Tarja Saaresranta
MD, PhD, Professor
tasaare@utu.fi +358 29 450 4571 +358 46 921 6342 Lemminkäisenkatu 3 b Turku Office: +358 2 3134240 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9328-963X |
sleep-disordered breathing; chronic respiratory failure
sleep-disordered breathing, sleep in middle-aged women, chronic respiratory failure, telemonitoring
Current positions
- Professor of Pulmonary Diseases (50%)
Chief Specialist (50%), Division of Medicine, Dept of Pulmonary Diseases, Turku University Hospital
Coordinating Director (20%), Sleep and Breathing Centre, Turku University Hospital
- Education and degrees awarded
• Specialist in Respiratory Allergology, University of Turku, Finland, 2005
• Degree in Administration and Leadership in Health Care, University of Turku, Finland, 2005
• Registered Educator in Sleep Medicine, Finnish Sleep Research Society, 2005
• Special Competence in Sleep Medicine, Finnish Medical Association, 2001
• PhD, Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, University of Turku, Finland, 2000
• Pulmonary Medicine Specialist, University of Turku, Finland, 1993
• Medical Degree, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, 1986
• Title of docent: Pulmonary Medicine, University of Turku, Finland, 2005
Main research interests:
sleep-disordered breathing; sleep in menopausal women; treatment of chronic respiratory failure
sleep disorders
sleep-disorderd breathing
chronic respiratory failure
- Temporal and sleep stage‐dependent agreement in manual scoring of respiratory events (2025)
- Journal of Sleep Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Treatment choice in mild to moderate sleep apnoea in the European Sleep Apnea Database (2025)
- ERJ Open Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Vastine Tiina Mattilan ja Heidi Avellan-Hietasen kirjoitukseen Erikoislääkäri-lehden numerossa 2/2025: "Uniapnea - päivitys nykytilanteeseen ja HUSin alueellinen hoitopolku" (2025)
- Erikoislääkäri
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - Analysis of sleep apnea research with a special focus on the use of positron emission tomography as a study tool (2024)
- Sleep Medicine Reviews
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Arousal burden is highest in supine sleeping position and during light sleep (2024)
- Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Beat-to-beat cardiac repolarization lability increases during hypoxemia and arousals in obstructive sleep apnea patients (2024)
- American journal of physiology : heart and circulatory physiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Factors predictive of extensive use of CPAP treatment in obstructive sleep apnoea (2024)
- Sleep and Breathing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Home non-invasive ventilation : An observational study of aetiology, chronic respiratory failure of multiple aetiologies, survival and treatment adherence (2024)
- Heliyon
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Morning tiredness and insomnia symptoms are associated with increased blood pressure in midlife women (2024)
- Maturitas
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Obstructive Sleep Apnoea and C-reactive protein levels: Data from the ESADA (2024)
- European Respiratory Journal
(Abstract)
- Sleep revolution01.03.2021 - 31.08.2025
- Pulmonary Diseases and Clinical Allergology
