Tarja Saaresranta
MD, PhD, Professor
tasaare@utu.fi +358 29 450 4571 +358 46 921 6342 Lemminkäisenkatu 3 b Turku : +358 2 3134240 |
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
- Predicting Visit Cost of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Using Electronic Healthcare Records With Transformer (2023)
- IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine
- Response to the letter entitled "Which treatments are effective in preventing motor vehicle accidents in patients with obstructive sleep apnea?" (2023)
- Sleep and Breathing
- Early signs of sleep-disordered breathing in healthy women predict carotid intima-media thickening after 10 years (2022)
- Sleep Medicine
- Management of obstructive sleep apnea in Europe-A 10-year follow-up (2022)
- Sleep Medicine
- Metabolic dysfunction in OSA: Is there something new under the sun? (2022)
- Journal of Sleep Research
- Multimorbidity and overall comorbidity of sleep apnoea: a Finnish nationwide study (2022)
- ERJ Open Research
- Nocturnal hypoxemia and central apneas increase mortality, but not recurrent ischemic events after ischemic stroke (2022)
- Sleep Medicine
- Perussairauksien hoito on avainasemassa aikuisten sentraalisessa uniapneassa (2022)
- Lääkärilehti
- Uniapneaepidemia - mitä hoidolla saavutetaan? (2022)
- Duodecim
- Documentation of the patient's smoking status in common chronic diseases - analysis of medical' narrative reports using the ULMFiT based text classification (2021)
- European Clinical Respiratory Journal
- Excessive Daytime Sleepiness in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patients Treated With Continuous Positive Airway Pressure: Data From the European Sleep Apnea Database (2021)
- Frontiers in Neurology
- Ikääntyminen ja uniapnea (2021)
- Duodecim
- Impact of temperature on obstructive sleep apnoea in three different climate zones of Europe: Data from the European Sleep Apnoea Database (ESADA) (2021)
- Journal of Sleep Research
- Keuhkosairaudet: diagnostiikka ja hoito (2021) Kaarteenaho Riitta, Halme Maija, Koskela Heikki, Saaresranta Tarja (toim.)
- Krooninen hengitysvajaus (2021) Keuhkosairaudet: diagnostiikka ja hoito Saaresranta Tarja, Anttalainen Ulla
- Kuorsaus ja hengityskatkokset (2021) Keuhkosairaudet: diagnostiikka ja hoito Saaresranta Tarja
- Mood, sleepiness, and weight gain after three years on CPAP therapy for sleep apnoea (2021)
- European Clinical Respiratory Journal
- Munasarjojen monirakkulaoireyhtymä ja unihäiriöt (2021)
- Duodecim
- Obstructive sleep apnoea in adult patients post-tonsillectomy (2021)
- Sleep Medicine
- Pitolisant for Residual Excessive Daytime Sleepiness in OSA Patients Adhering to CPAP A Randomized Trial (2021)
- Chest