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.
- Early-Onset Hypertension Under-Recognized, Under-Treated, and Under-Estimated in Risk (2020)
- Journal of the American College of Cardiology
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Eicosanoid Inflammatory Mediators Are Robustly Associated With Blood Pressure in the General Population (2020)
- Journal of the American Heart Association
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure (2020)
- Nature Communications
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Haptoglobin Hp1 Variant Does Not Associate with Small Vessel Disease (2020)
- Brain Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Home Blood Pressure and Preclinical Organ Damage (2020) Home Blood Pressure Monitoring Takayoshi Ohkubo, Kazuomi Kario, Teemu J. Niiranen, Daichi Shimbo, Giuseppe Mancia
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Home Blood Pressure as Predictor of Adverse Health Outcomes (2020) Home Blood Pressure Monitoring Kei Asayama, Teemu J. Niiranen, Takayoshi Ohkubo, George S. Stergiou, Lutgarde Thijs, Yutaka Imai, Jan A. Staessen
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Home Blood Pressure Monitoring Schedule (2020) Home Blood Pressure Monitoring Niiranen TJ, McManus R, Ohkubo T, and Stergiou G
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Kansanterveyden seuranta, arviointi ja ennakointi : mitä tietoa Suomessa saadaan hoitoilmoitusrekistereistä ja mitä väestötutkimuksista? (2020)
- Lääkärilehti
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Kohonnut verenpaine – Käypä hoito -suositus (2020) Kohonnut verenpaine – Käypä hoito -suositus Antti Jula, Ilkka Kantola, Päivi Korhonen, Seppo Lehto, Eero Mervaala, Kaj Metsärinne, Teemu Niiranen, Ilkka Pörsti, Timo Strandberg, Mikko Syvänne, Ilkka Tikkanen
(D2 Article in a professional compilation book) - Kohonnut verenpaine – Käypä hoito -suositus päivitystiivistelmä (2020)
- Duodecim
(Other publication) - Lifetime risk assessment in cholesterol management among hypertensive patients: observational cross-sectional study based on electronic health record data (2020)
- BMC Family Practice
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Longitudinal blood pressure patterns and cardiovascular disease risk (2020)
- Annals of Medicine
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Mitä teen, kun verenpaine ei ole tavoitteessa? (2020)
- Yleislääkäri
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - National trends in total cholesterol obscure heterogeneous changes in HDL and non-HDL cholesterol and total-to-HDL cholesterol ratio: a pooled analysis of 458 population-based studies in Asian and Western countries (2020)
- International Journal of Epidemiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Orthostatic Hypotension and Intensive Blood Pressure Treatment: No Need to Worry? (2020)
- Hypertension
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Phenotypes of masked hypertension: Isolated ambulatory, isolated home and dual masked hypertension (2020)
- Journal of Hypertension
(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
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol (2020)
- Nature
(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
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Sepelvaltimotaudin ja aivohalvauksen riskin arviointi FINRISKI 2.0 -laskurilla (2020)
- Lääkärilehti
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)