Teemu Niiranen
MD, PhD
tejuni@utu.fi |
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.
- Lifetime risk assessment in cholesterol management among hypertensive patients: observational cross-sectional study based on electronic health record data (2020)
- BMC Family Practice
- Longitudinal blood pressure patterns and cardiovascular disease risk (2020)
- Annals of Medicine
- Mitä teen, kun verenpaine ei ole tavoitteessa? (2020)
- Yleislääkäri
- 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
- Orthostatic Hypotension and Intensive Blood Pressure Treatment: No Need to Worry? (2020)
- Hypertension
- Phenotypes of masked hypertension: Isolated ambulatory, isolated home and dual masked hypertension (2020)
- Journal of Hypertension
- Population trends in aortic valve surgery in Finland between 2001 and 2016 (2020)
- Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal
- Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol (2020)
- Nature
- 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
- Sepelvaltimotaudin ja aivohalvauksen riskin arviointi FINRISKI 2.0 -laskurilla (2020)
- Lääkärilehti
- Sex Differences in Blood Pressure Trajectories Over the Life Course (2020)
- JAMA Cardiology
- Temporal relations between atrial fibrillation and ischaemic stroke and their prognostic impact on mortality (2020)
- EP-Europace
- 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
- The validity of heart failure diagnoses in the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register (2020)
- Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
- Unsupervised hierarchical clustering identifies a metabolically challenged subgroup of hypertensive individuals (2020)
- Journal of Clinical Hypertension
- Agreement Between Ambulatory and Home Blood Pressure Monitoring in Detecting Nighttime Hypertension and Nondipping Patterns in the General Population (2019)
- American Journal of Hypertension
- Ambulatory versus home blood pressure monitoring: frequency and determinants of blood pressure difference and diagnostic disagreement (2019)
- Journal of Hypertension
- A Single Visualization Technique for Displaying Multiple Metabolite-Phenotype Associations (2019)
- Metabolites
- Differential associations of common risk factors and biomarkers with atrial fibrillation and heart failure and their ability to predict sequential disease onset and mortality (2019)
- European Heart Journal
- Directed Non-targeted Mass Spectrometry and Chemical Networking for Discovery of Eicosanoids and Related Oxylipins (2019)
- Cell Chemical Biology



