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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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Methodology and technology for peripheral and central blood pressure and blood pressure variability measurement: current status and future directions - Position statement of the European Society of Hypertension Working Group on blood pressure monitoring and cardiovascular variability (2016)

Journal of Hypertension
Stergiou GS, Parati G, Vlachopoulos C, Achimastos A, Andreadis E, Asmar R, Avolio A, Benetos A, Bilo G, Boubouchairopoulou N, Boutouyrie P, Castiglioni P, de la Sierra A, Dolan E, Head G, Imai Y, Kario K, Kollias A, Kotsis V, Manios E, McManus R, Mengden T, Mihailidou A, Myers M, Niiranen T, Ochoa JE, Ohkubo T, Omboni S, Padfield P, Palatini P, Papaioannou T, Protogerou A, Redon J, Verdecchia P, Wang JG, Zanchetti A, Mancia G, O'Brien E, O'Brien E
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

Relationship between office and home blood pressure with increasing age: The International Database of HOme blood pressure in relation to Cardiovascular Outcome (IDHOCO) (2016)

Hypertension Research
Ntineri A, Stergiou GS, Thijs L, Asayama K, Boggia J, Boubouchairopoulou N, Hozawa A, Imai Y, Johansson JK, Jula AM, Kollias A, Luzardo L, Niiranen TJ, Nomura K, Ohkubo T, Tsuji I, Tzourio C, Wei FF, Staessen JA
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

Optimal number of days for home blood pressure measurement (2015)

American Journal of Hypertension
Teemu J. Niiranen, Kei Asayama, Lutgarde Thijs, Jouni K. Johansson, Azusa Hara, Atsushi Hozawa, Ichiro Tsuji, Takayoshi Ohkubo, Antti M. Jula, Yutaka Imai, Jan A. Staessen
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

Thresholds for Conventional and Home Blood Pressure by Sex and Age in 5018 Participants From 5 Populations (2014)

Hypertension
Kyoko Nomura, Kei Asayama, Lutgarde Thijs, Teemu J. Niiranen, Inés Lujambio, José Boggia, Atsushi Hozawa, Takayoshi Ohkubo, Azusa Hara, Jouni K. Johansson, Edgardo Sandoya, Anastasios Kollias, George S. Stergiou, Ichiro Tsuji, Antti M. Jula, Yutaka Imai, Jan A. Staessen; for the International Database of Home Blood Pressure in Relation to Cardiovascular Outcome (IDHOCO) Investigators
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))