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Teemu
Niiranen

Professor, Internal Medicine
MD, PhD

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Areas of expertise

Cardiovascular epidemiology
cohort studies
blood pressure
hypertension
blood pressure measurement

Biography

Teemu Niiranen, MD, PhD, is a physician-scientist and a clinical hypertension specialist with a track record of productivity in hypertension research, successful mentoring, international research grant procurement, and inter-institutional international collaborations. His research on hypertension in large population cohorts has led to >250 publications that are cited by the European, American, British, and Japanese clinical hypertension guidelines. These publications include first- or last-author articles in BMJ, Circulation, European Heart Journal, Nature Communications and JAMA Cardiology.

After finishing his PhD and clinical training, Dr. Niiranen received in-depth training in cardiovascular disease epidemiology and omics during a post-doctoral period at the Framingham Heart Study, the oldest and most prestigious cardiovascular cohort study in the world. After his post-doctoral period, he was selected as one of the new Group Leaders of the University of Turku Collegium of Science and Medicine and in 2020, the professor of internal medicine at the university. He is also employed as a Medical Specialist by the National Institute for Health and Welfare and chairs the work of the Cardiometabolic Clinical Expert Group of the FinnGen study, a project that has genotyped up to 500 000 unique Finnish blood samples and merged this genetic data with nationwide healthcare registers.

Dr. Niiranen has received young investigator awards from the American and Finnish Societies of Hypertension, and the American Heart Association. He is the past chair of the Finnish Hypertension Society and has mentored 12 PhD students. He is a co-author of the Finnish and European Society of Hypertension clinical hypertension guidelines.

Teaching

Hypertension and clinical epidemioogy.

Research

In addition to general cardiovascular epidemiology, Dr. Niiranen's research has focused on the epidemiology of hypertension in large scale population cohorts. His studies particularly focused on home monitoring of blood pressure and more recently he has moved into examining the relation between hypertension and omics (genome, metagenome and metabolome).

Publications

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Plasma Lipid Metabolites, Clinical Glycemic Predictors, and Incident Type 2 Diabetes (2025)

Diabetes Care
Begzati, Arjana; Godinez-Macias, Karla P.; Long, Tao; Watrous, Jeramie D.; Moranchel, Rafael; Kantz, Edward D.; Tuomilehto, Jaakko; Havulinna, Aki S.; Niiranen, Teemu J.; Jousilahti, Pekka; Salomaa, Veikko; Yu, Bing; Norby, Faye; Rebholz, Casey M.; Selvin, Elizabeth; Winzeler, Elizabeth A.; Cheng, Susan; Alotaibi, Mona; Goyal, Ravi; Ideker, Trey; Jain, Mohit; Majithia, Amit R.
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )

Hypertension and Atrial Fibrillation: A Frontier Review From the AF-SCREEN International Collaboration (2025)

Circulation
Niiranen, Teemu J.; Schnabel, Renate B.; Schutte, Aletta E.; Biton, Yitschak; Boriani, Giuseppe; Buckley, Claire; Cameron, Alan C.; Damasceno, Albertino; Diederichsen, Soren Z.; Doehner, Wolfram; Guo, Yutao; Hobbs, F. D. Richard; Joung, Boyoung; Hankey, Graeme J.; Lip, Gregory Y. H.; Lobban, Trudie; Lochen, Maja-Lisa; Mairesse, Georges; Mbakwem, Amam; Noseworthy, Peter A.; Ntaios, George; Steinhubl, Steven; Stergiou, George; Svendsen, Jesper Hastrup; Tieleman, Robert G.; Wang, Jiguang; Poulter, Neil R.; Healey, Jeff S.; Freedman, Ben
(A2 Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä)

Genome-wide association study meta-analysis provides insights into the etiology of heart failure and its subtypes (2025)

Nature Genetics
Henry Albert; Mo Xiaodong; Finan Chris; Chaffin Mark D.; Speed Doug; Issa Hanane; Denaxas Spiros; Ware James S.; Zheng Sean L.; Malarstig Anders; Gratton Jasmine; Bond Isabelle; Roselli Carolina; Miller David; Chopade Sandesh; Schmidt A. Floriaan; Abner Erik; Adams Lance; Andersson Charlotte; Aragam Krishna G.; Ärnlöv Johan; Asselin Geraldine; Raja Anna Axelsson; Backman Joshua D.; Bartz Traci M.; Biddinger Kiran J.; Biggs Mary L.; Bloom Heather L.; Boersma Eric; Brandimarto Jeffrey; Brown Michael R.; Brunak Søren; Bruun Mie Topholm; Buckbinder Leonard; Bundgaard Henning; Carey David J.; Chasman Daniel I.; Chen Xing; Cook James P.; Czuba Tomasz; de Denus Simon; Dehghan Abbas; Delgado Graciela E.; Doney Alexander S.; Dörr Marcus; Dowsett Joseph; Dudley Samuel C.; Engström Gunnar; Erikstrup Christian; Esko Tõnu; Farber-Eger Eric H.; Felix Stephan B.; Finer Sarah; Ford Ian; Ghanbari Mohsen; Ghasemi Sahar; Ghouse Jonas; Giedraitis Vilmantas; Giulianini Franco; Gottdiener John S.; Gross Stefan; Guðbjartsson Daníel F.; Gui Hongsheng; Gutmann Rebecca; Hägg Sara; Haggerty Christopher M.; Hedman Åsa K.; Helgadottir Anna; Hemingway Harry; Hillege Hans; Hyde Craig L.; Aagaard Jensen Bitten; Jukema J. Wouter; Kardys Isabella; Karra Ravi; Kavousi Maryam; Kizer Jorge R.; Kleber Marcus E.; Køber Lars; Koekemoer Andrea; Kuchenbaecker Karoline; Lai Yi-Pin; Lanfear David; Langenberg Claudia; Lin Honghuang; Lind Lars; Lindgren Cecilia M.; Liu Peter P.; London Barry; Lowery Brandon D.; Luan Jian’an; Lubitz Steven A.; Magnusson Patrik; Margulies Kenneth B.; Marston Nicholas A.; Martin Hilary; März Winfried; Melander Olle; Mordi Ify R.; Morley Michael P.; Morris Andrew P.; Morrison Alanna C.; Morton Lori; Nagle Michael W.; Nelson Christopher P.; Niessner Alexander; Niiranen Teemu; Noordam Raymond; Nowak Christoph; O’Donoghue Michelle L.; Ostrowski Sisse Rye; Owens Anjali T.; Palmer Colin N. A.; Paré Guillaume; Pedersen Ole Birger; Perola Markus; Pigeyre Marie; Psaty Bruce M.; Rice Kenneth M.; Ridker Paul M.; Romaine Simon P. R.; Rotter Jerome I.; Ruff Christian T.; Sabatine Marc S.; Sallah Neneh; Salomaa Veikko; Sattar Naveed; Shalaby Alaa A.; Shekhar Akshay; Smelser Diane T.; Smith Nicholas L.; Sørensen Erik; Srinivasan Sundararajan; Stefansson Kari; Sveinbjörnsson Garðar; Svensson Per; Tammesoo Mari-Liis; Tardif Jean-Claude; Teder-Laving Maris; Teumer Alexander; Thorgeirsson Guðmundur; Thorsteinsdottir Unnur; Torp-Pedersen Christian; Tragante Vinicius; Trompet Stella; Uitterlinden Andre G.; Ullum Henrik; van der Harst Pim; van Heel David; van Setten Jessica; van Vugt Marion; Veluchamy Abirami; Verschuuren Monique; Verweij Niek; Vissing Christoffer Rasmus; Völker Uwe; Voors Adriaan A.; Wallentin Lars; Wang Yunzhang; Weeke Peter E.; Wiggins Kerri L.; Williams L. Keoki; Yang Yifan; Yu Bing; Zannad Faiez; Zheng Chaoqun; Genes & Health Research Team; Estonian Biobank Research Team; DBDS Genomic Consortium; Asselbergs Folkert W.; Cappola Thomas P.; Dubé Marie-Pierre; Dunn Michael E.; Lang Chim C.; Samani Nilesh J.; Shah Svati; Vasan Ramachandran S.; Smith J. Gustav; Holm Hilma; Shah Sonia; Ellinor Patrick T.; Hingorani Aroon D.; Wells Quinn; Lumbers R. Thomas; HERMES Consortium
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )

Association of Total Mortality and Cardiovascular Endpoints With the Timing of the First and Second Systolic Peak of the Aortic Pulse Wave (2025)

Journal of Clinical Hypertension
Cheng, Yi-Bang; An, De-Wei; Aparicio, Lucas S.; Huang, Qi-Fang; Yu, Yu-Ling; Sheng, Chang-Sheng; Niiranen, Teemu J.; Wei, Fang-Fei; Boggia, Jose; Stolarz-Skrzypek, Katarzyna; Gilis-Malinowska, Natasza; Tikhonoff, Valerie; Wojciechowska, Wiktoria; Casiglia, Edoardo; Narkiewicz, Krzysztof; Yang, Wen-Yi; Filipovsky, Jan; Kawecka-Jaszcz, Kalina; Wang, Ji-Guang; Nawrot, Tim S.; Li, Yan; Staessen, Jan A.
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )

SARS-CoV-2 infectivity can be modulated through bacterial grooming of the glycocalyx (2025)

mBio
Martino, Cameron; Kellman, Benjamin P.; Sandoval, Daniel R.; Clausen, Thomas Mandel; Cooper, Robert; Benjdia, Alhosna; Soualmia, Feryel; Clark, Alex E.; Garretson, Aaron F.; Marotz, Clarisse A.; Song, Se Jin; Wandro, Stephen; Zaramela, Livia S.; Salido, Rodolfo A.; Zhu, Qiyun; Armingol, Erick; Vázquez-Baeza, Yoshiki; McDonald, Daniel; Sorrentino, James T.; Taylor, Bryn; Belda-Ferre, Pedro; Das, Promi; Ali, Farhana; Liang, Chenguang; Zhang, Yujie; Schifanella, Luca; Covizzi, Alice; Lai, Alessia; Riva, Agostino; Basting, Christopher; Broedlow, Courtney Ann; Havulinna, Aki S.; Jousilahti, Pekka; Estaki, Mehrbod; Kosciolek, Tomasz; Kuplicki, Rayus; Victor, Teresa A.; Paulus, Martin P.; Savage, Kristen E.; Benbow, Jennifer L.; Spielfogel, Emma S.; Anderson, Cheryl A. M.; Martinez, Maria Elena; Lacey, James V.; Huang, Shi; Haiminen, Niina; Parida, Laxmi; Kim, Ho-Cheol; Gilbert, Jack A.; Sweeney, Daniel A.; Allard, Sarah M.; Swafford, Austin D.; Cheng, Susan; Inouye, Michael; Niiranen, Teemu; Jain, Mohit; Salomaa, Veikko; Zengler, Karsten; Klatt, Nichole R.; Hasty, Jeff; Berteau, Olivier; Carlin, Aaron F.; Esko, Jeffrey D.; Lewis, Nathan E.; Knight, Rob
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )

Blood pressure measurement at kiosks in public spaces: systematic review and consensus statement by the European Society of Hypertension Working Group on Blood Pressure Monitoring and Cardiovascular Variability endorsed by the International Society of Hypertension and the World Hypertension League (2025)

Journal of Hypertension
Stergiou, George S.; Kyriakoulis, Konstantinos G.; Kollias, Anastasios; Mcmanus, Richard J.; Menti, Ariadni; Parati, Gianfranco; Schutte, Aletta E.; Wang, Jiguang; Asayama, Kei; Asmar, Roland; Bilo, Grzegorz; Chapman, Niamh; Fujiwara, Takeshi; Head, Geoffrey; Kahn, Nadia; Kario, Kazuomi; Li, Yan; Manios, Efstathios; Mariglis, Dimitrios; Mihailidou, Anastasia S.; Muntner, Paul; Myers, Martin; Niiranen, Teemu; Ohkubo, Takayoshi; Omboni, Stefano; Protogerou, Athanasios; Saladini, Francesca; Sharman, James; Shimbo, Daichi; de la Sierra, Alejandro; Palatini, Paolo
(A2 Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä)

Gut Microbiome as a Risk Factor for Future CKD (2025)

Kidney International Reports
Hellman, Tapio; Yeo, Li-Fang; Palmu, Joonatan; Havulinna, Aki; Jousilahti, Pekka; Laitinen, Ville; Pärnänen, Katariina; Salomaa, Veikko; Lahti, Leo; Knight, Rob; Niiranen, Teemu
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )