Teemu Niiranen
MD, PhD
tejuni@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7394-7487 |
Cardiovascular epidemiology; cohort studies; blood pressure; hypertension; blood pressure measurement
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 >250 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 past chair of the Finnish Hypertension Society and has mentored 12 PhD students. He is a co-author of the Finnish and European Society of Hypertension clinical hypertension guidelines.
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).
Hypertension and clinical epidemioogy.
- Prevalence, Correlates, and Prognosis of Healthy Vascular Aging in a Western Community-Dwelling Cohort The Framingham Heart Study (2017)
- Hypertension
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Prevalence, Correlates, and Prognosis of Healthy Vascular Aging in a Western Community-Dwelling Cohort The Framingham Heart Study (2017)
- Hypertension
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Prognosis of Prehypertension Without Progression to Hypertension (2017) Niiranen TJ, Larson MG, McCabe EL, Xanthakis V, Vasan RS, Cheng S
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Risk for hypertension crosses generations in the community: amulti-generational cohort study (2017) Niiranen TJ, McCabe EL, Larson MG, Henglin M, Lakdawala NK, Vasan RS, Cheng S
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Risk for Hypertension Extends Across Generations in the Community: a Multi-generational Cohort Study (2017)
- Circulation
(Other publication) - 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
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - 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
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Agreement between ambulatory, home, and office blood pressure variability (2016)
- Journal of Hypertension
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Association between thyroid-stimulating hormone and blood pressure in adults: an 11-year longitudinal study (2016)
- Clinical Endocrinology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Comparison of Acceptability of Traditional and Novel Blood Pressure Measurement Methods (2016)
- American Journal of Hypertension
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Epidemiology of cardiovascular disease: recent novel outlooks on risk factors and clinical approaches (2016)
- Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - HDL-hypoteesi valtimotautien tutkimuksessa ja hoidossa - pettmysten jälkeen edessä renessanssi? (2016)
- Sydänääni: Suomen Kardiologisen Seuran Lehti
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - Health 2000 score - development and validation of a novel cardiovascular risk score (2016)
- Annals of Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Methodology and technology for peripheral and central blood pressure and blood pressure variability measurement: current status and future directions - Position statement of the European Society of Hypertension Working Group on blood pressure monitoring and cardiovascular variability (2016)
- Journal of Hypertension
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Prediction of Blood Pressure and Blood Pressure Change With a Genetic Risk Score (2016)
- Journal of Clinical Hypertension
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Prevalence and Determinants of Masked Hypertension Among Black Nigerians Compared With a Reference Population (2016)
- Hypertension
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Relationship between office and home blood pressure with increasing age: The International Database of HOme blood pressure in relation to Cardiovascular Outcome (IDHOCO) (2016)
- Hypertension Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Relative Contributions of Arterial Stiffness and Hypertension to Cardiovascular Disease: The Framingham Heart Study (2016) Niiranen TJ, Kalesan B, Hamburg NM, Benjamin EJ, Mitchell GF, Vasan RS
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Self-reported obstructive sleep apnea, simple snoring, and various markers of sleep-disordered breathing as predictors of cardiovascular risk (2016)
- Sleep and Breathing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The association between home vs. ambulatory night-time blood pressure and end-organ damage in the general population (2016)
- Journal of Hypertension
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)