Turku Hypertension Center


The Turku Hypertension Center is a team of scientists at the University of Turku performing multi-disciplinary research ranging from classical epidemiology to multi-omics analysis. In addition to general cardiovascular epidemiology, our research focuses on the epidemiology of hypertension in large scale population cohorts.

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Last updated on May 15, 2025 5 min read
Post Doc Position Available

The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Turku invites applications for Postdoctoral Researcher position (fixed-term) for the period of 1 September 2025 – 31 August 2027.

The start of employment is negotiable. The position is fixed-term for 24 months with a possibility for extension. Trial period is 6 months.

Projects

Current projects we are working on.
FINRISK 2002
Studying the longitudinal and prospective associations between the gut microbiome and cardiometabolic disease.
FINRISK 2002
Finngen
A project with a goal to genotype up to 500 000 unique Finnish blood samples and associate the genetic data with nationwide health records.
Finngen

Selected Publications

Teemu J Niiranen, Renate B Schnabel, Aletta E Schutte, Yitschak Biton, Giuseppe Boriani, Claire Buckley, Alan C Cameron, Albertino Damasceno, Søren Z Diederichsen, Wolfram Doehner, Others. Hypertension and Atrial Fibrillation: A Frontier Review From the AF-SCREEN International Collaboration. Circulation, 2025.
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Robert FJ Kullberg, Irina Wikki, Bastiaan W Haak, Anni Kauko, Henrike Galenkamp, Hessel Peters-Sengers, Joe M Butler, Aki S Havulinna, Joonatan Palmu, Daniel McDonald, Others. Association between butyrate-producing gut bacteria and the risk of infectious disease hospitalisation: results from two observational, population-based microbiome studies. The Lancet Microbe, 2024.
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Yang Liu, Scott C Ritchie, Shu Mei Teo, Matti O Ruuskanen, Oleg Kambur, Qiyun Zhu, Jon Sanders, Yoshiki Vázquez-Baeza, Karin Verspoor, Pekka Jousilahti, Others. Integration of polygenic and gut metagenomic risk prediction for common diseases. Nature Aging, 2024.
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Giuseppe Mancia, Reinhold Kreutz, Mattias Brunström, Michel Burnier, Guido Grassi, Andrzej Januszewicz, Maria Lorenza Muiesan, Konstantinos Tsioufis, Enrico Agabiti-Rosei, Engi Abd Elhady Algharably, Others. 2023 ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension The Task Force for the management of arterial hypertension of the European Society of Hypertension: Endorsed by the International Society of Hypertension (ISH) and the European Renal Association (ERA). Journal of hypertension, 2023.
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Joonatan Palmu, Christin S Börschel, Alfredo Ortega-Alonso, Lajos Markó, Michael Inouye, Pekka Jousilahti, Rodolfo a Salido, Karenina Sanders, Caitriona Brennan, Gregory C Humphrey, Others. Gut microbiome and atrial fibrillation—results from a large population-based study. EBioMedicine, 2023.
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