I, Aris T, Arlappa N, Aryal K, Arveiler D, Assah FK, Assuncao MCF, Avdicova M, Azevedo A, Azizi F, Babu BV, Bahijri S, Balakrishna N, Bandosz P, Banegas JR, Barbagallo CM, Barcelo A, Barkat A, Barros AJD, Barros MV, Bata I, Batieha AM, Baur LA, Beaglehole R, Ben Romdhane H, Benet M, Benson LS, Bernabe-Ortiz A, Bernotiene G, Bettiol H, Bhagyalaxmi A, Bharadwaj S, Bhargava SK, Bi YF, Bikbov M, Bjerregaard P, Bjertness E, Bjokelund C, Blokstra A, Bo S, Bobak M, Boeing H, Boggia JG, Boissonnet CP, Bongard V, Bovet P, Braeckman L, Brajkovich I, Branca F, Breckenkamp J, Brenner H, Brewster LM, Bruno G, Bueno-de-Mesquita HB, Bugge A, Burns C, Bursztyn M, de Leon AC, Cameron C, Can G, Candido APC, Capuano V, Cardoso VC, Carlsson AC, Carvalho MJ, Casanueva FF, Casanueva FF, Casas JP, Caserta CA, Chamukuttan S, Chan AW, Chan Q, Chaturvedi HK, Chaturvedi N, Chen CJ, Chen FF, Chen HS, Chen S, Chen ZM, Cheng CY, Dekkaki IC, Chetrit A, Chiolero A, Chiou ST, Chirita-Emandi A, Cho B, Cho Y, Chudek J, Cifkova R, Claessens F, Clays E, Concin H, Cooper C, Cooper R, Coppinger TC, Costanzo S, Cottel D, Cowell C, Craig CL, Crujeiras AB, Cruz JJ, D'Arrigo G, d'Orsi E, Dallongeville J, Damasceno A, Danaei G, Dankner R, Dantoft TM, Dauchet L, De Backer G, de Gaetano G, De Henauw S, De Smedt D, Deepa M, Dehghan A, Delisle H, Deschamps V, Dhana K, Di Castelnuovo AF, Dias-da-Costa JS, Diaz A, Dickerson TT, Djalalinia S, Do HTP, Dobson AJ, Donfrancesco C, Donoso SP, Doring A, Doua K, Drygas W, Dulskiene V, Dzakula A, Dzerve V, Dziankowska-Zaborszczyk E, Eggertsen R, Ekelund U, El Ati J, Ellert U, Elliott P, Elosua R, Erasmus RT, Erem C, Eriksen L, Escobedo-de la Pena J, Evans A, Faeh D, Fall CH, Farzadfar F, Felix-Redondo FJ, Ferguson TS, Fernandez-Berges D, Ferrante D, Ferrari M, Ferreccio C, Ferrieres J, Finn JD, Fischer K, Foger B, Foo LH, Forslund AS, Forsner M, Fortmann SP, Fouad HM, Francis DK, Franco MD, Franco OH, Frontera G, Fuchs FD, Fuchs SC, Fujita Y, Furusawa T, Gaciong Z, Gareta D, Garnett SP, Gaspoz JM, Gasull M, Gates L, Gavrila D, Geleijnse JM, Ghasemian A, Ghimire A, Giampaoli S, Gianfagna F, Giovannelli J, Goldsmith RA, Goncalves H, Gross MG, Rivas JPG, Gottrand F, Graff-Iversen S, Grafnetter D, Grajda A, Gregor RD, Grodzicki T, Grontved A, Gruden G, Grujic V, Gu DF, Guan OP, Gudnason V, Guerrero R, Guessous I, Guimaraes AL, Gulliford MC, Gunnlaugsdottir J, Gunter M, Gupta PC, Gureje O, Gurzkowska B, Gutierrez L, Gutzwiller F, Hadaegh F, Halkjaer J, Hambleton IR, Hardy R, Harikumar R, Hata J, Hayes AJ, He J, Hendriks ME, Henriques A, Cadena LH, Herqutanto, Herrala S, Heshmat R, Hihtaniemi IT, Ho SY, Ho SC, Hobbs M, Hofman A, Dinc GH, Hormiga CM, Horta BL, Houti L, Howitt C, Htay TT, Htet AS, Hu YH, Huerta JM, Husseini AS, Huybrechts I, Hwalla N, Iacoviello L, Iannone AG, Ibrahim MM, Ikram MA, Irazola VE, Islam M, Ivkovic V, Iwasaki M, Jackson RT, Jacobs JM, Jafar T, Jamrozik K, Janszky I, Jasienska G, Jelakovic B, Jiang CQ, Johansson M, Jonas JB, Jorgensen T, Joshi P, Juolevi A, Jurak G, Juresa V, Kaaks R, Kafatos A, Kalter-Leibovici O, Kamaruddin NA, Kasaeian A, Katz J, Kauhanen J, Kaur P, Kavousi M, Kazakbaeva G, Keil U, Boker LK, Keinanen-Kiukaanniemi S, Kelishadi R, Kemper HCG, Kengne AP, Kersting M, Key T, Khader YS, Khalili D, Khang YH, Khaw KT, Kiechl S, Killewo J, Kim J, Klumbiene J, Kolle E, Kolsteren P, Korrovits P, Koskinen S, Kouda K, Koziel S, Kristensen PL, Krokstad S, Kromhout D, Kruger HS, Kubinova R, Kuciene R, Kuh D, Kujala UM, Kula K, Kulaga Z, Kumar RK, Kurjata P, Kusuma YS, Kuulasmaa K, Kyobutungi C, Laatikainen T, Lachat C, Landrove O, Lanska V, Lappas G, Larijani B, Laugsand LE, Laxmaiah A, Bao KLN, Le TD, Leclercq C, Lee J, Lee J, Lehtimaki T, Lekhraj R, Leon-Munoz LM, Levitt NS, Li YP, Lilly CL, Lim WY, Lima-Costa MF, Lin HH, Lin X, Linneberg A, Lissner L, Litwin M, Liu J, Lorbeer R, Lotufo PA, Lozano JE, Luksiene D, Lundqvist A, Lunet N, Lytsy P, Ma GS, Ma J, Machado-Coelho GLL, Machi S, Maggi S, Magliano DJ, Majer M, Makdisse M, Malekzadeh R, Malhotra R, Rao KM, Malyutina S, Manios Y, Mann JI, Manzato E, Margozzini P, Marques-Vidal P, Marrugat J, Martorell R, Mathiesen EB, Matijasevich A, Matsha TE, Mbanya JCN, Posso AJM, McFarlane SR, McFarlane SR, McGarvey ST, McLachlan S, McLean RM, McNulty BA, Khir ASM, Mediene-Benchekor S, Medzioniene J, Meirhaeghe A, Meisinger C, Menezes AMB, Menon GR, Meshram II, Metspalu A, Mi J, Mikkel K, Miller JC, Miquel JF, Miranda JJ, Misigoj-Durakovic M, Mohamed MK, Mohammad K, Mohammadifard N, Mohan V, Yusoff MFM, Moller NC, Molnar D, Momenan A, Mondo CK, Monyeki KDK, Moreira LB, Morejon A, Moreno LA, Morgan K, Moschonis G, Mossakowska M, Mostafa A, Mota J, Motlagh ME, Motta J, Muiesan ML, Muller-Nurasyid M, Murphy N, Mursu J, Musil V, Nagel G, Naidu BM, Nakamura H, Namsna J, Nang EEK, Nangia VB, Narake S, Navarrete-Munoz EM, Ndiaye NC, Neal WA, Nenko I, Nervi F, Neuhauser HK, Nguyen ND, Nguyen QN, Nieto-Martinez RE, Niiranen TJ, Ning G, Ninomiya T, Nishtar S, Noale M, Noboa OA, Noorbala AA, Norat T, Noto D, Al Nsour M, O'Reilly D, Oh K, Olinto MTA, Oliveira IO, Omar MA, Onat A, Ordunez P, Osmond C, Ostojic SM, Otero JA, Overvad K, Owusu-Dabo E, Paccaud FM, Padez C, Pahomova E, Pajak A, Palli D, Palmieri L, Panda-Jonas S, Panza F, Papandreou D, Parnell WR, Parsaeian M, Pecin I, Pednekar MS, Peer N, Peeters PH, Peixoto SV, Pelletier C, Peltonen M, Pereira AC, Perez RM, Peters A, Petkeviciene J, Peykari N, Pham ST, Pigeot I, Pikhart H, Pilav A, Pilotto L, Pitakaka F, Plans-Rubio P, Polakowska M, Polasek O, Porta M, Portegies MLP, Pourshams A, Pradeepa R, Prashant M, Price JF, Puiu M, Punab M, Qasrawi RF, Qorbani M, Radic I, Radisauskas R, Rahman M, Raitakari O, Raj M, Rao SR, Ramos E, Rampal S, Reina DAR, Rasmussen F, Redon J, Reganit PFM, Ribeiro R, Riboli E, Rigo F, de Wit TFR, Ritti-Dias RM, Robinson SM, Robitaille C, Rodriguez-Artalejo F, Rodriguez-Villamizar LA, Rojas-Martinez R, Rosengren A, Rubinstein A, Rui O, Ruiz-Betancourt BS, Horimoto ARVR, Rutkowski M, Sabanayagam C, Sachdev HS, Saidi O, Sakarya S, Salanave B, Martinez ES, Salmeron D, Salomaa V, Salonen JT, Salvetti M, Sanchez-Abanto J, Sans S, Santos D, Santos IS, dos Santos RN, Santos R, Saramies JL, Sardinha LB, Margolis GS, Sarrafzadegan N, Saum KU, Savva SC, Scazufca M, Schargrodsky H, Schneider IJ, Schultsz C, Schutte AE, Sen A, Senbanjo IO, Sepanlou SG, Sharma SK, Shaw JE, Shibuya K, Shin DW, Shin YC, Siantar R, Sibai AM, Silva DAS, Simon M, Simons J, Simons LA, Sjotrom M, Skovbjerg S, Slowikowska-Hilczer J, Slusarczyk P, Smeeth L, Smith MC, Snijder MB, So HK, Sobngwi E, Soderberg S, Solfrizzi V, Sonestedt E, Song Y, Sorensen TIA, Soric M, Jerome CS, Soumare A, Staessen JA, Starc G, Stathopoulou MG, Stavreski B, Steene-Johannessen J, Stehle P, Stein AD, Stergiou GS, Stessman J, Stieber J, Stockl D, Stocks T, Stokwiszewski J, Stronks K, Strufaldi MW, Sun CA, Sundstrom J, Sung YT, Suriyawongpaisal P, Sy RG, Tai ES, Tammesoo ML, Tamosiunas A, Tang L, Tang X, Tanser F, Tao Y, Tarawneh MR, Tarqui-Mamani CB, Taylor A, Theobald H, Thijs L, Thuesen BH, Tjonneland A, Tolonen HK, Topbas M, Topor-Madry R, Tormo MJ, Torrent M, Traissac P, Trichopoulos D, Trichopoulou A, Trinh OTH, Trivedi A, Tshepo L, Tulloch-Reid MK, Tuomainen TP, Turley ML, Tynelius P, Tzourio C, Ueda P, Ugel E, Ulmer H, Uusitalo HMT, Valdivia G, Valvi D, van der Schouw YT, Van Herck K, van Rossem L, van Valkengoed IGM, Vanderschueren D, Vanuzzo D, Vatten L, Vega T, Velasquez-Melendez G, Veronesi G, Verschuren WMM, Verstraeten R, Victora CG, Viet L, Viikari-Juntura E, Vineis P, Vioque J, Virtanen JK, Visvikis-Siest S, Viswanathan B, Vollenweider P, Vrdoljak A, Vrijheid M, Wade AN, Wagner A, Walton J, Mohamud WNW, Wang MD, Wang Q, Wang YX, Wannamethee SG, Wareham N, Wederkopp N, Weerasekera D, Whincup PH, Widhalm K, Widyahening IS, Wiecek A, Wijga AH, Wilks RJ, Willeit P, Williams EA, Wilsgaard T, Wojtyniak B, Wong TY, Wong-McClure RA, Woo J, Woodward M, Wu AG, Wu FC, Wu SL, Xu HQ, Yan WL, Yang XG, Ye XW, Yiallouros PK, Yoshihara A, Younger-Coleman NO, Yusoff AF, Zambon S, Zdrojewski T, Zeng Y, Zhao D, Zhao WH, Zheng Y, Zhu D, Zimmermann E, Cisneros JZ
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

Sex Differences and Similarities in Atrial Fibrillation Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Mortality in Community Cohorts Results From the BiomarCaRE Consortium (Biomarker for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Europe) (2017)

Circulation
Magnussen C, Niiranen TJ, Ojeda FM, Gianfagna F, Blankenberg S, Njolstad I, Vartiainen E, Sans S, Pasterkamp G, Hughes M, Costanzo S, Donati MB, Jousilahti P, Linneberg A, Palosaari T, de Gaetano G, Bobak M, den Ruijter HM, Mathiesen E, Jorgensen T, Soderberg S, Kuulasmaa K, Zeller T, Iacoviello L, Salomaa V, Schnabel RB
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

Lipoprotein(a) and the risk of cardiovascular disease in the European population: results from the BiomarCaRE consortium (2017)

Waldeyer C, Makarova N, Zeller T, Schnabel RB, Brunner FJ, Jorgensen T, Linneberg A, Niiranen T, Salomaa V, Jousilahti P, Yarnell J, Ferrario MM, Veronesi G, Brambilla P, Signorini SG, Iacoviello L, Costanzo S, Giampaoli S, Palmieri L, Meisinger C, Thorand B, Kee F, Koenig W, Ojeda F, Kontto J, Landmesser U, Kuulasmaa K, Blankenberg S
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

Novel Blood Pressure Locus and Gene Discovery Using Genome-Wide Association Study and Expression Data Sets From Blood and the Kidney (2017)

Hypertension
Wain LV, Vaez A, Jansen R, Joehanes R, van der Most PJ, Erzurumluoglu AM, O'Reilly PF, Cabrera CP, Warren HR, Rose LM, Verwoert GC, Hottenga JJ, Strawbridge RJ, Esko T, Arking DE, Hwang SJ, Guo XQ, Kutalik Z, Trompet S, Shrine N, Teumer A, Ried JS, Bis JC, Smith AV, Amin N, Nolte IM, Lyytikainen LP, Mahajan A, Wareham NJ, Hofer E, Joshi PK, Kristiansson K, Traglia M, Havulinna AS, Goel A, Nalls MA, Sober S, Vuckovic D, Luan JA, Del Greco F, Ayers KL, Marrugat J, Ruggiero D, Lopez LM, Niiranen T, Enroth S, Jackson AU, Nelson CP, Huffman JE, Zhang WH, Marten J, Gandin I, Harris SE, Zemunik T, Lu YC, Evangelou E, Shah N, de Borst MH, Mangino M, Prins BP, Campbell A, Li-Gao RF, Chauhan G, Oldmeadow C, Abecasis G, Abedi M, Barbieri CM, Barnes MR, Batini C, Beilby J, Blake T, Boehnke M, Bottinger EP, Braund PS, Brown M, Brumat M, Campbell H, Chambers JC, Cocca M, Collins F, Connell J, Cordell HJ, Damman JJ, Davies G, de Geus EJ, de Mutsert R, Deelen J, Demirkale Y, Doney ASF, Dorr M, Farrall M, Ferreira T, Franberg M, Gao H, Giedraitis V, Gieger C, Giulianini F, Gow AJ, Hamsten A, Harris TB, Hofman A, Holliday EG, Hui JN, Jarvelin MR, Johansson A, Johnson AD, Jousilahti P, Jula A, Kahonen M, Kathiresan S, Khaw KT, Kolcic I, Koskinen S, Langenberg C, Larson M, Launer LJ, Lehne B, Liewald DCM, Lin L, Lind L, Mach F, Mamasoula C, Menni C, Mifsud B, Milaneschi Y, Morgan A, Morris AD, Morrison AC, Munson PJ, Nandakumar P, Nguyen QT, Nutile T, Oldehinkel AJ, Oostra BA, Org E, Padmanabhan S, Palotie A, Pare G, Pattie A, Penninx BWJH, Poulter N, Pramstaller PP, Raitakari OT, Ren MX, Rice K, Ridker PM, Riese H, Ripatti S, Robino A, Rotter JI, Rudan I, Saba Y, Saint Pierre A, Sala CF, Sarin AP, Schmidt R, Scott R, Seelen MA, Shields DC, Siscovick D, Sorice R, Stanton A, Stott DJ, Sundstrom J, Swertz M, Taylor KD, Thom S, Tzoulaki I, Tzourio C, Uitterlinden AG, Volker U, Vollenweider P, Wild S, Willemsen G, Wright AF, Yao J, Theriault S, Conen D, Attia J, Sever P, Debette S, Mook-Kanamori DO, Zeggini E, Spector TD, van der Harst P, Palmer CNA, Vergnaud AC, Loos RJF, Polasek O, Starr JM, Girotto G, Hayward C, Kooner JS, Lindgren CM, Vitart V, Samani NJ, Tuomilehto J, Gyllensten U, Knekt P, Deary IJ, Ciullo M, Elosua R, Keavney BD, Hicks AA, Scott RA, Gasparini P, Laan M, Liu Y, Watkins H, Hartman CA, Salomaa V, Toniolo D, Perola M, Wilson JF, Schmidt H, Zhao JH, Lehtimaki T, van Duijn CM, Gudnason V, Psaty BM, Peters A, Rettig R, James A, Jukema JW, Strachan DP, Palmas W, Metspalu A, Ingelsson E, Boomsma DI, Franco OH, Bochud M, Newton-Cheh C, Munroe PB, Elliott P, Chasman DI, Chakravarti A, Knight J, Morris AP, Levy D, Tobin MD, Snieder H, Caulfield MJ, Ehret GB, Alistair TY, Betholdson JP, Xiao LM, Xiao LM, Alistair TY, Betholdson JP, Caulfield MJ, Ehret GB
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))