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Sex-hormone-binding globulin and the free androgen index are related to cardiovascular risk factors in multiethnic premenopausal and perimenopausal women enrolled in the Study of Women Across the Nation (SWAN)Kim Sutton-Tyrrell
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, 127 Parran Hall 130 DeSoto St, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Circulation 111:1242-9. 2005..Recent clinical trials have shifted attention away from estrogens and toward androgens and sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) as potential mediators of increasing cardiovascular (CV) risk in women at midlife...- Relation of inflammation to peripheral arterial disease in the national health and nutrition examination survey, 1999-2002Rachel P Wildman
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA
Am J Cardiol 96:1579-83. 2005..26 (95% CI 1.69 to 6.28) for current smokers versus 0.83 (95% CI 0.51 to 1.35) for never smokers (p interaction=0.006). In conclusion, in the general United States adult population, inflammation is independently associated with PAD... - Are waist circumference and body mass index independently associated with cardiovascular disease risk in Chinese adults?Rachel P Wildman
Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 82:1195-202. 2005..In Western populations, waist circumference (WC) is more predictive of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk than is body mass index (BMI). It is unclear whether the same is true in Asian populations... - Alcohol intake and hypertension subtypes in Chinese menRachel P Wildman
Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
J Hypertens 23:737-43. 2005..To examine the associations between alcohol intake and isolated systolic hypertension (ISH), systolic-diastolic hypertension (SDH), and isolated diastolic hypertension (IDH)... - Appropriate body mass index and waist circumference cutoffs for categorization of overweight and central adiposity among Chinese adultsRachel P Wildman
Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 80:1129-36. 2004..Recent data suggest that current overweight and central adiposity guidelines based on Western populations are not appropriate for Asian populations. The published data among Chinese are insufficient to address this issue... - Prevalence of decreased kidney function in Chinese adults aged 35 to 74 yearsJing Chen
Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
Kidney Int 68:2837-45. 2005..Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major public health burden in Western countries but little is known about its impact in developing countries. We estimated the prevalence and absolute burden of CKD in the general adult population in China... - Major causes of death among men and women in ChinaJiang He
Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
N Engl J Med 353:1124-34. 2005..We studied the major causes of death and modifiable risk factors in a nationally representative cohort of 169,871 men and women 40 years of age and older in China... - Do carotid artery diameters manifest early evidence of atherosclerosis in women with rheumatoid arthritis?Laura L Schott
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 18:21-9. 2009..We take a unique approach by evaluating lumen and interadventitial diameters in addition to intima-media thickness and plaque... - Alcohol consumption and risk for stroke among Chinese menLydia A Bazzano
Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112 2715, USA
Ann Neurol 62:569-78. 2007..Stroke is a leading cause of death and long-term disability in China. The objective of this study was to examine the relation between alcohol consumption and risk for stroke among Chinese men... - Relationship between HbA1c level and peripheral arterial diseasePaul Muntner
Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University SPHTM, 1430 Tulane Ave, SL 18 New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
Diabetes Care 28:1981-7. 2005..We sought to evaluate the association of HbA(1c) (A1C) with peripheral arterial disease in a representative sample of the U.S. population with and without diabetes... - Relation of borderline peripheral arterial disease to cardiovascular disease riskAndy Menke
Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Am J Cardiol 98:1226-30. 2006..In conclusion, subjects with a low-normal ABI or with borderline PAD need screening for CVD risk factors, and interventions may be appropriate to prevent cardiovascular events... - Association between inflammation and insulin resistance in U.S. nondiabetic adults: results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination SurveyJing Chen
Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, 1430 Tulane Ave, SL45, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
Diabetes Care 27:2960-5. 2004..These findings indicate that elevated levels of inflammatory markers are positively and independently associated with insulin resistance. Further studies should examine the potential causal effect of inflammation on insulin resistance... - A dietary and exercise intervention slows menopause-associated progression of subclinical atherosclerosis as measured by intima-media thickness of the carotid arteriesRachel P Wildman
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 44:579-85. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: These data demonstrate that the menopause transition is associated with accelerated subclinical atherosclerosis progression and that a diet/exercise intervention slows menopause-related atherosclerosis progression... - Cardiovascular risk factors associated with enlarged diameter of the abdominal aortic and iliac arteries in healthy womenAmi S Patel
Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, 127 Parran Hall, 130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Atherosclerosis 178:311-7. 2005..Women at mid-life should continue to be targeted for weight interventions to reduce their risk for more serious cardiovascular complications... - Weight change is associated with change in arterial stiffness among healthy young adultsRachel P Wildman
Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA
Hypertension 45:187-92. 2005..These data greatly underscore the vascular benefit of weight loss. Successful weight loss programs in young adults, particularly blacks, are needed... - Measures of adiposity and cardiovascular disease risk factorsAndy Menke
Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:785-95. 2007..To determine which of five measures of adiposity maintains the strongest association with cardiovascular disease risk factors... - Trends in the prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of cardiovascular disease risk factors among noninstitutionalized patients with a history of myocardial infarction and strokePaul Muntner
Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
Am J Epidemiol 163:913-20. 2006..20). The number of US myocardial infarction and stroke survivors increased between 1988-1994 and 1999-2002, and substantial improvements occurred in the awareness, treatment, and control of high LDL cholesterol in this population... - Relation between depressive symptoms and common carotid artery atherosclerosis in American persons > or =65 years of ageMohammed F Faramawi
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Am J Cardiol 99:1610-3. 2007..In conclusion, these data indicate that depressive symptoms are associated with the development of atherosclerosis in subjects aged > or =65 years... - Prevalence of physical activity among Chinese adults: results from the International Collaborative Study of Cardiovascular Disease in AsiaPaul Muntner
Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University SPHTM, 1430 Tulane Ave, SL 18, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
Am J Public Health 95:1631-6. 2005..Therefore, we assessed overall, work-related, and leisure-time physical activity in a representative sample of Chinese adults, aged 35 to 74 years, using data from the International Collaborative Study of Cardiovascular Disease in Asia... - Obesity is associated with larger arterial diameters in Caucasian and African-American young adultsRachel P Wildman
Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA
Diabetes Care 27:2997-9. 2004 - Trends in blood pressure among children and adolescentsPaul Muntner
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
JAMA 291:2107-13. 2004..The prevalence of overweight among children and adolescents increased between 1988 and 2000. The change in blood pressure among children and adolescents over that time and the role of overweight is unknown... - Segment-specific effects of cardiovascular risk factors on carotid artery intima-medial thickness in women at midlifeLaura L Schott
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, 127 Parran Hall, 130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 24:1951-6. 2004..We investigated associations between segment-specific carotid intima-medial thickness (IMT) and cardiovascular risk factors collected before menopause for insight into mechanisms of atherosclerosis development... - Effect modification of obesity on associations between endogenous steroid sex hormones and arterial calcification in women at midlifeSamar R El Khoudary
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Menopause 18:906-14. 2011..The aim of this study was to examine whether obesity modifies the effects of endogenous steroid sex hormones on arterial calcification in women at midlife... - Lipoprotein levels are associated with incident hypertension in older adultsRachel P Wildman
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:916-21. 2004..CONCLUSION: Older adults with abnormal serum lipoproteins are at increased risk of developing hypertension. Clinical trials exploring the effects of the modification of lipoprotein levels on hypertension incidence rates are needed... - Measures of obesity are associated with vascular stiffness in young and older adultsRachel P Wildman
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Hypertension 42:468-73. 2003..The strength of the association, the early age at which it appears, and the prevalence of obesity among the young warn of substantially increased cardiovascular disease incidence as this cohort ages... - The obese without cardiometabolic risk factor clustering and the normal weight with cardiometabolic risk factor clustering: prevalence and correlates of 2 phenotypes among the US population (NHANES 1999-2004)Rachel P Wildman
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Ave, Belfer Building, Room 1309, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
Arch Intern Med 168:1617-24. 2008.... - Utility of the metabolic syndrome diagnosis: can home blood pressures help settle the debate?Rachel P Wildman
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, USA
Am J Hypertens 21:486. 2008 - Trends in overweight and obesity in Chinese adults: between 1991 and 1999-2000Rachel P Wildman
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 16:1448-53. 2008..The aim of this study was to evaluate trends in BMI and the prevalence of overweight (BMI > or = 25 kg/m(2)) and obesity (BMI > or = 30 kg/m(2)) between 1991 and 1999-2000 among Chinese adults... - Indices of abdominal obesity are better discriminators of cardiovascular risk factors than BMI: a meta-analysisCrystal Man Ying Lee
Nutrition and Lifestyle Division, The George Institute for International Health, University of Sydney, PO Box M 201, Missenden Road, Sydney NSW 2050, Australia
J Clin Epidemiol 61:646-53. 2008..To determine which simple index of overweight and obesity is the best discriminator of cardiovascular risk factors... - Progression of carotid intima-media thickness and plaque in women with systemic lupus erythematosusTrina Thompson
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
Arthritis Rheum 58:835-42. 2008.... - Associations of endogenous sex hormones with the vasculature in menopausal women: the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN)Rachel P Wildman
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
Menopause 15:414-21. 2008..As associations between endogenous sex hormones and the vasculature are not well characterized, the objective was to examine the cross-sectional associations of menopausal status and endogenous sex hormones with vascular characteristics... - Prevalence of isolated systolic and isolated diastolic hypertension subtypes in ChinaJianfeng Huang
Cardiovascular Institute, Fu Wai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Am J Hypertens 17:955-62. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: These data document high rates of ISH in China. Given the risk of cardiovascular disease associated with ISH, our findings underscore the critical need for enhanced hypertension screening and treatment programs in China... - [Prevalence of isolated systolic hypertension in Chinese adult population]Jian-feng Huang
Department of Population Genetics and Prevention, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100037, China
Zhonghua Yu Fang Yi Xue Za Zhi 39:7-10. 2005..CONCLUSION: There existed a higher prevalence of systolic hypertension in China, to which enough attention should be paid... - Incidence and predictors of hypertension over 8 years among Chinese men and womenDongfeng Gu
The Cardiovascular Institute and Fu Wai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, PR China
J Hypertens 25:517-23. 2007..To determine the 8-year incidence of hypertension and its risk factors among Chinese adults... - Change in adipocytokines and ghrelin with menopauseMaryFran R Sowers
Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Maturitas 59:149-57. 2008....