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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
  • 2008 - Kelly West Award, American Diabetes Association

Overview

Markku Laakso is affiliated with the University of Eastern Finland in Finland. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with a significant emphasis on Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism. Their work also covers Genetics, Molecular Biology, Immunology, and Surgery as notable subfields.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Adrenal Hormones and Disorders
  • Hormonal Regulation and Hypertension
  • Diabetes and associated disorders
  • Pituitary Gland Disorders and Treatments
  • Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors
  • Diabetes Management and Research
  • Vitamin D Research Studies

Among their recent publications are:

  • MiniMed 780G™ in 2- to 6-Year-Old Children: Safety and Clinical Outcomes After the First 12 Weeks, 2022, Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics
  • Patients with autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 have an increased susceptibility to severe herpesvirus infections, 2021, Clinical Immunology
  • Patients With APECED Have Increased Early Mortality Due to Endocrine Causes, Malignancies and infections, 2020, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • Severe Phenotype of APECED (APS1) Increases Risk for Structural Bone Alterations, 2020, Frontiers in Endocrinology
  • Pubertal development and premature ovarian insufficiency in patients with APECED, 2020, European Journal of Endocrinology

They frequently publish in venues such as:

  • The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (4 publications)
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology (4 publications)
  • European Journal of Endocrinology (4 publications)
  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (2 publications)
  • Endocrine Abstracts (2 publications)

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

  • Outi Mäkitie (24 joint publications)
  • Joonatan Borchers (7 joint publications)
  • Elina Holopainen (6 joint publications)
  • Iivo Hetemäki (5 joint publications)
  • Viivi Saari (5 joint publications)

Markku Laakso has also contributed to book publications, including a recent title:

  • Short Stature: Beyond Growth Hormone, published by Frontiers Media in 2024

In 2008, they received the Kelly West Award from the American Diabetes Association.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Mortality from Coronary Heart Disease in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes and in Nondiabetic Subjects with and without Prior Myocardial Infarction

    Steven M. Haffner;Seppo Lehto;Tapani Rönnemaa;Kalevi Pyörälä

  • Secondary prevention of macrovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes in the PROactive Study (PROspective pioglitAzone Clinical Trial In macroVascular Events): a randomised controlled trial.

    John A. Dormandy;Bernard Charbonnel;David J A Eckland;Erland Erdmann

  • “Effective” Number of Parties: A Measure with Application to West Europe

    Markku Laakso;Rein Taagepera

  • Resveratrol improves mitochondrial function and protects against metabolic disease by activating SIRT1 and PGC-1alpha.

    Marie Lagouge;Carmen Argmann;Zachary Gerhart-Hines;Hamid Meziane

  • Effects of long-term fenofibrate therapy on cardiovascular events in 9795 people with type 2 diabetes mellitus (the FIELD study): randomised controlled trial.

    A Keech;R J Simes;P Barter;J Best

  • 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

  • Acarbose for prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus: the STOP-NIDDM randomised trial.

    Jean-Louis Chiasson;Robert G Josse;Ramon Gomis;Markolf Hanefeld

  • 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

  • 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

  • Acarbose treatment and the risk of cardiovascular disease and hypertension in patients with impaired glucose tolerance: the STOP-NIDDM trial.

    Jean-Louis Chiasson;Robert G. Josse;Ramon Gomis;Markolf Hanefeld

  • Effect of rosiglitazone on the frequency of diabetes in patients with impaired glucose tolerance or impaired fasting glucose: a randomised controlled trial.

    rosiglitazone Medication Trial Investigators;H C Gerstein;S Yusuf

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association data and large-scale replication identifies additional susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes

    E Zeggini;L J Scott;R Saxena;B F Voight

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (vol 42, pg 105, 2010)

    J Dupuis;C Langenberg;I Prokopenko;R Saxena

  • Twelve type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci identified through large-scale association analysis

    Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Laura J. Scott;Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir;Andrew P. Morris

  • Large-scale association analysis provides insights into the genetic architecture and pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes

    Andrew P Morris;Benjamin F Voight;Benjamin F Voight;Tanya M Teslovich;Teresa Ferreira

  • Erratum: New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (Nature Genetics (2010) 42 (105-116))

    Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena

Frequent Co-Authors

Johanna Kuusisto
Johanna Kuusisto University of Eastern Finland
Michael Boehnke
Michael Boehnke University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Leif Groop
Leif Groop Lund University
Kalevi Pyörälä
Kalevi Pyörälä University of Eastern Finland
Alena Stančáková
Alena Stančáková University of Eastern Finland
Karen L. Mohlke
Karen L. Mohlke University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jaakko Tuomilehto
Jaakko Tuomilehto University of Helsinki
Leena Mykkänen
Leena Mykkänen The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Oluf Pedersen
Oluf Pedersen University of Copenhagen

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