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.
- Home blood pressure monitoring schedule: optimal and minimum based on 2122 individual participants' data (2022)
- Journal of Hypertension
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - HOME BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING SCHEDULE: OPTIMAL AND MINIMUM BASED ON 2,122 INDIVIDUAL SUBJECTS' DATA (2022)
- Journal of Hypertension
(Other publication) - Interrelations Between High Blood Pressure, Organ Damage, and Cardiovascular Disease: No More Room for Doubt (2022)
- Hypertension
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Multi-Trait Genetic Analysis Reveals Clinically Interpretable Hypertension Subtypes (2022)
- Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Outcomes after coronary artery bypass grafting and percutaneous coronary intervention in diabetic and non-diabetic patients (2022)
- European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Phylogeny-Aware Analysis of Metagenome Community Ecology Based on Matched Reference Genomes while Bypassing Taxonomy (2022)
- MSystems
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Polygenic Risk Scores for Predicting Adverse Outcomes After Coronary Revascularization (2022)
- American Journal of Cardiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Publisher Correction: Stroke genetics informs drug discovery and risk prediction across ancestries (vol 611, pg 115, 2022) (2022)
- Nature
(Other publication) - Risk Factors, Subsequent Disease Onset, and Prognostic Impact of Myocardial Infarction and Atrial Fibrillation (2022)
- Journal of the American Heart Association
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Risk of sudden cardiac death associated with QRS, QTc, and JTc intervals in the general population (2022)
- Heart Rhythm
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Risk Stratification by Cross-Classification of Central and Brachial Systolic Blood Pressure (2022)
- Hypertension
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Sex differences in coronary artery bypass grafting-related morbidity and mortality (2022)
- Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Sex Differences in Myocardial and Vascular Aging (2022)
- Circulation Research
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Stroke genetics informs drug discovery and risk prediction across ancestries (2022)
- Nature
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Substantial Fat Loss in Physique Competitors Is Characterized by Increased Levels of Bile Acids, Very-Long Chain Fatty Acids, and Oxylipins (2022)
- Metabolites
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Suomalaisten suolistomikrobiston koostumus on yhteydessä tyypin 2 diabeteksen riskiin (2022)
- Diabetes ja lääkäri
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - The genomics of heart failure: design and rationale of the HERMES consortium (2022)
- ESC Heart Failure
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The International Database of Central Arterial Properties for Risk Stratification: Research Objectives and Baseline Characteristics of Participants (2022)
- American Journal of Hypertension
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Translating GWAS data into cardiovascular disease prevention - the Finnish experience (2022)
- Blood Pressure Monitoring
(Other publication) - Use of antibiotics and risk of type 2 diabetes, overweight and obesity: the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study and the national FINRISK study (2022)
- BMC Endocrine Disorders
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



