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Sick at heart: the pathophysiology of negative emotionsLaura D Kubzansky
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cleve Clin J Med 74:S67-72. 2007
A heartfelt response: Oxytocin effects on response to social stress in men and womenLaura D Kubzansky
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Biol Psychol 90:1-9. 2012..This study examines whether oxytocin enhances adaptive responses to social stress and compares effects between men and women...- Angry breathing: A prospective study of hostility and lung function in the Normative Aging StudyL D Kubzansky
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Thorax 61:863-8. 2006..This study tests the hypothesis that hostility contributes to a faster rate of decline in lung function in older adults... - Protocol for an experimental investigation of the roles of oxytocin and social support in neuroendocrine, cardiovascular, and subjective responses to stress across age and genderLaura D Kubzansky
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA USA
BMC Public Health 9:481. 2009.... - Prospective study of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and coronary heart disease in the Normative Aging StudyLaura D Kubzansky
Harvard School of Public Health, Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study, Veterans Affairs Boston Health Care System, Boston University School of Medicine, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:109-16. 2007..To our knowledge, no prospective studies to date have evaluated whether PTSD is associated with increased risk of CHD... - Emotional vitality and incident coronary heart disease: benefits of healthy psychological functioningLaura D Kubzansky
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:1393-401. 2007..Emotional vitality--characterized by a sense of energy, positive well-being, and effective emotion regulation--has been hypothesized to reduce risk of heart disease, but no studies have examined this relationship... 
Key 2010 publications in behavioral medicineLaura D Kubzansky
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Kresge Building, Room 714, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cleve Clin J Med 78:S65-8. 2011....- A prospective study of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and coronary heart disease in womenLaura D Kubzansky
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Health Psychol 28:125-30. 2009..No study has tested this hypothesis in women even though PTSD is more prevalent among women than men. This study aims to examine whether higher levels of PTSD symptoms are associated with increased risk of incident CHD among women... - Is posttraumatic stress disorder related to development of heart disease? An updateLaura D Kubzansky
Department of Soci ety, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cleve Clin J Med 76:S60-5. 2009..A better understanding of the relationship will increase prevention and intervention efforts. Cardiologists may be most effective when they can recognize and manage emotional distress in practice... - Early manifestations of personality and adult health: a life course perspectiveLaura D Kubzansky
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Health Psychol 28:364-72. 2009..Specific childhood personality attributes considered include distress proneness, behavioral inhibition, and ability to stay focused on a task... - Aldosterone: a forgotten mediator of the relationship between psychological stress and heart diseaseLaura D Kubzansky
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Neurosci Biobehav Rev 34:80-6. 2010..Finally we will present an integrated model of how aldosterone may mediate effects of chronic stress on CVD, recommend new directions for research, and identify important methodological and design issues for this work... - Healthy psychological functioning and incident coronary heart disease: the importance of self-regulationLaura D Kubzansky
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 68:400-8. 2011..Little work has directly assessed the role of self-regulation in risk of incident CHD... - Neighborhood contextual influences on depressive symptoms in the elderlyLaura D Kubzansky
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115 6096, USA
Am J Epidemiol 162:253-60. 2005..e., mediated) neighborhood variations in depressive symptoms... - The clinical impact of negative psychological states: expanding the spectrum of risk for coronary artery diseaseLaura D Kubzansky
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Psychosom Med 67:S10-4. 2005..The association between even mild depressive symptoms and sequelae of cardiac disease raises the following question: Is the spectrum of psychological factors associated with cardiac disease greater than previously recognized?.. - Going to the heart of the matter: do negative emotions cause coronary heart disease?L D Kubzansky
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Psychosom Res 48:323-37. 2000.... - Social conditions and distress in elderly persons: findings from the MacArthur Studies of Successful AgingL D Kubzansky
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 6096, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 55:P238-46. 2000..These results differ from those of previous studies and indicate that age and functional status should be considered in examinations of relationships among race/ethnicity, SES, and distress... - Early manifestations of personality and adult emotional functioningLaura D Kubzansky
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Emotion 4:364-77. 2004..Of the personality attributes, 3 of 4 (except behavioral inhibition) predicted general levels of distress as well as specific aspects of adult emotional functioning... - Is the glass half empty or half full? A prospective study of optimism and coronary heart disease in the normative aging studyL D Kubzansky
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Psychosom Med 63:910-6. 2001..We examined prospectively the relationship of an optimistic or pessimistic explanatory style with coronary heart disease incidence in the Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study, an ongoing cohort of older men... - Breathing easy: a prospective study of optimism and pulmonary function in the normative aging studyLaura D Kubzansky
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Ann Behav Med 24:345-53. 2002..These data are the first to link optimism with higher levels of pulmonary function and slower rate of pulmonary function decline in older men, a protective effect that is independent of smoking... - Is educational attainment associated with shared determinants of health in the elderly? Findings from the MacArthur Studies of Successful AgingL D Kubzansky
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 6096, USA
Psychosom Med 60:578-85. 1998..To investigate the association of educational attainment with an array of risk factors for poor health among high-functioning older men and women... - Is worrying bad for your heart? A prospective study of worry and coronary heart disease in the Normative Aging StudyL D Kubzansky
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02120, USA
Circulation 95:818-24. 1997..Chronic worry has also been associated with decreased heart rate variability. We hypothesized that high levels of worry may increase CHD risk... - Optimism and pessimism in the context of health: bipolar opposites or separate constructs?Laura D Kubzansky
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 30:943-56. 2004..Further research may benefit from considering optimism and pessimism as bivariate and also should consider the conceptual components and behavioral mechanisms specific to each variable... - Prospective study of a self-report type A scale and risk of coronary heart disease: test of the MMPI-2 type A scaleI Kawachi
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
Circulation 98:405-12. 1998..To the best of our knowledge, this is the first test of this scale in the context of predicting CHD incidence... - Childhood cognitive performance and risk of generalized anxiety disorderLaurie T Martin
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Epidemiol 36:769-75. 2007..This study tests the hypothesis that individuals with higher cognitive skills are less likely to develop a lifetime diagnosis of GAD, and considers onset in three developmental periods: childhood, adolescence and adulthood... - Examining the influence of early life socioeconomic position on pulmonary function across the life span: where do we go from here?B Jackson
Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Thorax 59:186-8. 2004 - Anger expression and risk of stroke and coronary heart disease among male health professionalsPatricia Mona Eng
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Psychosom Med 65:100-10. 2003.... - Do depression and anxiety mediate the link between educational attainment and CHD?Rebecca C Thurston
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Psychosom Med 68:25-32. 2006..This study evaluates depression and anxiety as mediators of the association between educational attainment and incident CHD... - Relation of female gender and low socioeconomic status to internalizing symptoms among adolescents: a case of double jeopardy?Tamar Mendelson
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Soc Sci Med 66:1284-96. 2008.... - Gender differences in religious practices, spiritual experiences and health: results from the US General Social SurveyJoanna Maselko
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Soc Sci Med 62:2848-60. 2006.... - Depressive symptoms and prospective incidence of colorectal cancer in womenCandyce H Kroenke
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Epidemiol 162:839-48. 2005..04). Associations appeared stronger in overweight women. However, depressive symptoms were unrelated to risk of colorectal adenomas. Associations are consistent with a possible role in late promotion of the disease... - Childhood cognitive performance and risk of mortality: a prospective cohort study of gifted individualsLaurie T Martin
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Epidemiol 162:887-90. 2005..Childhood IQ, even at the upper end of the distribution, is a significant predictor of mortality, independent of childhood social position... - Is the association between socioeconomic position and coronary heart disease stronger in women than in men?Rebecca C Thurston
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Am J Epidemiol 162:57-65. 2005..12) in age-adjusted models. Low education was associated with greater social and psychological risks for women than men; however, metabolic risks largely explained gender differences in the educational gradient in coronary heart disease... - Emotional functioning at age 7 years is associated with C-reactive protein in middle adulthoodAllison A Appleton
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Psychosom Med 73:295-303. 2011..Therefore, we evaluated whether child emotional functioning at age 7 years is associated with C-reactive protein (CRP), an indicator of systemic inflammation, in middle adulthood... - A framework for examining social stress and susceptibility to air pollution in respiratory healthJane E Clougherty
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Environ Health Perspect 117:1351-8. 2009.... 
Synergistic effects of traffic-related air pollution and exposure to violence on urban asthma etiologyJane E Clougherty
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Environ Health Perspect 115:1140-6. 2007..Asthma, for example, disproportionately affects lower-income urban communities, where air pollution and social stressors may be elevated...- Childhood social environment, emotional reactivity to stress, and mood and anxiety disorders across the life courseKatie A McLaughlin
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Depress Anxiety 27:1087-94. 2010..We investigate whether emotional reactivity to stress is a mechanism in the association between childhood environment characteristics and adult mood and anxiety disorders... - A matter of life and breath: childhood socioeconomic status is related to young adult pulmonary function in the CARDIA studyBenita Jackson
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Epidemiol 33:271-8. 2004..But prospective studies are sparse across young adulthood, an important phase in pulmonary development... - Ancillary benefits for caregivers of children with asthma participating in an environmental intervention study to alleviate asthma symptomsJane E Clougherty
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
J Urban Health 86:214-29. 2009..Future environmental intervention studies should more formally consider social support and participation effects for both children and caregivers... - Affective and cardiovascular effects of experimentally-induced social statusTamar Mendelson
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Psychol 27:482-9. 2008..This study used experimental methods to test the hypothesis that subordinate social status per se causes psychological distress and cardiovascular arousal... - Does harboring hostility hurt? Associations between hostility and pulmonary function in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in (Young) Adults (CARDIA) studyBenita Jackson
Department of Psychology, Clark Science Center, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, and Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, USA
Health Psychol 26:333-40. 2007..To examine the cross-sectional association between hostility and pulmonary function (PF) and its consistency across race/ethnicity-gender groups... - Optimism in relation to inflammation and endothelial dysfunction in older men: the VA Normative Aging StudyAi Ikeda
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Psychosom Med 73:664-71. 2011..This study examines the association of optimism with change in inflammation and endothelial function over time in men... - Prospective change in health-related quality of life and subsequent mortality among middle-aged and older womenCandyce H Kroenke
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Am J Public Health 98:2085-91. 2008..We sought to determine prospective changes in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measures and subsequent mortality in middle-aged and older women... - Multiple sources of psychosocial disadvantage and risk of coronary heart diseaseRebecca C Thurston
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15217, USA
Psychosom Med 69:748-55. 2007..However, multiple sources of psychosocial disadvantage tend to co-occur... - Social status, stress, and adolescent smokingDaniel M Finkelstein
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
J Adolesc Health 39:678-85. 2006..Therefore, stress reduction interventions may not alleviate social inequalities in teen smoking, but they do hold promise for youth smoking prevention... - Social distribution of social support: the mediating role of life eventsKristin D Mickelson
Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242 0001, USA
Am J Community Psychol 32:265-81. 2003..These results suggest the inability of lower SES individuals to mobilize social support in times of need may be explained by their more frequent experience of acute life events... - Socioeconomic differences in adolescent stress: the role of psychological resourcesDaniel M Finkelstein
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
J Adolesc Health 40:127-34. 2007..To investigate whether psychological resources influenced the association between parent education (PE), a marker of socioeconomic status (SES), and perceived stress... - Sociodemographic characteristics of the neighborhood and depressive symptoms in older adults: using multilevel modeling in geriatric psychiatryCelia F Hybels
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 14:498-506. 2006..Our objective was to examine the association between neighborhood context and level of depressive symptomatology in older adults in a diverse geographic region of central North Carolina... - Social networks, social support, and survival after breast cancer diagnosisCandyce H Kroenke
Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars, University of California, San Francisco, Center for Health and Community, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
J Clin Oncol 24:1105-11. 2006..We prospectively examined social ties and survival after breast cancer diagnosis... - Shared and unique contributions of anger, anxiety, and depression to coronary heart disease: a prospective study in the normative aging studyLaura D Kubzansky
Harvard School of Public Health
Ann Behav Med 31:21-9. 2006..General distress shared across negative emotions is an important component in the emotion-CHD relation. Aspects of anxiety may also independently increase CHD risk... - Psychologic functioning and physical health: a paradigm of flexibilityAlan Rozanski
Division of Cardiology, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital Center, 1111 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10025, USA
Psychosom Med 67:S47-53. 2005..Pending further study, these observations could serve as the basis for expanding the potential behavioral interventions that may be used to assist patients with psychosocial risk factors for CAD...