Cora Elizabeth Lewis

Summary

Affiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Longitudinal association of body mass index with lung function: the CARDIA study
    Bharat Thyagarajan
    Dept of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
    Respir Res 9:31. 2008
  2. ncbi QTLs of factors of the metabolic syndrome and echocardiographic phenotypes: the hypertension genetic epidemiology network study
    Aldi T Kraja
    Division of Statistical Genomics, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, USA
    BMC Med Genet 9:103. 2008
  3. ncbi The INSIG2 rs7566605 genetic variant does not play a major role in obesity in a sample of 24,722 individuals from four cohorts
    Jan Bressler
    Human Genetics Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    BMC Med Genet 10:56. 2009
  4. ncbi An investigation of the effects of lipid-lowering medications: genome-wide linkage analysis of lipids in the HyperGEN study
    Jun Wu
    Division of Statistical Genomics, Washington University School of Medicine, Campus Box 8506, 4444 Forest Park Boulevard, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA
    BMC Genet 8:60. 2007
  5. ncbi Sex-specific findings from a genome-wide linkage analysis of human fatness in non-Hispanic whites and African Americans: the HyperGEN study
    C E Lewis
    Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35205, USA
    Int J Obes (Lond) 29:639-49. 2005
  6. ncbi Weight gain continues in the 1990s: 10-year trends in weight and overweight from the CARDIA study. Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults
    C E Lewis
    Division of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35205, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 151:1172-81. 2000
  7. ncbi Ten-year changes in smoking among young adults: are racial differences explained by socioeconomic factors in the CARDIA study?
    C I Kiefe
    Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1717 11th Ave S, MT 700, Birmingham, AL 35205 4785, USA
    Am J Public Health 91:213-8. 2001
  8. ncbi Inverse relationship of urinary cyclic GMP to blood pressure reactivity in the CARDIA study: vasodilatory regulation of sympathetic vasoconstriction. Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults
    J H Markovitz
    Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35205, USA
    Psychosom Med 60:319-26. 1998
  9. ncbi Regional disparities in the incidence of elevated blood pressure among young adults: the CARDIA study
    C I Kiefe
    University of Alabama at Birmingham, Division of Preventive Medicine, and Birmingham VA Medical Center, 35205 4785, USA
    Circulation 96:1082-8. 1997
  10. ncbi Prevention Conference VII: Obesity, a worldwide epidemic related to heart disease and stroke: Group II: age-dependent risk factors for obesity and comorbidities
    Sachiko T St Jeor
    Circulation 110:e471-5. 2004

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Publications10

  1. ncbi Longitudinal association of body mass index with lung function: the CARDIA study
    Bharat Thyagarajan
    Dept of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
    Respir Res 9:31. 2008
    ..Lung function at the end of life depends on its peak and subsequent decline. Because obesity is epidemic in young adulthood, we quantified age-related changes in lung function relative to body mass index (BMI)...
  2. ncbi QTLs of factors of the metabolic syndrome and echocardiographic phenotypes: the hypertension genetic epidemiology network study
    Aldi T Kraja
    Division of Statistical Genomics, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, USA
    BMC Med Genet 9:103. 2008
    ....
  3. ncbi The INSIG2 rs7566605 genetic variant does not play a major role in obesity in a sample of 24,722 individuals from four cohorts
    Jan Bressler
    Human Genetics Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    BMC Med Genet 10:56. 2009
    ..The combined study sample is comprised of 24,722 white, African-American, and Mexican-American participants...
  4. ncbi An investigation of the effects of lipid-lowering medications: genome-wide linkage analysis of lipids in the HyperGEN study
    Jun Wu
    Division of Statistical Genomics, Washington University School of Medicine, Campus Box 8506, 4444 Forest Park Boulevard, Saint Louis, MO 63108, USA
    BMC Genet 8:60. 2007
    ..We propose an empirical method to adjust lipid levels for medication effects so that the adjusted lipid values substitute the unmedicated lipid values in the genetic analysis...
  5. ncbi Sex-specific findings from a genome-wide linkage analysis of human fatness in non-Hispanic whites and African Americans: the HyperGEN study
    C E Lewis
    Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35205, USA
    Int J Obes (Lond) 29:639-49. 2005
    ..To conduct a full genome search for genes potentially influencing two related phenotypes: body mass index (BMI, kg/m2) and percent body fat (PBF) from bioelectric impedance in men and women...
  6. ncbi Weight gain continues in the 1990s: 10-year trends in weight and overweight from the CARDIA study. Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults
    C E Lewis
    Division of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35205, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 151:1172-81. 2000
    ..Secular trends for weight gain are continuing in CARDIA, but the magnitude of weight gain differed among the four race-sex groups...
  7. ncbi Ten-year changes in smoking among young adults: are racial differences explained by socioeconomic factors in the CARDIA study?
    C I Kiefe
    Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1717 11th Ave S, MT 700, Birmingham, AL 35205 4785, USA
    Am J Public Health 91:213-8. 2001
    ..This study investigated whether socioeconomic factors explain racial/ethnic differences in regular smoking initiation and cessation...
  8. ncbi Inverse relationship of urinary cyclic GMP to blood pressure reactivity in the CARDIA study: vasodilatory regulation of sympathetic vasoconstriction. Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults
    J H Markovitz
    Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35205, USA
    Psychosom Med 60:319-26. 1998
    ....
  9. ncbi Regional disparities in the incidence of elevated blood pressure among young adults: the CARDIA study
    C I Kiefe
    University of Alabama at Birmingham, Division of Preventive Medicine, and Birmingham VA Medical Center, 35205 4785, USA
    Circulation 96:1082-8. 1997
    ..Within the United States, little is known about regional disparities in blood pressure (BP), their changes over time, or explanations for their existence...
  10. ncbi Prevention Conference VII: Obesity, a worldwide epidemic related to heart disease and stroke: Group II: age-dependent risk factors for obesity and comorbidities
    Sachiko T St Jeor
    Circulation 110:e471-5. 2004