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Factor structure underlying components of allostatic loadJeanne M McCaffery
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, The Miriam Hospital and Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e47246. 2012..Moreover, the common variance suggests the existence of statistical coherence above and beyond that attributable to the metabolic syndrome...
A single factor underlies the metabolic syndrome: a confirmatory factor analysis: response to Pladevall et alJeanne M McCaffery
Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center, Miriam Hospital and Brown Medical School, 196 Richmond St, Providence, RI 02903, USA
Diabetes Care 29:1719-20; discussion 1720. 2006- Genetics in psychosomatic medicine: research designs and statistical approachesJeanne M McCaffery
Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center, Brown Medical School and The Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI, USA
Psychosom Med 69:206-16. 2007..We hope this overview of twin and genetic association designs will support and stimulate thoughtful applications of genetic approaches within psychosomatic medicine... - Educational attainment, smoking initiation and lifetime nicotine dependence among male Vietnam-era twinsJ M McCaffery
Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, Brown Medical School and The Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI 02903, USA
Psychol Med 38:1287-97. 2008.... - Genetic predictors of depressive symptoms in cardiac patientsJeanne M McCaffery
Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI 02903, USA
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 150:381-8. 2009..Results suggested that genetic variation related to endothelial dysfunction is predictive of depressive symptoms and that endothelial dysfunction may be a novel mechanism contributing to depressive symptoms among cardiac patients... 
Educational attainment and the heritability of self-reported hypertension among male Vietnam-era twinsJeanne M McCaffery
Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center, Brown Medical School, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island 02903, USA
Psychosom Med 70:781-6. 2008..In addition, epidemiological research indicates that the prevalence of hypertension differs by socioeconomic factors, such as educational attainment...- Depressive symptoms and cigarette smoking in twins from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent HealthJeanne M McCaffery
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, The Miriam Hospital, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI 02903, USA
Health Psychol 27:S207-15. 2008..To our knowledge, no prior twin studies have examined genetic and environmental contributions to the association of depressive symptoms and cigarette smoking in adolescence... - Gene X environment interaction of vigorous exercise and body mass index among male Vietnam-era twinsJeanne M McCaffery
Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center, Brown Medical School and The Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI 02903, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 89:1011-8. 2009..However, twin models that incorporate a gene-environment correlation and gene x environment interaction have not been applied to elucidate specific environmental factors that affect the heritability of BMI... - Differential functional magnetic resonance imaging response to food pictures in successful weight-loss maintainers relative to normal-weight and obese controlsJeanne M McCaffery
Miriam Hospital and Brown Medical School, Providence, RI 02903, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 90:928-34. 2009..However, little work to date has examined how SWLs differ biologically from normal-weight (NW) and obese controls... - Effects of social contact and zygosity on 21-y weight change in male twinsJeanne M McCaffery
Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 94:404-9. 2011..Recent evidence indicates that social contact is related to similarities in weight gain over time. However, no studies have examined this effect in a twin design, in which genetic and other environmental effects can also be estimated... - Common genetic vulnerability to depressive symptoms and coronary artery disease: a review and development of candidate genes related to inflammation and serotoninJeanne M McCaffery
Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center, Brown Medical School, Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI, USA
Psychosom Med 68:187-200. 2006..We conclude with an overview of select candidate genes within these pathways... - Allelic variation in the serotonin transporter gene-linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR) and cardiovascular reactivity in young adult male and female twins of European-American descentJeanne M McCaffery
Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, Brown Medical School and The Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI 02903, USA
Psychosom Med 65:721-8. 2003..To examine the effect of length variation in the serotonin transporter gene-linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR) on individual differences in cardiovascular response to psychological challenge... - Variability within alpha- and beta-adrenoreceptor genes as a predictor of cardiovascular function at rest and in response to mental challengeJeanne M McCaffery
Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, Brown Medical School and The Miriam Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island 02903, USA
J Hypertens 20:1105-14. 2002.... - Depressive symptoms and metabolic risk in adult male twins enrolled in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute twin studyJeanne M McCaffery
Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, Brown Medical School and The Miriam Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island 02903, USA
Psychosom Med 65:490-7. 2003..To determine the extent to which depressive symptoms are associated with metabolic risk factors and whether genetic or environmental factors account for this association... - Posttraumatic stress disorder and late-onset smoking in the Vietnam era twin registryKarestan C Koenen
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, and The Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 74:186-90. 2006..If replicated, these results identify PTSD as a risk factor for smoking that should lead to early tobacco control treatment in this population... - Maintaining large weight losses: the role of behavioral and psychological factorsRena R Wing
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Miriam Hospital and Brown Medical School, Providence, RI 02903, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 76:1015-21. 2008..Future programs should focus on maintaining physical activity, dietary restraints, and frequent self-weighing and should include stronger components to modify psychological parameters... - Pharmacogenetic clinical trial of sustained-release bupropion for smoking cessationSean P David
Brown University Center for Primary Care and Prevention, Providence, RI 02860, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 9:821-33. 2007.... - TCF7L2 polymorphism and cognitive test performance in cardiovascular diseaseTherese Anne Keary
Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA
Psychogeriatrics 12:93-8. 2012..The present study examines cognitive function among transcription factor 7-like 2 (TCF7L2) genotype groups in a sample of older adults with cardiovascular disease... - Early life stress and morphometry of the adult anterior cingulate cortex and caudate nucleiRonald A Cohen
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Biol Psychiatry 59:975-82. 2006..We examine whether reported adverse ELS defined as stressful and/or traumatic adverse childhood events (ACEs) is associated with smaller limbic and basal ganglia volumes... - A twin-sibling study of tobacco use in adolescence: etiology of individual differences and extreme scoresRichard Rende
Brown Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine at The Miriam Hospital and Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI 02903, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 7:413-9. 2005..These findings were compatible with prior studies of both adolescent and adult smoking and reinforce the importance of familial influences on high levels of smoking frequency in adolescence... - Hostility and urine norepinephrine interact to predict insulin resistance: the VA Normative Aging StudyJianping Zhang
Department of Psychology, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Psychosom Med 68:718-26. 2006..We hypothesized that hostility may interact with circulating norepinephrine (NEPI) levels, indexed by 24-hour urine concentrations, to affect insulin resistance... - Is cardiovascular reactivity associated with atherosclerosis among hypertensives?Peter J Gianaros
Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine Research Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Hypertension 40:742-7. 2002..Among hypertensives, exaggerated behaviorally evoked cardiovascular reactivity appears to be uniquely associated with greater carotid intima-media thickness but not with carotid plaque occurrence... - Are metabolic risk factors one unified syndrome? Modeling the structure of the metabolic syndrome XBiing Jiun Shen
Center for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, Brown University and The Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI, USA
Am J Epidemiol 157:701-11. 2003..This study provides an empirical foundation for conceptualizing and measuring the metabolic syndrome that unites four related components (insulin resistance, obesity, lipids, and blood pressure)... - A study of depressive symptoms and smoking behavior in adult male twins from the NHLBI twin studyJeanne M McCaffery
Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island 02903, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 5:77-83. 2003..Taken together with the previous literature, these results suggest that the etiology of covariation among depressive symptoms and smoking behavior may vary by measurement and severity of depressive symptomology... - Intergenerational transmission of tobacco use and dependence: a transdisciplinary perspectiveEdmond D Shenassa
Brown Medical School, Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, Providence, RI 02903, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 5:S55-69. 2003..Research gaps that exist between scientific disciplines are highlighted, and some directions for future research are suggested... - Covariation of psychosocial characteristics associated with cardiovascular disease: genetic and environmental influencesDouglas A Raynor
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, 405 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Psychosom Med 64:191-203; discussion 204-5. 2002.... - Suppressed hostility predicted hypertension incidence among middle-aged men: the normative aging studyJianping Zhang
Department of Psychology, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA
J Behav Med 28:443-54. 2005..Among older participants, the HoxSuppression interaction was not predictive of HTN incidence. These results provide support for the Suppressed Hostility hypothesis in middle-aged men... - Anger-related personality traits and carotid artery atherosclerosis in untreated hypertensive menMaria E Bleil
Behavioral Physiology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, 4015 O Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Psychosom Med 66:633-9. 2004..To determine whether anger-related personality traits are associated with carotid artery atherosclerosis in untreated hypertensive patients...
Research Grants
- SES, health behaviors and CVD among Vietnam-era-TwinsJeanne McCaffery; Fiscal Year: 2005..The primary method of analysis will be twin structural equation modeling. ..
- Genetic Predictors of Comorbid Depressive Symptoms + CADJeanne McCaffery; Fiscal Year: 2005....