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.
- Genome-wide association analysis identifies novel blood pressure loci and offers biological insights into cardiovascular risk (2017)
- Nature Genetics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Heritability and risks associated with early onset hypertension: multigenerational, prospective analysis in the Framingham Heart Study (2017)
- BMJ
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Heritability and risks associated with early onset hypertension: multigenerational, prospective analysis in the Framingham Heart Study (2017)
- BMJ
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Home versus office blood pressure: longitudinal relations with left ventricular hypertrophy: the Finn-Home study (2017)
- Journal of Hypertension
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Incidence rates, correlates, and prognosis of electrocardiographic P-wave abnormalities - a nationwide population-based study (2017)
- Journal of Electrocardiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - 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
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - 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
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Morning surge and nocturnal dipping pattern: Two different entities or statistical gymnastics? (2017)
- Journal of Clinical Hypertension
(Other publication) - Novel Blood Pressure Locus and Gene Discovery Using Genome-Wide Association Study and Expression Data Sets From Blood and the Kidney (2017)
- Hypertension
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Outcome-Driven Thresholds for Increased Home Blood Pressure Variability (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) - 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)



