Markus Juonala
Professor
mataju@utu.fi +358 29 450 2754 +358 50 478 3572 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9498-364X |
Internal medicine; endocrinology; cardiovascular risk
Cardiovascular epidemiology, Young Finns Study, i3c consortium
Professor Markus Juonala (MD,
PhD, University of Turku) is a specialist in internal medicine and
endocrinology at the Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland. Since 2001, he
has been conducting research on longitudinal studies examining the importance
of childhood risk factors on later cardiovascular health. His PhD work was
based primarily on the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study (University of
Turku, April 2005). Since 2008, he has had a major involvement in the
development of the International Childhood Cardiovascular Cohort (i3C)
Consortium that combines the efforts of the main longitudinal studies
worldwide. In June 2014, he was appointed as Professor of Internal Medicine at
the University of Turku. In 2014-2015 and 2018-2019 he has been working as the Dame Elisabeth Murdoch Fellow in Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
(MCRI).
His career
publications total is 270 (h-index 44) with published highlights including a
first-author paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, the first-ranked
general medicine journal, one paper in JAMA, the third-ranked general medicine
journal and 30 papers (11 as first/last author) published in either the number
one, two, or three ranked cardiovascular disease journals (17 in Circulation,
five in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, eight in the
European Heart Journal).
Professor Juonala’s
principal research focus has been to provide novel information on the effects
of childhood risk factors on cardiovascular health in adulthood. Beginning from
the summer of 2008 he has led a research group within the Young Finns Study and
i3c consortium with special interest on cardiometabolic risk factors. The most
important findings of his research have provided information on childhood and
early adulthood risk factors for atherosclerosis, suggesting that childhood
risk factors, such as dyslipidaemia, elevated blood pressure and smoking,
predict early atherosclerosis and its progression independent of adult risk
factors levels. Concerning cardiometabolic risk factors, his group has been
able to show that overweight and metabolic syndrome diagnosed either in childhood or adulthood
is predictive of carotid atherosclerosis and its progression in adulthood.
However, at the time of obesity epidemic, the most important findings concern
the reversibility of cardiovascular risk. His work has demonstrated that although overweight and metabolic syndrome are predictive of early atherosclerosis, favourable changes
in lifestyle associated with weight maintenance or reduction improve
cardiovascular health.
Teaching responsibilities: 1) Internal medicine for medical students, 2) Internal medicine specialisation programme for MDs
Special interest areas: Acute internal medicine, endocrinology, lipidology
- Lapsuuden elintapojen ja elinympäristön merkitys valtimoterveydelle (2022)
- Duodecim
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Long-term cardiovascular prognosis of patients with type 1 diabetes after myocardial infarction (2022)
- Cardiovascular Diabetology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Long-term tracking and population characteristics of lipoprotein (a) in the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study (2022)
- Atherosclerosis
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Major Lower Limb Amputations and Amputees in an Aging Population in Southwest Finland 2007-2017 (2022)
- Clinical Interventions in Aging
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Prevalence Implications of the 2017 American Academy of Pediatrics Hypertension Guideline and Associations with Adult Hypertension (2022)
- Journal of Pediatrics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Relative Contribution of Blood Pressure in Childhood, Young- and Mid-Adulthood to Large Artery Stiffness in Mid-Adulthood (2022)
- Journal of the American Heart Association
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Repeatedly Measured Serum Creatinine and Cognitive Performance in Midlife: The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study (2022)
- Neurology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Risk Factor Profile in Youth, Genetic Risk, and Adulthood Cognitive Function: The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study (2022)
- Neuroepidemiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The effect of adverse and positive experiences on inflammatory markers in Australian and UK children (2022)
- Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - 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) - Adulthood blood levels of hsa-miR-29b-3p associate with preterm birth and adult metabolic and cognitive health (2021)
- Scientific Reports
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Assessment of plasma ceramides as predictor for subclinical atherosclerosis (2021)
- Atherosclerosis Plus
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Association between Number of Siblings and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Childhood and in Adulthood: The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study (2021)
- Journal of Pediatrics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Association of lifetime blood pressure with adulthood exercise blood pressure response: the cardiovascular risk in young Finns study (2021)
- Blood Pressure
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Association of Non-High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Measured in Adolescence, Young Adulthood, and Mid-Adulthood With Coronary Artery Calcification Measured in Mid-Adulthood (2021)
- JAMA Cardiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Associations of Serum Fatty Acid Proportions with Obesity, Insulin Resistance, Blood Pressure, and Fatty Liver: The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study (2021)
- Journal of Nutrition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Birth weight for gestational age and later cardiovascular health: a comparison between longitudinal Finnish and indigenous Australian cohorts (2021)
- Annals of Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Brachial-cuff excess pressure is associated with carotid intima-media thickness among Australian children: a cross-sectional population study (2021)
- Hypertension Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Cardiovascular risk factors before and during pregnancy: Does pregnancy unmask or initiate risk? (2021)
- Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Childhood and Left Ventricular Diastolic Function in Adulthood (2021)
- Pediatrics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)