MD, PhD Teemu Niiranen - UTU Tutkimustietojärjestelmä

Teemu Niiranen
MD, PhD

- Professor,
Internal Medicine (Department of Clinical Medicine)

tejuni@utu.fi

ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7394-7487

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

18 of 30

Orthostatic Hypotension and Intensive Blood Pressure Treatment: No Need to Worry? (2020)
- Hypertension
Niiranen Teemu J.
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal)
Phenotypes of masked hypertension: Isolated ambulatory, isolated home and dual masked hypertension (2020)
- Journal of Hypertension
George S. Stergiou, Konstantinos G. Kyriakoulis, Richard J. McManus, Emmanuel A. Andreadis, Antti Jula, Anastasios Kollias, Annika Lindroos, Angeliki Ntineri, Claire Schwartz, Teemu J. Niiranen
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Population trends in aortic valve surgery in Finland between 2001 and 2016 (2020)
- Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal
Monna E. Myllykangas, Jarmo M. Gunn, Arto Pietilä, Tuomas O. Kiviniemi, Ville Kytö, Teemu J. Niiranen, Veikko V. Salomaa, Jenni Aittokallio
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol (2020)
- Nature
Taddei C., Zhou B., Bixby H., Carrillo-Larco R.M., Danaei G., Jackson R.T., Farzadfar F., Sophiea M.K., Di Cesare M., Iurilli M.L.C., Martinez A.R., Asghari G., Dhana K., Gulayin P., Kakarmath S., Santero M., Voortman T., Riley L.M., Cowan M.J., Savin S., Bennett J.E., Stevens G.A., Paciorek C.J., Aekplakorn W., Cifkova R., Giampaoli S., Kengne A.P., Khang Y.-H., Kuulasmaa K., Laxmaiah A., Margozzini P., Mathur P., Nordestgaard B.G., Zhao D., Aadahl M., Abarca-Gómez L., Rahim H.A., Abu-Rmeileh N.M., Acosta-Cazares B., Adams R.J., Agdeppa I.A., Aghazadeh-Attari J., Aguilar-Salinas C.A., Agyemang C., Ahluwalia T.S., Ahmad N.A., Ahmadi A., Ahmadi N., Ahmed S.H., Ahrens W., Ajlouni K., Alarouj M., AlBuhairan F., AlDhukair S., Ali M.M., Alkandari A., Alkerwi A., Aly E., Amarapurkar D.N., Amouyel P., Andersen L.B., Anderssen S.A., Anjana R.M., Ansari-Moghaddam A., Aounallah-Skhiri H., Araújo J., Ariansen I., Aris T., Arku R.E., Arlappa N., Aryal K.K., Aspelund T., Assunção M.C.F., Auvinen J., Avdicová M., Azevedo A., Azizi F., Azmin M., Balakrishna N., Bamoshmoosh M., Banach M., Bandosz P., Banegas J.R., Barbagallo C.M., Barceló A., Barkat A., Bata I., Batieha A.M., Batyrbek A., Baur L.A., Beaglehole R., Belavendra A., Ben Romdhane H., Benet M., Benn M., Berkinbayev S., Bernabe-Ortiz A., Bernotiene G., Bettiol H., Bhargava S.K., Bi Y., Bienek A., Bikbov M., Bista B., Bjerregaard P., Bjertness E., Bjertness M.B., Björkelund C., Bloch K.V., Blokstra A., Bo S., Boehm B.O., Boggia J.G., Boissonnet C.P., Bonaccio M., Bongard V., Borchini R., Borghs H., Bovet P., Brajkovich I., Breckenkamp J., Brenner H., Brewster L.M., Bruno G., Bugge A., Busch M.A., de León A.C., Cacciottolo J., Can G., Cândido A.P.C., Capanzana M.V., Capuano E., Capuano V., Cardoso V.C., Carvalho J., Casanueva F.F., Censi L., Chadjigeorgiou C.A., Chamukuttan S., Chaturvedi N., Chen C.-J., Chen F., Chen S., Cheng C.-Y., Cheraghian B., Chetrit A., Chiou S.-T., Chirlaque M.-D., Cho B., Cho Y., Chudek J., Claessens F., Clarke J., Clays E., Concin H., Confortin S.C., Cooper C., Costanzo S., Cottel D., Cowell C., Crujeiras A.B., Csilla S., Cui L., Cureau F.V., D’Arrigo G., d’Orsi E., Dallongeville J., Damasceno A., Dankner R., Dantoft T.M., Dauchet L., Davletov K., De Backer G., De Bacquer D., de Gaetano G., De Henauw S., de Oliveira P.D., De Ridder D., De Smedt D., Deepa M., Deev A.D., Dehghan A., Delisle H., Dennison E., Deschamps V., Dhimal M., Di Castelnuovo A.F., Dika Z., Djalalinia S., Dobson A.J., Donfrancesco C., Donoso S.P., Döring A., Dorobantu M., Dragano N., Drygas W., Du Y., Duante C.A., Duda R.B., Dzerve V., Dziankowska-Zaborszczyk E., Eddie R., Eftekhar E., Eggertsen R., Eghtesad S., Eiben G., Ekelund U., El Ati J., Eldemire-Shearer D., Eliasen M., Elosua R., Erasmus R.T., Erbel R., Erem C., Eriksen L., Eriksson J.G., Escobedo-de la Peña J., Eslami S., Esmaeili A., Evans A., Faeh D., Fall C.H., Faramarzi E., Farjam M., Fattahi M.R., Felix-Redondo F.J., Ferguson T.S., Fernández-Bergés D., Ferrante D., Ferrari M., Ferreccio C., Ferrieres J., Föger B., Foo L.H., Forslund A.-S., Forsner M., Fouad H.M., Francis D.K., do Carmo Franco M., Franco O.H., Frontera G., Fujita Y., Fumihiko M., Furusawa T., Gaciong Z., Galvano F., Gao J., Garcia-de-la-Hera M., Garnett S.P., Gaspoz J.-M., Gasull M., Gazzinelli A., Geleijnse J.M., Ghanbari A., Ghasemi E., Gheorghe-Fronea O.-F., Ghimire A., Gianfagna F., Gill T.K., Giovannelli J., Gironella G., Giwercman A., Goltzman D., Gonçalves H., Gonzalez-Chica D.A., Gonzalez-Gross M., González-Rivas J.P., González-Villalpando C., González-Villalpando M.-E., Gonzalez A.R., Gottrand F., Graff-Iversen S., Grafnetter D., Gregor R.D., Grodzicki T., Grøntved A., Grosso G., Gruden G., Gu D., Guallar-Castillón P., Guan O.P., Gudmundsson E.F., Gudnason V., Guerrero R., Guessous I., Gunnlaugsdottir J., Gupta R., Gutierrez L., Gutzwiller F., Ha S., Hadaegh F., Haghshenas R., Hakimi H., Hambleton I.R., Hamzeh B., Hantunen S., Kumar R.H., Hashemi-Shahri S.M., Hata J., Haugsgjerd T., Hayes A.J., He J., He Y., Hendriks M.E., Henriques A., Herrala S., Heshmat R., Hill A.G., Ho S.Y., Ho S.C., Hobbs M., Hofman A., Homayounfar R., Hopman W.M., Horimoto A.R.V.R., Hormiga C.M., Horta B.L., Houti L., Howitt C., Htay T.T., Htet A.S., Htike M.M.T., Huerta J.M., Huhtaniemi I.T., Huisman M., Hunsberger M.L., Husseini A.S., Huybrechts I., Hwalla N., Iacoviello L., Iannone A.G., Ibrahim M.M., Wong N.I., Iglesia I., Ikeda N., Ikram M.A., Iotova V., Irazola V.E., Ishida T., Islam M., al-Safi Ismail A., Iwasaki M., Jacobs J.M., Jaddou H.Y., Jafar T., James K., Jamrozik K., Janszky I., Janus E., Jarvelin M.-R., Jasienska G., Jelakovic A., Jelakovic B., Jennings G., Jensen G.B., Jeong S.-L., Jha A.K., Jiang C.Q., Jimenez R.O., Jöckel K.-H., Joffres M., Jokelainen J.J., Jonas J.B., Jørgensen T., Joshi P., Joukar F., Józwiak J., Juolevi A., Kafatos A., Kajantie E.O., Kalter-Leibovici O., Kamaruddin N.A., Kamstrup P.R., Karki K.B., Katz J., Kauhanen J., Kaur P., Kavousi M., Kazakbaeva G., Keil U., Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi S., Kelishadi R., Keramati M., Kerimkulova A., Kersting M., Khader Y.S., Khalili D., Khateeb M., Kheradmand M., Khosravi A., Kiechl-Kohlendorfer U., Kiechl S., Killewo J., Kim H.C., Kim J., Kim Y.-Y., Klumbiene J., Knoflach M., Ko S., Kohler H.-P., Kohler I.V., Kolle E., Kolsteren P., König J., Korpelainen R., Korrovits P., Kos J., Koskinen S., Kouda K., Kowlessur S., Kratzer W., Kriemler S., Kristensen P.L., Krokstad S., Kromhout D., Kujala U.M., Kurjata P., Kyobutungi C., Laamiri F.Z., Laatikainen T., Lachat C., Laid Y., Lam T.H., Lambrinou C.-P., Lanska V., Lappas G., Larijani B., Latt T.S., Laugsand L.E., Lazo-Porras M., Lee J., Lee J., Lehmann N., Lehtimäki T., Levitt N.S., Li Y., Lilly C.L., Lim W.-Y., Lima-Costa M.F., Lin H.-H., Lin X., Lin Y.-T., Lind L., Linneberg A., Lissner L., Liu J., Loit H.-M., Lopez-Garcia E., Lopez T., Lotufo P.A., Lozano J.E., Luksiene D., Lundqvist A., Lundqvist R., Lunet N., Ma G., Machado-Coelho G.L.L., Machado-Rodrigues A.M., Machi S., Madar A.A., Maggi S., Magliano D.J., Magriplis E., Mahasampath G., Maire B., Makdisse M., Malekzadeh F., Malekzadeh R., Rao K.M., Manios Y., Mann J.I., Mansour-Ghanaei F., Manzato E., Marques-Vidal P., Martorell R., Mascarenhas L.P., Mathiesen E.B., Matsha T.E., Mavrogianni C., McFarlane S.R., McGarvey S.T., McLachlan S., McLean R.M., McLean S.B., McNulty B.A., Mediene-Benchekor S., Mehdipour P., Mehlig K., Mehrparvar A.H., Meirhaeghe A., Meisinger C., Menezes A.M.B., Menon G.R., Merat S., Mereke A., Meshram I.I., Metcalf P., Meyer H.E., Mi J., Michels N., Miller J.C., Minderico C.S., Mini G.K., Miquel J.F., Miranda J.J., Mirjalili M.R., Mirrakhimov E., Modesti P.A., Moghaddam S.S., Mohajer B., Mohamed M.K., Mohammad K., Mohammadi Z., Mohammadifard N., Mohammadpourhodki R., Mohan V., Mohanna S., Yusoff M.F.M., Mohebbi I., Mohebi F., Moitry M., Møllehave L.T., Møller N.C., Molnár D., Momenan A., Mondo C.K., Monterrubio-Flores E., Moosazadeh M., Morejon A., Moreno L.A., Morgan K., Morin S.N., Moschonis G., Mossakowska M., Mostafa A., Mota J., Motlagh M.E., Motta J., Msyamboza K.P., Muiesan M.L., Müller-Nurasyid M., Mursu J., Mustafa N., Nabipour I., Naderimagham S., Nagel G., Naidu B.M., Najafi F., Nakamura H., Námešná J., Nang E.E.K., Nangia V.B., Nauck M., Neal W.A., Nejatizadeh A., Nenko I., Nervi F., Nguyen N.D., Nguyen Q.N., Nieto-Martínez R.E., Nihal T., Niiranen T.J., Ning G., Ninomiya T., Noale M., Noboa O.A., Noto D., Nsour M.A., Nuhoğlu I., O’Neill T.W., O’Reilly D., Ochoa-Avilés A.M., Oh K., Ohtsuka R., Olafsson Ö., Olié V., Oliveira I.O., Omar M.A., Onat A., Ong S.K., Ordunez P., Ornelas R., Ortiz P.J., Osmond C., Ostojic S.M., Ostovar A., Otero J.A., Owusu-Dabo E., Paccaud F.M., Pahomova E., Pajak A., Palmieri L., Pan W.-H., Panda-Jonas S., Panza F., Parnell W.R., Patel N.D., Peer N., Peixoto S.V., Peltonen M., Pereira A.C., Peters A., Petersmann A., Petkeviciene J., Peykari N., Pham S.T., Pichardo R.N., Pigeot I., Pilav A., Pilotto L., Piwonska A., Pizarro A.N., Plans-Rubió P., Plata S., Pohlabeln H., Porta M., Portegies M.L.P., Poudyal A., Pourfarzi F., Poustchi H., Pradeepa R., Price J.F., Providencia R., Puder J.J., Puhakka S.E., Punab M., Qorbani M., Bao T.Q., Radisauskas R., Rahimikazerooni S., Raitakari O., Rao S.R., Ramachandran A., Ramos E., Ramos R., Rampal L., Rampal S., Redon J., Reganit P.F.M., Revilla L., Rezaianzadeh A., Ribeiro R., Richter A., Rigo F., Rinke de Wit T.F., Rodríguez-Artalejo F., del Cristo Rodriguez-Perez M., Rodríguez-Villamizar L.A., Roggenbuck U., Rojas-Martinez R., Romaguera D., Romeo E.L., Rosengren A., Roy J.G.R., Rubinstein A., Ruidavets J.-B., Ruiz-Betancourt B.S., Russo P., Rust P., Rutkowski M., Sabanayagam C., Sachdev H.S., Sadjadi A., Safarpour A.R., Safiri S., Saidi O., Saki N., Salanave B., Salmerón D., Salomaa V., Salonen J.T., Salvetti M., Sánchez-Abanto J., Sans S., Santaliestra-Pasías A.M., Santos D.A., Santos M.P., Santos R., Saramies J.L., Sardinha L.B., Sarrafzadegan N., Saum K.-U., Savva S.C., Sawada N., Sbaraini M., Scazufca M., Schaan B.D., Schargrodsky H., Scheidt-Nave C., Schienkiewitz A., Schipf S., Schmidt C.O., Schöttker B., Schramm S., Sebert S., Sein A.A., Sen A., Sepanlou S.G., Servais J., Shakeri R., Shalnova S.A., Shamah-Levy T., Sharafkhah M., Sharma S.K., Shaw J.E., Shayanrad A., Shi Z., Shibuya K., Shimizu-Furusawa H., Shin D.W., Shin Y., Shirani M., Shiri R., Shrestha N., Si-Ramlee K., Siani A., Siantar R., Sibai A.M., Silva D.A.S., Simon M., Simons J., Simons L.A., Sjöström M., Skaaby T., Slowikowska-Hilczer J., Slusarczyk P., Smeeth L., Snijder M.B., Söderberg S., Soemantri A., Sofat R., Solfrizzi V., Somi M.H., Sonestedt E., Sørensen T.I.A., Jérome C.S., Soumaré A., Sozmen K., Sparrenberger K., Staessen J.A., Stathopoulou M.G., Stavreski B., Steene-Johannessen J., Stehle P., Stein A.D., Stessman J., Stevanović R., Stieber J., Stöckl D., Stokwiszewski J., Stronks K., Strufaldi M.W., Suárez-Medina R., Sun C.-A., Sundström J., Suriyawongpaisal P., Sy R.G., Sylva R.C., Szklo M., Tai E.S., Tamosiunas A., Tan E.J., Tarawneh M.R., Tarqui-Mamani C.B., Taylor A., Taylor J., Tell G.S., Tello T., Thankappan K.R., Thijs L., Thuesen B.H., Toft U., Tolonen H.K., Tolstrup J.S., Topbas M., Topór-Madry R., Tormo M.J., Tornaritis M.J., Torrent M., Torres-Collado L., Traissac P., Trinh O.T.H., Truthmann J., Tsugane S., Tulloch-Reid M.K., Tuomainen T.-P., Tuomilehto J., Tybjaerg-Hansen A., Tzourio C., Ueda P., Ugel E., Ulmer H., Unal B., Uusitalo H.M.T., Valdivia G., Valvi D., van Dam R.M., van der Schouw Y.T., Van Herck K., Van Minh H., van Rossem L., Van Schoor N.M., van Valkengoed I.G.M., Vanderschueren D., Vanuzzo D., Varbo A., Varona-Pérez P., Vasan S.K., Vatten L., Vega T., Veidebaum T., Velasquez-Melendez G., Venero-Fernández S.J., Veronesi G., Verschuren W.M.M., Victora C.G., Vidiawati D., Viet L., Villalpando S., Vioque J., Virtanen J.K., Visvikis-Siest S., Viswanathan B., Vlasoff T., Vollenweider P., Voutilainen A., Wade A.N., Wagner A., Walton J., Bebakar W.M.W., Mohamud W.N.W., Wang M.-D., Wang N., Wang Q., Wang Y.X., Wang Y.-W., Wannamethee S.G., Wedderkopp N., Wei W., Whincup P.H., Widhalm K., Widyahening I.S., Wiecek A., Wijga A.H., Wilks R.J., Willeit J., Willeit P., Wilsgaard T., Wojtyniak B., Wong-McClure R.A., Wong A., Wong T.Y., Woo J., Woodward M., Wu F.C., Wu S., Xu H., Xu L., Yan W., Yang X., Yasuharu T., Ye X., Yeow T.P., Yiallouros P.K., Yoosefi M., Yoshihara A., You S.-L., Younger-Coleman N.O., Yusoff A.F., Zainuddin A.A., Zakavi S.R., Zali M.R., Zamani F., Zambon S., Zampelas A., Zaw K.K., Zdrojewski T., Vrkic T.Z., Zhang Z.-Y., Zhao W., Zhen S., Zheng Y., Zholdin B., Zhussupov B., Zoghlami N., Cisneros J.Z., Gregg E.W., Ezzati M.; NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Seasonal variation in blood pressure: Evidence, consensus and recommendations for clinical practice. Consensus statement by the European Society of Hypertension Working Group on Blood Pressure Monitoring and Cardiovascular Variability (2020)
- Journal of Hypertension
Stergiou George S., Palatini Paolo, Modesti Pietro A., Asayama Kei, Asmar Roland, Bilo Grzegorz, de la Sierra Alejandro, Dolan Eamon, Head Geoffrey, Kario Kazuomi, Kollias Anastasios, Manios Efstathios, Mihailidou Anastasia S., Myers Martin, Niiranen Teemu, Ohkubo Takayoshi, Protogerou Athanasios, Wang Jiguang, O’Brien Eoin, Parati Gianfranco
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal)
Sepelvaltimotaudin ja aivohalvauksen riskin arviointi FINRISKI 2.0 -laskurilla (2020)
- Lääkärilehti
Erkki Vartiainen, Tiina Laatikainen, Pekka Jousilahti, Markku Peltonen, Teemu Niiranen, Veikko Salomaa
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Sex Differences in Blood Pressure Trajectories Over the Life Course (2020)
- JAMA Cardiology
Hongwei Ji, Andy Kim, Joseph E. Ebinger, Teemu J. Niiranen, Brian L. Claggett, C. Noel Bairey Merz, Susan Cheng
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Temporal relations between atrial fibrillation and ischaemic stroke and their prognostic impact on mortality (2020)
- EP-Europace
Camen Stephan, Ojeda Francisco M, Niiranen Teemu, Gianfagna Francesco, Vishram-Nielsen Julie K, Costanzo Simona, Söderberg Stefan, Vartiainen Erkki, Donati Maria Benedetta, Løchen Maja-Lisa, Pasterkamp Gerard, Magnussen Christina, Kee Frank, Jousilahti Pekka, Hughes Maria, Kontto Jukka, Mathiesen Ellisiv B, Koenig Wolfgang, Palosaari Tarja, Blankenberg Stefan, de Gaetano Giovanni, Jørgensen Torben, Zeller Tanja, Kuulasmaa Kari, Linneberg Allan, Salomaa Veikko, Iacoviello Licia, Schnabel Renate B on behalf of the BiomarCaRE consortium
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
The relation of work-related factors with ambulatory blood pressure and nocturnal blood pressure dipping among aging workers (2020)
- International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health
Karelius S., Vahtera J., Pentti J., Lindroos A., Jousilahti P., Heinonen O., Stenholm S., Niiranen T.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
The validity of heart failure diagnoses in the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register (2020)
- Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
Matti A. Vuori, Jari A. Laukkanen, Arto Pietilä, Aki S. Havulinna, Mika Kähönen, Veikko Salomaa, Teemu J. Niiranen; for the FinnGen investigators
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)