Juhani
Knuuti
Director, Turku PET Centre
InFLAMES Flagship
MD, professor, Turku PET Centre
Cardiovascular diseases, imaging
Biography
Juhani Knuuti’s research has focused on the physiology and pathophysiology, diagnosis and new therapies of coronary artery disease, heart failure and metabolic diseases. The research is also focused on developing and utilizing novel noninvasive imaging methods (PET, SPECT, echocardiography, MRI and CT) that will help to determine the risk and severity of CHD and heart failure and provide guidance for therapy decisions. The recent focus in cardiac research has been on vulnerable plaques, cardiac remodelling and multimodality and hybrid imaging. In metabolic and diabetes research, the focus has been in the interactions between different organs and heart in the pathogenesis and development of the cardiac diseases.
Publications
Moderate intensity exercise training rapidly increases insulin stimulated intestinal glucose uptake in sedentary individuals (2015)
Diabetologia
(Muu (O2))
2014 ESC/EACTS guidelines on myocardial revascularization. (2015)
Revista Española de Cardiología
(Muu (O2))
Särkynyt sydän (2015)
Turun Sanomat
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))
The year 2014 in the European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging. Part I (2015)
EHJ Cardiovascular Imaging / European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging
(Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A2))
Coronary heart disease risk factors, coronary artery calcification and epicardial fat volume in the Young Finns Study (2015)
EHJ Cardiovascular Imaging / European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Imaging mitochondrial membrane potential using a novel F-18-labeled BMS derivative (F-18-FP10X) (2015)
Journal of Nuclear Medicine
(Muu (O2))
Syy, ja sen seuraus (2015)
Turun Sanomat
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))
Voiko ihminen olla yliherkkä sähkölle? (2015)
Turun Sanomat
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))
Autonomic PET-CT imaging in heart failure (2015)
(Kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa (B2))Korvavalon tehosta ei näyttöä. (2015)
Turun Sanomat
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))