Teemu Niiranen
 MD, PhD


tejuni@utu.fi




ORCID identifierhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7394-7487

Turku Hypertension Center




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 >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.



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).



Teaching

Hypertension and clinical epidemioogy.



Publications
  
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  • Prevalence, Correlates, and Prognosis of Healthy Vascular Aging in a Western Community-Dwelling Cohort The Framingham Heart Study  (2017)  
    • Hypertension
     Niiranen TJ, Lyass A, Larson MG, Hamburg NM, Benjamin EJ, Mitchell GF, Vasan RS
    (
    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
     Niiranen TJ, Lyass A, Larson MG, Hamburg NM, Benjamin EJ, Mitchell GF, Vasan RS
    (
    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
     Niiranen T, McCabe E, Larson M, Lakdawala N, Vasan R, Cheng S
    (
    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
     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
    (
    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
     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
    (
    A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)


  • Agreement between ambulatory, home, and office blood pressure variability  (2016)  
    • Journal of Hypertension
     Juhanoja EP, Niiranen TJ, Johansson JK, Puukka PJ, Jula AM
    (
    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
     Langén VL, Niiranen TJ, Puukka P, Sundvall J, Jula AM
    (
    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
     Lindroos AS, Jula AM, Puukka PJ, Kantola I, Salomaa V, Juhanoja E, Sivén S, Jousilahti P, Niiranen TJ
    (
    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
     Niiranen TJ, Vasan RS
    (
    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
     Ville Langén, Teemu Niiranen
    (
    D1 Article in a professional journal)


  • Health 2000 score - development and validation of a novel cardiovascular risk score  (2016)  
    • Annals of Medicine
     Johansson JK, Puukka PJ, Niiranen TJ, Varis J, Peltonen M, Salomaa V, Jula AM
    (
    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
     Stergiou GS, Parati G, Vlachopoulos C, Achimastos A, Andreadis E, Asmar R, Avolio A, Benetos A, Bilo G, Boubouchairopoulou N, Boutouyrie P, Castiglioni P, de la Sierra A, Dolan E, Head G, Imai Y, Kario K, Kollias A, Kotsis V, Manios E, McManus R, Mengden T, Mihailidou A, Myers M, Niiranen T, Ochoa JE, Ohkubo T, Omboni S, Padfield P, Palatini P, Papaioannou T, Protogerou A, Redon J, Verdecchia P, Wang JG, Zanchetti A, Mancia G, O'Brien E, O'Brien E
    (
    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
     Niiranen TJ, Havulinna AS, Langen VL, Salomaa V, Jula AM
    (
    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
     Odili AN, Thijs L, Hara A, Wei FF, Ogedengbe JO, Nwegbu MM, Aparicio LS, Asayama K, Niiranen TJ, Boggia J, Luzardo L, Jacobs L, Stergiou GS, Johansson JK, Ohkubo T, Jula AM, Imai Y, O'Brien E, Staessen JA
    (
    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
     Ntineri A, Stergiou GS, Thijs L, Asayama K, Boggia J, Boubouchairopoulou N, Hozawa A, Imai Y, Johansson JK, Jula AM, Kollias A, Luzardo L, Niiranen TJ, Nomura K, Ohkubo T, Tsuji I, Tzourio C, Wei FF, Staessen JA
    (
    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
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    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
     Niiranen TJ, Kronholm E, Rissanen H, Partinen M, Jula AM
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    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
     Lindroos AS, Johansson JK, Puukka PJ, Kantola I, Salomaa V, Juhanoja EP, Sivén SS, Jousilahti P, Jula AM, Niiranen TJ
    (
    A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



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