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Adult asthma and risk of coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, and heart failure: a prospective study of 2 matched cohortsCarlos Iribarren
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Am J Epidemiol 176:1014-24. 2012..In conclusion, asthma was prospectively associated with increased risk of major CVD. Modifying effects were noted for sex and asthma medication use but not for comorbid allergy...
Effect of cigar smoking on the risk of cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cancer in menC Iribarren
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, Calif 94611, USA
N Engl J Med 340:1773-80. 1999..However, unlike the relation between cigarette smoking and cardiovascular disease, the association between cigar smoking and cardiovascular disease has not been clearly established...- Asthma and the prospective risk of anaphylactic shock and other allergy diagnoses in a large integrated health care delivery systemCarlos Iribarren
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 104:371-7. 2010..The association between asthma and anaphylaxis remains poorly understood... - Sex and racial/ethnic disparities in outcomes after acute myocardial infarction: a cohort study among members of a large integrated health care delivery system in northern CaliforniaCarlos Iribarren
Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:2105-13. 2005.... - Metabolic syndrome and early-onset coronary artery disease: is the whole greater than its parts?Carlos Iribarren
Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, California 94612, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 48:1800-7. 2006.... - Does the association between serum endostatin, an endogenous anti-angiogenic protein, and acute myocardial infarction differ by race?Carlos Iribarren
Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, 2000 Broadway, 3rd Floor, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Vasc Med 11:13-20. 2006..Further research is needed to replicate these findings and to elucidate potential mechanisms for these race/ethnic differences... - Value of the sagittal abdominal diameter in coronary heart disease risk assessment: cohort study in a large, multiethnic populationCarlos Iribarren
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, Oakland 94612, and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, CA, USA
Am J Epidemiol 164:1150-9. 2006..In conclusion, standing sagittal abdominal diameter was a strong predictor of CHD independently of BMI and added incremental CHD risk prediction at each level of BMI... - Birthplace and mortality among insured Latinos: the paradox revisitedCarlos Iribarren
Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Ethn Dis 19:185-91. 2009..We investigated the Latino paradox in a managed care setting and examined the role of birthplace... - Incidental pulmonary nodules on cardiac computed tomography: prognosis and useCarlos Iribarren
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Am J Med 121:989-96. 2008..Small asymptomatic lung nodules are found frequently in the course of cardiac computed tomography (CT) scanning. However, the utility of assessing and reporting incidental findings in healthy, asymptomatic subjects is unknown... - Plasma leptin levels and coronary artery calcification in older adultsCarlos Iribarren
Kaiser Permanente, Division of Research, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, California 94612, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 92:729-32. 2007..Leptin is associated with adiposity and insulin resistance and may play a direct role in vascular calcification. It is unclear, however, whether leptin is an independent predictor of atherosclerotic burden... - Asymmetric dimethyl-arginine and coronary artery calcification in young adults entering middle age: the CARDIA StudyCarlos Iribarren
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA, USA
Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil 14:222-9. 2007..Our aim was to ascertain the association between ADMA and coronary artery calcification (CAC), a marker of atherosclerotic coronary disease burden... - Causes and demographic, medical, lifestyle and psychosocial predictors of premature mortality: the CARDIA studyCarlos Iribarren
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA, USA
Soc Sci Med 60:471-82. 2005.... - Association of lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 mass and activity with calcified coronary plaque in young adults: the CARDIA studyCarlos Iribarren
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA, USA
Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 25:216-21. 2005..To examine the association of lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 (Lp-PLA2) mass and activity with calcified coronary plaque in young adults... - Breast vascular calcification and risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, and heart failureCarlos Iribarren
Kaiser Permanente of Northern California Division of Research, Oakland, California 94612, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 13:381-9; discussion 390-2. 2004..Vascular calcification holds promise as a useful cardiovascular risk maker. Our objective was to examine the association between breast vascular calcification and risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcomes... - Cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, and risk of ARDS: a 15-year cohort study in a managed care settingC Iribarren
Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, CA 94611, USA
Chest 117:163-8. 2000..To examine the association of cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption with hospital presentation of ARDS in a well-defined, multiethnic population... - Association of hostility with coronary artery calcification in young adults: the CARDIA study. Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young AdultsC Iribarren
Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, 3505 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94611, USA
JAMA 283:2546-51. 2000..Psychosocial factors, including personality and character traits, may play a role in the development and expression of coronary artery disease... - Calcification of the aortic arch: risk factors and association with coronary heart disease, stroke, and peripheral vascular diseaseC Iribarren
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, 3505 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94611
JAMA 283:2810-5. 2000..However, the incremental predictive value of vascular calcification, beyond traditional coronary risk factors, is not clearly established... - Hospitalization for suicide attempt and completed suicide: epidemiological features in a managed care populationC Iribarren
Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, CA 94611, USA
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 35:288-96. 2000.... - Glycemic control and heart failure among adult patients with diabetesC Iribarren
Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, CA, USA
Circulation 103:2668-73. 2001.... - Cohort study of thyroid cancer in a San Francisco Bay area populationC Iribarren
Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, CA 94611, USA
Int J Cancer 93:745-50. 2001..These results provide further evidence for a role of female gender, radiation, goiter, Asian race, high educational attainment and family history of thyroid disease in the etiology of thyroid cancer... 
Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke: association with personal characteristics and self reported health conditionsC Iribarren
Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, California 94611, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 55:721-8. 2001..To examine the association between exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and demographic, lifestyle, occupational characteristics and self reported health conditions...- Dietary intake of n-3, n-6 fatty acids and fish: relationship with hostility in young adults--the CARDIA studyC Iribarren
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA, USA
Eur J Clin Nutr 58:24-31. 2004.... - Cohort study of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and risk of first ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attackCarlos Iribarren
Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Neuroepidemiology 23:38-44. 2004..Although potentially important confounders (such as dietary habits) were not included in the analysis, high-level ETS exposure at home was independently associated with increased risk of first ischemic stroke among never-smoking women... - Are patients with asthma at increased risk of coronary heart disease?Carlos Iribarren
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Int J Epidemiol 33:743-8. 2004..Inflammation plays a role in the pathogenesis of athero-thrombosis. Because of the chronic, inflammatory nature of asthma, we hypothesized a possible link asthma and prospective risk of coronary heart disease (CHD)... - Traditional and novel risk factors for clinically diagnosed abdominal aortic aneurysm: the Kaiser multiphasic health checkup cohort studyCarlos Iribarren
Kaiser Permanente of Northern California Division of Research, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Ann Epidemiol 17:669-78. 2007.... - Characterizing the admixed African ancestry of African AmericansFouad Zakharia
Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Genome Biol 10:R141. 2009..To focus on African ancestry, we reduced the data to include only those genotypes in each African American determined statistically to be African in origin... - Circulating angiopoietins-1 and -2, angiopoietin receptor Tie-2 and vascular endothelial growth factor-A as biomarkers of acute myocardial infarction: a prospective nested case-control studyCarlos Iribarren
Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
BMC Cardiovasc Disord 11:31. 2011..Our aim was to examine the association between circulating levels of markers of angiogenesis with risk of incident acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in men and women... - Incidental findings on cardiac multidetector row computed tomography among healthy older adults: prevalence and clinical correlatesJeremy R Burt
Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Arch Intern Med 168:756-61. 2008..Our objectives were to evaluate the prevalence of incidental findings discovered during cardiac MDCT scanning and to identify clinical variables associated with incidental findings... - Statin and beta-blocker therapy and the initial presentation of coronary heart diseaseAlan S Go
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, Oakland, California 94612 2304, USA
Ann Intern Med 144:229-38. 2006..Patients who present with unstable coronary disease, such as acute myocardial infarction, may systematically differ from patients who present with relatively stable coronary disease, such as exertional angina... - Insulin resistance independently predicts the progression of coronary artery calcificationKeane K Lee
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Am Heart J 157:939-45. 2009..Change in coronary artery calcification is a surrogate marker of subclinical coronary artery disease (CAD). In the only large prospective study, CAD risk factors predicted progression of coronary artery calcium (CAC)... - Ethnicity and risk of hospitalization for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseH Nicole Tran
Department of Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, California 94611, USA
Ann Epidemiol 21:615-22. 2011..To identify ethnic differences for risk of hospitalization for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)... - Chronic kidney disease and risk for presenting with acute myocardial infarction versus stable exertional angina in adults with coronary heart diseaseAlan S Go
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, 2000 Broadway Street, Oakland, CA 94612 2304, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 58:1600-7. 2011..The aim of this study was to examine whether kidney dysfunction is associated with the type of clinical presentation of coronary heart disease (CHD)... - Right coronary wall CMR in the older asymptomatic advance cohort: positive remodeling and associations with type 2 diabetes and coronary calciumMasahiro Terashima
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 12:75. 2010..The purpose of the study was to evaluate coronary wall CMR in an asymptomatic older cohort... - The conundrum of increased burden of end-stage renal disease in AsiansYoshio N Hall
Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, USA
Kidney Int 68:2310-6. 2005..Strategies aimed at examining novel risk factors for kidney disease and efforts to increase awareness of kidney disease among Asians may reduce ESRD incidence in this high-risk group... - COPD and cognitive impairment: the role of hypoxemia and oxygen therapyNeeta Thakur
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis 5:263-9. 2010..In patients with established COPD, we evaluated the impact of disease severity and impairment of respiratory physiology on cognitive impairment and the potential mitigating role of oxygen therapy... - Potential role of differential medication use in explaining excess risk of cardiovascular events and death associated with chronic kidney disease: a cohort studyNisha Bansal
Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, CA, USA
BMC Nephrol 12:44. 2011..It is unclear whether differential cardiovascular drug use explains, in part, the excess risk of cardiovascular events and death in patients with CKD and coronary heart disease (CHD)... - Health-related characteristics and preferred methods of receiving health education according to dominant language among Latinos aged 25 to 64 in a large Northern California health planNancy P Gordon
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
BMC Public Health 8:305. 2008.... - Relationship of estimated GFR and coronary artery calcification in the CRIC (Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort) StudyMatthew J Budoff
Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor UCLA, Torrance, CA, USA
Am J Kidney Dis 58:519-26. 2011..Although individuals with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at markedly increased mortality risk, the incidence, prevalence, and prognosis of CAC in CKD are not well understood... - Common polymorphisms of ALOX5 and ALOX5AP and risk of coronary artery diseaseThemistocles L Assimes
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Hum Genet 123:399-408. 2008..However, additional studies are needed to exclude modest effects of promoter variation in ALOX5 on the risk of CAD assuming a recessive mode of inheritance... - Measurement of COPD severity using a survey-based score: validation in a clinically and physiologically characterized cohortMark D Eisner
University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, M 1097, San Francisco, CA 94143 0111, USA
Chest 137:846-51. 2010..In this study, we aimed to further validate the severity score in a different COPD cohort and using a combination of patient-reported and objective physiologic measurements... 
Smoking status and common carotid artery intima-medial thickness among middle-aged men and women based on ultrasound measurement: a cohort studyAmy Z Fan
Prevention Research Center, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Berkeley, CA, USA
BMC Cardiovasc Disord 6:42. 2006..Cigarette smoking is an established causal factor for atherosclerosis. However, the smoking effect on different echogenic components of carotid arterial wall measured by ultrasound is not well elucidated...- Analysis of late risk of systemic blood pressures <120/80 mm HgShubha Ananthakrishnan
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland California, USA
Am J Cardiol 94:1575-6. 2004..These relations were similar in men, women, and several ethnic groups but stronger in subjects <40 years old. These data suggest a definition of optimal BP of <100/70 mm Hg, similar to usual BP levels in children <10 years old...