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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 >200 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 chair of the Finnish Hypertension Society and is currently mentoring, or has mentored 12 PhD students. He is an editorial board member of Hypertension, the leading journal in hypertension research.

Teaching

Semester leadership: Fall Semester, Clinical research path for fourth year medical students.

Course leadership: PGS1728: Getting Started with Medical Research (Year 4); PGS1741: Clinical Research Literature Exam (Year 4)

Course teaching: MEDI0117: General Propedeutics (Year 4)

Pedagogic training: Medical Pedagogy course (10 credits)

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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Association Between the Gut Microbiota and Blood Pressure in a Population Cohort of 6953 Individuals (2020)

Journal of the American Heart Association
Joonatan Palmu, Aaro Salosensaari, Aki S. Havulinna, Susan Cheng, Michael Inouye, Mohit Jain, Rodolfo A. Salido, Karenina Sanders, Caitriona Brennan, Gregory C. Humphrey, Jon G. Sanders, Erkki Vartiainen, Tiina Laatikainen, Pekka Jousilahti, Veikko Salomaa, Rob Knight, Leo Lahti, Teemu J. Niiranen
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure (2020)

Nature Communications
Sonia Shah, Albert Henry, Carolina Roselli, Honghuang Lin, Garðar Sveinbjörnsson, Ghazaleh Fatemifar, Åsa K. Hedman, Jemma B. Wilk, Michael P. Morley, Mark D. Chaffin, Anna Helgadottir, Niek Verweij, Abbas Dehghan, Peter Almgren, Charlotte Andersson, Krishna G. Aragam, Johan Ärnlöv, Joshua D. Backman, Mary L. Biggs, Heather L. Bloom, Jeffrey Brandimarto, Michael R. Brown, Leonard Buckbinder, David J. Carey, Daniel I. Chasman, Xing Chen, Xu Chen, Jonathan Chung, William Chutkow, James P. Cook, Graciela E. Delgado, Spiros Denaxas, Alexander S. Doney, Marcus Dörr, Samuel C. Dudley, Michael E. Dunn, Gunnar Engström, Tõnu Esko, Stephan B. Felix, Chris Finan, Ian Ford, Mohsen Ghanbari, Sahar Ghasemi, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Franco Giulianini, John S. Gottdiener, Stefan Gross, Daníel F. Guðbjartsson, Rebecca Gutmann, Christopher M. Haggerty, Pim van der Harst, Craig L. Hyde, Erik Ingelsson, J. Wouter Jukema, Maryam Kavousi, Kay-Tee Khaw, Marcus E. Kleber, Lars Køber, Andrea Koekemoer, Claudia Langenberg, Lars Lind, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Barry London, Luca A. Lotta, Ruth C. Lovering, Jian’an Luan, Patrik Magnusson, Anubha Mahajan, Kenneth B. Margulies, Winfried März, Olle Melander, Ify R. Mordi, Thomas Morgan, Andrew D. Morris, Andrew P. Morris, Alanna C. Morrison, Michael W. Nagle, Christopher P. Nelson, Alexander Niessner, Teemu Niiranen, Michelle L. O’Donoghue, Anjali T. Owens, Colin N. A. Palmer, Helen M. Parry, Markus Perola, Eliana Portilla-Fernandez, Bruce M. Psaty, Regeneron Genetics Center, Kenneth M. Rice, Paul M. Ridker, Simon P. R. Romaine, Jerome I. Rotter, Perttu Salo, Veikko Salomaa, Jessica van Setten, Alaa A. Shalaby, Diane T. Smelser, Nicholas L. Smith, Steen Stender, David J. Stott, Per Svensson, Mari-Liis Tammesoo, Kent D. Taylor, Maris Teder-Laving, Alexander Teumer, Guðmundur Thorgeirsson, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Stella Trompet, Benoit Tyl, Andre G. Uitterlinden, Abirami Veluchamy, Uwe Völker, Adriaan A. Voors, Xiaosong Wang, Nicholas J. Wareham, Dawn Waterworth, Peter E. Weeke, Raul Weiss, Kerri L. Wiggins, Heming Xing, Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong, Bing Yu, Faiez Zannad, Jing Hua Zhao, Harry Hemingway, Nilesh J. Samani, John J. V. McMurray, Jian Yang, Peter M. Visscher, Christopher Newton-Cheh, Anders Malarstig, Hilma Holm, Steven A. Lubitz, Naveed Sattar, Michael V. Holmes, Thomas P. Cappola, Folkert W. Asselbergs, Aroon D. Hingorani, Karoline Kuchenbaecker, Patrick T. Ellinor, Chim C. Lang, Kari Stefansson, J. Gustav Smith, Ramachandran S. Vasan, Daniel I. Swerdlow, R. Thomas Lumbers
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol (2020)

Nature
Taddei C., Zhou B., Bixby H., Carrillo-Larco R.M., Danaei G., Jackson R.T., Farzadfar F., Sophiea M.K., Di Cesare M., Iurilli M.L.C., Martinez A.R., Asghari G., Dhana K., Gulayin P., Kakarmath S., Santero M., Voortman T., Riley L.M., Cowan M.J., Savin S., Bennett J.E., Stevens G.A., Paciorek C.J., Aekplakorn W., Cifkova R., Giampaoli S., Kengne A.P., Khang Y.-H., Kuulasmaa K., Laxmaiah A., Margozzini P., Mathur P., Nordestgaard B.G., Zhao D., Aadahl M., Abarca-Gómez L., Rahim H.A., Abu-Rmeileh N.M., Acosta-Cazares B., Adams R.J., Agdeppa I.A., Aghazadeh-Attari J., Aguilar-Salinas C.A., Agyemang C., Ahluwalia T.S., Ahmad N.A., Ahmadi A., Ahmadi N., Ahmed S.H., Ahrens W., Ajlouni K., Alarouj M., AlBuhairan F., AlDhukair S., Ali M.M., Alkandari A., Alkerwi A., Aly E., Amarapurkar D.N., Amouyel P., Andersen L.B., Anderssen S.A., Anjana R.M., Ansari-Moghaddam A., Aounallah-Skhiri H., Araújo J., Ariansen I., Aris T., Arku R.E., Arlappa N., Aryal K.K., Aspelund T., Assunção M.C.F., Auvinen J., Avdicová M., Azevedo A., Azizi F., Azmin M., Balakrishna N., Bamoshmoosh M., Banach M., Bandosz P., Banegas J.R., Barbagallo C.M., Barceló A., Barkat A., Bata I., Batieha A.M., Batyrbek A., Baur L.A., Beaglehole R., Belavendra A., Ben Romdhane H., Benet M., Benn M., Berkinbayev S., Bernabe-Ortiz A., Bernotiene G., Bettiol H., Bhargava S.K., Bi Y., Bienek A., Bikbov M., Bista B., Bjerregaard P., Bjertness E., Bjertness M.B., Björkelund C., Bloch K.V., Blokstra A., Bo S., Boehm B.O., Boggia J.G., Boissonnet C.P., Bonaccio M., Bongard V., Borchini R., Borghs H., Bovet P., Brajkovich I., Breckenkamp J., Brenner H., Brewster L.M., Bruno G., Bugge A., Busch M.A., de León A.C., Cacciottolo J., Can G., Cândido A.P.C., Capanzana M.V., Capuano E., Capuano V., Cardoso V.C., Carvalho J., Casanueva F.F., Censi L., Chadjigeorgiou C.A., Chamukuttan S., Chaturvedi N., Chen C.-J., Chen F., Chen S., Cheng C.-Y., Cheraghian B., Chetrit A., Chiou S.-T., Chirlaque M.-D., Cho B., Cho Y., Chudek J., Claessens F., Clarke J., Clays E., Concin H., Confortin S.C., Cooper C., Costanzo S., Cottel D., Cowell C., Crujeiras A.B., Csilla S., Cui L., Cureau F.V., D’Arrigo G., d’Orsi E., Dallongeville J., Damasceno A., Dankner R., Dantoft T.M., Dauchet L., Davletov K., De Backer G., De Bacquer D., de Gaetano G., De Henauw S., de Oliveira P.D., De Ridder D., De Smedt D., Deepa M., Deev A.D., Dehghan A., Delisle H., Dennison E., Deschamps V., Dhimal M., Di Castelnuovo A.F., Dika Z., Djalalinia S., Dobson A.J., Donfrancesco C., Donoso S.P., Döring A., Dorobantu M., Dragano N., Drygas W., Du Y., Duante C.A., Duda R.B., Dzerve V., Dziankowska-Zaborszczyk E., Eddie R., Eftekhar E., Eggertsen R., Eghtesad S., Eiben G., Ekelund U., El Ati J., Eldemire-Shearer D., Eliasen M., Elosua R., Erasmus R.T., Erbel R., Erem C., Eriksen L., Eriksson J.G., Escobedo-de la Peña J., Eslami S., Esmaeili A., Evans A., Faeh D., Fall C.H., Faramarzi E., Farjam M., Fattahi M.R., Felix-Redondo F.J., Ferguson T.S., Fernández-Bergés D., Ferrante D., Ferrari M., Ferreccio C., Ferrieres J., Föger B., Foo L.H., Forslund A.-S., Forsner M., Fouad H.M., Francis D.K., do Carmo Franco M., Franco O.H., Frontera G., Fujita Y., Fumihiko M., Furusawa T., Gaciong Z., Galvano F., Gao J., Garcia-de-la-Hera M., Garnett S.P., Gaspoz J.-M., Gasull M., Gazzinelli A., Geleijnse J.M., Ghanbari A., Ghasemi E., Gheorghe-Fronea O.-F., Ghimire A., Gianfagna F., Gill T.K., Giovannelli J., Gironella G., Giwercman A., Goltzman D., Gonçalves H., Gonzalez-Chica D.A., Gonzalez-Gross M., González-Rivas J.P., González-Villalpando C., González-Villalpando M.-E., Gonzalez A.R., Gottrand F., Graff-Iversen S., Grafnetter D., Gregor R.D., Grodzicki T., Grøntved A., Grosso G., Gruden G., Gu D., Guallar-Castillón P., Guan O.P., Gudmundsson E.F., Gudnason V., Guerrero R., Guessous I., Gunnlaugsdottir J., Gupta R., Gutierrez L., Gutzwiller F., Ha S., Hadaegh F., Haghshenas R., Hakimi H., Hambleton I.R., Hamzeh B., Hantunen S., Kumar R.H., Hashemi-Shahri S.M., Hata J., Haugsgjerd T., Hayes A.J., He J., He Y., Hendriks M.E., Henriques A., Herrala S., Heshmat R., Hill A.G., Ho S.Y., Ho S.C., Hobbs M., Hofman A., Homayounfar R., Hopman W.M., Horimoto A.R.V.R., Hormiga C.M., Horta B.L., Houti L., Howitt C., Htay T.T., Htet A.S., Htike M.M.T., Huerta J.M., Huhtaniemi I.T., Huisman M., Hunsberger M.L., Husseini A.S., Huybrechts I., Hwalla N., Iacoviello L., Iannone A.G., Ibrahim M.M., Wong N.I., Iglesia I., Ikeda N., Ikram M.A., Iotova V., Irazola V.E., Ishida T., Islam M., al-Safi Ismail A., Iwasaki M., Jacobs J.M., Jaddou H.Y., Jafar T., James K., Jamrozik K., Janszky I., Janus E., Jarvelin M.-R., Jasienska G., Jelakovic A., Jelakovic B., Jennings G., Jensen G.B., Jeong S.-L., Jha A.K., Jiang C.Q., Jimenez R.O., Jöckel K.-H., Joffres M., Jokelainen J.J., Jonas J.B., Jørgensen T., Joshi P., Joukar F., Józwiak J., Juolevi A., Kafatos A., Kajantie E.O., Kalter-Leibovici O., Kamaruddin N.A., Kamstrup P.R., Karki K.B., Katz J., Kauhanen J., Kaur P., Kavousi M., Kazakbaeva G., Keil U., Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi S., Kelishadi R., Keramati M., Kerimkulova A., Kersting M., Khader Y.S., Khalili D., Khateeb M., Kheradmand M., Khosravi A., Kiechl-Kohlendorfer U., Kiechl S., Killewo J., Kim H.C., Kim J., Kim Y.-Y., Klumbiene J., Knoflach M., Ko S., Kohler H.-P., Kohler I.V., Kolle E., Kolsteren P., König J., Korpelainen R., Korrovits P., Kos J., Koskinen S., Kouda K., Kowlessur S., Kratzer W., Kriemler S., Kristensen P.L., Krokstad S., Kromhout D., Kujala U.M., Kurjata P., Kyobutungi C., Laamiri F.Z., Laatikainen T., Lachat C., Laid Y., Lam T.H., Lambrinou C.-P., Lanska V., Lappas G., Larijani B., Latt T.S., Laugsand L.E., Lazo-Porras M., Lee J., Lee J., Lehmann N., Lehtimäki T., Levitt N.S., Li Y., Lilly C.L., Lim W.-Y., Lima-Costa M.F., Lin H.-H., Lin X., Lin Y.-T., Lind L., Linneberg A., Lissner L., Liu J., Loit H.-M., Lopez-Garcia E., Lopez T., Lotufo P.A., Lozano J.E., Luksiene D., Lundqvist A., Lundqvist R., Lunet N., Ma G., Machado-Coelho G.L.L., Machado-Rodrigues A.M., Machi S., Madar A.A., Maggi S., Magliano D.J., Magriplis E., Mahasampath G., Maire B., Makdisse M., Malekzadeh F., Malekzadeh R., Rao K.M., Manios Y., Mann J.I., Mansour-Ghanaei F., Manzato E., Marques-Vidal P., Martorell R., Mascarenhas L.P., Mathiesen E.B., Matsha T.E., Mavrogianni C., McFarlane S.R., McGarvey S.T., McLachlan S., McLean R.M., McLean S.B., McNulty B.A., Mediene-Benchekor S., Mehdipour P., Mehlig K., Mehrparvar A.H., Meirhaeghe A., Meisinger C., Menezes A.M.B., Menon G.R., Merat S., Mereke A., Meshram I.I., Metcalf P., Meyer H.E., Mi J., Michels N., Miller J.C., Minderico C.S., Mini G.K., Miquel J.F., Miranda J.J., Mirjalili M.R., Mirrakhimov E., Modesti P.A., Moghaddam S.S., Mohajer B., Mohamed M.K., Mohammad K., Mohammadi Z., Mohammadifard N., Mohammadpourhodki R., Mohan V., Mohanna S., Yusoff M.F.M., Mohebbi I., Mohebi F., Moitry M., Møllehave L.T., Møller N.C., Molnár D., Momenan A., Mondo C.K., Monterrubio-Flores E., Moosazadeh M., Morejon A., Moreno L.A., Morgan K., Morin S.N., Moschonis G., Mossakowska M., Mostafa A., Mota J., Motlagh M.E., Motta J., Msyamboza K.P., Muiesan M.L., Müller-Nurasyid M., Mursu J., Mustafa N., Nabipour I., Naderimagham S., Nagel G., Naidu B.M., Najafi F., Nakamura H., Námešná J., Nang E.E.K., Nangia V.B., Nauck M., Neal W.A., Nejatizadeh A., Nenko I., Nervi F., Nguyen N.D., Nguyen Q.N., Nieto-Martínez R.E., Nihal T., Niiranen T.J., Ning G., Ninomiya T., Noale M., Noboa O.A., Noto D., Nsour M.A., Nuhoğlu I., O’Neill T.W., O’Reilly D., Ochoa-Avilés A.M., Oh K., Ohtsuka R., Olafsson Ö., Olié V., Oliveira I.O., Omar M.A., Onat A., Ong S.K., Ordunez P., Ornelas R., Ortiz P.J., Osmond C., Ostojic S.M., Ostovar A., Otero J.A., Owusu-Dabo E., Paccaud F.M., Pahomova E., Pajak A., Palmieri L., Pan W.-H., Panda-Jonas S., Panza F., Parnell W.R., Patel N.D., Peer N., Peixoto S.V., Peltonen M., Pereira A.C., Peters A., Petersmann A., Petkeviciene J., Peykari N., Pham S.T., Pichardo R.N., Pigeot I., Pilav A., Pilotto L., Piwonska A., Pizarro A.N., Plans-Rubió P., Plata S., Pohlabeln H., Porta M., Portegies M.L.P., Poudyal A., Pourfarzi F., Poustchi H., Pradeepa R., Price J.F., Providencia R., Puder J.J., Puhakka S.E., Punab M., Qorbani M., Bao T.Q., Radisauskas R., Rahimikazerooni S., Raitakari O., Rao S.R., Ramachandran A., Ramos E., Ramos R., Rampal L., Rampal S., Redon J., Reganit P.F.M., Revilla L., Rezaianzadeh A., Ribeiro R., Richter A., Rigo F., Rinke de Wit T.F., Rodríguez-Artalejo F., del Cristo Rodriguez-Perez M., Rodríguez-Villamizar L.A., Roggenbuck U., Rojas-Martinez R., Romaguera D., Romeo E.L., Rosengren A., Roy J.G.R., Rubinstein A., Ruidavets J.-B., Ruiz-Betancourt B.S., Russo P., Rust P., Rutkowski M., Sabanayagam C., Sachdev H.S., Sadjadi A., Safarpour A.R., Safiri S., Saidi O., Saki N., Salanave B., Salmerón D., Salomaa V., Salonen J.T., Salvetti M., Sánchez-Abanto J., Sans S., Santaliestra-Pasías A.M., Santos D.A., Santos M.P., Santos R., Saramies J.L., Sardinha L.B., Sarrafzadegan N., Saum K.-U., Savva S.C., Sawada N., Sbaraini M., Scazufca M., Schaan B.D., Schargrodsky H., Scheidt-Nave C., Schienkiewitz A., Schipf S., Schmidt C.O., Schöttker B., Schramm S., Sebert S., Sein A.A., Sen A., Sepanlou S.G., Servais J., Shakeri R., Shalnova S.A., Shamah-Levy T., Sharafkhah M., Sharma S.K., Shaw J.E., Shayanrad A., Shi Z., Shibuya K., Shimizu-Furusawa H., Shin D.W., Shin Y., Shirani M., Shiri R., Shrestha N., Si-Ramlee K., Siani A., Siantar R., Sibai A.M., Silva D.A.S., Simon M., Simons J., Simons L.A., Sjöström M., Skaaby T., Slowikowska-Hilczer J., Slusarczyk P., Smeeth L., Snijder M.B., Söderberg S., Soemantri A., Sofat R., Solfrizzi V., Somi M.H., Sonestedt E., Sørensen T.I.A., Jérome C.S., Soumaré A., Sozmen K., Sparrenberger K., Staessen J.A., Stathopoulou M.G., Stavreski B., Steene-Johannessen J., Stehle P., Stein A.D., Stessman J., Stevanović R., Stieber J., Stöckl D., Stokwiszewski J., Stronks K., Strufaldi M.W., Suárez-Medina R., Sun C.-A., Sundström J., Suriyawongpaisal P., Sy R.G., Sylva R.C., Szklo M., Tai E.S., Tamosiunas A., Tan E.J., Tarawneh M.R., Tarqui-Mamani C.B., Taylor A., Taylor J., Tell G.S., Tello T., Thankappan K.R., Thijs L., Thuesen B.H., Toft U., Tolonen H.K., Tolstrup J.S., Topbas M., Topór-Madry R., Tormo M.J., Tornaritis M.J., Torrent M., Torres-Collado L., Traissac P., Trinh O.T.H., Truthmann J., Tsugane S., Tulloch-Reid M.K., Tuomainen T.-P., Tuomilehto J., Tybjaerg-Hansen A., Tzourio C., Ueda P., Ugel E., Ulmer H., Unal B., Uusitalo H.M.T., Valdivia G., Valvi D., van Dam R.M., van der Schouw Y.T., Van Herck K., Van Minh H., van Rossem L., Van Schoor N.M., van Valkengoed I.G.M., Vanderschueren D., Vanuzzo D., Varbo A., Varona-Pérez P., Vasan S.K., Vatten L., Vega T., Veidebaum T., Velasquez-Melendez G., Venero-Fernández S.J., Veronesi G., Verschuren W.M.M., Victora C.G., Vidiawati D., Viet L., Villalpando S., Vioque J., Virtanen J.K., Visvikis-Siest S., Viswanathan B., Vlasoff T., Vollenweider P., Voutilainen A., Wade A.N., Wagner A., Walton J., Bebakar W.M.W., Mohamud W.N.W., Wang M.-D., Wang N., Wang Q., Wang Y.X., Wang Y.-W., Wannamethee S.G., Wedderkopp N., Wei W., Whincup P.H., Widhalm K., Widyahening I.S., Wiecek A., Wijga A.H., Wilks R.J., Willeit J., Willeit P., Wilsgaard T., Wojtyniak B., Wong-McClure R.A., Wong A., Wong T.Y., Woo J., Woodward M., Wu F.C., Wu S., Xu H., Xu L., Yan W., Yang X., Yasuharu T., Ye X., Yeow T.P., Yiallouros P.K., Yoosefi M., Yoshihara A., You S.-L., Younger-Coleman N.O., Yusoff A.F., Zainuddin A.A., Zakavi S.R., Zali M.R., Zamani F., Zambon S., Zampelas A., Zaw K.K., Zdrojewski T., Vrkic T.Z., Zhang Z.-Y., Zhao W., Zhen S., Zheng Y., Zholdin B., Zhussupov B., Zoghlami N., Cisneros J.Z., Gregg E.W., Ezzati M.; NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))