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Tarja
Saaresranta

Docent, Faculty of Medicine
Pulmonary Diseases and Clinical Allergology
MD, PhD, Professor
sleep-disordered breathing, sleep in middle-aged women, chronic respiratory failure, telemonitoring

Contact

+358 29 450 4571
+358 46 921 6342
Lemminkäisenkatu 3 b
20014
Turku

Areas of expertise

sleep-disordered breathing
chronic respiratory failure

Biography

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


Teaching

sleep disorders

sleep-disorderd breathing

chronic respiratory failure

Research

Main research interests:

sleep-disordered breathing; sleep in menopausal women; treatment of chronic respiratory failure


Publications

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Katatrenia (2026)

Saaresranta, Tarja
(D2 Artikkeli ammatillisessa kokoomateoksessa)

Anthropometric indices with high sensitivity for moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep Apnea: A sex-stratified diagnostic accuracy study based on the ESADA cohort (2026)

Sleep Medicine
Kalkanis, Alexandros; Papadopoulos, Dimitrios; Pataka, Athanasia; Verbraecken, Johan; Schiza, Sophia; Saaresranta, Tarja; Zou, Ding; Drummond, Marta; Başoğlu, Özen K.; Steiropoulos, Paschalis; Bonsignore, Maria R.; Bailly, Sébastien; Grote, Ludger; Testelmans, Dries; European Sleep Apnea Database (ESADA) collaboration network
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )

Unettomuushäiriö (2026)

Huhta, Riikka; Saaresranta, Tarja; Partinen, Markku
(D2 Artikkeli ammatillisessa kokoomateoksessa)