Risto Kaaja
Professor, Internal Medicine (Department of Clinical Medicine)
riskaa@utu.fi +358 46 922 5738 Kiinamyllynkatu 4-8 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9636-7995 |
Diabetes; Obstetric Medicine; Hypertension; Thrombophilia related to pregnancy; gender differences in diseases
Professor Risto Kaaja (MD, PhD, University of Helsinki) studied medicine in the Faculté Libre de Médecine de Lille, France and specialized in internal medicine in 1986. Thereafter by clinical work in the Women´s Hospital of Helsinki University Hospital (1986-2008) and research became a specialist in obstetric medicine. In January 2009 he was appointed as Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Turku.
Pr. Kaaja has over 200 original publications, 50 reviews in international and local medical journals and books. His main interests have been related to interactions between different medical conditions and pregnancy, above all pre-eclampsia and it´s connections to cardiovascular health later in women´s life. In 2005 he wrote a review on this topic (Pregnancy- a window to women´s health) in JAMA with Pr Ian Greer. He has also written many papers on autoimmune diseases, thromboembolic complications and treatment with low molecular weight heparins. In diabetes, his studies have covered introductions of new insulin analogues during pregnancy and he has been investigator in all pivotal insulin analogue studies concerning safety and efficacy during pregnancy. He has been supervisor in 10 thesis, and opponent in 11 thesis in Finland and abroad.
Teaching responsabilities: 1) Internal medicine and obstetric medicine for medical students and future dentists, 2) Internal medicine specialisation programme for MDs
Special interest areas: obstetric medicine, diabetes and metabolic syndrome in women, gender differences in internal medicine
- Effect of 52-week liraglutide treatment on diabetes risk and glycaemic control in women with obesity and prior gestational diabetes. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study (2025)
- Obesity Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Perinatal and neonatal outcomes in gestational diabetes: The importance of the number of abnormal values in an oral glucose tolerance test (2025)
- Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Sydän ja raskaus (2024) Kardiologia Sinisalo, Juha; Kaaja, Risto
(D2 Article in a professional compilation book) - Associations of low sex hormone-binding globulin and androgen excess in early pregnancy with fasting and post-prandial hyperglycaemia, gestational diabetes, and its severity (2023)
- Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Gestational diabetes is associated with the risk of offspring’s congenital anomalies: a register-based cohort study (2023)
- BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Serum ceramides in early pregnancy as predictors of gestational diabetes (2023)
- Scientific Reports
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The risk of developing type 2 diabetes after gestational diabetes: A registry study from Finland (2023)
- Diabetes epidemiology and management
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Awareness of sex and gender dimensions among physicians: the European federation of internal medicine assessment of gender differences in Europe (EFIM-IMAGINE) survey (2022)
- Internal and Emergency Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Increased Oral Care Needs and Third Molar Symptoms in Women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Finnish Gestational Diabetes Case-Control Study (2022)
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Mitä uutta raskausdiabeteksen hoidosta? : poimintoja Käypä hoito -suosituksen tuoreesta päivityksestä (2022)
- Diabetes ja lääkäri
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - Preconceptual leptin levels in gestational diabetes and hypertensive pregnancy (2022)
- Hypertension in Pregnancy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A multi-centre, open label, randomised, parallel-group, superiority Trial to compare the efficacy of URsodeoxycholic acid with RIFampicin in the management of women with severe early onset Intrahepatic Cholestasis of pregnancy: the TURRIFIC randomised trial (2021)
- BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - IDO activity forecasts obesity in males and premenopausal females in a 10-year follow-up study:The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study (2021)
- Atherosclerosis
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Normal Gestational Weight Gain Protects From Large-for-Gestational-Age Birth Among Women With Obesity and Gestational Diabetes (2021)
- Frontiers in Public Health
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Raskausdiabetes osana rasvamaksatautia (2021)
- Duodecim
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - Cohort Profile: The Finnish Gestational Diabetes (FinnGeDi) Study (2020)
- International Journal of Epidemiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Diabetes (2020) Seksuaalilääketiede Risto Kaaja
(D2 Article in a professional compilation book) - Kohonnut verenpaine – Käypä hoito -suositus (2020) Kohonnut verenpaine – Käypä hoito -suositus Antti Jula, Ilkka Kantola, Päivi Korhonen, Seppo Lehto, Eero Mervaala, Kaj Metsärinne, Teemu Niiranen, Ilkka Pörsti, Timo Strandberg, Mikko Syvänne, Ilkka Tikkanen
(D2 Article in a professional compilation book) - Kohonnut verenpaine – Käypä hoito -suositus päivitystiivistelmä (2020)
- Duodecim
(Other publication) - Metabolic syndrome is not associated with erectile dysfunction in apparently healthy men (2020)
- Primary Care Diabetes
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)