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Jaakko Tuomilehto

Jaakko Tuomilehto

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Medicine
Finland
2026

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Citations
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Citations
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23
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Finland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Finland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Finland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Finland Leader Award
  • 1998 - Kelly West Award, American Diabetes Association

Overview

Jaakko Tuomilehto is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, particularly focusing on endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism. Their research spans over 266 publications, with notable emphasis on subfields such as Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Molecular Biology, Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Epidemiology.

The primary topics of their work center around diabetes and related cardiovascular risks, diabetes treatment and management, as well as diet and metabolism studies. Other areas include metabolism related to diabetes and cancer, diabetes management and education, and nutritional studies and diet.

Frequent publication venues highlight a focus on diabetes and clinical research with numerous papers in Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, Nutrients, Diabetes Care, Journal of Clinical Medicine, and Primary Care Diabetes.

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Ferritinophagy and ferroptosis in the management of metabolic diseases," 2021, Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • "Inflammation in atherosclerosis: pathophysiology and mechanisms," 2024, Cell Death and Disease
  • "Recommendations for management of diabetes during Ramadan: update 2020, applying the principles of the ADA/EASD consensus," 2020, BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care
  • "The circadian syndrome predicts cardiovascular disease better than metabolic syndrome in Chinese adults," 2020, Journal of Internal Medicine
  • "Gut Microbiome Composition Is Predictive of Incident Type 2 Diabetes in a Population Cohort of 5,572 Finnish Adults," 2022, Diabetes Care

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Jaakko Tuomilehto include Jaana Lindström, Suhad Bahijri, Matti Uusitupa, Sirkka Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi, and Tiia Ngandu. These collaborations point to a robust network in diabetes and metabolic research.

In recognition of their work, Jaakko Tuomilehto received the Kelly West Award from the American Diabetes Association in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus by changes in lifestyle among subjects with impaired glucose tolerance.

    Tuomilehto J;Lindström J;Eriksson Jg;Valle Tt

  • Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans

    Monkol Lek;Konrad J. Karczewski;Konrad J. Karczewski;Eric V. Minikel;Eric V. Minikel;Kaitlin E. Samocha

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • THE METABOLIC SYNDROME AND TOTAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE MORTALITY IN MIDDLE-AGED MEN

    Hanna-Maaria Lakka;David E. Laaksonen;Timo A. Lakka;Leo K. Niskanen

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Randomised double-blind comparison of placebo and active treatment for older patients with isolated systolic hypertension *

    Jan Staessen;Robert Fagard;Lutgarde Thijs;Hilde Celis

  • Age-Related Clonal Hematopoiesis Associated with Adverse Outcomes

    Siddhartha Jaiswal;Pierre Fontanillas;Jason Flannick;Jason Flannick;Alisa Manning

  • A 2 year multidomain intervention of diet, exercise, cognitive training, and vascular risk monitoring versus control to prevent cognitive decline in at-risk elderly people (FINGER): a randomised controlled trial

    Tiia Ngandu;Tiia Ngandu;Jenni Lehtisalo;Alina Solomon;Alina Solomon;Esko Levälahti

  • Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids

    Tanya M. Teslovich;Kiran Musunuru;Albert V. Smith;Andrew C. Edmondson

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • Follow-up report on the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus.

    Saul Genuth;K. G M M Alberti;Peter Bennett;John Buse

  • A genome-wide association study of type 2 diabetes in Finns detects multiple susceptibility variants.

    Laura J. Scott;Karen L. Mohlke;Lori L. Bonnycastle;Cristen J. Willer

  • A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation

    Shane McCarthy;Sayantan Das;Warren Kretzschmar;Olivier Delaneau

  • Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels

    Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso

  • Homocysteine and risk of ischemic heart disease and stroke: A meta-analysis

    R. Clarke;R. Collins;S. Lewington;A. Donald

  • Hypertension prevalence and blood pressure levels in 6 European countries, Canada, and the United States.

    Katharina Wolf-Maier;Richard S. Cooper;José R. Banegas;Simona Giampaoli

  • Antibodies to glutamic acid decarboxylase as predictors of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus before clinical onset of disease.

    J. Tuomilehto;G. Vidgren;L. Toivanen;E. Tuomilehto-Wolf

  • Association of the T-cell regulatory gene CTLA4 with susceptibility to autoimmune disease

    H Ueda;Howson Jmm.;L Esposito;J Heward

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

    Josée Dupuis;Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena

  • Guidelines on diabetes, pre-diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases: executive summary. The Task Force on Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD).

    Lars Rydén;Eberhard Standl;Małgorzata Bartnik;Greet Van den Berghe

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Boehnke
Michael Boehnke University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Veikko Salomaa
Veikko Salomaa Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Francis S. Collins
Francis S. Collins National Institutes of Health
Leif Groop
Leif Groop Lund University
Johan G. Eriksson
Johan G. Eriksson National University of Singapore
Anne U. Jackson
Anne U. Jackson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge
Miia Kivipelto
Miia Kivipelto University of Eastern Finland
Cecilia M. Lindgren
Cecilia M. Lindgren University of Oxford

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