*Activities of Daily Living

Test-retest reliability of self-reported disability measures in older adults (with A M Jette and S L Tennstedt), Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (1997)
 

*African Americans

Ethnic differences in cardiovascular risk factor burden among middle-aged women: Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) (with Karen A. Matthews, Mary Fran Sowers, Carol A. Derby, Evan Stein, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and Richard C. Pasternak), American heart journal (2005)

BACKGROUND: We evaluated ethnic differences in the 10-year risk of myocardial infarction or coronary death...

 
Do blacks and whites differ in reporting Rose Questionnaire angina? Results of the Boston Health Care Project (with K W Smith, S A McGraw, and J B McKinlay), Ethnicity and disease (1993)

We investigated the prevalence of angina (as determined by the Rose Questionnaire) in a random...

 

*African Continental Ancestry Group

Association of lipoprotein(a), insulin resistance, and reproductive hormones in a multiethnic cohort of pre- and perimenopausal women (The SWAN Study) (with MaryFran Sowers, Jane A Cauley, and Evan Stein), The American journal of cardiology (2003)

Because evidence suggests lipoprotein (Lp(a)) may be an important cardiovascular risk factor in women, we...

 

*Age of Onset

Assessment of digit preference in self-reported year at menopause: choice of an appropriate reference distribution (with Catherine B. Johannes and Rebecca K Stellato), American journal of epidemiology (2002)

Estimated associations between self-reported age at menopause and health may be attenuated if self-report is...

 

*Aging

Is there an association between menopause status and sexual functioning (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, Catherine B. Johannes, and C Longcope), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to address whether: (1) there is an...

 

*Asian Continental Ancestry Group

Association of lipoprotein(a), insulin resistance, and reproductive hormones in a multiethnic cohort of pre- and perimenopausal women (The SWAN Study) (with MaryFran Sowers, Jane A Cauley, and Evan Stein), The American journal of cardiology (2003)

Because evidence suggests lipoprotein (Lp(a)) may be an important cardiovascular risk factor in women, we...

 

*Attitude to Health

Psychosocial, behavioral, and health factors related to menopause symptomatology (with Nancy E. Avis and S M McKinlay), Women's health (Hillsdale, N.J.) (1997)

Despite wide variation in the reporting of hot flashes and night sweats among menopausal women,...

 

*Body Mass Index

Body mass index in mid-life women: relative influence of menopause, hormone use, and ethnicity (with Karen A. Matthews, B Abrams, T Miles, R Neer, L H Powell, and D Wesley), International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity (2001)

OBJECTIVE: To assess the relative influence of menopausal status and hormone use on body...

 

*Caregivers

The everyday impacts of providing informal care to dependent elders and their consequences for the care recipients (with J B McKinlay and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1995)

Longitudinal data were used to identify the relationship between different areas of negative impact and...

 
Determining the pattern of community care: is coresidence more important than caregiver relationship (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of gerontology (1993)

Researchers have previously emphasized the importance of kinship tie to explaining the pattern of care...

 
Is family care on the decline? A longitudinal investigation of the substitution of formal long-term care services for informal care (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), The Milbank quarterly (1993)

The focus on rising costs of long-term care now encompasses community as well as institutional...

 

*Computers, Handheld

PDA-assisted low glycemic index dietary intervention for type II diabetes: a pilot study (with Yunsheng Ma, Barbara C. Olendzki, David E. Chiriboga, Milagros C. Rosal, E. Sinagra, Andrea R. Hafner, Sherry L. Pagoto, Robert P. Magner, and Ira S. Ockene), European journal of clinical nutrition (2006)

BACKGROUND: Epidemiological and dietary intervention studies suggest that a low-glycemic index (GI) diet is beneficial...

 

*Depression

Longitudinal study of hormone levels and depression among women transitioning through menopause (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, and C Longcope), Climacteric : the journal of the International Menopause Society (2001)

OBJECTIVE: To address the association between depression and absolute levels of estradiol, and change...

 

*Diet

Selected diet and lifestyle factors are associated with estrogen metabolites in a multiracial/ethnic population of women (with MaryFran R Sowers, Daniel S McConnell, John F Jr Randolph, Ellen B. Gold, Margaret K Wilkin, and William L. Lasley), The Journal of nutrition (2006)

Diet and lifestyle factors, body size, and smoking behavior may influence estrogen metabolism, but the...

 

*Disabled Persons

Interrelationships among disablement concepts (with A M Jette, S F Assmann, D Rooks, and B A Harris), The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences (1998)

BACKGROUND: Understanding interrelationships among disablement concepts is critical to the design of future disability...

 
Test-retest reliability of self-reported disability measures in older adults (with A M Jette and S L Tennstedt), Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (1997)
 

*Drug Utilization Review

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Chronic disease medication use in managed care and indemnity insurance plans (with Randall S. Stafford, Stephen M. Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and David Blumenthal), Health services research (2003)

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of managed care on the use of chronic disease...

 

*Effect Modifiers (Epidemiology)

Interviewer effects in a cohort study. Results from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study (with Catherine B. Johannes and J B McKinlay), American journal of epidemiology (1997)

Although interviewer error is widely recognized as an important source of variation in epidemiologic investigations,...

 

*Electronics

An electronic menstrual cycle calendar: comparison of data quality with a paper version (with Catherine B. Johannes, J Woods, R B Goldstein, D Tran, S Mehrotra, Karen B. Johnson, and N Santoro), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVES: This pilot study compared a prototype electronic menstrual calendar on a handheld computer...

 

*Epidemiologic Methods

A comparison of anlaytic methods for non-random missingness of outcome data (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of clinical epidemiology (1995)

Missing outcome values occur frequently in survey data and are rarely missing randomly. Depending on...

 

*Ethnic Groups

Selected diet and lifestyle factors are associated with estrogen metabolites in a multiracial/ethnic population of women (with MaryFran R Sowers, Daniel S McConnell, John F Jr Randolph, Ellen B. Gold, Margaret K Wilkin, and William L. Lasley), The Journal of nutrition (2006)

Diet and lifestyle factors, body size, and smoking behavior may influence estrogen metabolism, but the...

 

*European Continental Ancestry Group

Ethnic differences in cardiovascular risk factor burden among middle-aged women: Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) (with Karen A. Matthews, Mary Fran Sowers, Carol A. Derby, Evan Stein, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and Richard C. Pasternak), American heart journal (2005)

BACKGROUND: We evaluated ethnic differences in the 10-year risk of myocardial infarction or coronary death...

 
Association of lipoprotein(a), insulin resistance, and reproductive hormones in a multiethnic cohort of pre- and perimenopausal women (The SWAN Study) (with MaryFran Sowers, Jane A Cauley, and Evan Stein), The American journal of cardiology (2003)

Because evidence suggests lipoprotein (Lp(a)) may be an important cardiovascular risk factor in women, we...

 

*Family

Determining the pattern of community care: is coresidence more important than caregiver relationship (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of gerontology (1993)

Researchers have previously emphasized the importance of kinship tie to explaining the pattern of care...

 
Is family care on the decline? A longitudinal investigation of the substitution of formal long-term care services for informal care (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), The Milbank quarterly (1993)

The focus on rising costs of long-term care now encompasses community as well as institutional...

 

*Frail Elderly

The everyday impacts of providing informal care to dependent elders and their consequences for the care recipients (with J B McKinlay and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1995)

Longitudinal data were used to identify the relationship between different areas of negative impact and...

 
Determining the pattern of community care: is coresidence more important than caregiver relationship (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of gerontology (1993)

Researchers have previously emphasized the importance of kinship tie to explaining the pattern of care...

 
Is family care on the decline? A longitudinal investigation of the substitution of formal long-term care services for informal care (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), The Milbank quarterly (1993)

The focus on rising costs of long-term care now encompasses community as well as institutional...

 

*Geriatric Assessment

Test-retest reliability of self-reported disability measures in older adults (with A M Jette and S L Tennstedt), Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (1997)
 

*Glycemic Index

PDA-assisted low glycemic index dietary intervention for type II diabetes: a pilot study (with Yunsheng Ma, Barbara C. Olendzki, David E. Chiriboga, Milagros C. Rosal, E. Sinagra, Andrea R. Hafner, Sherry L. Pagoto, Robert P. Magner, and Ira S. Ockene), European journal of clinical nutrition (2006)

BACKGROUND: Epidemiological and dietary intervention studies suggest that a low-glycemic index (GI) diet is beneficial...

 

*Health Behavior

Understanding the variability in the effectiveness of community heart health programs: a meta-analysis (with D E Sellers, Karen Bullock, and J B McKinlay), Social science and medicine (1982) (1997)

Over the past 25 years, community interventions to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been conducted...

 

*Health Services for the Aged

The everyday impacts of providing informal care to dependent elders and their consequences for the care recipients (with J B McKinlay and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1995)

Longitudinal data were used to identify the relationship between different areas of negative impact and...

 

*Health Surveys

Health survey methods with minority populations: some lessons from recent experience (with S A McGraw, J B McKinlay, L A Costa, and D L Cohen), Ethnicity and disease (1992)

Until recently, minority populations have been inadequately or inaccurately represented in health research. Researchers are...

 

*Hispanic Americans

Ethnic differences in cardiovascular risk factor burden among middle-aged women: Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) (with Karen A. Matthews, Mary Fran Sowers, Carol A. Derby, Evan Stein, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and Richard C. Pasternak), American heart journal (2005)

BACKGROUND: We evaluated ethnic differences in the 10-year risk of myocardial infarction or coronary death...

 

*Home Nursing

The everyday impacts of providing informal care to dependent elders and their consequences for the care recipients (with J B McKinlay and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1995)

Longitudinal data were used to identify the relationship between different areas of negative impact and...

 

*Hormone Replacement Therapy

Conjugated equine estrogens and coronary heart disease: the Women's Health Initiative (with Judith Hsia, Robert D Langer, Joann E Manson, Lewis Kuller, Karen C. Johnson, Susan L Hendrix, Mary Pettinger, Susan R Heckbert, Nancy Greep, Charles B Eaton, John B Kostis, Pat Caralis, and Ross Prentice), Archives of internal medicine (2006)

BACKGROUND: In recent randomized trials, conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) with continuous medroxyprogesterone acetate provided no...

 
Body mass index in mid-life women: relative influence of menopause, hormone use, and ethnicity (with Karen A. Matthews, B Abrams, T Miles, R Neer, L H Powell, and D Wesley), International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity (2001)

OBJECTIVE: To assess the relative influence of menopausal status and hormone use on body...

 

*Housing

Determining the pattern of community care: is coresidence more important than caregiver relationship (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of gerontology (1993)

Researchers have previously emphasized the importance of kinship tie to explaining the pattern of care...

 

*Insulin Resistance

Association of lipoprotein(a), insulin resistance, and reproductive hormones in a multiethnic cohort of pre- and perimenopausal women (The SWAN Study) (with MaryFran Sowers, Jane A Cauley, and Evan Stein), The American journal of cardiology (2003)

Because evidence suggests lipoprotein (Lp(a)) may be an important cardiovascular risk factor in women, we...

 

*Job Satisfaction

The effects of health care reforms on job satisfaction and voluntary turnover among hospital-based nurses (with Harriet Davidson, P H Folcarelli, L J Duprat, and J C Clifford), Medical care (1997)

OBJECTIVES: Among the consequences of downsizing and cost containment in hospitals are major changes in...

 

*Life Change Events

Negative life events: risk to health-related quality of life in children and youth with HIV infection (with Lois C. Howland, Deborah S. Storm, Yunsheng Ma, Steven L. Gortmaker, and James M. Oleske), The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC (2007)

Children and youth with perinatally acquired HIV infection are living longer because of improved drug...

 

*Life Style

Selected diet and lifestyle factors are associated with estrogen metabolites in a multiracial/ethnic population of women (with MaryFran R Sowers, Daniel S McConnell, John F Jr Randolph, Ellen B. Gold, Margaret K Wilkin, and William L. Lasley), The Journal of nutrition (2006)

Diet and lifestyle factors, body size, and smoking behavior may influence estrogen metabolism, but the...

 
Lifestyle and demographic factors in relation to vasomotor symptoms: baseline results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (with Ellen B. Gold, Gladys Block, Laurie Lachance, Gordon FitzGerald, Heidi Miracle, and Sheryl Sherman), American journal of epidemiology (2004)

Results of recent trials highlight the risks of hormone therapy, increasing the importance of identifying...

 

*Menopause

Lifestyle and demographic factors in relation to vasomotor symptoms: baseline results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (with Ellen B. Gold, Gladys Block, Laurie Lachance, Gordon FitzGerald, Heidi Miracle, and Sheryl Sherman), American journal of epidemiology (2004)

Results of recent trials highlight the risks of hormone therapy, increasing the importance of identifying...

 
Assessment of digit preference in self-reported year at menopause: choice of an appropriate reference distribution (with Catherine B. Johannes and Rebecca K Stellato), American journal of epidemiology (2002)

Estimated associations between self-reported age at menopause and health may be attenuated if self-report is...

 
Body mass index in mid-life women: relative influence of menopause, hormone use, and ethnicity (with Karen A. Matthews, B Abrams, T Miles, R Neer, L H Powell, and D Wesley), International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity (2001)

OBJECTIVE: To assess the relative influence of menopausal status and hormone use on body...

 
Interviewer effects in a cohort study. Results from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study (with Catherine B. Johannes and J B McKinlay), American journal of epidemiology (1997)

Although interviewer error is widely recognized as an important source of variation in epidemiologic investigations,...

 
Psychosocial, behavioral, and health factors related to menopause symptomatology (with Nancy E. Avis and S M McKinlay), Women's health (Hillsdale, N.J.) (1997)

Despite wide variation in the reporting of hot flashes and night sweats among menopausal women,...

 

*Menstrual Cycle

An electronic menstrual cycle calendar: comparison of data quality with a paper version (with Catherine B. Johannes, J Woods, R B Goldstein, D Tran, S Mehrotra, Karen B. Johnson, and N Santoro), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVES: This pilot study compared a prototype electronic menstrual calendar on a handheld computer...

 

*Mental Health

Quality of life among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2005)

PURPOSE: To describe quality of life (QOL) of younger women 4 to 42 months after...

 

*Mental Recall

Assessment of digit preference in self-reported year at menopause: choice of an appropriate reference distribution (with Catherine B. Johannes and Rebecca K Stellato), American journal of epidemiology (2002)

Estimated associations between self-reported age at menopause and health may be attenuated if self-report is...

 

*Minority Groups

Health survey methods with minority populations: some lessons from recent experience (with S A McGraw, J B McKinlay, L A Costa, and D L Cohen), Ethnicity and disease (1992)

Until recently, minority populations have been inadequately or inaccurately represented in health research. Researchers are...

 

*Patient Acceptance of Health Care

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Do blacks and whites differ in their use of health care for symptoms of coronary heart disease (with S. A. McGraw, K. W. Smith, J. B. McKinlay, and J. E. Pierson), American journal of public health (1994)

OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to identify the role of race in seeking...

 

*Personnel Turnover

The effects of health care reforms on job satisfaction and voluntary turnover among hospital-based nurses (with Harriet Davidson, P H Folcarelli, L J Duprat, and J C Clifford), Medical care (1997)

OBJECTIVES: Among the consequences of downsizing and cost containment in hospitals are major changes in...

 

*Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide

Vasomotor symptom prevalence is associated with polymorphisms in sex steroid-metabolizing enzymes and receptors (with Carolyn J. Crandall and Ellen B. Gold), The American journal of medicine (2006)

The relation of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of genes involved in estrogen function to vasomotor...

 

*Postmenopause

Is there an association between menopause status and sexual functioning (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, Catherine B. Johannes, and C Longcope), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to address whether: (1) there is an...

 

*Premenopause

Longitudinal patterns and correlates of hormone replacement therapy use in middle-aged women (with Catherine B. Johannes, J G Posner, and S M McKinlay), American journal of epidemiology (1994)

Patterns of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) use over time and predictors of initiating or discontinuing...

 

*Quality of Life

Negative life events: risk to health-related quality of life in children and youth with HIV infection (with Lois C. Howland, Deborah S. Storm, Yunsheng Ma, Steven L. Gortmaker, and James M. Oleske), The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC (2007)

Children and youth with perinatally acquired HIV infection are living longer because of improved drug...

 
Quality of life among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2005)

PURPOSE: To describe quality of life (QOL) of younger women 4 to 42 months after...

 

*Questionnaires

Do blacks and whites differ in reporting Rose Questionnaire angina? Results of the Boston Health Care Project (with K W Smith, S A McGraw, and J B McKinlay), Ethnicity and disease (1993)

We investigated the prevalence of angina (as determined by the Rose Questionnaire) in a random...

 

*Regression Analysis

Correlation and regression, Circulation (2006)

In many health-related studies, investigators wish to assess the strength of an association between 2...

 

*Self Concept

Psychosocial problems among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Psycho-oncology (2004)

Women diagnosed with breast cancer at a younger age often have concerns less frequently faced...

 

*Sexuality

Psychosocial problems among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Psycho-oncology (2004)

Women diagnosed with breast cancer at a younger age often have concerns less frequently faced...

 

*Urban Health

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HIV risk among Latino adolescents in two New England cities (with K. W. Smith, S. A. McGraw, L. A. Costa, and J. B. McKinlay), American journal of public health (1993)

OBJECTIVES. Latino adolescents in two urban New England areas were surveyed to assess risk of...

 

*Utilization Review

Utilization of services by chronically ill people in managed care and indemnity plans: implications for quality (with Stephen M Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, J Michael Oakes, David Blumenthal, and Daniel P Valentine), Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing (2003)

Because incentives for managed care organizations favor cost containment, concerns have been raised that quality...

 

*Weight Gain

Body mass index in mid-life women: relative influence of menopause, hormone use, and ethnicity (with Karen A. Matthews, B Abrams, T Miles, R Neer, L H Powell, and D Wesley), International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity (2001)

OBJECTIVE: To assess the relative influence of menopausal status and hormone use on body...

 
A longitudinal study of weight and the menopause transition: results from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study (with V A Casey, Nancy E. Avis, and S M McKinlay), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVE: Results of past studies of menopause and weight are inconsistent, in part because...

 

*Women's Health

Correlates of circulating androgens in mid-life women: the study of women's health across the nation (with Nanette Santoro, Javier Torrens, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Joel S. Finkelstein, Ellen B. Gold, Stan Korenman, William L. Lasley, Judith L. Luborsky, Dan McConnell, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2005)

CONTEXT: Androgens influence sexual differentiation and behavior, body composition, and physical functioning in men, but...

 
Interviewer effects in a cohort study. Results from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study (with Catherine B. Johannes and J B McKinlay), American journal of epidemiology (1997)

Although interviewer error is widely recognized as an important source of variation in epidemiologic investigations,...

 

17-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenases

Vasomotor symptom prevalence is associated with polymorphisms in sex steroid-metabolizing enzymes and receptors (with Carolyn J. Crandall and Ellen B. Gold), The American journal of medicine (2006)

The relation of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of genes involved in estrogen function to vasomotor...

 

Activities of Daily Living

Informal care vs. formal services: changes in patterns of care over time (with S Tennstedt and B Harrow), Journal of aging and social policy (1995)

Longitudinal data from a representative sample of community-residing older persons were used to document changes...

 
A comparison of anlaytic methods for non-random missingness of outcome data (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of clinical epidemiology (1995)

Missing outcome values occur frequently in survey data and are rarely missing randomly. Depending on...

 
Measuring depressive symptoms in the frail elderly (with H Davidson and P H Feldman), Journal of gerontology (1994)

To determine the usefulness of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) as a...

 
Determining the pattern of community care: is coresidence more important than caregiver relationship (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of gerontology (1993)

Researchers have previously emphasized the importance of kinship tie to explaining the pattern of care...

 

Adaptation, Psychological

Quality of life among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2005)

PURPOSE: To describe quality of life (QOL) of younger women 4 to 42 months after...

 

Adolescent

Negative life events: risk to health-related quality of life in children and youth with HIV infection (with Lois C. Howland, Deborah S. Storm, Yunsheng Ma, Steven L. Gortmaker, and James M. Oleske), The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC (2007)

Children and youth with perinatally acquired HIV infection are living longer because of improved drug...

 

PDF

HIV risk among Latino adolescents in two New England cities (with K. W. Smith, S. A. McGraw, L. A. Costa, and J. B. McKinlay), American journal of public health (1993)

OBJECTIVES. Latino adolescents in two urban New England areas were surveyed to assess risk of...

 

Adolescent Behavior

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HIV risk among Latino adolescents in two New England cities (with K. W. Smith, S. A. McGraw, L. A. Costa, and J. B. McKinlay), American journal of public health (1993)

OBJECTIVES. Latino adolescents in two urban New England areas were surveyed to assess risk of...

 

Adult

Negative life events: risk to health-related quality of life in children and youth with HIV infection (with Lois C. Howland, Deborah S. Storm, Yunsheng Ma, Steven L. Gortmaker, and James M. Oleske), The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC (2007)

Children and youth with perinatally acquired HIV infection are living longer because of improved drug...

 
Vasomotor symptom prevalence is associated with polymorphisms in sex steroid-metabolizing enzymes and receptors (with Carolyn J. Crandall and Ellen B. Gold), The American journal of medicine (2006)

The relation of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of genes involved in estrogen function to vasomotor...

 
Evaluation of four proposed bleeding criteria for the onset of late menopausal transition (with Sioban D. Harlow, Kevin Cain, Lorraine Dennerstein, Roderick Little, Ellen S. Mitchell, Bin Nan, John F. Randolph Jr., John Taffe, and Matheos Yosef), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: The current criterion for onset of late menopausal transition is amenorrhea of 90 d...

 

PDF

The value of follicle-stimulating hormone concentration and clinical findings as markers of the late menopausal transition (with John F. Randolph Jr., Lorraine Dennerstein, Kevin Cain, Sioban D. Harlow, Roderick Little, Ellen S. Mitchell, Bin Nan, John Taffe, and Matheos Yosef), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: The Stages of Reproductive Aging Workshop proposed bleeding and hormonal criteria for the menopausal...

 
PDA-assisted low glycemic index dietary intervention for type II diabetes: a pilot study (with Yunsheng Ma, Barbara C. Olendzki, David E. Chiriboga, Milagros C. Rosal, E. Sinagra, Andrea R. Hafner, Sherry L. Pagoto, Robert P. Magner, and Ira S. Ockene), European journal of clinical nutrition (2006)

BACKGROUND: Epidemiological and dietary intervention studies suggest that a low-glycemic index (GI) diet is beneficial...

 

PDF

Relation of cardiovascular risk factors in women approaching menopause to menstrual cycle characteristics and reproductive hormones in the follicular and luteal phases (with Karen A. Matthews, Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Yuefang Chang, Richard C. Pasternak, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, and Maryfran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: Menstrual cycle characteristics may be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

OBJECTIVE: The objective...

 
Ethnic differences in cardiovascular risk factor burden among middle-aged women: Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) (with Karen A. Matthews, Mary Fran Sowers, Carol A. Derby, Evan Stein, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and Richard C. Pasternak), American heart journal (2005)

BACKGROUND: We evaluated ethnic differences in the 10-year risk of myocardial infarction or coronary death...

 
Quality of life among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2005)

PURPOSE: To describe quality of life (QOL) of younger women 4 to 42 months after...

 
Correlates of circulating androgens in mid-life women: the study of women's health across the nation (with Nanette Santoro, Javier Torrens, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Joel S. Finkelstein, Ellen B. Gold, Stan Korenman, William L. Lasley, Judith L. Luborsky, Dan McConnell, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2005)

CONTEXT: Androgens influence sexual differentiation and behavior, body composition, and physical functioning in men, but...

 
Lifestyle and demographic factors in relation to vasomotor symptoms: baseline results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (with Ellen B. Gold, Gladys Block, Laurie Lachance, Gordon FitzGerald, Heidi Miracle, and Sheryl Sherman), American journal of epidemiology (2004)

Results of recent trials highlight the risks of hormone therapy, increasing the importance of identifying...

 
Body size and ethnicity are associated with menstrual cycle alterations in women in the early menopausal transition: The Study of Women's Health across the Nation (SWAN) Daily Hormone Study (with Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Dan McConnell, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Joel S. Finkelstein, Gail A. Greendale, Jenny Kelsey, Stan Korenman, Judith L. Luborsky, Karen A. Matthews, Rees Midgley, Lynda Powell, Janice Sabatine, Miriam Schocken, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2004)

The dynamics of reproductive hormones that characterize the menopausal transition (perimenopause) are incompletely understood, particularly...

 
Psychosocial problems among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Psycho-oncology (2004)

Women diagnosed with breast cancer at a younger age often have concerns less frequently faced...

 
Association of lipoprotein(a), insulin resistance, and reproductive hormones in a multiethnic cohort of pre- and perimenopausal women (The SWAN Study) (with MaryFran Sowers, Jane A Cauley, and Evan Stein), The American journal of cardiology (2003)

Because evidence suggests lipoprotein (Lp(a)) may be an important cardiovascular risk factor in women, we...

 

PDF

Chronic disease medication use in managed care and indemnity insurance plans (with Randall S. Stafford, Stephen M. Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and David Blumenthal), Health services research (2003)

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of managed care on the use of chronic disease...

 
Assessment of digit preference in self-reported year at menopause: choice of an appropriate reference distribution (with Catherine B. Johannes and Rebecca K Stellato), American journal of epidemiology (2002)

Estimated associations between self-reported age at menopause and health may be attenuated if self-report is...

 
The relationship of circulating dehydroepiandrosterone, testosterone, and estradiol to stages of the menopausal transition and ethnicity (with William L. Lasley, Nanette Santoro, John F Randolf, Ellen B. Gold, Gerson Weiss, Daniel S McConnell, and Mary Fran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2002)

In this report, 3029 women between the ages of 42 and 54 yr from five...

 
Longitudinal study of hormone levels and depression among women transitioning through menopause (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, and C Longcope), Climacteric : the journal of the International Menopause Society (2001)

OBJECTIVE: To address the association between depression and absolute levels of estradiol, and change...

 
Body mass index in mid-life women: relative influence of menopause, hormone use, and ethnicity (with Karen A. Matthews, B Abrams, T Miles, R Neer, L H Powell, and D Wesley), International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity (2001)

OBJECTIVE: To assess the relative influence of menopausal status and hormone use on body...

 
Factors associated with age at natural menopause in a multiethnic sample of midlife women (with Ellen B. Gold, J Bromberger, S Samuels, Gail A. Greendale, Sioban D. Harlow, and J Skurnick), American journal of epidemiology (2001)

An unprecedented number of women will experience menopause in the next decade. Although the timing...

 
The effects of health care reforms on job satisfaction and voluntary turnover among hospital-based nurses (with Harriet Davidson, P H Folcarelli, L J Duprat, and J C Clifford), Medical care (1997)

OBJECTIVES: Among the consequences of downsizing and cost containment in hospitals are major changes in...

 
Does collecting repeated blood samples from each subject improve the precision of estimated steroid hormone levels (with D J Brambilla, S M McKinlay, J B McKinlay, S R Weiss, Catherine B. Johannes, and C Longcope), Journal of clinical epidemiology (1996)

Measuring levels of steroid hormones in epidemiologic studies is difficult because pulsatile release can cause...

 
Do characteristics of informal caregivers affect the length of hospital stay for frail elders (with K M Skinner and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1994)

Studies examining the length of hospital stay for the very old rarely include characteristics of...

 
Determining the pattern of community care: is coresidence more important than caregiver relationship (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of gerontology (1993)

Researchers have previously emphasized the importance of kinship tie to explaining the pattern of care...

 
Do blacks and whites differ in reporting Rose Questionnaire angina? Results of the Boston Health Care Project (with K W Smith, S A McGraw, and J B McKinlay), Ethnicity and disease (1993)

We investigated the prevalence of angina (as determined by the Rose Questionnaire) in a random...

 

African Americans

Employment and caregiving: exploration of African American caregivers (with Karen Bullock and Sharon L Tennstedt), Social work (2003)

To more completely understand the challenges African American families face when combining employment commitments and...

 
Help-seeking behaviors of blacks and whites dying from coronary heart disease (with Susan M Frayne, Sarah A McGraw, Kevin W Smith, and John B McKinlay), Ethnicity and health (2003)

OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine whether blacks and whites with life-threatening cardiac events...

 
Is there a menopausal syndrome? Menopausal status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, J Bromberger, P Ganz, V Cain, and M Kagawa-Singer), Social science and medicine (1982) (2001)

In recent years, research on menopausal symptomalogy has focused on identifying symptom groupings experienced by...

 

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Do blacks and whites differ in their use of health care for symptoms of coronary heart disease (with S. A. McGraw, K. W. Smith, J. B. McKinlay, and J. E. Pierson), American journal of public health (1994)

OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to identify the role of race in seeking...

 
Health survey methods with minority populations: some lessons from recent experience (with S A McGraw, J B McKinlay, L A Costa, and D L Cohen), Ethnicity and disease (1992)

Until recently, minority populations have been inadequately or inaccurately represented in health research. Researchers are...

 

African Continental Ancestry Group

Body size and ethnicity are associated with menstrual cycle alterations in women in the early menopausal transition: The Study of Women's Health across the Nation (SWAN) Daily Hormone Study (with Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Dan McConnell, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Joel S. Finkelstein, Gail A. Greendale, Jenny Kelsey, Stan Korenman, Judith L. Luborsky, Karen A. Matthews, Rees Midgley, Lynda Powell, Janice Sabatine, Miriam Schocken, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2004)

The dynamics of reproductive hormones that characterize the menopausal transition (perimenopause) are incompletely understood, particularly...

 
The relationship of circulating dehydroepiandrosterone, testosterone, and estradiol to stages of the menopausal transition and ethnicity (with William L. Lasley, Nanette Santoro, John F Randolf, Ellen B. Gold, Gerson Weiss, Daniel S McConnell, and Mary Fran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2002)

In this report, 3029 women between the ages of 42 and 54 yr from five...

 
Do blacks and whites differ in reporting Rose Questionnaire angina? Results of the Boston Health Care Project (with K W Smith, S A McGraw, and J B McKinlay), Ethnicity and disease (1993)

We investigated the prevalence of angina (as determined by the Rose Questionnaire) in a random...

 

Age Distribution

Conjugated equine estrogens and coronary heart disease: the Women's Health Initiative (with Judith Hsia, Robert D Langer, Joann E Manson, Lewis Kuller, Karen C. Johnson, Susan L Hendrix, Mary Pettinger, Susan R Heckbert, Nancy Greep, Charles B Eaton, John B Kostis, Pat Caralis, and Ross Prentice), Archives of internal medicine (2006)

BACKGROUND: In recent randomized trials, conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) with continuous medroxyprogesterone acetate provided no...

 
Body size and ethnicity are associated with menstrual cycle alterations in women in the early menopausal transition: The Study of Women's Health across the Nation (SWAN) Daily Hormone Study (with Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Dan McConnell, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Joel S. Finkelstein, Gail A. Greendale, Jenny Kelsey, Stan Korenman, Judith L. Luborsky, Karen A. Matthews, Rees Midgley, Lynda Powell, Janice Sabatine, Miriam Schocken, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2004)

The dynamics of reproductive hormones that characterize the menopausal transition (perimenopause) are incompletely understood, particularly...

 
Assessment of digit preference in self-reported year at menopause: choice of an appropriate reference distribution (with Catherine B. Johannes and Rebecca K Stellato), American journal of epidemiology (2002)

Estimated associations between self-reported age at menopause and health may be attenuated if self-report is...

 
The relationship of circulating dehydroepiandrosterone, testosterone, and estradiol to stages of the menopausal transition and ethnicity (with William L. Lasley, Nanette Santoro, John F Randolf, Ellen B. Gold, Gerson Weiss, Daniel S McConnell, and Mary Fran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2002)

In this report, 3029 women between the ages of 42 and 54 yr from five...

 
Factors associated with age at natural menopause in a multiethnic sample of midlife women (with Ellen B. Gold, J Bromberger, S Samuels, Gail A. Greendale, Sioban D. Harlow, and J Skurnick), American journal of epidemiology (2001)

An unprecedented number of women will experience menopause in the next decade. Although the timing...

 

Age Factors

Ethnic differences in cardiovascular risk factor burden among middle-aged women: Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) (with Karen A. Matthews, Mary Fran Sowers, Carol A. Derby, Evan Stein, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and Richard C. Pasternak), American heart journal (2005)

BACKGROUND: We evaluated ethnic differences in the 10-year risk of myocardial infarction or coronary death...

 
Quality of life among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2005)

PURPOSE: To describe quality of life (QOL) of younger women 4 to 42 months after...

 
Utilization of services by chronically ill people in managed care and indemnity plans: implications for quality (with Stephen M Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, J Michael Oakes, David Blumenthal, and Daniel P Valentine), Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing (2003)

Because incentives for managed care organizations favor cost containment, concerns have been raised that quality...

 
Measuring depressive symptoms in the frail elderly (with H Davidson and P H Feldman), Journal of gerontology (1994)

To determine the usefulness of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) as a...

 
Determining the pattern of community care: is coresidence more important than caregiver relationship (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of gerontology (1993)

Researchers have previously emphasized the importance of kinship tie to explaining the pattern of care...

 

Age of Onset

Psychosocial problems among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Psycho-oncology (2004)

Women diagnosed with breast cancer at a younger age often have concerns less frequently faced...

 

Aged

PDA-assisted low glycemic index dietary intervention for type II diabetes: a pilot study (with Yunsheng Ma, Barbara C. Olendzki, David E. Chiriboga, Milagros C. Rosal, E. Sinagra, Andrea R. Hafner, Sherry L. Pagoto, Robert P. Magner, and Ira S. Ockene), European journal of clinical nutrition (2006)

BACKGROUND: Epidemiological and dietary intervention studies suggest that a low-glycemic index (GI) diet is beneficial...

 
Conjugated equine estrogens and coronary heart disease: the Women's Health Initiative (with Judith Hsia, Robert D Langer, Joann E Manson, Lewis Kuller, Karen C. Johnson, Susan L Hendrix, Mary Pettinger, Susan R Heckbert, Nancy Greep, Charles B Eaton, John B Kostis, Pat Caralis, and Ross Prentice), Archives of internal medicine (2006)

BACKGROUND: In recent randomized trials, conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) with continuous medroxyprogesterone acetate provided no...

 
Utilization of services by chronically ill people in managed care and indemnity plans: implications for quality (with Stephen M Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, J Michael Oakes, David Blumenthal, and Daniel P Valentine), Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing (2003)

Because incentives for managed care organizations favor cost containment, concerns have been raised that quality...

 

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Chronic disease medication use in managed care and indemnity insurance plans (with Randall S. Stafford, Stephen M. Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and David Blumenthal), Health services research (2003)

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of managed care on the use of chronic disease...

 
Employment and caregiving: exploration of African American caregivers (with Karen Bullock and Sharon L Tennstedt), Social work (2003)

To more completely understand the challenges African American families face when combining employment commitments and...

 
Help-seeking behaviors of blacks and whites dying from coronary heart disease (with Susan M Frayne, Sarah A McGraw, Kevin W Smith, and John B McKinlay), Ethnicity and health (2003)

OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine whether blacks and whites with life-threatening cardiac events...

 
Interrelationships among disablement concepts (with A M Jette, S F Assmann, D Rooks, and B A Harris), The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences (1998)

BACKGROUND: Understanding interrelationships among disablement concepts is critical to the design of future disability...

 
Test-retest reliability of self-reported disability measures in older adults (with A M Jette and S L Tennstedt), Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (1997)
 
Does collecting repeated blood samples from each subject improve the precision of estimated steroid hormone levels (with D J Brambilla, S M McKinlay, J B McKinlay, S R Weiss, Catherine B. Johannes, and C Longcope), Journal of clinical epidemiology (1996)

Measuring levels of steroid hormones in epidemiologic studies is difficult because pulsatile release can cause...

 
Informal care vs. formal services: changes in patterns of care over time (with S Tennstedt and B Harrow), Journal of aging and social policy (1995)

Longitudinal data from a representative sample of community-residing older persons were used to document changes...

 
The everyday impacts of providing informal care to dependent elders and their consequences for the care recipients (with J B McKinlay and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1995)

Longitudinal data were used to identify the relationship between different areas of negative impact and...

 
A comparison of anlaytic methods for non-random missingness of outcome data (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of clinical epidemiology (1995)

Missing outcome values occur frequently in survey data and are rarely missing randomly. Depending on...

 
How does formal and informal community care affect nursing home use (with A M Jette and S Tennstedt), The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences (1995)

We examined the effects of informal and formal community care on the 6-year risk of...

 
Measuring depressive symptoms in the frail elderly (with H Davidson and P H Feldman), Journal of gerontology (1994)

To determine the usefulness of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) as a...

 
Do characteristics of informal caregivers affect the length of hospital stay for frail elders (with K M Skinner and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1994)

Studies examining the length of hospital stay for the very old rarely include characteristics of...

 
Determining the pattern of community care: is coresidence more important than caregiver relationship (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of gerontology (1993)

Researchers have previously emphasized the importance of kinship tie to explaining the pattern of care...

 
Do blacks and whites differ in reporting Rose Questionnaire angina? Results of the Boston Health Care Project (with K W Smith, S A McGraw, and J B McKinlay), Ethnicity and disease (1993)

We investigated the prevalence of angina (as determined by the Rose Questionnaire) in a random...

 
Is family care on the decline? A longitudinal investigation of the substitution of formal long-term care services for informal care (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), The Milbank quarterly (1993)

The focus on rising costs of long-term care now encompasses community as well as institutional...

 

Aged, 80 and over

Employment and caregiving: exploration of African American caregivers (with Karen Bullock and Sharon L Tennstedt), Social work (2003)

To more completely understand the challenges African American families face when combining employment commitments and...

 
Interrelationships among disablement concepts (with A M Jette, S F Assmann, D Rooks, and B A Harris), The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences (1998)

BACKGROUND: Understanding interrelationships among disablement concepts is critical to the design of future disability...

 
Informal care vs. formal services: changes in patterns of care over time (with S Tennstedt and B Harrow), Journal of aging and social policy (1995)

Longitudinal data from a representative sample of community-residing older persons were used to document changes...

 
How does formal and informal community care affect nursing home use (with A M Jette and S Tennstedt), The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences (1995)

We examined the effects of informal and formal community care on the 6-year risk of...

 
Measuring depressive symptoms in the frail elderly (with H Davidson and P H Feldman), Journal of gerontology (1994)

To determine the usefulness of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) as a...

 
Determining the pattern of community care: is coresidence more important than caregiver relationship (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of gerontology (1993)

Researchers have previously emphasized the importance of kinship tie to explaining the pattern of care...

 

Aging

Factors associated with age at natural menopause in a multiethnic sample of midlife women (with Ellen B. Gold, J Bromberger, S Samuels, Gail A. Greendale, Sioban D. Harlow, and J Skurnick), American journal of epidemiology (2001)

An unprecedented number of women will experience menopause in the next decade. Although the timing...

 
A longitudinal study of weight and the menopause transition: results from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study (with V A Casey, Nancy E. Avis, and S M McKinlay), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVE: Results of past studies of menopause and weight are inconsistent, in part because...

 

Algorithms

Assessing menstrual cycles with urinary hormone assays (with N Santoro, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Gail A. Greendale, Stan Korenman, William L. Lasley, D McConnell, P McGaffigan, R Midgely, M Schocken, M Sowers, and G Weiss), American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism (2002)

The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) is a multiethnic cohort study of...

 

Amenorrhea

Evaluation of four proposed bleeding criteria for the onset of late menopausal transition (with Sioban D. Harlow, Kevin Cain, Lorraine Dennerstein, Roderick Little, Ellen S. Mitchell, Bin Nan, John F. Randolph Jr., John Taffe, and Matheos Yosef), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: The current criterion for onset of late menopausal transition is amenorrhea of 90 d...

 

Analysis of Variance

Does collecting repeated blood samples from each subject improve the precision of estimated steroid hormone levels (with D J Brambilla, S M McKinlay, J B McKinlay, S R Weiss, Catherine B. Johannes, and C Longcope), Journal of clinical epidemiology (1996)

Measuring levels of steroid hormones in epidemiologic studies is difficult because pulsatile release can cause...

 

Androgens

Correlates of circulating androgens in mid-life women: the study of women's health across the nation (with Nanette Santoro, Javier Torrens, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Joel S. Finkelstein, Ellen B. Gold, Stan Korenman, William L. Lasley, Judith L. Luborsky, Dan McConnell, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2005)

CONTEXT: Androgens influence sexual differentiation and behavior, body composition, and physical functioning in men, but...

 

Angina Pectoris

Do blacks and whites differ in reporting Rose Questionnaire angina? Results of the Boston Health Care Project (with K W Smith, S A McGraw, and J B McKinlay), Ethnicity and disease (1993)

We investigated the prevalence of angina (as determined by the Rose Questionnaire) in a random...

 

Animals

Use of a flow-mediated vasodilation technique to assess endothelial function in dogs (with Gary D Puglia, Lisa M Freeman, John E Rush, and Ryan G P King), American journal of veterinary research (2006)

OBJECTIVE: To develop and assess the reproducibility of a protocol to noninvasively test endothelial function...

 

Anticarcinogenic Agents

Selected diet and lifestyle factors are associated with estrogen metabolites in a multiracial/ethnic population of women (with MaryFran R Sowers, Daniel S McConnell, John F Jr Randolph, Ellen B. Gold, Margaret K Wilkin, and William L. Lasley), The Journal of nutrition (2006)

Diet and lifestyle factors, body size, and smoking behavior may influence estrogen metabolism, but the...

 

Asian Americans

Is there a menopausal syndrome? Menopausal status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, J Bromberger, P Ganz, V Cain, and M Kagawa-Singer), Social science and medicine (1982) (2001)

In recent years, research on menopausal symptomalogy has focused on identifying symptom groupings experienced by...

 

Asian Continental Ancestry Group

Body size and ethnicity are associated with menstrual cycle alterations in women in the early menopausal transition: The Study of Women's Health across the Nation (SWAN) Daily Hormone Study (with Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Dan McConnell, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Joel S. Finkelstein, Gail A. Greendale, Jenny Kelsey, Stan Korenman, Judith L. Luborsky, Karen A. Matthews, Rees Midgley, Lynda Powell, Janice Sabatine, Miriam Schocken, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2004)

The dynamics of reproductive hormones that characterize the menopausal transition (perimenopause) are incompletely understood, particularly...

 
The relationship of circulating dehydroepiandrosterone, testosterone, and estradiol to stages of the menopausal transition and ethnicity (with William L. Lasley, Nanette Santoro, John F Randolf, Ellen B. Gold, Gerson Weiss, Daniel S McConnell, and Mary Fran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2002)

In this report, 3029 women between the ages of 42 and 54 yr from five...

 

Asthma

Utilization of services by chronically ill people in managed care and indemnity plans: implications for quality (with Stephen M Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, J Michael Oakes, David Blumenthal, and Daniel P Valentine), Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing (2003)

Because incentives for managed care organizations favor cost containment, concerns have been raised that quality...

 

PDF

Chronic disease medication use in managed care and indemnity insurance plans (with Randall S. Stafford, Stephen M. Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and David Blumenthal), Health services research (2003)

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of managed care on the use of chronic disease...

 

Attitude to Health

Is there a menopausal syndrome? Menopausal status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, J Bromberger, P Ganz, V Cain, and M Kagawa-Singer), Social science and medicine (1982) (2001)

In recent years, research on menopausal symptomalogy has focused on identifying symptom groupings experienced by...

 

Bias (Epidemiology)

Test-retest reliability of self-reported disability measures in older adults (with A M Jette and S L Tennstedt), Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (1997)
 

Biological Markers

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The value of follicle-stimulating hormone concentration and clinical findings as markers of the late menopausal transition (with John F. Randolph Jr., Lorraine Dennerstein, Kevin Cain, Sioban D. Harlow, Roderick Little, Ellen S. Mitchell, Bin Nan, John Taffe, and Matheos Yosef), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: The Stages of Reproductive Aging Workshop proposed bleeding and hormonal criteria for the menopausal...

 

Blood Flow Velocity

Use of a flow-mediated vasodilation technique to assess endothelial function in dogs (with Gary D Puglia, Lisa M Freeman, John E Rush, and Ryan G P King), American journal of veterinary research (2006)

OBJECTIVE: To develop and assess the reproducibility of a protocol to noninvasively test endothelial function...

 

Blood Glucose

PDA-assisted low glycemic index dietary intervention for type II diabetes: a pilot study (with Yunsheng Ma, Barbara C. Olendzki, David E. Chiriboga, Milagros C. Rosal, E. Sinagra, Andrea R. Hafner, Sherry L. Pagoto, Robert P. Magner, and Ira S. Ockene), European journal of clinical nutrition (2006)

BACKGROUND: Epidemiological and dietary intervention studies suggest that a low-glycemic index (GI) diet is beneficial...

 

PDF

Relation of cardiovascular risk factors in women approaching menopause to menstrual cycle characteristics and reproductive hormones in the follicular and luteal phases (with Karen A. Matthews, Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Yuefang Chang, Richard C. Pasternak, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, and Maryfran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: Menstrual cycle characteristics may be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

OBJECTIVE: The objective...

 
Conjugated equine estrogens and coronary heart disease: the Women's Health Initiative (with Judith Hsia, Robert D Langer, Joann E Manson, Lewis Kuller, Karen C. Johnson, Susan L Hendrix, Mary Pettinger, Susan R Heckbert, Nancy Greep, Charles B Eaton, John B Kostis, Pat Caralis, and Ross Prentice), Archives of internal medicine (2006)

BACKGROUND: In recent randomized trials, conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) with continuous medroxyprogesterone acetate provided no...

 

Blood Pressure

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Relation of cardiovascular risk factors in women approaching menopause to menstrual cycle characteristics and reproductive hormones in the follicular and luteal phases (with Karen A. Matthews, Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Yuefang Chang, Richard C. Pasternak, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, and Maryfran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: Menstrual cycle characteristics may be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

OBJECTIVE: The objective...

 
Understanding the variability in the effectiveness of community heart health programs: a meta-analysis (with D E Sellers, Karen Bullock, and J B McKinlay), Social science and medicine (1982) (1997)

Over the past 25 years, community interventions to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been conducted...

 

Blood Specimen Collection

Does collecting repeated blood samples from each subject improve the precision of estimated steroid hormone levels (with D J Brambilla, S M McKinlay, J B McKinlay, S R Weiss, Catherine B. Johannes, and C Longcope), Journal of clinical epidemiology (1996)

Measuring levels of steroid hormones in epidemiologic studies is difficult because pulsatile release can cause...

 

Body Composition

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Relation of cardiovascular risk factors in women approaching menopause to menstrual cycle characteristics and reproductive hormones in the follicular and luteal phases (with Karen A. Matthews, Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Yuefang Chang, Richard C. Pasternak, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, and Maryfran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: Menstrual cycle characteristics may be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

OBJECTIVE: The objective...

 
Correlates of circulating androgens in mid-life women: the study of women's health across the nation (with Nanette Santoro, Javier Torrens, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Joel S. Finkelstein, Ellen B. Gold, Stan Korenman, William L. Lasley, Judith L. Luborsky, Dan McConnell, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2005)

CONTEXT: Androgens influence sexual differentiation and behavior, body composition, and physical functioning in men, but...

 

Body Constitution

Body size and ethnicity are associated with menstrual cycle alterations in women in the early menopausal transition: The Study of Women's Health across the Nation (SWAN) Daily Hormone Study (with Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Dan McConnell, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Joel S. Finkelstein, Gail A. Greendale, Jenny Kelsey, Stan Korenman, Judith L. Luborsky, Karen A. Matthews, Rees Midgley, Lynda Powell, Janice Sabatine, Miriam Schocken, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2004)

The dynamics of reproductive hormones that characterize the menopausal transition (perimenopause) are incompletely understood, particularly...

 

Body Mass Index

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Relation of cardiovascular risk factors in women approaching menopause to menstrual cycle characteristics and reproductive hormones in the follicular and luteal phases (with Karen A. Matthews, Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Yuefang Chang, Richard C. Pasternak, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, and Maryfran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: Menstrual cycle characteristics may be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

OBJECTIVE: The objective...

 
Lifestyle and demographic factors in relation to vasomotor symptoms: baseline results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (with Ellen B. Gold, Gladys Block, Laurie Lachance, Gordon FitzGerald, Heidi Miracle, and Sheryl Sherman), American journal of epidemiology (2004)

Results of recent trials highlight the risks of hormone therapy, increasing the importance of identifying...

 
Association of lipoprotein(a), insulin resistance, and reproductive hormones in a multiethnic cohort of pre- and perimenopausal women (The SWAN Study) (with MaryFran Sowers, Jane A Cauley, and Evan Stein), The American journal of cardiology (2003)

Because evidence suggests lipoprotein (Lp(a)) may be an important cardiovascular risk factor in women, we...

 
The relationship of circulating dehydroepiandrosterone, testosterone, and estradiol to stages of the menopausal transition and ethnicity (with William L. Lasley, Nanette Santoro, John F Randolf, Ellen B. Gold, Gerson Weiss, Daniel S McConnell, and Mary Fran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2002)

In this report, 3029 women between the ages of 42 and 54 yr from five...

 
Understanding the variability in the effectiveness of community heart health programs: a meta-analysis (with D E Sellers, Karen Bullock, and J B McKinlay), Social science and medicine (1982) (1997)

Over the past 25 years, community interventions to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been conducted...

 

Body Size

Selected diet and lifestyle factors are associated with estrogen metabolites in a multiracial/ethnic population of women (with MaryFran R Sowers, Daniel S McConnell, John F Jr Randolph, Ellen B. Gold, Margaret K Wilkin, and William L. Lasley), The Journal of nutrition (2006)

Diet and lifestyle factors, body size, and smoking behavior may influence estrogen metabolism, but the...

 

Boston

Help-seeking behaviors of blacks and whites dying from coronary heart disease (with Susan M Frayne, Sarah A McGraw, Kevin W Smith, and John B McKinlay), Ethnicity and health (2003)

OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine whether blacks and whites with life-threatening cardiac events...

 

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Blood lead level and dental caries in school-age children (with Allison Gemmel, Mary Tavares, Susan Alperin, Jennifer Soncini, David Daniel, Julie Dunn, Norman Braveman, Thomas W. Clarkson, Sonja McKinlay, and David C. Bellinger), Environmental health perspectives (2002)

The association between blood lead level and dental caries was evaluated in cross-sectional analyses of...

 
Do blacks and whites differ in reporting Rose Questionnaire angina? Results of the Boston Health Care Project (with K W Smith, S A McGraw, and J B McKinlay), Ethnicity and disease (1993)

We investigated the prevalence of angina (as determined by the Rose Questionnaire) in a random...

 

Brachial Artery

Use of a flow-mediated vasodilation technique to assess endothelial function in dogs (with Gary D Puglia, Lisa M Freeman, John E Rush, and Ryan G P King), American journal of veterinary research (2006)

OBJECTIVE: To develop and assess the reproducibility of a protocol to noninvasively test endothelial function...

 

Breast Neoplasms

Quality of life among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2005)

PURPOSE: To describe quality of life (QOL) of younger women 4 to 42 months after...

 
Psychosocial problems among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Psycho-oncology (2004)

Women diagnosed with breast cancer at a younger age often have concerns less frequently faced...

 

C-Reactive Protein

Conjugated equine estrogens and coronary heart disease: the Women's Health Initiative (with Judith Hsia, Robert D Langer, Joann E Manson, Lewis Kuller, Karen C. Johnson, Susan L Hendrix, Mary Pettinger, Susan R Heckbert, Nancy Greep, Charles B Eaton, John B Kostis, Pat Caralis, and Ross Prentice), Archives of internal medicine (2006)

BACKGROUND: In recent randomized trials, conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) with continuous medroxyprogesterone acetate provided no...

 

Cardiovascular Diseases

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Relation of cardiovascular risk factors in women approaching menopause to menstrual cycle characteristics and reproductive hormones in the follicular and luteal phases (with Karen A. Matthews, Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Yuefang Chang, Richard C. Pasternak, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, and Maryfran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: Menstrual cycle characteristics may be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

OBJECTIVE: The objective...

 
Ethnic differences in cardiovascular risk factor burden among middle-aged women: Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) (with Karen A. Matthews, Mary Fran Sowers, Carol A. Derby, Evan Stein, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and Richard C. Pasternak), American heart journal (2005)

BACKGROUND: We evaluated ethnic differences in the 10-year risk of myocardial infarction or coronary death...

 
Association of lipoprotein(a), insulin resistance, and reproductive hormones in a multiethnic cohort of pre- and perimenopausal women (The SWAN Study) (with MaryFran Sowers, Jane A Cauley, and Evan Stein), The American journal of cardiology (2003)

Because evidence suggests lipoprotein (Lp(a)) may be an important cardiovascular risk factor in women, we...

 
Understanding the variability in the effectiveness of community heart health programs: a meta-analysis (with D E Sellers, Karen Bullock, and J B McKinlay), Social science and medicine (1982) (1997)

Over the past 25 years, community interventions to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been conducted...

 

Caregivers

Employment and caregiving: exploration of African American caregivers (with Karen Bullock and Sharon L Tennstedt), Social work (2003)

To more completely understand the challenges African American families face when combining employment commitments and...

 
How does formal and informal community care affect nursing home use (with A M Jette and S Tennstedt), The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences (1995)

We examined the effects of informal and formal community care on the 6-year risk of...

 
Do characteristics of informal caregivers affect the length of hospital stay for frail elders (with K M Skinner and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1994)

Studies examining the length of hospital stay for the very old rarely include characteristics of...

 

Chi-Square Distribution

Assessment of digit preference in self-reported year at menopause: choice of an appropriate reference distribution (with Catherine B. Johannes and Rebecca K Stellato), American journal of epidemiology (2002)

Estimated associations between self-reported age at menopause and health may be attenuated if self-report is...

 
Understanding the variability in the effectiveness of community heart health programs: a meta-analysis (with D E Sellers, Karen Bullock, and J B McKinlay), Social science and medicine (1982) (1997)

Over the past 25 years, community interventions to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been conducted...

 

Child

Negative life events: risk to health-related quality of life in children and youth with HIV infection (with Lois C. Howland, Deborah S. Storm, Yunsheng Ma, Steven L. Gortmaker, and James M. Oleske), The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC (2007)

Children and youth with perinatally acquired HIV infection are living longer because of improved drug...

 

PDF

Blood lead level and dental caries in school-age children (with Allison Gemmel, Mary Tavares, Susan Alperin, Jennifer Soncini, David Daniel, Julie Dunn, Norman Braveman, Thomas W. Clarkson, Sonja McKinlay, and David C. Bellinger), Environmental health perspectives (2002)

The association between blood lead level and dental caries was evaluated in cross-sectional analyses of...

 

Child, Preschool

Negative life events: risk to health-related quality of life in children and youth with HIV infection (with Lois C. Howland, Deborah S. Storm, Yunsheng Ma, Steven L. Gortmaker, and James M. Oleske), The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC (2007)

Children and youth with perinatally acquired HIV infection are living longer because of improved drug...

 

China

Association of lipoprotein(a), insulin resistance, and reproductive hormones in a multiethnic cohort of pre- and perimenopausal women (The SWAN Study) (with MaryFran Sowers, Jane A Cauley, and Evan Stein), The American journal of cardiology (2003)

Because evidence suggests lipoprotein (Lp(a)) may be an important cardiovascular risk factor in women, we...

 

Cholesterol

Conjugated equine estrogens and coronary heart disease: the Women's Health Initiative (with Judith Hsia, Robert D Langer, Joann E Manson, Lewis Kuller, Karen C. Johnson, Susan L Hendrix, Mary Pettinger, Susan R Heckbert, Nancy Greep, Charles B Eaton, John B Kostis, Pat Caralis, and Ross Prentice), Archives of internal medicine (2006)

BACKGROUND: In recent randomized trials, conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) with continuous medroxyprogesterone acetate provided no...

 
Understanding the variability in the effectiveness of community heart health programs: a meta-analysis (with D E Sellers, Karen Bullock, and J B McKinlay), Social science and medicine (1982) (1997)

Over the past 25 years, community interventions to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been conducted...

 

Chronic Disease

Utilization of services by chronically ill people in managed care and indemnity plans: implications for quality (with Stephen M Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, J Michael Oakes, David Blumenthal, and Daniel P Valentine), Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing (2003)

Because incentives for managed care organizations favor cost containment, concerns have been raised that quality...

 

PDF

Chronic disease medication use in managed care and indemnity insurance plans (with Randall S. Stafford, Stephen M. Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and David Blumenthal), Health services research (2003)

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of managed care on the use of chronic disease...

 

Climacteric

Association of lipoprotein(a), insulin resistance, and reproductive hormones in a multiethnic cohort of pre- and perimenopausal women (The SWAN Study) (with MaryFran Sowers, Jane A Cauley, and Evan Stein), The American journal of cardiology (2003)

Because evidence suggests lipoprotein (Lp(a)) may be an important cardiovascular risk factor in women, we...

 
Longitudinal patterns and correlates of hormone replacement therapy use in middle-aged women (with Catherine B. Johannes, J G Posner, and S M McKinlay), American journal of epidemiology (1994)

Patterns of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) use over time and predictors of initiating or discontinuing...

 

Cognition Disorders

How does formal and informal community care affect nursing home use (with A M Jette and S Tennstedt), The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences (1995)

We examined the effects of informal and formal community care on the 6-year risk of...

 

Cohort Studies

Negative life events: risk to health-related quality of life in children and youth with HIV infection (with Lois C. Howland, Deborah S. Storm, Yunsheng Ma, Steven L. Gortmaker, and James M. Oleske), The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC (2007)

Children and youth with perinatally acquired HIV infection are living longer because of improved drug...

 
Evaluation of four proposed bleeding criteria for the onset of late menopausal transition (with Sioban D. Harlow, Kevin Cain, Lorraine Dennerstein, Roderick Little, Ellen S. Mitchell, Bin Nan, John F. Randolph Jr., John Taffe, and Matheos Yosef), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: The current criterion for onset of late menopausal transition is amenorrhea of 90 d...

 

PDF

The value of follicle-stimulating hormone concentration and clinical findings as markers of the late menopausal transition (with John F. Randolph Jr., Lorraine Dennerstein, Kevin Cain, Sioban D. Harlow, Roderick Little, Ellen S. Mitchell, Bin Nan, John Taffe, and Matheos Yosef), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: The Stages of Reproductive Aging Workshop proposed bleeding and hormonal criteria for the menopausal...

 

PDF

Relation of cardiovascular risk factors in women approaching menopause to menstrual cycle characteristics and reproductive hormones in the follicular and luteal phases (with Karen A. Matthews, Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Yuefang Chang, Richard C. Pasternak, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, and Maryfran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: Menstrual cycle characteristics may be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

OBJECTIVE: The objective...

 
Correlates of circulating androgens in mid-life women: the study of women's health across the nation (with Nanette Santoro, Javier Torrens, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Joel S. Finkelstein, Ellen B. Gold, Stan Korenman, William L. Lasley, Judith L. Luborsky, Dan McConnell, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2005)

CONTEXT: Androgens influence sexual differentiation and behavior, body composition, and physical functioning in men, but...

 
Body size and ethnicity are associated with menstrual cycle alterations in women in the early menopausal transition: The Study of Women's Health across the Nation (SWAN) Daily Hormone Study (with Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Dan McConnell, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Joel S. Finkelstein, Gail A. Greendale, Jenny Kelsey, Stan Korenman, Judith L. Luborsky, Karen A. Matthews, Rees Midgley, Lynda Powell, Janice Sabatine, Miriam Schocken, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2004)

The dynamics of reproductive hormones that characterize the menopausal transition (perimenopause) are incompletely understood, particularly...

 
The relationship of circulating dehydroepiandrosterone, testosterone, and estradiol to stages of the menopausal transition and ethnicity (with William L. Lasley, Nanette Santoro, John F Randolf, Ellen B. Gold, Gerson Weiss, Daniel S McConnell, and Mary Fran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2002)

In this report, 3029 women between the ages of 42 and 54 yr from five...

 
Longitudinal study of hormone levels and depression among women transitioning through menopause (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, and C Longcope), Climacteric : the journal of the International Menopause Society (2001)

OBJECTIVE: To address the association between depression and absolute levels of estradiol, and change...

 

Combined Modality Therapy

Quality of life among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2005)

PURPOSE: To describe quality of life (QOL) of younger women 4 to 42 months after...

 

Communication

The effects of health care reforms on job satisfaction and voluntary turnover among hospital-based nurses (with Harriet Davidson, P H Folcarelli, L J Duprat, and J C Clifford), Medical care (1997)

OBJECTIVES: Among the consequences of downsizing and cost containment in hospitals are major changes in...

 

Community Health Services

Understanding the variability in the effectiveness of community heart health programs: a meta-analysis (with D E Sellers, Karen Bullock, and J B McKinlay), Social science and medicine (1982) (1997)

Over the past 25 years, community interventions to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been conducted...

 
Informal care vs. formal services: changes in patterns of care over time (with S Tennstedt and B Harrow), Journal of aging and social policy (1995)

Longitudinal data from a representative sample of community-residing older persons were used to document changes...

 
How does formal and informal community care affect nursing home use (with A M Jette and S Tennstedt), The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences (1995)

We examined the effects of informal and formal community care on the 6-year risk of...

 
Determining the pattern of community care: is coresidence more important than caregiver relationship (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of gerontology (1993)

Researchers have previously emphasized the importance of kinship tie to explaining the pattern of care...

 

Computers

An electronic menstrual cycle calendar: comparison of data quality with a paper version (with Catherine B. Johannes, J Woods, R B Goldstein, D Tran, S Mehrotra, Karen B. Johnson, and N Santoro), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVES: This pilot study compared a prototype electronic menstrual calendar on a handheld computer...

 

Condoms

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HIV risk among Latino adolescents in two New England cities (with K. W. Smith, S. A. McGraw, L. A. Costa, and J. B. McKinlay), American journal of public health (1993)

OBJECTIVES. Latino adolescents in two urban New England areas were surveyed to assess risk of...

 

Confidence Intervals

Psychosocial, behavioral, and health factors related to menopause symptomatology (with Nancy E. Avis and S M McKinlay), Women's health (Hillsdale, N.J.) (1997)

Despite wide variation in the reporting of hot flashes and night sweats among menopausal women,...

 

Confounding Factors (Epidemiology)

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Blood lead level and dental caries in school-age children (with Allison Gemmel, Mary Tavares, Susan Alperin, Jennifer Soncini, David Daniel, Julie Dunn, Norman Braveman, Thomas W. Clarkson, Sonja McKinlay, and David C. Bellinger), Environmental health perspectives (2002)

The association between blood lead level and dental caries was evaluated in cross-sectional analyses of...

 

Connecticut

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HIV risk among Latino adolescents in two New England cities (with K. W. Smith, S. A. McGraw, L. A. Costa, and J. B. McKinlay), American journal of public health (1993)

OBJECTIVES. Latino adolescents in two urban New England areas were surveyed to assess risk of...

 

Continental Population Groups

Vasomotor symptom prevalence is associated with polymorphisms in sex steroid-metabolizing enzymes and receptors (with Carolyn J. Crandall and Ellen B. Gold), The American journal of medicine (2006)

The relation of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of genes involved in estrogen function to vasomotor...

 
Assessment of digit preference in self-reported year at menopause: choice of an appropriate reference distribution (with Catherine B. Johannes and Rebecca K Stellato), American journal of epidemiology (2002)

Estimated associations between self-reported age at menopause and health may be attenuated if self-report is...

 
Factors associated with age at natural menopause in a multiethnic sample of midlife women (with Ellen B. Gold, J Bromberger, S Samuels, Gail A. Greendale, Sioban D. Harlow, and J Skurnick), American journal of epidemiology (2001)

An unprecedented number of women will experience menopause in the next decade. Although the timing...

 
Measuring depressive symptoms in the frail elderly (with H Davidson and P H Feldman), Journal of gerontology (1994)

To determine the usefulness of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) as a...

 

Continuity of Patient Care

Do characteristics of informal caregivers affect the length of hospital stay for frail elders (with K M Skinner and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1994)

Studies examining the length of hospital stay for the very old rarely include characteristics of...

 

Coronary Disease

Help-seeking behaviors of blacks and whites dying from coronary heart disease (with Susan M Frayne, Sarah A McGraw, Kevin W Smith, and John B McKinlay), Ethnicity and health (2003)

OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine whether blacks and whites with life-threatening cardiac events...

 

PDF

Do blacks and whites differ in their use of health care for symptoms of coronary heart disease (with S. A. McGraw, K. W. Smith, J. B. McKinlay, and J. E. Pierson), American journal of public health (1994)

OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to identify the role of race in seeking...

 

Corpus Luteum

Body size and ethnicity are associated with menstrual cycle alterations in women in the early menopausal transition: The Study of Women's Health across the Nation (SWAN) Daily Hormone Study (with Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Dan McConnell, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Joel S. Finkelstein, Gail A. Greendale, Jenny Kelsey, Stan Korenman, Judith L. Luborsky, Karen A. Matthews, Rees Midgley, Lynda Powell, Janice Sabatine, Miriam Schocken, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2004)

The dynamics of reproductive hormones that characterize the menopausal transition (perimenopause) are incompletely understood, particularly...

 
Assessing menstrual cycles with urinary hormone assays (with N Santoro, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Gail A. Greendale, Stan Korenman, William L. Lasley, D McConnell, P McGaffigan, R Midgely, M Schocken, M Sowers, and G Weiss), American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism (2002)

The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) is a multiethnic cohort study of...

 

Cost Control

The effects of health care reforms on job satisfaction and voluntary turnover among hospital-based nurses (with Harriet Davidson, P H Folcarelli, L J Duprat, and J C Clifford), Medical care (1997)

OBJECTIVES: Among the consequences of downsizing and cost containment in hospitals are major changes in...

 

Cross-Cultural Comparison

Is there a menopausal syndrome? Menopausal status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, J Bromberger, P Ganz, V Cain, and M Kagawa-Singer), Social science and medicine (1982) (2001)

In recent years, research on menopausal symptomalogy has focused on identifying symptom groupings experienced by...

 

Cross-Sectional Studies

Negative life events: risk to health-related quality of life in children and youth with HIV infection (with Lois C. Howland, Deborah S. Storm, Yunsheng Ma, Steven L. Gortmaker, and James M. Oleske), The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC (2007)

Children and youth with perinatally acquired HIV infection are living longer because of improved drug...

 

PDF

The value of follicle-stimulating hormone concentration and clinical findings as markers of the late menopausal transition (with John F. Randolph Jr., Lorraine Dennerstein, Kevin Cain, Sioban D. Harlow, Roderick Little, Ellen S. Mitchell, Bin Nan, John Taffe, and Matheos Yosef), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: The Stages of Reproductive Aging Workshop proposed bleeding and hormonal criteria for the menopausal...

 
Lifestyle and demographic factors in relation to vasomotor symptoms: baseline results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (with Ellen B. Gold, Gladys Block, Laurie Lachance, Gordon FitzGerald, Heidi Miracle, and Sheryl Sherman), American journal of epidemiology (2004)

Results of recent trials highlight the risks of hormone therapy, increasing the importance of identifying...

 
Psychosocial problems among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Psycho-oncology (2004)

Women diagnosed with breast cancer at a younger age often have concerns less frequently faced...

 
Association of lipoprotein(a), insulin resistance, and reproductive hormones in a multiethnic cohort of pre- and perimenopausal women (The SWAN Study) (with MaryFran Sowers, Jane A Cauley, and Evan Stein), The American journal of cardiology (2003)

Because evidence suggests lipoprotein (Lp(a)) may be an important cardiovascular risk factor in women, we...

 

PDF

Chronic disease medication use in managed care and indemnity insurance plans (with Randall S. Stafford, Stephen M. Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and David Blumenthal), Health services research (2003)

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of managed care on the use of chronic disease...

 
Employment and caregiving: exploration of African American caregivers (with Karen Bullock and Sharon L Tennstedt), Social work (2003)

To more completely understand the challenges African American families face when combining employment commitments and...

 

PDF

Blood lead level and dental caries in school-age children (with Allison Gemmel, Mary Tavares, Susan Alperin, Jennifer Soncini, David Daniel, Julie Dunn, Norman Braveman, Thomas W. Clarkson, Sonja McKinlay, and David C. Bellinger), Environmental health perspectives (2002)

The association between blood lead level and dental caries was evaluated in cross-sectional analyses of...

 
Assessment of digit preference in self-reported year at menopause: choice of an appropriate reference distribution (with Catherine B. Johannes and Rebecca K Stellato), American journal of epidemiology (2002)

Estimated associations between self-reported age at menopause and health may be attenuated if self-report is...

 
Body mass index in mid-life women: relative influence of menopause, hormone use, and ethnicity (with Karen A. Matthews, B Abrams, T Miles, R Neer, L H Powell, and D Wesley), International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity (2001)

OBJECTIVE: To assess the relative influence of menopausal status and hormone use on body...

 
Is there a menopausal syndrome? Menopausal status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, J Bromberger, P Ganz, V Cain, and M Kagawa-Singer), Social science and medicine (1982) (2001)

In recent years, research on menopausal symptomalogy has focused on identifying symptom groupings experienced by...

 
Factors associated with age at natural menopause in a multiethnic sample of midlife women (with Ellen B. Gold, J Bromberger, S Samuels, Gail A. Greendale, Sioban D. Harlow, and J Skurnick), American journal of epidemiology (2001)

An unprecedented number of women will experience menopause in the next decade. Although the timing...

 
Is there an association between menopause status and sexual functioning (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, Catherine B. Johannes, and C Longcope), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to address whether: (1) there is an...

 
Interrelationships among disablement concepts (with A M Jette, S F Assmann, D Rooks, and B A Harris), The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences (1998)

BACKGROUND: Understanding interrelationships among disablement concepts is critical to the design of future disability...

 
Understanding the variability in the effectiveness of community heart health programs: a meta-analysis (with D E Sellers, Karen Bullock, and J B McKinlay), Social science and medicine (1982) (1997)

Over the past 25 years, community interventions to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been conducted...

 
The everyday impacts of providing informal care to dependent elders and their consequences for the care recipients (with J B McKinlay and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1995)

Longitudinal data were used to identify the relationship between different areas of negative impact and...

 
Health survey methods with minority populations: some lessons from recent experience (with S A McGraw, J B McKinlay, L A Costa, and D L Cohen), Ethnicity and disease (1992)

Until recently, minority populations have been inadequately or inaccurately represented in health research. Researchers are...

 

Cultural Characteristics

Health survey methods with minority populations: some lessons from recent experience (with S A McGraw, J B McKinlay, L A Costa, and D L Cohen), Ethnicity and disease (1992)

Until recently, minority populations have been inadequately or inaccurately represented in health research. Researchers are...

 

data

Is there a menopausal syndrome? Menopausal status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, J Bromberger, P Ganz, V Cain, and M Kagawa-Singer), Social science and medicine (1982) (2001)

In recent years, research on menopausal symptomalogy has focused on identifying symptom groupings experienced by...

 

Data Collection

Body mass index in mid-life women: relative influence of menopause, hormone use, and ethnicity (with Karen A. Matthews, B Abrams, T Miles, R Neer, L H Powell, and D Wesley), International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity (2001)

OBJECTIVE: To assess the relative influence of menopausal status and hormone use on body...

 

Death Certificates

Help-seeking behaviors of blacks and whites dying from coronary heart disease (with Susan M Frayne, Sarah A McGraw, Kevin W Smith, and John B McKinlay), Ethnicity and health (2003)

OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine whether blacks and whites with life-threatening cardiac events...

 

Dehydroepiandrosterone

The relationship of circulating dehydroepiandrosterone, testosterone, and estradiol to stages of the menopausal transition and ethnicity (with William L. Lasley, Nanette Santoro, John F Randolf, Ellen B. Gold, Gerson Weiss, Daniel S McConnell, and Mary Fran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2002)

In this report, 3029 women between the ages of 42 and 54 yr from five...

 

Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate

Correlates of circulating androgens in mid-life women: the study of women's health across the nation (with Nanette Santoro, Javier Torrens, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Joel S. Finkelstein, Ellen B. Gold, Stan Korenman, William L. Lasley, Judith L. Luborsky, Dan McConnell, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2005)

CONTEXT: Androgens influence sexual differentiation and behavior, body composition, and physical functioning in men, but...

 

Demography

Lifestyle and demographic factors in relation to vasomotor symptoms: baseline results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (with Ellen B. Gold, Gladys Block, Laurie Lachance, Gordon FitzGerald, Heidi Miracle, and Sheryl Sherman), American journal of epidemiology (2004)

Results of recent trials highlight the risks of hormone therapy, increasing the importance of identifying...

 

PDF

Blood lead level and dental caries in school-age children (with Allison Gemmel, Mary Tavares, Susan Alperin, Jennifer Soncini, David Daniel, Julie Dunn, Norman Braveman, Thomas W. Clarkson, Sonja McKinlay, and David C. Bellinger), Environmental health perspectives (2002)

The association between blood lead level and dental caries was evaluated in cross-sectional analyses of...

 
Factors associated with age at natural menopause in a multiethnic sample of midlife women (with Ellen B. Gold, J Bromberger, S Samuels, Gail A. Greendale, Sioban D. Harlow, and J Skurnick), American journal of epidemiology (2001)

An unprecedented number of women will experience menopause in the next decade. Although the timing...

 

Dental Caries

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Blood lead level and dental caries in school-age children (with Allison Gemmel, Mary Tavares, Susan Alperin, Jennifer Soncini, David Daniel, Julie Dunn, Norman Braveman, Thomas W. Clarkson, Sonja McKinlay, and David C. Bellinger), Environmental health perspectives (2002)

The association between blood lead level and dental caries was evaluated in cross-sectional analyses of...

 

Depression

Interviewer effects in a cohort study. Results from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study (with Catherine B. Johannes and J B McKinlay), American journal of epidemiology (1997)

Although interviewer error is widely recognized as an important source of variation in epidemiologic investigations,...

 
Measuring depressive symptoms in the frail elderly (with H Davidson and P H Feldman), Journal of gerontology (1994)

To determine the usefulness of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) as a...

 

Diabetes Mellitus

Utilization of services by chronically ill people in managed care and indemnity plans: implications for quality (with Stephen M Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, J Michael Oakes, David Blumenthal, and Daniel P Valentine), Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing (2003)

Because incentives for managed care organizations favor cost containment, concerns have been raised that quality...

 

PDF

Chronic disease medication use in managed care and indemnity insurance plans (with Randall S. Stafford, Stephen M. Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and David Blumenthal), Health services research (2003)

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of managed care on the use of chronic disease...

 

Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2

PDA-assisted low glycemic index dietary intervention for type II diabetes: a pilot study (with Yunsheng Ma, Barbara C. Olendzki, David E. Chiriboga, Milagros C. Rosal, E. Sinagra, Andrea R. Hafner, Sherry L. Pagoto, Robert P. Magner, and Ira S. Ockene), European journal of clinical nutrition (2006)

BACKGROUND: Epidemiological and dietary intervention studies suggest that a low-glycemic index (GI) diet is beneficial...

 

Diet

Lifestyle and demographic factors in relation to vasomotor symptoms: baseline results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (with Ellen B. Gold, Gladys Block, Laurie Lachance, Gordon FitzGerald, Heidi Miracle, and Sheryl Sherman), American journal of epidemiology (2004)

Results of recent trials highlight the risks of hormone therapy, increasing the importance of identifying...

 

Dietary Carbohydrates

PDA-assisted low glycemic index dietary intervention for type II diabetes: a pilot study (with Yunsheng Ma, Barbara C. Olendzki, David E. Chiriboga, Milagros C. Rosal, E. Sinagra, Andrea R. Hafner, Sherry L. Pagoto, Robert P. Magner, and Ira S. Ockene), European journal of clinical nutrition (2006)

BACKGROUND: Epidemiological and dietary intervention studies suggest that a low-glycemic index (GI) diet is beneficial...

 

Disabled Persons

How does formal and informal community care affect nursing home use (with A M Jette and S Tennstedt), The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences (1995)

We examined the effects of informal and formal community care on the 6-year risk of...

 
Measuring depressive symptoms in the frail elderly (with H Davidson and P H Feldman), Journal of gerontology (1994)

To determine the usefulness of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) as a...

 

Disease

Measuring depressive symptoms in the frail elderly (with H Davidson and P H Feldman), Journal of gerontology (1994)

To determine the usefulness of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) as a...

 

Dogs

Use of a flow-mediated vasodilation technique to assess endothelial function in dogs (with Gary D Puglia, Lisa M Freeman, John E Rush, and Ryan G P King), American journal of veterinary research (2006)

OBJECTIVE: To develop and assess the reproducibility of a protocol to noninvasively test endothelial function...

 

Educational Status

Lifestyle and demographic factors in relation to vasomotor symptoms: baseline results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (with Ellen B. Gold, Gladys Block, Laurie Lachance, Gordon FitzGerald, Heidi Miracle, and Sheryl Sherman), American journal of epidemiology (2004)

Results of recent trials highlight the risks of hormone therapy, increasing the importance of identifying...

 
Factors associated with age at natural menopause in a multiethnic sample of midlife women (with Ellen B. Gold, J Bromberger, S Samuels, Gail A. Greendale, Sioban D. Harlow, and J Skurnick), American journal of epidemiology (2001)

An unprecedented number of women will experience menopause in the next decade. Although the timing...

 

Electrocardiography

Do blacks and whites differ in reporting Rose Questionnaire angina? Results of the Boston Health Care Project (with K W Smith, S A McGraw, and J B McKinlay), Ethnicity and disease (1993)

We investigated the prevalence of angina (as determined by the Rose Questionnaire) in a random...

 

Employment

Employment and caregiving: exploration of African American caregivers (with Karen Bullock and Sharon L Tennstedt), Social work (2003)

To more completely understand the challenges African American families face when combining employment commitments and...

 
The effects of health care reforms on job satisfaction and voluntary turnover among hospital-based nurses (with Harriet Davidson, P H Folcarelli, L J Duprat, and J C Clifford), Medical care (1997)

OBJECTIVES: Among the consequences of downsizing and cost containment in hospitals are major changes in...

 

Endothelium, Vascular

Use of a flow-mediated vasodilation technique to assess endothelial function in dogs (with Gary D Puglia, Lisa M Freeman, John E Rush, and Ryan G P King), American journal of veterinary research (2006)

OBJECTIVE: To develop and assess the reproducibility of a protocol to noninvasively test endothelial function...

 

Epidemiologic Studies

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Blood lead level and dental caries in school-age children (with Allison Gemmel, Mary Tavares, Susan Alperin, Jennifer Soncini, David Daniel, Julie Dunn, Norman Braveman, Thomas W. Clarkson, Sonja McKinlay, and David C. Bellinger), Environmental health perspectives (2002)

The association between blood lead level and dental caries was evaluated in cross-sectional analyses of...

 

Estradiol

Association of lipoprotein(a), insulin resistance, and reproductive hormones in a multiethnic cohort of pre- and perimenopausal women (The SWAN Study) (with MaryFran Sowers, Jane A Cauley, and Evan Stein), The American journal of cardiology (2003)

Because evidence suggests lipoprotein (Lp(a)) may be an important cardiovascular risk factor in women, we...

 
The relationship of circulating dehydroepiandrosterone, testosterone, and estradiol to stages of the menopausal transition and ethnicity (with William L. Lasley, Nanette Santoro, John F Randolf, Ellen B. Gold, Gerson Weiss, Daniel S McConnell, and Mary Fran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2002)

In this report, 3029 women between the ages of 42 and 54 yr from five...

 
Longitudinal study of hormone levels and depression among women transitioning through menopause (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, and C Longcope), Climacteric : the journal of the International Menopause Society (2001)

OBJECTIVE: To address the association between depression and absolute levels of estradiol, and change...

 

Estrogen Receptor alpha

Vasomotor symptom prevalence is associated with polymorphisms in sex steroid-metabolizing enzymes and receptors (with Carolyn J. Crandall and Ellen B. Gold), The American journal of medicine (2006)

The relation of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of genes involved in estrogen function to vasomotor...

 

Estrogen Receptor beta

Vasomotor symptom prevalence is associated with polymorphisms in sex steroid-metabolizing enzymes and receptors (with Carolyn J. Crandall and Ellen B. Gold), The American journal of medicine (2006)

The relation of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of genes involved in estrogen function to vasomotor...

 

Estrogen Replacement Therapy

A longitudinal study of weight and the menopause transition: results from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study (with V A Casey, Nancy E. Avis, and S M McKinlay), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVE: Results of past studies of menopause and weight are inconsistent, in part because...

 
Longitudinal patterns and correlates of hormone replacement therapy use in middle-aged women (with Catherine B. Johannes, J G Posner, and S M McKinlay), American journal of epidemiology (1994)

Patterns of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) use over time and predictors of initiating or discontinuing...

 

Estrogens

Vasomotor symptom prevalence is associated with polymorphisms in sex steroid-metabolizing enzymes and receptors (with Carolyn J. Crandall and Ellen B. Gold), The American journal of medicine (2006)

The relation of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of genes involved in estrogen function to vasomotor...

 
Selected diet and lifestyle factors are associated with estrogen metabolites in a multiracial/ethnic population of women (with MaryFran R Sowers, Daniel S McConnell, John F Jr Randolph, Ellen B. Gold, Margaret K Wilkin, and William L. Lasley), The Journal of nutrition (2006)

Diet and lifestyle factors, body size, and smoking behavior may influence estrogen metabolism, but the...

 
Conjugated equine estrogens and coronary heart disease: the Women's Health Initiative (with Judith Hsia, Robert D Langer, Joann E Manson, Lewis Kuller, Karen C. Johnson, Susan L Hendrix, Mary Pettinger, Susan R Heckbert, Nancy Greep, Charles B Eaton, John B Kostis, Pat Caralis, and Ross Prentice), Archives of internal medicine (2006)

BACKGROUND: In recent randomized trials, conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) with continuous medroxyprogesterone acetate provided no...

 

Estrogens, Conjugated (USP)

Conjugated equine estrogens and coronary heart disease: the Women's Health Initiative (with Judith Hsia, Robert D Langer, Joann E Manson, Lewis Kuller, Karen C. Johnson, Susan L Hendrix, Mary Pettinger, Susan R Heckbert, Nancy Greep, Charles B Eaton, John B Kostis, Pat Caralis, and Ross Prentice), Archives of internal medicine (2006)

BACKGROUND: In recent randomized trials, conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) with continuous medroxyprogesterone acetate provided no...

 

Estrone

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Relation of cardiovascular risk factors in women approaching menopause to menstrual cycle characteristics and reproductive hormones in the follicular and luteal phases (with Karen A. Matthews, Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Yuefang Chang, Richard C. Pasternak, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, and Maryfran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: Menstrual cycle characteristics may be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

OBJECTIVE: The objective...

 
Body size and ethnicity are associated with menstrual cycle alterations in women in the early menopausal transition: The Study of Women's Health across the Nation (SWAN) Daily Hormone Study (with Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Dan McConnell, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Joel S. Finkelstein, Gail A. Greendale, Jenny Kelsey, Stan Korenman, Judith L. Luborsky, Karen A. Matthews, Rees Midgley, Lynda Powell, Janice Sabatine, Miriam Schocken, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2004)

The dynamics of reproductive hormones that characterize the menopausal transition (perimenopause) are incompletely understood, particularly...

 

Ethnic Groups

Lifestyle and demographic factors in relation to vasomotor symptoms: baseline results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (with Ellen B. Gold, Gladys Block, Laurie Lachance, Gordon FitzGerald, Heidi Miracle, and Sheryl Sherman), American journal of epidemiology (2004)

Results of recent trials highlight the risks of hormone therapy, increasing the importance of identifying...

 
Body mass index in mid-life women: relative influence of menopause, hormone use, and ethnicity (with Karen A. Matthews, B Abrams, T Miles, R Neer, L H Powell, and D Wesley), International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity (2001)

OBJECTIVE: To assess the relative influence of menopausal status and hormone use on body...

 

European Continental Ancestry Group

Body size and ethnicity are associated with menstrual cycle alterations in women in the early menopausal transition: The Study of Women's Health across the Nation (SWAN) Daily Hormone Study (with Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Dan McConnell, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Joel S. Finkelstein, Gail A. Greendale, Jenny Kelsey, Stan Korenman, Judith L. Luborsky, Karen A. Matthews, Rees Midgley, Lynda Powell, Janice Sabatine, Miriam Schocken, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2004)

The dynamics of reproductive hormones that characterize the menopausal transition (perimenopause) are incompletely understood, particularly...

 
Help-seeking behaviors of blacks and whites dying from coronary heart disease (with Susan M Frayne, Sarah A McGraw, Kevin W Smith, and John B McKinlay), Ethnicity and health (2003)

OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine whether blacks and whites with life-threatening cardiac events...

 
The relationship of circulating dehydroepiandrosterone, testosterone, and estradiol to stages of the menopausal transition and ethnicity (with William L. Lasley, Nanette Santoro, John F Randolf, Ellen B. Gold, Gerson Weiss, Daniel S McConnell, and Mary Fran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2002)

In this report, 3029 women between the ages of 42 and 54 yr from five...

 
Is there a menopausal syndrome? Menopausal status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, J Bromberger, P Ganz, V Cain, and M Kagawa-Singer), Social science and medicine (1982) (2001)

In recent years, research on menopausal symptomalogy has focused on identifying symptom groupings experienced by...

 

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Do blacks and whites differ in their use of health care for symptoms of coronary heart disease (with S. A. McGraw, K. W. Smith, J. B. McKinlay, and J. E. Pierson), American journal of public health (1994)

OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to identify the role of race in seeking...

 
Do blacks and whites differ in reporting Rose Questionnaire angina? Results of the Boston Health Care Project (with K W Smith, S A McGraw, and J B McKinlay), Ethnicity and disease (1993)

We investigated the prevalence of angina (as determined by the Rose Questionnaire) in a random...

 
Health survey methods with minority populations: some lessons from recent experience (with S A McGraw, J B McKinlay, L A Costa, and D L Cohen), Ethnicity and disease (1992)

Until recently, minority populations have been inadequately or inaccurately represented in health research. Researchers are...

 

Exercise

Selected diet and lifestyle factors are associated with estrogen metabolites in a multiracial/ethnic population of women (with MaryFran R Sowers, Daniel S McConnell, John F Jr Randolph, Ellen B. Gold, Margaret K Wilkin, and William L. Lasley), The Journal of nutrition (2006)

Diet and lifestyle factors, body size, and smoking behavior may influence estrogen metabolism, but the...

 
Body mass index in mid-life women: relative influence of menopause, hormone use, and ethnicity (with Karen A. Matthews, B Abrams, T Miles, R Neer, L H Powell, and D Wesley), International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity (2001)

OBJECTIVE: To assess the relative influence of menopausal status and hormone use on body...

 
A longitudinal study of weight and the menopause transition: results from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study (with V A Casey, Nancy E. Avis, and S M McKinlay), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVE: Results of past studies of menopause and weight are inconsistent, in part because...

 

Factor Analysis, Statistical

Is there a menopausal syndrome? Menopausal status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, J Bromberger, P Ganz, V Cain, and M Kagawa-Singer), Social science and medicine (1982) (2001)

In recent years, research on menopausal symptomalogy has focused on identifying symptom groupings experienced by...

 
Measuring depressive symptoms in the frail elderly (with H Davidson and P H Feldman), Journal of gerontology (1994)

To determine the usefulness of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) as a...

 

Family

Measuring depressive symptoms in the frail elderly (with H Davidson and P H Feldman), Journal of gerontology (1994)

To determine the usefulness of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) as a...

 

Fee-for-Service Plans

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Chronic disease medication use in managed care and indemnity insurance plans (with Randall S. Stafford, Stephen M. Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and David Blumenthal), Health services research (2003)

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of managed care on the use of chronic disease...

 

Female

Negative life events: risk to health-related quality of life in children and youth with HIV infection (with Lois C. Howland, Deborah S. Storm, Yunsheng Ma, Steven L. Gortmaker, and James M. Oleske), The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC (2007)

Children and youth with perinatally acquired HIV infection are living longer because of improved drug...

 
Use of a flow-mediated vasodilation technique to assess endothelial function in dogs (with Gary D Puglia, Lisa M Freeman, John E Rush, and Ryan G P King), American journal of veterinary research (2006)

OBJECTIVE: To develop and assess the reproducibility of a protocol to noninvasively test endothelial function...

 
Vasomotor symptom prevalence is associated with polymorphisms in sex steroid-metabolizing enzymes and receptors (with Carolyn J. Crandall and Ellen B. Gold), The American journal of medicine (2006)

The relation of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of genes involved in estrogen function to vasomotor...

 
Evaluation of four proposed bleeding criteria for the onset of late menopausal transition (with Sioban D. Harlow, Kevin Cain, Lorraine Dennerstein, Roderick Little, Ellen S. Mitchell, Bin Nan, John F. Randolph Jr., John Taffe, and Matheos Yosef), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: The current criterion for onset of late menopausal transition is amenorrhea of 90 d...

 

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The value of follicle-stimulating hormone concentration and clinical findings as markers of the late menopausal transition (with John F. Randolph Jr., Lorraine Dennerstein, Kevin Cain, Sioban D. Harlow, Roderick Little, Ellen S. Mitchell, Bin Nan, John Taffe, and Matheos Yosef), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: The Stages of Reproductive Aging Workshop proposed bleeding and hormonal criteria for the menopausal...

 
PDA-assisted low glycemic index dietary intervention for type II diabetes: a pilot study (with Yunsheng Ma, Barbara C. Olendzki, David E. Chiriboga, Milagros C. Rosal, E. Sinagra, Andrea R. Hafner, Sherry L. Pagoto, Robert P. Magner, and Ira S. Ockene), European journal of clinical nutrition (2006)

BACKGROUND: Epidemiological and dietary intervention studies suggest that a low-glycemic index (GI) diet is beneficial...

 
Selected diet and lifestyle factors are associated with estrogen metabolites in a multiracial/ethnic population of women (with MaryFran R Sowers, Daniel S McConnell, John F Jr Randolph, Ellen B. Gold, Margaret K Wilkin, and William L. Lasley), The Journal of nutrition (2006)

Diet and lifestyle factors, body size, and smoking behavior may influence estrogen metabolism, but the...

 

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Relation of cardiovascular risk factors in women approaching menopause to menstrual cycle characteristics and reproductive hormones in the follicular and luteal phases (with Karen A. Matthews, Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Yuefang Chang, Richard C. Pasternak, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, and Maryfran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: Menstrual cycle characteristics may be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

OBJECTIVE: The objective...

 
Conjugated equine estrogens and coronary heart disease: the Women's Health Initiative (with Judith Hsia, Robert D Langer, Joann E Manson, Lewis Kuller, Karen C. Johnson, Susan L Hendrix, Mary Pettinger, Susan R Heckbert, Nancy Greep, Charles B Eaton, John B Kostis, Pat Caralis, and Ross Prentice), Archives of internal medicine (2006)

BACKGROUND: In recent randomized trials, conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) with continuous medroxyprogesterone acetate provided no...

 
Ethnic differences in cardiovascular risk factor burden among middle-aged women: Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) (with Karen A. Matthews, Mary Fran Sowers, Carol A. Derby, Evan Stein, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and Richard C. Pasternak), American heart journal (2005)

BACKGROUND: We evaluated ethnic differences in the 10-year risk of myocardial infarction or coronary death...

 
Quality of life among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2005)

PURPOSE: To describe quality of life (QOL) of younger women 4 to 42 months after...

 
Correlates of circulating androgens in mid-life women: the study of women's health across the nation (with Nanette Santoro, Javier Torrens, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Joel S. Finkelstein, Ellen B. Gold, Stan Korenman, William L. Lasley, Judith L. Luborsky, Dan McConnell, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2005)

CONTEXT: Androgens influence sexual differentiation and behavior, body composition, and physical functioning in men, but...

 
Lifestyle and demographic factors in relation to vasomotor symptoms: baseline results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (with Ellen B. Gold, Gladys Block, Laurie Lachance, Gordon FitzGerald, Heidi Miracle, and Sheryl Sherman), American journal of epidemiology (2004)

Results of recent trials highlight the risks of hormone therapy, increasing the importance of identifying...

 
Body size and ethnicity are associated with menstrual cycle alterations in women in the early menopausal transition: The Study of Women's Health across the Nation (SWAN) Daily Hormone Study (with Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Dan McConnell, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Joel S. Finkelstein, Gail A. Greendale, Jenny Kelsey, Stan Korenman, Judith L. Luborsky, Karen A. Matthews, Rees Midgley, Lynda Powell, Janice Sabatine, Miriam Schocken, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2004)

The dynamics of reproductive hormones that characterize the menopausal transition (perimenopause) are incompletely understood, particularly...

 
Psychosocial problems among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Psycho-oncology (2004)

Women diagnosed with breast cancer at a younger age often have concerns less frequently faced...

 
Association of lipoprotein(a), insulin resistance, and reproductive hormones in a multiethnic cohort of pre- and perimenopausal women (The SWAN Study) (with MaryFran Sowers, Jane A Cauley, and Evan Stein), The American journal of cardiology (2003)

Because evidence suggests lipoprotein (Lp(a)) may be an important cardiovascular risk factor in women, we...

 

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Chronic disease medication use in managed care and indemnity insurance plans (with Randall S. Stafford, Stephen M. Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and David Blumenthal), Health services research (2003)

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of managed care on the use of chronic disease...

 
Employment and caregiving: exploration of African American caregivers (with Karen Bullock and Sharon L Tennstedt), Social work (2003)

To more completely understand the challenges African American families face when combining employment commitments and...

 
Help-seeking behaviors of blacks and whites dying from coronary heart disease (with Susan M Frayne, Sarah A McGraw, Kevin W Smith, and John B McKinlay), Ethnicity and health (2003)

OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine whether blacks and whites with life-threatening cardiac events...

 
Assessing menstrual cycles with urinary hormone assays (with N Santoro, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Gail A. Greendale, Stan Korenman, William L. Lasley, D McConnell, P McGaffigan, R Midgely, M Schocken, M Sowers, and G Weiss), American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism (2002)

The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) is a multiethnic cohort study of...

 

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Blood lead level and dental caries in school-age children (with Allison Gemmel, Mary Tavares, Susan Alperin, Jennifer Soncini, David Daniel, Julie Dunn, Norman Braveman, Thomas W. Clarkson, Sonja McKinlay, and David C. Bellinger), Environmental health perspectives (2002)

The association between blood lead level and dental caries was evaluated in cross-sectional analyses of...

 
Assessment of digit preference in self-reported year at menopause: choice of an appropriate reference distribution (with Catherine B. Johannes and Rebecca K Stellato), American journal of epidemiology (2002)

Estimated associations between self-reported age at menopause and health may be attenuated if self-report is...

 
The relationship of circulating dehydroepiandrosterone, testosterone, and estradiol to stages of the menopausal transition and ethnicity (with William L. Lasley, Nanette Santoro, John F Randolf, Ellen B. Gold, Gerson Weiss, Daniel S McConnell, and Mary Fran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2002)

In this report, 3029 women between the ages of 42 and 54 yr from five...

 
Longitudinal study of hormone levels and depression among women transitioning through menopause (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, and C Longcope), Climacteric : the journal of the International Menopause Society (2001)

OBJECTIVE: To address the association between depression and absolute levels of estradiol, and change...

 
Body mass index in mid-life women: relative influence of menopause, hormone use, and ethnicity (with Karen A. Matthews, B Abrams, T Miles, R Neer, L H Powell, and D Wesley), International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity (2001)

OBJECTIVE: To assess the relative influence of menopausal status and hormone use on body...

 
Is there a menopausal syndrome? Menopausal status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, J Bromberger, P Ganz, V Cain, and M Kagawa-Singer), Social science and medicine (1982) (2001)

In recent years, research on menopausal symptomalogy has focused on identifying symptom groupings experienced by...

 
Factors associated with age at natural menopause in a multiethnic sample of midlife women (with Ellen B. Gold, J Bromberger, S Samuels, Gail A. Greendale, Sioban D. Harlow, and J Skurnick), American journal of epidemiology (2001)

An unprecedented number of women will experience menopause in the next decade. Although the timing...

 
Is there an association between menopause status and sexual functioning (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, Catherine B. Johannes, and C Longcope), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to address whether: (1) there is an...

 
An electronic menstrual cycle calendar: comparison of data quality with a paper version (with Catherine B. Johannes, J Woods, R B Goldstein, D Tran, S Mehrotra, Karen B. Johnson, and N Santoro), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVES: This pilot study compared a prototype electronic menstrual calendar on a handheld computer...

 
A longitudinal study of weight and the menopause transition: results from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study (with V A Casey, Nancy E. Avis, and S M McKinlay), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVE: Results of past studies of menopause and weight are inconsistent, in part because...

 
Interrelationships among disablement concepts (with A M Jette, S F Assmann, D Rooks, and B A Harris), The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences (1998)

BACKGROUND: Understanding interrelationships among disablement concepts is critical to the design of future disability...

 
Interviewer effects in a cohort study. Results from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study (with Catherine B. Johannes and J B McKinlay), American journal of epidemiology (1997)

Although interviewer error is widely recognized as an important source of variation in epidemiologic investigations,...

 
Psychosocial, behavioral, and health factors related to menopause symptomatology (with Nancy E. Avis and S M McKinlay), Women's health (Hillsdale, N.J.) (1997)

Despite wide variation in the reporting of hot flashes and night sweats among menopausal women,...

 
Test-retest reliability of self-reported disability measures in older adults (with A M Jette and S L Tennstedt), Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (1997)
 
Does collecting repeated blood samples from each subject improve the precision of estimated steroid hormone levels (with D J Brambilla, S M McKinlay, J B McKinlay, S R Weiss, Catherine B. Johannes, and C Longcope), Journal of clinical epidemiology (1996)

Measuring levels of steroid hormones in epidemiologic studies is difficult because pulsatile release can cause...

 
Informal care vs. formal services: changes in patterns of care over time (with S Tennstedt and B Harrow), Journal of aging and social policy (1995)

Longitudinal data from a representative sample of community-residing older persons were used to document changes...

 
The everyday impacts of providing informal care to dependent elders and their consequences for the care recipients (with J B McKinlay and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1995)

Longitudinal data were used to identify the relationship between different areas of negative impact and...

 
How does formal and informal community care affect nursing home use (with A M Jette and S Tennstedt), The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences (1995)

We examined the effects of informal and formal community care on the 6-year risk of...

 
Longitudinal patterns and correlates of hormone replacement therapy use in middle-aged women (with Catherine B. Johannes, J G Posner, and S M McKinlay), American journal of epidemiology (1994)

Patterns of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) use over time and predictors of initiating or discontinuing...

 
Measuring depressive symptoms in the frail elderly (with H Davidson and P H Feldman), Journal of gerontology (1994)

To determine the usefulness of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) as a...

 

PDF

Do blacks and whites differ in their use of health care for symptoms of coronary heart disease (with S. A. McGraw, K. W. Smith, J. B. McKinlay, and J. E. Pierson), American journal of public health (1994)

OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to identify the role of race in seeking...

 
Do characteristics of informal caregivers affect the length of hospital stay for frail elders (with K M Skinner and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1994)

Studies examining the length of hospital stay for the very old rarely include characteristics of...

 

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HIV risk among Latino adolescents in two New England cities (with K. W. Smith, S. A. McGraw, L. A. Costa, and J. B. McKinlay), American journal of public health (1993)

OBJECTIVES. Latino adolescents in two urban New England areas were surveyed to assess risk of...

 
Determining the pattern of community care: is coresidence more important than caregiver relationship (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of gerontology (1993)

Researchers have previously emphasized the importance of kinship tie to explaining the pattern of care...

 
Do blacks and whites differ in reporting Rose Questionnaire angina? Results of the Boston Health Care Project (with K W Smith, S A McGraw, and J B McKinlay), Ethnicity and disease (1993)

We investigated the prevalence of angina (as determined by the Rose Questionnaire) in a random...

 
Is family care on the decline? A longitudinal investigation of the substitution of formal long-term care services for informal care (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), The Milbank quarterly (1993)

The focus on rising costs of long-term care now encompasses community as well as institutional...

 

Femoral Artery

Use of a flow-mediated vasodilation technique to assess endothelial function in dogs (with Gary D Puglia, Lisa M Freeman, John E Rush, and Ryan G P King), American journal of veterinary research (2006)

OBJECTIVE: To develop and assess the reproducibility of a protocol to noninvasively test endothelial function...

 

Flavonoids

Selected diet and lifestyle factors are associated with estrogen metabolites in a multiracial/ethnic population of women (with MaryFran R Sowers, Daniel S McConnell, John F Jr Randolph, Ellen B. Gold, Margaret K Wilkin, and William L. Lasley), The Journal of nutrition (2006)

Diet and lifestyle factors, body size, and smoking behavior may influence estrogen metabolism, but the...

 

Follicle Stimulating Hormone

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The value of follicle-stimulating hormone concentration and clinical findings as markers of the late menopausal transition (with John F. Randolph Jr., Lorraine Dennerstein, Kevin Cain, Sioban D. Harlow, Roderick Little, Ellen S. Mitchell, Bin Nan, John Taffe, and Matheos Yosef), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: The Stages of Reproductive Aging Workshop proposed bleeding and hormonal criteria for the menopausal...

 

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Relation of cardiovascular risk factors in women approaching menopause to menstrual cycle characteristics and reproductive hormones in the follicular and luteal phases (with Karen A. Matthews, Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Yuefang Chang, Richard C. Pasternak, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, and Maryfran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: Menstrual cycle characteristics may be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

OBJECTIVE: The objective...

 
Can follicle-stimulating hormone be used to define menopausal status (with R K Stellato, S M McKinlay, and C Longcope), Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (2004)

OBJECTIVE: To assess the ability of the level of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) to distinguish...

 
Body size and ethnicity are associated with menstrual cycle alterations in women in the early menopausal transition: The Study of Women's Health across the Nation (SWAN) Daily Hormone Study (with Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Dan McConnell, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Joel S. Finkelstein, Gail A. Greendale, Jenny Kelsey, Stan Korenman, Judith L. Luborsky, Karen A. Matthews, Rees Midgley, Lynda Powell, Janice Sabatine, Miriam Schocken, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2004)

The dynamics of reproductive hormones that characterize the menopausal transition (perimenopause) are incompletely understood, particularly...

 
Association of lipoprotein(a), insulin resistance, and reproductive hormones in a multiethnic cohort of pre- and perimenopausal women (The SWAN Study) (with MaryFran Sowers, Jane A Cauley, and Evan Stein), The American journal of cardiology (2003)

Because evidence suggests lipoprotein (Lp(a)) may be an important cardiovascular risk factor in women, we...

 

Follicular Phase

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Relation of cardiovascular risk factors in women approaching menopause to menstrual cycle characteristics and reproductive hormones in the follicular and luteal phases (with Karen A. Matthews, Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Yuefang Chang, Richard C. Pasternak, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, and Maryfran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: Menstrual cycle characteristics may be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

OBJECTIVE: The objective...

 

Follow-Up Studies

Conjugated equine estrogens and coronary heart disease: the Women's Health Initiative (with Judith Hsia, Robert D Langer, Joann E Manson, Lewis Kuller, Karen C. Johnson, Susan L Hendrix, Mary Pettinger, Susan R Heckbert, Nancy Greep, Charles B Eaton, John B Kostis, Pat Caralis, and Ross Prentice), Archives of internal medicine (2006)

BACKGROUND: In recent randomized trials, conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) with continuous medroxyprogesterone acetate provided no...

 
Psychosocial, behavioral, and health factors related to menopause symptomatology (with Nancy E. Avis and S M McKinlay), Women's health (Hillsdale, N.J.) (1997)

Despite wide variation in the reporting of hot flashes and night sweats among menopausal women,...

 
Understanding the variability in the effectiveness of community heart health programs: a meta-analysis (with D E Sellers, Karen Bullock, and J B McKinlay), Social science and medicine (1982) (1997)

Over the past 25 years, community interventions to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been conducted...

 
Determining the pattern of community care: is coresidence more important than caregiver relationship (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of gerontology (1993)

Researchers have previously emphasized the importance of kinship tie to explaining the pattern of care...

 
Health survey methods with minority populations: some lessons from recent experience (with S A McGraw, J B McKinlay, L A Costa, and D L Cohen), Ethnicity and disease (1992)

Until recently, minority populations have been inadequately or inaccurately represented in health research. Researchers are...

 

Forecasting

Do characteristics of informal caregivers affect the length of hospital stay for frail elders (with K M Skinner and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1994)

Studies examining the length of hospital stay for the very old rarely include characteristics of...

 
Determining the pattern of community care: is coresidence more important than caregiver relationship (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of gerontology (1993)

Researchers have previously emphasized the importance of kinship tie to explaining the pattern of care...

 
Is family care on the decline? A longitudinal investigation of the substitution of formal long-term care services for informal care (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), The Milbank quarterly (1993)

The focus on rising costs of long-term care now encompasses community as well as institutional...

 

Frail Elderly

A comparison of anlaytic methods for non-random missingness of outcome data (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of clinical epidemiology (1995)

Missing outcome values occur frequently in survey data and are rarely missing randomly. Depending on...

 
Measuring depressive symptoms in the frail elderly (with H Davidson and P H Feldman), Journal of gerontology (1994)

To determine the usefulness of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) as a...

 
Do characteristics of informal caregivers affect the length of hospital stay for frail elders (with K M Skinner and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1994)

Studies examining the length of hospital stay for the very old rarely include characteristics of...

 

Gonadal Steroid Hormones

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Relation of cardiovascular risk factors in women approaching menopause to menstrual cycle characteristics and reproductive hormones in the follicular and luteal phases (with Karen A. Matthews, Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Yuefang Chang, Richard C. Pasternak, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, and Maryfran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: Menstrual cycle characteristics may be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

OBJECTIVE: The objective...

 
Does collecting repeated blood samples from each subject improve the precision of estimated steroid hormone levels (with D J Brambilla, S M McKinlay, J B McKinlay, S R Weiss, Catherine B. Johannes, and C Longcope), Journal of clinical epidemiology (1996)

Measuring levels of steroid hormones in epidemiologic studies is difficult because pulsatile release can cause...

 

Gonadotropins, Pituitary

Does collecting repeated blood samples from each subject improve the precision of estimated steroid hormone levels (with D J Brambilla, S M McKinlay, J B McKinlay, S R Weiss, Catherine B. Johannes, and C Longcope), Journal of clinical epidemiology (1996)

Measuring levels of steroid hormones in epidemiologic studies is difficult because pulsatile release can cause...

 

Health

Measuring depressive symptoms in the frail elderly (with H Davidson and P H Feldman), Journal of gerontology (1994)

To determine the usefulness of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) as a...

 

Health Policy

Is family care on the decline? A longitudinal investigation of the substitution of formal long-term care services for informal care (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), The Milbank quarterly (1993)

The focus on rising costs of long-term care now encompasses community as well as institutional...

 

Health Promotion

Understanding the variability in the effectiveness of community heart health programs: a meta-analysis (with D E Sellers, Karen Bullock, and J B McKinlay), Social science and medicine (1982) (1997)

Over the past 25 years, community interventions to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been conducted...

 

Health Services Accessibility

How does formal and informal community care affect nursing home use (with A M Jette and S Tennstedt), The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences (1995)

We examined the effects of informal and formal community care on the 6-year risk of...

 

Health Services for the Aged

Informal care vs. formal services: changes in patterns of care over time (with S Tennstedt and B Harrow), Journal of aging and social policy (1995)

Longitudinal data from a representative sample of community-residing older persons were used to document changes...

 
Determining the pattern of community care: is coresidence more important than caregiver relationship (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of gerontology (1993)

Researchers have previously emphasized the importance of kinship tie to explaining the pattern of care...

 

Health Services Needs and Demand

Is family care on the decline? A longitudinal investigation of the substitution of formal long-term care services for informal care (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), The Milbank quarterly (1993)

The focus on rising costs of long-term care now encompasses community as well as institutional...

 

Health Services Research

Utilization of services by chronically ill people in managed care and indemnity plans: implications for quality (with Stephen M Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, J Michael Oakes, David Blumenthal, and Daniel P Valentine), Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing (2003)

Because incentives for managed care organizations favor cost containment, concerns have been raised that quality...

 
Employment and caregiving: exploration of African American caregivers (with Karen Bullock and Sharon L Tennstedt), Social work (2003)

To more completely understand the challenges African American families face when combining employment commitments and...

 
Is family care on the decline? A longitudinal investigation of the substitution of formal long-term care services for informal care (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), The Milbank quarterly (1993)

The focus on rising costs of long-term care now encompasses community as well as institutional...

 

Health Status

Correlates of circulating androgens in mid-life women: the study of women's health across the nation (with Nanette Santoro, Javier Torrens, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Joel S. Finkelstein, Ellen B. Gold, Stan Korenman, William L. Lasley, Judith L. Luborsky, Dan McConnell, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2005)

CONTEXT: Androgens influence sexual differentiation and behavior, body composition, and physical functioning in men, but...

 
Is there a menopausal syndrome? Menopausal status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, J Bromberger, P Ganz, V Cain, and M Kagawa-Singer), Social science and medicine (1982) (2001)

In recent years, research on menopausal symptomalogy has focused on identifying symptom groupings experienced by...

 
Factors associated with age at natural menopause in a multiethnic sample of midlife women (with Ellen B. Gold, J Bromberger, S Samuels, Gail A. Greendale, Sioban D. Harlow, and J Skurnick), American journal of epidemiology (2001)

An unprecedented number of women will experience menopause in the next decade. Although the timing...

 
Measuring depressive symptoms in the frail elderly (with H Davidson and P H Feldman), Journal of gerontology (1994)

To determine the usefulness of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) as a...

 

Health Surveys

Vasomotor symptom prevalence is associated with polymorphisms in sex steroid-metabolizing enzymes and receptors (with Carolyn J. Crandall and Ellen B. Gold), The American journal of medicine (2006)

The relation of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of genes involved in estrogen function to vasomotor...

 
Quality of life among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2005)

PURPOSE: To describe quality of life (QOL) of younger women 4 to 42 months after...

 
Psychosocial problems among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Psycho-oncology (2004)

Women diagnosed with breast cancer at a younger age often have concerns less frequently faced...

 

Heart Failure, Congestive

Utilization of services by chronically ill people in managed care and indemnity plans: implications for quality (with Stephen M Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, J Michael Oakes, David Blumenthal, and Daniel P Valentine), Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing (2003)

Because incentives for managed care organizations favor cost containment, concerns have been raised that quality...

 

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Chronic disease medication use in managed care and indemnity insurance plans (with Randall S. Stafford, Stephen M. Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and David Blumenthal), Health services research (2003)

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of managed care on the use of chronic disease...

 

Hemoglobin A, Glycosylated

PDA-assisted low glycemic index dietary intervention for type II diabetes: a pilot study (with Yunsheng Ma, Barbara C. Olendzki, David E. Chiriboga, Milagros C. Rosal, E. Sinagra, Andrea R. Hafner, Sherry L. Pagoto, Robert P. Magner, and Ira S. Ockene), European journal of clinical nutrition (2006)

BACKGROUND: Epidemiological and dietary intervention studies suggest that a low-glycemic index (GI) diet is beneficial...

 

Hispanic Americans

Association of lipoprotein(a), insulin resistance, and reproductive hormones in a multiethnic cohort of pre- and perimenopausal women (The SWAN Study) (with MaryFran Sowers, Jane A Cauley, and Evan Stein), The American journal of cardiology (2003)

Because evidence suggests lipoprotein (Lp(a)) may be an important cardiovascular risk factor in women, we...

 
Is there a menopausal syndrome? Menopausal status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, J Bromberger, P Ganz, V Cain, and M Kagawa-Singer), Social science and medicine (1982) (2001)

In recent years, research on menopausal symptomalogy has focused on identifying symptom groupings experienced by...

 

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HIV risk among Latino adolescents in two New England cities (with K. W. Smith, S. A. McGraw, L. A. Costa, and J. B. McKinlay), American journal of public health (1993)

OBJECTIVES. Latino adolescents in two urban New England areas were surveyed to assess risk of...

 
Health survey methods with minority populations: some lessons from recent experience (with S A McGraw, J B McKinlay, L A Costa, and D L Cohen), Ethnicity and disease (1992)

Until recently, minority populations have been inadequately or inaccurately represented in health research. Researchers are...

 

HIV Infections

Negative life events: risk to health-related quality of life in children and youth with HIV infection (with Lois C. Howland, Deborah S. Storm, Yunsheng Ma, Steven L. Gortmaker, and James M. Oleske), The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC (2007)

Children and youth with perinatally acquired HIV infection are living longer because of improved drug...

 

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HIV risk among Latino adolescents in two New England cities (with K. W. Smith, S. A. McGraw, L. A. Costa, and J. B. McKinlay), American journal of public health (1993)

OBJECTIVES. Latino adolescents in two urban New England areas were surveyed to assess risk of...

 

Home Care Services

Employment and caregiving: exploration of African American caregivers (with Karen Bullock and Sharon L Tennstedt), Social work (2003)

To more completely understand the challenges African American families face when combining employment commitments and...

 
How does formal and informal community care affect nursing home use (with A M Jette and S Tennstedt), The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences (1995)

We examined the effects of informal and formal community care on the 6-year risk of...

 
Is family care on the decline? A longitudinal investigation of the substitution of formal long-term care services for informal care (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), The Milbank quarterly (1993)

The focus on rising costs of long-term care now encompasses community as well as institutional...

 

Home Nursing

Employment and caregiving: exploration of African American caregivers (with Karen Bullock and Sharon L Tennstedt), Social work (2003)

To more completely understand the challenges African American families face when combining employment commitments and...

 
How does formal and informal community care affect nursing home use (with A M Jette and S Tennstedt), The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences (1995)

We examined the effects of informal and formal community care on the 6-year risk of...

 
Do characteristics of informal caregivers affect the length of hospital stay for frail elders (with K M Skinner and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1994)

Studies examining the length of hospital stay for the very old rarely include characteristics of...

 
Is family care on the decline? A longitudinal investigation of the substitution of formal long-term care services for informal care (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), The Milbank quarterly (1993)

The focus on rising costs of long-term care now encompasses community as well as institutional...

 

Homes for the Aged

Informal care vs. formal services: changes in patterns of care over time (with S Tennstedt and B Harrow), Journal of aging and social policy (1995)

Longitudinal data from a representative sample of community-residing older persons were used to document changes...

 

Hormones

Assessing menstrual cycles with urinary hormone assays (with N Santoro, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Gail A. Greendale, Stan Korenman, William L. Lasley, D McConnell, P McGaffigan, R Midgely, M Schocken, M Sowers, and G Weiss), American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism (2002)

The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) is a multiethnic cohort study of...

 

Hospital Restructuring

The effects of health care reforms on job satisfaction and voluntary turnover among hospital-based nurses (with Harriet Davidson, P H Folcarelli, L J Duprat, and J C Clifford), Medical care (1997)

OBJECTIVES: Among the consequences of downsizing and cost containment in hospitals are major changes in...

 

Hospitalization

Utilization of services by chronically ill people in managed care and indemnity plans: implications for quality (with Stephen M Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, J Michael Oakes, David Blumenthal, and Daniel P Valentine), Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing (2003)

Because incentives for managed care organizations favor cost containment, concerns have been raised that quality...

 

Hospitals

Help-seeking behaviors of blacks and whites dying from coronary heart disease (with Susan M Frayne, Sarah A McGraw, Kevin W Smith, and John B McKinlay), Ethnicity and health (2003)

OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine whether blacks and whites with life-threatening cardiac events...

 

Hot Flashes

Vasomotor symptom prevalence is associated with polymorphisms in sex steroid-metabolizing enzymes and receptors (with Carolyn J. Crandall and Ellen B. Gold), The American journal of medicine (2006)

The relation of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of genes involved in estrogen function to vasomotor...

 

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The value of follicle-stimulating hormone concentration and clinical findings as markers of the late menopausal transition (with John F. Randolph Jr., Lorraine Dennerstein, Kevin Cain, Sioban D. Harlow, Roderick Little, Ellen S. Mitchell, Bin Nan, John Taffe, and Matheos Yosef), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: The Stages of Reproductive Aging Workshop proposed bleeding and hormonal criteria for the menopausal...

 
Psychosocial, behavioral, and health factors related to menopause symptomatology (with Nancy E. Avis and S M McKinlay), Women's health (Hillsdale, N.J.) (1997)

Despite wide variation in the reporting of hot flashes and night sweats among menopausal women,...

 

Humans

Negative life events: risk to health-related quality of life in children and youth with HIV infection (with Lois C. Howland, Deborah S. Storm, Yunsheng Ma, Steven L. Gortmaker, and James M. Oleske), The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC (2007)

Children and youth with perinatally acquired HIV infection are living longer because of improved drug...

 
Vasomotor symptom prevalence is associated with polymorphisms in sex steroid-metabolizing enzymes and receptors (with Carolyn J. Crandall and Ellen B. Gold), The American journal of medicine (2006)

The relation of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of genes involved in estrogen function to vasomotor...

 
Evaluation of four proposed bleeding criteria for the onset of late menopausal transition (with Sioban D. Harlow, Kevin Cain, Lorraine Dennerstein, Roderick Little, Ellen S. Mitchell, Bin Nan, John F. Randolph Jr., John Taffe, and Matheos Yosef), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: The current criterion for onset of late menopausal transition is amenorrhea of 90 d...

 

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The value of follicle-stimulating hormone concentration and clinical findings as markers of the late menopausal transition (with John F. Randolph Jr., Lorraine Dennerstein, Kevin Cain, Sioban D. Harlow, Roderick Little, Ellen S. Mitchell, Bin Nan, John Taffe, and Matheos Yosef), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: The Stages of Reproductive Aging Workshop proposed bleeding and hormonal criteria for the menopausal...

 
PDA-assisted low glycemic index dietary intervention for type II diabetes: a pilot study (with Yunsheng Ma, Barbara C. Olendzki, David E. Chiriboga, Milagros C. Rosal, E. Sinagra, Andrea R. Hafner, Sherry L. Pagoto, Robert P. Magner, and Ira S. Ockene), European journal of clinical nutrition (2006)

BACKGROUND: Epidemiological and dietary intervention studies suggest that a low-glycemic index (GI) diet is beneficial...

 
Selected diet and lifestyle factors are associated with estrogen metabolites in a multiracial/ethnic population of women (with MaryFran R Sowers, Daniel S McConnell, John F Jr Randolph, Ellen B. Gold, Margaret K Wilkin, and William L. Lasley), The Journal of nutrition (2006)

Diet and lifestyle factors, body size, and smoking behavior may influence estrogen metabolism, but the...

 

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Relation of cardiovascular risk factors in women approaching menopause to menstrual cycle characteristics and reproductive hormones in the follicular and luteal phases (with Karen A. Matthews, Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Yuefang Chang, Richard C. Pasternak, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, and Maryfran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: Menstrual cycle characteristics may be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

OBJECTIVE: The objective...

 
Conjugated equine estrogens and coronary heart disease: the Women's Health Initiative (with Judith Hsia, Robert D Langer, Joann E Manson, Lewis Kuller, Karen C. Johnson, Susan L Hendrix, Mary Pettinger, Susan R Heckbert, Nancy Greep, Charles B Eaton, John B Kostis, Pat Caralis, and Ross Prentice), Archives of internal medicine (2006)

BACKGROUND: In recent randomized trials, conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) with continuous medroxyprogesterone acetate provided no...

 
Ethnic differences in cardiovascular risk factor burden among middle-aged women: Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) (with Karen A. Matthews, Mary Fran Sowers, Carol A. Derby, Evan Stein, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and Richard C. Pasternak), American heart journal (2005)

BACKGROUND: We evaluated ethnic differences in the 10-year risk of myocardial infarction or coronary death...

 
Quality of life among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2005)

PURPOSE: To describe quality of life (QOL) of younger women 4 to 42 months after...

 
Correlates of circulating androgens in mid-life women: the study of women's health across the nation (with Nanette Santoro, Javier Torrens, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Joel S. Finkelstein, Ellen B. Gold, Stan Korenman, William L. Lasley, Judith L. Luborsky, Dan McConnell, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2005)

CONTEXT: Androgens influence sexual differentiation and behavior, body composition, and physical functioning in men, but...

 
Lifestyle and demographic factors in relation to vasomotor symptoms: baseline results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (with Ellen B. Gold, Gladys Block, Laurie Lachance, Gordon FitzGerald, Heidi Miracle, and Sheryl Sherman), American journal of epidemiology (2004)

Results of recent trials highlight the risks of hormone therapy, increasing the importance of identifying...

 
Body size and ethnicity are associated with menstrual cycle alterations in women in the early menopausal transition: The Study of Women's Health across the Nation (SWAN) Daily Hormone Study (with Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Dan McConnell, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Joel S. Finkelstein, Gail A. Greendale, Jenny Kelsey, Stan Korenman, Judith L. Luborsky, Karen A. Matthews, Rees Midgley, Lynda Powell, Janice Sabatine, Miriam Schocken, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2004)

The dynamics of reproductive hormones that characterize the menopausal transition (perimenopause) are incompletely understood, particularly...

 
Psychosocial problems among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Psycho-oncology (2004)

Women diagnosed with breast cancer at a younger age often have concerns less frequently faced...

 
Association of lipoprotein(a), insulin resistance, and reproductive hormones in a multiethnic cohort of pre- and perimenopausal women (The SWAN Study) (with MaryFran Sowers, Jane A Cauley, and Evan Stein), The American journal of cardiology (2003)

Because evidence suggests lipoprotein (Lp(a)) may be an important cardiovascular risk factor in women, we...

 
Utilization of services by chronically ill people in managed care and indemnity plans: implications for quality (with Stephen M Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, J Michael Oakes, David Blumenthal, and Daniel P Valentine), Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing (2003)

Because incentives for managed care organizations favor cost containment, concerns have been raised that quality...

 

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Chronic disease medication use in managed care and indemnity insurance plans (with Randall S. Stafford, Stephen M. Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and David Blumenthal), Health services research (2003)

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of managed care on the use of chronic disease...

 
Employment and caregiving: exploration of African American caregivers (with Karen Bullock and Sharon L Tennstedt), Social work (2003)

To more completely understand the challenges African American families face when combining employment commitments and...

 
Help-seeking behaviors of blacks and whites dying from coronary heart disease (with Susan M Frayne, Sarah A McGraw, Kevin W Smith, and John B McKinlay), Ethnicity and health (2003)

OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine whether blacks and whites with life-threatening cardiac events...

 
Assessing menstrual cycles with urinary hormone assays (with N Santoro, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Gail A. Greendale, Stan Korenman, William L. Lasley, D McConnell, P McGaffigan, R Midgely, M Schocken, M Sowers, and G Weiss), American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism (2002)

The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) is a multiethnic cohort study of...

 

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Blood lead level and dental caries in school-age children (with Allison Gemmel, Mary Tavares, Susan Alperin, Jennifer Soncini, David Daniel, Julie Dunn, Norman Braveman, Thomas W. Clarkson, Sonja McKinlay, and David C. Bellinger), Environmental health perspectives (2002)

The association between blood lead level and dental caries was evaluated in cross-sectional analyses of...

 
Assessment of digit preference in self-reported year at menopause: choice of an appropriate reference distribution (with Catherine B. Johannes and Rebecca K Stellato), American journal of epidemiology (2002)

Estimated associations between self-reported age at menopause and health may be attenuated if self-report is...

 
The relationship of circulating dehydroepiandrosterone, testosterone, and estradiol to stages of the menopausal transition and ethnicity (with William L. Lasley, Nanette Santoro, John F Randolf, Ellen B. Gold, Gerson Weiss, Daniel S McConnell, and Mary Fran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2002)

In this report, 3029 women between the ages of 42 and 54 yr from five...

 
Longitudinal study of hormone levels and depression among women transitioning through menopause (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, and C Longcope), Climacteric : the journal of the International Menopause Society (2001)

OBJECTIVE: To address the association between depression and absolute levels of estradiol, and change...

 
Body mass index in mid-life women: relative influence of menopause, hormone use, and ethnicity (with Karen A. Matthews, B Abrams, T Miles, R Neer, L H Powell, and D Wesley), International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity (2001)

OBJECTIVE: To assess the relative influence of menopausal status and hormone use on body...

 
Is there a menopausal syndrome? Menopausal status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, J Bromberger, P Ganz, V Cain, and M Kagawa-Singer), Social science and medicine (1982) (2001)

In recent years, research on menopausal symptomalogy has focused on identifying symptom groupings experienced by...

 
Factors associated with age at natural menopause in a multiethnic sample of midlife women (with Ellen B. Gold, J Bromberger, S Samuels, Gail A. Greendale, Sioban D. Harlow, and J Skurnick), American journal of epidemiology (2001)

An unprecedented number of women will experience menopause in the next decade. Although the timing...

 
Is there an association between menopause status and sexual functioning (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, Catherine B. Johannes, and C Longcope), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to address whether: (1) there is an...

 
An electronic menstrual cycle calendar: comparison of data quality with a paper version (with Catherine B. Johannes, J Woods, R B Goldstein, D Tran, S Mehrotra, Karen B. Johnson, and N Santoro), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVES: This pilot study compared a prototype electronic menstrual calendar on a handheld computer...

 
A longitudinal study of weight and the menopause transition: results from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study (with V A Casey, Nancy E. Avis, and S M McKinlay), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVE: Results of past studies of menopause and weight are inconsistent, in part because...

 
Interrelationships among disablement concepts (with A M Jette, S F Assmann, D Rooks, and B A Harris), The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences (1998)

BACKGROUND: Understanding interrelationships among disablement concepts is critical to the design of future disability...

 
Interviewer effects in a cohort study. Results from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study (with Catherine B. Johannes and J B McKinlay), American journal of epidemiology (1997)

Although interviewer error is widely recognized as an important source of variation in epidemiologic investigations,...

 
Psychosocial, behavioral, and health factors related to menopause symptomatology (with Nancy E. Avis and S M McKinlay), Women's health (Hillsdale, N.J.) (1997)

Despite wide variation in the reporting of hot flashes and night sweats among menopausal women,...

 
The effects of health care reforms on job satisfaction and voluntary turnover among hospital-based nurses (with Harriet Davidson, P H Folcarelli, L J Duprat, and J C Clifford), Medical care (1997)

OBJECTIVES: Among the consequences of downsizing and cost containment in hospitals are major changes in...

 
Understanding the variability in the effectiveness of community heart health programs: a meta-analysis (with D E Sellers, Karen Bullock, and J B McKinlay), Social science and medicine (1982) (1997)

Over the past 25 years, community interventions to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been conducted...

 
Test-retest reliability of self-reported disability measures in older adults (with A M Jette and S L Tennstedt), Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (1997)
 
Does collecting repeated blood samples from each subject improve the precision of estimated steroid hormone levels (with D J Brambilla, S M McKinlay, J B McKinlay, S R Weiss, Catherine B. Johannes, and C Longcope), Journal of clinical epidemiology (1996)

Measuring levels of steroid hormones in epidemiologic studies is difficult because pulsatile release can cause...

 
Informal care vs. formal services: changes in patterns of care over time (with S Tennstedt and B Harrow), Journal of aging and social policy (1995)

Longitudinal data from a representative sample of community-residing older persons were used to document changes...

 
The everyday impacts of providing informal care to dependent elders and their consequences for the care recipients (with J B McKinlay and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1995)

Longitudinal data were used to identify the relationship between different areas of negative impact and...

 
A comparison of anlaytic methods for non-random missingness of outcome data (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of clinical epidemiology (1995)

Missing outcome values occur frequently in survey data and are rarely missing randomly. Depending on...

 
How does formal and informal community care affect nursing home use (with A M Jette and S Tennstedt), The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences (1995)

We examined the effects of informal and formal community care on the 6-year risk of...

 
Longitudinal patterns and correlates of hormone replacement therapy use in middle-aged women (with Catherine B. Johannes, J G Posner, and S M McKinlay), American journal of epidemiology (1994)

Patterns of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) use over time and predictors of initiating or discontinuing...

 
Measuring depressive symptoms in the frail elderly (with H Davidson and P H Feldman), Journal of gerontology (1994)

To determine the usefulness of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) as a...

 

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Do blacks and whites differ in their use of health care for symptoms of coronary heart disease (with S. A. McGraw, K. W. Smith, J. B. McKinlay, and J. E. Pierson), American journal of public health (1994)

OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to identify the role of race in seeking...

 
Do characteristics of informal caregivers affect the length of hospital stay for frail elders (with K M Skinner and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1994)

Studies examining the length of hospital stay for the very old rarely include characteristics of...

 

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HIV risk among Latino adolescents in two New England cities (with K. W. Smith, S. A. McGraw, L. A. Costa, and J. B. McKinlay), American journal of public health (1993)

OBJECTIVES. Latino adolescents in two urban New England areas were surveyed to assess risk of...

 
Determining the pattern of community care: is coresidence more important than caregiver relationship (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of gerontology (1993)

Researchers have previously emphasized the importance of kinship tie to explaining the pattern of care...

 
Do blacks and whites differ in reporting Rose Questionnaire angina? Results of the Boston Health Care Project (with K W Smith, S A McGraw, and J B McKinlay), Ethnicity and disease (1993)

We investigated the prevalence of angina (as determined by the Rose Questionnaire) in a random...

 
Is family care on the decline? A longitudinal investigation of the substitution of formal long-term care services for informal care (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), The Milbank quarterly (1993)

The focus on rising costs of long-term care now encompasses community as well as institutional...

 
Health survey methods with minority populations: some lessons from recent experience (with S A McGraw, J B McKinlay, L A Costa, and D L Cohen), Ethnicity and disease (1992)

Until recently, minority populations have been inadequately or inaccurately represented in health research. Researchers are...

 

Hydroxyestrones

Selected diet and lifestyle factors are associated with estrogen metabolites in a multiracial/ethnic population of women (with MaryFran R Sowers, Daniel S McConnell, John F Jr Randolph, Ellen B. Gold, Margaret K Wilkin, and William L. Lasley), The Journal of nutrition (2006)

Diet and lifestyle factors, body size, and smoking behavior may influence estrogen metabolism, but the...

 

Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors

Conjugated equine estrogens and coronary heart disease: the Women's Health Initiative (with Judith Hsia, Robert D Langer, Joann E Manson, Lewis Kuller, Karen C. Johnson, Susan L Hendrix, Mary Pettinger, Susan R Heckbert, Nancy Greep, Charles B Eaton, John B Kostis, Pat Caralis, and Ross Prentice), Archives of internal medicine (2006)

BACKGROUND: In recent randomized trials, conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) with continuous medroxyprogesterone acetate provided no...

 

Independent Practice Associations

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Chronic disease medication use in managed care and indemnity insurance plans (with Randall S. Stafford, Stephen M. Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and David Blumenthal), Health services research (2003)

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of managed care on the use of chronic disease...

 

Inflammation

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Relation of cardiovascular risk factors in women approaching menopause to menstrual cycle characteristics and reproductive hormones in the follicular and luteal phases (with Karen A. Matthews, Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Yuefang Chang, Richard C. Pasternak, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, and Maryfran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: Menstrual cycle characteristics may be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

OBJECTIVE: The objective...

 

Institutionalization

The everyday impacts of providing informal care to dependent elders and their consequences for the care recipients (with J B McKinlay and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1995)

Longitudinal data were used to identify the relationship between different areas of negative impact and...

 
Is family care on the decline? A longitudinal investigation of the substitution of formal long-term care services for informal care (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), The Milbank quarterly (1993)

The focus on rising costs of long-term care now encompasses community as well as institutional...

 

Insulin

Conjugated equine estrogens and coronary heart disease: the Women's Health Initiative (with Judith Hsia, Robert D Langer, Joann E Manson, Lewis Kuller, Karen C. Johnson, Susan L Hendrix, Mary Pettinger, Susan R Heckbert, Nancy Greep, Charles B Eaton, John B Kostis, Pat Caralis, and Ross Prentice), Archives of internal medicine (2006)

BACKGROUND: In recent randomized trials, conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) with continuous medroxyprogesterone acetate provided no...

 

Insurance Claim Review

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Chronic disease medication use in managed care and indemnity insurance plans (with Randall S. Stafford, Stephen M. Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and David Blumenthal), Health services research (2003)

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of managed care on the use of chronic disease...

 

Insurance, Health

Utilization of services by chronically ill people in managed care and indemnity plans: implications for quality (with Stephen M Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, J Michael Oakes, David Blumenthal, and Daniel P Valentine), Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing (2003)

Because incentives for managed care organizations favor cost containment, concerns have been raised that quality...

 

Interpersonal Relations

Quality of life among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2005)

PURPOSE: To describe quality of life (QOL) of younger women 4 to 42 months after...

 
Psychosocial problems among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Psycho-oncology (2004)

Women diagnosed with breast cancer at a younger age often have concerns less frequently faced...

 
The everyday impacts of providing informal care to dependent elders and their consequences for the care recipients (with J B McKinlay and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1995)

Longitudinal data were used to identify the relationship between different areas of negative impact and...

 

Interviews

Do characteristics of informal caregivers affect the length of hospital stay for frail elders (with K M Skinner and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1994)

Studies examining the length of hospital stay for the very old rarely include characteristics of...

 
Health survey methods with minority populations: some lessons from recent experience (with S A McGraw, J B McKinlay, L A Costa, and D L Cohen), Ethnicity and disease (1992)

Until recently, minority populations have been inadequately or inaccurately represented in health research. Researchers are...

 

Japan

Association of lipoprotein(a), insulin resistance, and reproductive hormones in a multiethnic cohort of pre- and perimenopausal women (The SWAN Study) (with MaryFran Sowers, Jane A Cauley, and Evan Stein), The American journal of cardiology (2003)

Because evidence suggests lipoprotein (Lp(a)) may be an important cardiovascular risk factor in women, we...

 

Lead

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Blood lead level and dental caries in school-age children (with Allison Gemmel, Mary Tavares, Susan Alperin, Jennifer Soncini, David Daniel, Julie Dunn, Norman Braveman, Thomas W. Clarkson, Sonja McKinlay, and David C. Bellinger), Environmental health perspectives (2002)

The association between blood lead level and dental caries was evaluated in cross-sectional analyses of...

 

Least-Squares Analysis

Correlation and regression, Circulation (2006)

In many health-related studies, investigators wish to assess the strength of an association between 2...

 
Understanding the variability in the effectiveness of community heart health programs: a meta-analysis (with D E Sellers, Karen Bullock, and J B McKinlay), Social science and medicine (1982) (1997)

Over the past 25 years, community interventions to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been conducted...

 

Length of Stay

Do characteristics of informal caregivers affect the length of hospital stay for frail elders (with K M Skinner and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1994)

Studies examining the length of hospital stay for the very old rarely include characteristics of...

 

Libido

Correlates of circulating androgens in mid-life women: the study of women's health across the nation (with Nanette Santoro, Javier Torrens, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Joel S. Finkelstein, Ellen B. Gold, Stan Korenman, William L. Lasley, Judith L. Luborsky, Dan McConnell, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2005)

CONTEXT: Androgens influence sexual differentiation and behavior, body composition, and physical functioning in men, but...

 

Life Style

Factors associated with age at natural menopause in a multiethnic sample of midlife women (with Ellen B. Gold, J Bromberger, S Samuels, Gail A. Greendale, Sioban D. Harlow, and J Skurnick), American journal of epidemiology (2001)

An unprecedented number of women will experience menopause in the next decade. Although the timing...

 
Measuring depressive symptoms in the frail elderly (with H Davidson and P H Feldman), Journal of gerontology (1994)

To determine the usefulness of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) as a...

 

Likelihood Functions

Help-seeking behaviors of blacks and whites dying from coronary heart disease (with Susan M Frayne, Sarah A McGraw, Kevin W Smith, and John B McKinlay), Ethnicity and health (2003)

OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine whether blacks and whites with life-threatening cardiac events...

 

Linear Models

Correlation and regression, Circulation (2006)

In many health-related studies, investigators wish to assess the strength of an association between 2...

 
A longitudinal study of weight and the menopause transition: results from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study (with V A Casey, Nancy E. Avis, and S M McKinlay), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVE: Results of past studies of menopause and weight are inconsistent, in part because...

 
A comparison of anlaytic methods for non-random missingness of outcome data (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of clinical epidemiology (1995)

Missing outcome values occur frequently in survey data and are rarely missing randomly. Depending on...

 
Do characteristics of informal caregivers affect the length of hospital stay for frail elders (with K M Skinner and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1994)

Studies examining the length of hospital stay for the very old rarely include characteristics of...

 

Lipids

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Relation of cardiovascular risk factors in women approaching menopause to menstrual cycle characteristics and reproductive hormones in the follicular and luteal phases (with Karen A. Matthews, Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Yuefang Chang, Richard C. Pasternak, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, and Maryfran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: Menstrual cycle characteristics may be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

OBJECTIVE: The objective...

 

Lipoprotein(a)

Association of lipoprotein(a), insulin resistance, and reproductive hormones in a multiethnic cohort of pre- and perimenopausal women (The SWAN Study) (with MaryFran Sowers, Jane A Cauley, and Evan Stein), The American journal of cardiology (2003)

Because evidence suggests lipoprotein (Lp(a)) may be an important cardiovascular risk factor in women, we...

 

Logistic Models

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Chronic disease medication use in managed care and indemnity insurance plans (with Randall S. Stafford, Stephen M. Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and David Blumenthal), Health services research (2003)

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of managed care on the use of chronic disease...

 
Employment and caregiving: exploration of African American caregivers (with Karen Bullock and Sharon L Tennstedt), Social work (2003)

To more completely understand the challenges African American families face when combining employment commitments and...

 
Assessment of digit preference in self-reported year at menopause: choice of an appropriate reference distribution (with Catherine B. Johannes and Rebecca K Stellato), American journal of epidemiology (2002)

Estimated associations between self-reported age at menopause and health may be attenuated if self-report is...

 
Is there a menopausal syndrome? Menopausal status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, J Bromberger, P Ganz, V Cain, and M Kagawa-Singer), Social science and medicine (1982) (2001)

In recent years, research on menopausal symptomalogy has focused on identifying symptom groupings experienced by...

 
Interviewer effects in a cohort study. Results from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study (with Catherine B. Johannes and J B McKinlay), American journal of epidemiology (1997)

Although interviewer error is widely recognized as an important source of variation in epidemiologic investigations,...

 
Psychosocial, behavioral, and health factors related to menopause symptomatology (with Nancy E. Avis and S M McKinlay), Women's health (Hillsdale, N.J.) (1997)

Despite wide variation in the reporting of hot flashes and night sweats among menopausal women,...

 
How does formal and informal community care affect nursing home use (with A M Jette and S Tennstedt), The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences (1995)

We examined the effects of informal and formal community care on the 6-year risk of...

 
Longitudinal patterns and correlates of hormone replacement therapy use in middle-aged women (with Catherine B. Johannes, J G Posner, and S M McKinlay), American journal of epidemiology (1994)

Patterns of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) use over time and predictors of initiating or discontinuing...

 

Long-Term Care

Informal care vs. formal services: changes in patterns of care over time (with S Tennstedt and B Harrow), Journal of aging and social policy (1995)

Longitudinal data from a representative sample of community-residing older persons were used to document changes...

 
A comparison of anlaytic methods for non-random missingness of outcome data (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of clinical epidemiology (1995)

Missing outcome values occur frequently in survey data and are rarely missing randomly. Depending on...

 
Is family care on the decline? A longitudinal investigation of the substitution of formal long-term care services for informal care (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), The Milbank quarterly (1993)

The focus on rising costs of long-term care now encompasses community as well as institutional...

 

Longitudinal Studies

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The value of follicle-stimulating hormone concentration and clinical findings as markers of the late menopausal transition (with John F. Randolph Jr., Lorraine Dennerstein, Kevin Cain, Sioban D. Harlow, Roderick Little, Ellen S. Mitchell, Bin Nan, John Taffe, and Matheos Yosef), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: The Stages of Reproductive Aging Workshop proposed bleeding and hormonal criteria for the menopausal...

 
Ethnic differences in cardiovascular risk factor burden among middle-aged women: Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) (with Karen A. Matthews, Mary Fran Sowers, Carol A. Derby, Evan Stein, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and Richard C. Pasternak), American heart journal (2005)

BACKGROUND: We evaluated ethnic differences in the 10-year risk of myocardial infarction or coronary death...

 
Body size and ethnicity are associated with menstrual cycle alterations in women in the early menopausal transition: The Study of Women's Health across the Nation (SWAN) Daily Hormone Study (with Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Dan McConnell, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Joel S. Finkelstein, Gail A. Greendale, Jenny Kelsey, Stan Korenman, Judith L. Luborsky, Karen A. Matthews, Rees Midgley, Lynda Powell, Janice Sabatine, Miriam Schocken, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2004)

The dynamics of reproductive hormones that characterize the menopausal transition (perimenopause) are incompletely understood, particularly...

 
Longitudinal study of hormone levels and depression among women transitioning through menopause (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, and C Longcope), Climacteric : the journal of the International Menopause Society (2001)

OBJECTIVE: To address the association between depression and absolute levels of estradiol, and change...

 
A longitudinal study of weight and the menopause transition: results from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study (with V A Casey, Nancy E. Avis, and S M McKinlay), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVE: Results of past studies of menopause and weight are inconsistent, in part because...

 
The effects of health care reforms on job satisfaction and voluntary turnover among hospital-based nurses (with Harriet Davidson, P H Folcarelli, L J Duprat, and J C Clifford), Medical care (1997)

OBJECTIVES: Among the consequences of downsizing and cost containment in hospitals are major changes in...

 
Informal care vs. formal services: changes in patterns of care over time (with S Tennstedt and B Harrow), Journal of aging and social policy (1995)

Longitudinal data from a representative sample of community-residing older persons were used to document changes...

 
The everyday impacts of providing informal care to dependent elders and their consequences for the care recipients (with J B McKinlay and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1995)

Longitudinal data were used to identify the relationship between different areas of negative impact and...

 
Longitudinal patterns and correlates of hormone replacement therapy use in middle-aged women (with Catherine B. Johannes, J G Posner, and S M McKinlay), American journal of epidemiology (1994)

Patterns of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) use over time and predictors of initiating or discontinuing...

 
Determining the pattern of community care: is coresidence more important than caregiver relationship (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of gerontology (1993)

Researchers have previously emphasized the importance of kinship tie to explaining the pattern of care...

 
Is family care on the decline? A longitudinal investigation of the substitution of formal long-term care services for informal care (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), The Milbank quarterly (1993)

The focus on rising costs of long-term care now encompasses community as well as institutional...

 

Luteal Phase

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Relation of cardiovascular risk factors in women approaching menopause to menstrual cycle characteristics and reproductive hormones in the follicular and luteal phases (with Karen A. Matthews, Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Yuefang Chang, Richard C. Pasternak, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, and Maryfran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: Menstrual cycle characteristics may be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

OBJECTIVE: The objective...

 

Luteinizing Hormone

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Relation of cardiovascular risk factors in women approaching menopause to menstrual cycle characteristics and reproductive hormones in the follicular and luteal phases (with Karen A. Matthews, Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Yuefang Chang, Richard C. Pasternak, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, and Maryfran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: Menstrual cycle characteristics may be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

OBJECTIVE: The objective...

 
Body size and ethnicity are associated with menstrual cycle alterations in women in the early menopausal transition: The Study of Women's Health across the Nation (SWAN) Daily Hormone Study (with Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Dan McConnell, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Joel S. Finkelstein, Gail A. Greendale, Jenny Kelsey, Stan Korenman, Judith L. Luborsky, Karen A. Matthews, Rees Midgley, Lynda Powell, Janice Sabatine, Miriam Schocken, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2004)

The dynamics of reproductive hormones that characterize the menopausal transition (perimenopause) are incompletely understood, particularly...

 

Maine

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Blood lead level and dental caries in school-age children (with Allison Gemmel, Mary Tavares, Susan Alperin, Jennifer Soncini, David Daniel, Julie Dunn, Norman Braveman, Thomas W. Clarkson, Sonja McKinlay, and David C. Bellinger), Environmental health perspectives (2002)

The association between blood lead level and dental caries was evaluated in cross-sectional analyses of...

 

Male

Negative life events: risk to health-related quality of life in children and youth with HIV infection (with Lois C. Howland, Deborah S. Storm, Yunsheng Ma, Steven L. Gortmaker, and James M. Oleske), The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC (2007)

Children and youth with perinatally acquired HIV infection are living longer because of improved drug...

 
PDA-assisted low glycemic index dietary intervention for type II diabetes: a pilot study (with Yunsheng Ma, Barbara C. Olendzki, David E. Chiriboga, Milagros C. Rosal, E. Sinagra, Andrea R. Hafner, Sherry L. Pagoto, Robert P. Magner, and Ira S. Ockene), European journal of clinical nutrition (2006)

BACKGROUND: Epidemiological and dietary intervention studies suggest that a low-glycemic index (GI) diet is beneficial...

 
Conjugated equine estrogens and coronary heart disease: the Women's Health Initiative (with Judith Hsia, Robert D Langer, Joann E Manson, Lewis Kuller, Karen C. Johnson, Susan L Hendrix, Mary Pettinger, Susan R Heckbert, Nancy Greep, Charles B Eaton, John B Kostis, Pat Caralis, and Ross Prentice), Archives of internal medicine (2006)

BACKGROUND: In recent randomized trials, conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) with continuous medroxyprogesterone acetate provided no...

 

PDF

Chronic disease medication use in managed care and indemnity insurance plans (with Randall S. Stafford, Stephen M. Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and David Blumenthal), Health services research (2003)

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of managed care on the use of chronic disease...

 
Employment and caregiving: exploration of African American caregivers (with Karen Bullock and Sharon L Tennstedt), Social work (2003)

To more completely understand the challenges African American families face when combining employment commitments and...

 
Help-seeking behaviors of blacks and whites dying from coronary heart disease (with Susan M Frayne, Sarah A McGraw, Kevin W Smith, and John B McKinlay), Ethnicity and health (2003)

OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine whether blacks and whites with life-threatening cardiac events...

 

PDF

Blood lead level and dental caries in school-age children (with Allison Gemmel, Mary Tavares, Susan Alperin, Jennifer Soncini, David Daniel, Julie Dunn, Norman Braveman, Thomas W. Clarkson, Sonja McKinlay, and David C. Bellinger), Environmental health perspectives (2002)

The association between blood lead level and dental caries was evaluated in cross-sectional analyses of...

 
Interrelationships among disablement concepts (with A M Jette, S F Assmann, D Rooks, and B A Harris), The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences (1998)

BACKGROUND: Understanding interrelationships among disablement concepts is critical to the design of future disability...

 
Test-retest reliability of self-reported disability measures in older adults (with A M Jette and S L Tennstedt), Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (1997)
 
Does collecting repeated blood samples from each subject improve the precision of estimated steroid hormone levels (with D J Brambilla, S M McKinlay, J B McKinlay, S R Weiss, Catherine B. Johannes, and C Longcope), Journal of clinical epidemiology (1996)

Measuring levels of steroid hormones in epidemiologic studies is difficult because pulsatile release can cause...

 
Informal care vs. formal services: changes in patterns of care over time (with S Tennstedt and B Harrow), Journal of aging and social policy (1995)

Longitudinal data from a representative sample of community-residing older persons were used to document changes...

 
The everyday impacts of providing informal care to dependent elders and their consequences for the care recipients (with J B McKinlay and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1995)

Longitudinal data were used to identify the relationship between different areas of negative impact and...

 
How does formal and informal community care affect nursing home use (with A M Jette and S Tennstedt), The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences (1995)

We examined the effects of informal and formal community care on the 6-year risk of...

 
Measuring depressive symptoms in the frail elderly (with H Davidson and P H Feldman), Journal of gerontology (1994)

To determine the usefulness of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) as a...

 

PDF

Do blacks and whites differ in their use of health care for symptoms of coronary heart disease (with S. A. McGraw, K. W. Smith, J. B. McKinlay, and J. E. Pierson), American journal of public health (1994)

OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to identify the role of race in seeking...

 
Do characteristics of informal caregivers affect the length of hospital stay for frail elders (with K M Skinner and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1994)

Studies examining the length of hospital stay for the very old rarely include characteristics of...

 

PDF

HIV risk among Latino adolescents in two New England cities (with K. W. Smith, S. A. McGraw, L. A. Costa, and J. B. McKinlay), American journal of public health (1993)

OBJECTIVES. Latino adolescents in two urban New England areas were surveyed to assess risk of...

 
Determining the pattern of community care: is coresidence more important than caregiver relationship (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of gerontology (1993)

Researchers have previously emphasized the importance of kinship tie to explaining the pattern of care...

 
Do blacks and whites differ in reporting Rose Questionnaire angina? Results of the Boston Health Care Project (with K W Smith, S A McGraw, and J B McKinlay), Ethnicity and disease (1993)

We investigated the prevalence of angina (as determined by the Rose Questionnaire) in a random...

 
Is family care on the decline? A longitudinal investigation of the substitution of formal long-term care services for informal care (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), The Milbank quarterly (1993)

The focus on rising costs of long-term care now encompasses community as well as institutional...

 

Managed Care Programs

Utilization of services by chronically ill people in managed care and indemnity plans: implications for quality (with Stephen M Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, J Michael Oakes, David Blumenthal, and Daniel P Valentine), Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing (2003)

Because incentives for managed care organizations favor cost containment, concerns have been raised that quality...

 

PDF

Chronic disease medication use in managed care and indemnity insurance plans (with Randall S. Stafford, Stephen M. Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and David Blumenthal), Health services research (2003)

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of managed care on the use of chronic disease...

 

Marital Status

Measuring depressive symptoms in the frail elderly (with H Davidson and P H Feldman), Journal of gerontology (1994)

To determine the usefulness of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) as a...

 
Determining the pattern of community care: is coresidence more important than caregiver relationship (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of gerontology (1993)

Researchers have previously emphasized the importance of kinship tie to explaining the pattern of care...

 

Massachusetts

Employment and caregiving: exploration of African American caregivers (with Karen Bullock and Sharon L Tennstedt), Social work (2003)

To more completely understand the challenges African American families face when combining employment commitments and...

 
Longitudinal study of hormone levels and depression among women transitioning through menopause (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, and C Longcope), Climacteric : the journal of the International Menopause Society (2001)

OBJECTIVE: To address the association between depression and absolute levels of estradiol, and change...

 
Is there an association between menopause status and sexual functioning (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, Catherine B. Johannes, and C Longcope), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to address whether: (1) there is an...

 
A longitudinal study of weight and the menopause transition: results from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study (with V A Casey, Nancy E. Avis, and S M McKinlay), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVE: Results of past studies of menopause and weight are inconsistent, in part because...

 
Interviewer effects in a cohort study. Results from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study (with Catherine B. Johannes and J B McKinlay), American journal of epidemiology (1997)

Although interviewer error is widely recognized as an important source of variation in epidemiologic investigations,...

 
Psychosocial, behavioral, and health factors related to menopause symptomatology (with Nancy E. Avis and S M McKinlay), Women's health (Hillsdale, N.J.) (1997)

Despite wide variation in the reporting of hot flashes and night sweats among menopausal women,...

 
Do characteristics of informal caregivers affect the length of hospital stay for frail elders (with K M Skinner and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1994)

Studies examining the length of hospital stay for the very old rarely include characteristics of...

 

PDF

HIV risk among Latino adolescents in two New England cities (with K. W. Smith, S. A. McGraw, L. A. Costa, and J. B. McKinlay), American journal of public health (1993)

OBJECTIVES. Latino adolescents in two urban New England areas were surveyed to assess risk of...

 
Is family care on the decline? A longitudinal investigation of the substitution of formal long-term care services for informal care (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), The Milbank quarterly (1993)

The focus on rising costs of long-term care now encompasses community as well as institutional...

 

Mastectomy

Psychosocial problems among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Psycho-oncology (2004)

Women diagnosed with breast cancer at a younger age often have concerns less frequently faced...

 

Medicare

Utilization of services by chronically ill people in managed care and indemnity plans: implications for quality (with Stephen M Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, J Michael Oakes, David Blumenthal, and Daniel P Valentine), Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing (2003)

Because incentives for managed care organizations favor cost containment, concerns have been raised that quality...

 

Menopause

Vasomotor symptom prevalence is associated with polymorphisms in sex steroid-metabolizing enzymes and receptors (with Carolyn J. Crandall and Ellen B. Gold), The American journal of medicine (2006)

The relation of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of genes involved in estrogen function to vasomotor...

 

PDF

The value of follicle-stimulating hormone concentration and clinical findings as markers of the late menopausal transition (with John F. Randolph Jr., Lorraine Dennerstein, Kevin Cain, Sioban D. Harlow, Roderick Little, Ellen S. Mitchell, Bin Nan, John Taffe, and Matheos Yosef), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: The Stages of Reproductive Aging Workshop proposed bleeding and hormonal criteria for the menopausal...

 

PDF

Relation of cardiovascular risk factors in women approaching menopause to menstrual cycle characteristics and reproductive hormones in the follicular and luteal phases (with Karen A. Matthews, Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Yuefang Chang, Richard C. Pasternak, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, and Maryfran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: Menstrual cycle characteristics may be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

OBJECTIVE: The objective...

 
Correlates of circulating androgens in mid-life women: the study of women's health across the nation (with Nanette Santoro, Javier Torrens, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Joel S. Finkelstein, Ellen B. Gold, Stan Korenman, William L. Lasley, Judith L. Luborsky, Dan McConnell, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2005)

CONTEXT: Androgens influence sexual differentiation and behavior, body composition, and physical functioning in men, but...

 
Can follicle-stimulating hormone be used to define menopausal status (with R K Stellato, S M McKinlay, and C Longcope), Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (2004)

OBJECTIVE: To assess the ability of the level of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) to distinguish...

 
Body size and ethnicity are associated with menstrual cycle alterations in women in the early menopausal transition: The Study of Women's Health across the Nation (SWAN) Daily Hormone Study (with Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Dan McConnell, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Joel S. Finkelstein, Gail A. Greendale, Jenny Kelsey, Stan Korenman, Judith L. Luborsky, Karen A. Matthews, Rees Midgley, Lynda Powell, Janice Sabatine, Miriam Schocken, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2004)

The dynamics of reproductive hormones that characterize the menopausal transition (perimenopause) are incompletely understood, particularly...

 
The relationship of circulating dehydroepiandrosterone, testosterone, and estradiol to stages of the menopausal transition and ethnicity (with William L. Lasley, Nanette Santoro, John F Randolf, Ellen B. Gold, Gerson Weiss, Daniel S McConnell, and Mary Fran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2002)

In this report, 3029 women between the ages of 42 and 54 yr from five...

 
Longitudinal study of hormone levels and depression among women transitioning through menopause (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, and C Longcope), Climacteric : the journal of the International Menopause Society (2001)

OBJECTIVE: To address the association between depression and absolute levels of estradiol, and change...

 
Is there a menopausal syndrome? Menopausal status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, J Bromberger, P Ganz, V Cain, and M Kagawa-Singer), Social science and medicine (1982) (2001)

In recent years, research on menopausal symptomalogy has focused on identifying symptom groupings experienced by...

 
Factors associated with age at natural menopause in a multiethnic sample of midlife women (with Ellen B. Gold, J Bromberger, S Samuels, Gail A. Greendale, Sioban D. Harlow, and J Skurnick), American journal of epidemiology (2001)

An unprecedented number of women will experience menopause in the next decade. Although the timing...

 
A longitudinal study of weight and the menopause transition: results from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study (with V A Casey, Nancy E. Avis, and S M McKinlay), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVE: Results of past studies of menopause and weight are inconsistent, in part because...

 

Menopause, Premature

Psychosocial problems among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Psycho-oncology (2004)

Women diagnosed with breast cancer at a younger age often have concerns less frequently faced...

 

Menstrual Cycle

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Relation of cardiovascular risk factors in women approaching menopause to menstrual cycle characteristics and reproductive hormones in the follicular and luteal phases (with Karen A. Matthews, Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Yuefang Chang, Richard C. Pasternak, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, and Maryfran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: Menstrual cycle characteristics may be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

OBJECTIVE: The objective...

 
Body size and ethnicity are associated with menstrual cycle alterations in women in the early menopausal transition: The Study of Women's Health across the Nation (SWAN) Daily Hormone Study (with Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Dan McConnell, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Joel S. Finkelstein, Gail A. Greendale, Jenny Kelsey, Stan Korenman, Judith L. Luborsky, Karen A. Matthews, Rees Midgley, Lynda Powell, Janice Sabatine, Miriam Schocken, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2004)

The dynamics of reproductive hormones that characterize the menopausal transition (perimenopause) are incompletely understood, particularly...

 
Assessing menstrual cycles with urinary hormone assays (with N Santoro, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Gail A. Greendale, Stan Korenman, William L. Lasley, D McConnell, P McGaffigan, R Midgely, M Schocken, M Sowers, and G Weiss), American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism (2002)

The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) is a multiethnic cohort study of...

 

Menstruation

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The value of follicle-stimulating hormone concentration and clinical findings as markers of the late menopausal transition (with John F. Randolph Jr., Lorraine Dennerstein, Kevin Cain, Sioban D. Harlow, Roderick Little, Ellen S. Mitchell, Bin Nan, John Taffe, and Matheos Yosef), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: The Stages of Reproductive Aging Workshop proposed bleeding and hormonal criteria for the menopausal...

 
An electronic menstrual cycle calendar: comparison of data quality with a paper version (with Catherine B. Johannes, J Woods, R B Goldstein, D Tran, S Mehrotra, Karen B. Johnson, and N Santoro), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVES: This pilot study compared a prototype electronic menstrual calendar on a handheld computer...

 

Middle Aged

Vasomotor symptom prevalence is associated with polymorphisms in sex steroid-metabolizing enzymes and receptors (with Carolyn J. Crandall and Ellen B. Gold), The American journal of medicine (2006)

The relation of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of genes involved in estrogen function to vasomotor...

 
Evaluation of four proposed bleeding criteria for the onset of late menopausal transition (with Sioban D. Harlow, Kevin Cain, Lorraine Dennerstein, Roderick Little, Ellen S. Mitchell, Bin Nan, John F. Randolph Jr., John Taffe, and Matheos Yosef), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: The current criterion for onset of late menopausal transition is amenorrhea of 90 d...

 

PDF

The value of follicle-stimulating hormone concentration and clinical findings as markers of the late menopausal transition (with John F. Randolph Jr., Lorraine Dennerstein, Kevin Cain, Sioban D. Harlow, Roderick Little, Ellen S. Mitchell, Bin Nan, John Taffe, and Matheos Yosef), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: The Stages of Reproductive Aging Workshop proposed bleeding and hormonal criteria for the menopausal...

 
PDA-assisted low glycemic index dietary intervention for type II diabetes: a pilot study (with Yunsheng Ma, Barbara C. Olendzki, David E. Chiriboga, Milagros C. Rosal, E. Sinagra, Andrea R. Hafner, Sherry L. Pagoto, Robert P. Magner, and Ira S. Ockene), European journal of clinical nutrition (2006)

BACKGROUND: Epidemiological and dietary intervention studies suggest that a low-glycemic index (GI) diet is beneficial...

 
Selected diet and lifestyle factors are associated with estrogen metabolites in a multiracial/ethnic population of women (with MaryFran R Sowers, Daniel S McConnell, John F Jr Randolph, Ellen B. Gold, Margaret K Wilkin, and William L. Lasley), The Journal of nutrition (2006)

Diet and lifestyle factors, body size, and smoking behavior may influence estrogen metabolism, but the...

 

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Relation of cardiovascular risk factors in women approaching menopause to menstrual cycle characteristics and reproductive hormones in the follicular and luteal phases (with Karen A. Matthews, Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Yuefang Chang, Richard C. Pasternak, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, and Maryfran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: Menstrual cycle characteristics may be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

OBJECTIVE: The objective...

 
Conjugated equine estrogens and coronary heart disease: the Women's Health Initiative (with Judith Hsia, Robert D Langer, Joann E Manson, Lewis Kuller, Karen C. Johnson, Susan L Hendrix, Mary Pettinger, Susan R Heckbert, Nancy Greep, Charles B Eaton, John B Kostis, Pat Caralis, and Ross Prentice), Archives of internal medicine (2006)

BACKGROUND: In recent randomized trials, conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) with continuous medroxyprogesterone acetate provided no...

 
Ethnic differences in cardiovascular risk factor burden among middle-aged women: Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) (with Karen A. Matthews, Mary Fran Sowers, Carol A. Derby, Evan Stein, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and Richard C. Pasternak), American heart journal (2005)

BACKGROUND: We evaluated ethnic differences in the 10-year risk of myocardial infarction or coronary death...

 
Quality of life among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2005)

PURPOSE: To describe quality of life (QOL) of younger women 4 to 42 months after...

 
Correlates of circulating androgens in mid-life women: the study of women's health across the nation (with Nanette Santoro, Javier Torrens, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Joel S. Finkelstein, Ellen B. Gold, Stan Korenman, William L. Lasley, Judith L. Luborsky, Dan McConnell, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2005)

CONTEXT: Androgens influence sexual differentiation and behavior, body composition, and physical functioning in men, but...

 
Lifestyle and demographic factors in relation to vasomotor symptoms: baseline results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (with Ellen B. Gold, Gladys Block, Laurie Lachance, Gordon FitzGerald, Heidi Miracle, and Sheryl Sherman), American journal of epidemiology (2004)

Results of recent trials highlight the risks of hormone therapy, increasing the importance of identifying...

 
Body size and ethnicity are associated with menstrual cycle alterations in women in the early menopausal transition: The Study of Women's Health across the Nation (SWAN) Daily Hormone Study (with Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Dan McConnell, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Joel S. Finkelstein, Gail A. Greendale, Jenny Kelsey, Stan Korenman, Judith L. Luborsky, Karen A. Matthews, Rees Midgley, Lynda Powell, Janice Sabatine, Miriam Schocken, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2004)

The dynamics of reproductive hormones that characterize the menopausal transition (perimenopause) are incompletely understood, particularly...

 
Psychosocial problems among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Psycho-oncology (2004)

Women diagnosed with breast cancer at a younger age often have concerns less frequently faced...

 
Association of lipoprotein(a), insulin resistance, and reproductive hormones in a multiethnic cohort of pre- and perimenopausal women (The SWAN Study) (with MaryFran Sowers, Jane A Cauley, and Evan Stein), The American journal of cardiology (2003)

Because evidence suggests lipoprotein (Lp(a)) may be an important cardiovascular risk factor in women, we...

 

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Chronic disease medication use in managed care and indemnity insurance plans (with Randall S. Stafford, Stephen M. Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and David Blumenthal), Health services research (2003)

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of managed care on the use of chronic disease...

 
Employment and caregiving: exploration of African American caregivers (with Karen Bullock and Sharon L Tennstedt), Social work (2003)

To more completely understand the challenges African American families face when combining employment commitments and...

 
Help-seeking behaviors of blacks and whites dying from coronary heart disease (with Susan M Frayne, Sarah A McGraw, Kevin W Smith, and John B McKinlay), Ethnicity and health (2003)

OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine whether blacks and whites with life-threatening cardiac events...

 
Assessing menstrual cycles with urinary hormone assays (with N Santoro, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Gail A. Greendale, Stan Korenman, William L. Lasley, D McConnell, P McGaffigan, R Midgely, M Schocken, M Sowers, and G Weiss), American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism (2002)

The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) is a multiethnic cohort study of...

 
Assessment of digit preference in self-reported year at menopause: choice of an appropriate reference distribution (with Catherine B. Johannes and Rebecca K Stellato), American journal of epidemiology (2002)

Estimated associations between self-reported age at menopause and health may be attenuated if self-report is...

 
The relationship of circulating dehydroepiandrosterone, testosterone, and estradiol to stages of the menopausal transition and ethnicity (with William L. Lasley, Nanette Santoro, John F Randolf, Ellen B. Gold, Gerson Weiss, Daniel S McConnell, and Mary Fran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2002)

In this report, 3029 women between the ages of 42 and 54 yr from five...

 
Longitudinal study of hormone levels and depression among women transitioning through menopause (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, and C Longcope), Climacteric : the journal of the International Menopause Society (2001)

OBJECTIVE: To address the association between depression and absolute levels of estradiol, and change...

 
Body mass index in mid-life women: relative influence of menopause, hormone use, and ethnicity (with Karen A. Matthews, B Abrams, T Miles, R Neer, L H Powell, and D Wesley), International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity (2001)

OBJECTIVE: To assess the relative influence of menopausal status and hormone use on body...

 
Is there a menopausal syndrome? Menopausal status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, J Bromberger, P Ganz, V Cain, and M Kagawa-Singer), Social science and medicine (1982) (2001)

In recent years, research on menopausal symptomalogy has focused on identifying symptom groupings experienced by...

 
Factors associated with age at natural menopause in a multiethnic sample of midlife women (with Ellen B. Gold, J Bromberger, S Samuels, Gail A. Greendale, Sioban D. Harlow, and J Skurnick), American journal of epidemiology (2001)

An unprecedented number of women will experience menopause in the next decade. Although the timing...

 
Is there an association between menopause status and sexual functioning (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, Catherine B. Johannes, and C Longcope), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to address whether: (1) there is an...

 
A longitudinal study of weight and the menopause transition: results from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study (with V A Casey, Nancy E. Avis, and S M McKinlay), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVE: Results of past studies of menopause and weight are inconsistent, in part because...

 
Interrelationships among disablement concepts (with A M Jette, S F Assmann, D Rooks, and B A Harris), The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences (1998)

BACKGROUND: Understanding interrelationships among disablement concepts is critical to the design of future disability...

 
Interviewer effects in a cohort study. Results from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study (with Catherine B. Johannes and J B McKinlay), American journal of epidemiology (1997)

Although interviewer error is widely recognized as an important source of variation in epidemiologic investigations,...

 
Psychosocial, behavioral, and health factors related to menopause symptomatology (with Nancy E. Avis and S M McKinlay), Women's health (Hillsdale, N.J.) (1997)

Despite wide variation in the reporting of hot flashes and night sweats among menopausal women,...

 
Does collecting repeated blood samples from each subject improve the precision of estimated steroid hormone levels (with D J Brambilla, S M McKinlay, J B McKinlay, S R Weiss, Catherine B. Johannes, and C Longcope), Journal of clinical epidemiology (1996)

Measuring levels of steroid hormones in epidemiologic studies is difficult because pulsatile release can cause...

 
Longitudinal patterns and correlates of hormone replacement therapy use in middle-aged women (with Catherine B. Johannes, J G Posner, and S M McKinlay), American journal of epidemiology (1994)

Patterns of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) use over time and predictors of initiating or discontinuing...

 

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Do blacks and whites differ in their use of health care for symptoms of coronary heart disease (with S. A. McGraw, K. W. Smith, J. B. McKinlay, and J. E. Pierson), American journal of public health (1994)

OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to identify the role of race in seeking...

 
Do characteristics of informal caregivers affect the length of hospital stay for frail elders (with K M Skinner and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1994)

Studies examining the length of hospital stay for the very old rarely include characteristics of...

 
Determining the pattern of community care: is coresidence more important than caregiver relationship (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of gerontology (1993)

Researchers have previously emphasized the importance of kinship tie to explaining the pattern of care...

 
Do blacks and whites differ in reporting Rose Questionnaire angina? Results of the Boston Health Care Project (with K W Smith, S A McGraw, and J B McKinlay), Ethnicity and disease (1993)

We investigated the prevalence of angina (as determined by the Rose Questionnaire) in a random...

 

Multivariate Analysis

Psychosocial problems among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Psycho-oncology (2004)

Women diagnosed with breast cancer at a younger age often have concerns less frequently faced...

 
Factors associated with age at natural menopause in a multiethnic sample of midlife women (with Ellen B. Gold, J Bromberger, S Samuels, Gail A. Greendale, Sioban D. Harlow, and J Skurnick), American journal of epidemiology (2001)

An unprecedented number of women will experience menopause in the next decade. Although the timing...

 
Interrelationships among disablement concepts (with A M Jette, S F Assmann, D Rooks, and B A Harris), The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences (1998)

BACKGROUND: Understanding interrelationships among disablement concepts is critical to the design of future disability...

 
The effects of health care reforms on job satisfaction and voluntary turnover among hospital-based nurses (with Harriet Davidson, P H Folcarelli, L J Duprat, and J C Clifford), Medical care (1997)

OBJECTIVES: Among the consequences of downsizing and cost containment in hospitals are major changes in...

 
Longitudinal patterns and correlates of hormone replacement therapy use in middle-aged women (with Catherine B. Johannes, J G Posner, and S M McKinlay), American journal of epidemiology (1994)

Patterns of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) use over time and predictors of initiating or discontinuing...

 

Muscles

Interrelationships among disablement concepts (with A M Jette, S F Assmann, D Rooks, and B A Harris), The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences (1998)

BACKGROUND: Understanding interrelationships among disablement concepts is critical to the design of future disability...

 

Myocardial Infarction

Conjugated equine estrogens and coronary heart disease: the Women's Health Initiative (with Judith Hsia, Robert D Langer, Joann E Manson, Lewis Kuller, Karen C. Johnson, Susan L Hendrix, Mary Pettinger, Susan R Heckbert, Nancy Greep, Charles B Eaton, John B Kostis, Pat Caralis, and Ross Prentice), Archives of internal medicine (2006)

BACKGROUND: In recent randomized trials, conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) with continuous medroxyprogesterone acetate provided no...

 

Myocardial Revascularization

Conjugated equine estrogens and coronary heart disease: the Women's Health Initiative (with Judith Hsia, Robert D Langer, Joann E Manson, Lewis Kuller, Karen C. Johnson, Susan L Hendrix, Mary Pettinger, Susan R Heckbert, Nancy Greep, Charles B Eaton, John B Kostis, Pat Caralis, and Ross Prentice), Archives of internal medicine (2006)

BACKGROUND: In recent randomized trials, conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) with continuous medroxyprogesterone acetate provided no...

 

Neoplasm Staging

Quality of life among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2005)

PURPOSE: To describe quality of life (QOL) of younger women 4 to 42 months after...

 

New England

Health survey methods with minority populations: some lessons from recent experience (with S A McGraw, J B McKinlay, L A Costa, and D L Cohen), Ethnicity and disease (1992)

Until recently, minority populations have been inadequately or inaccurately represented in health research. Researchers are...

 

Nursing Administration Research

The effects of health care reforms on job satisfaction and voluntary turnover among hospital-based nurses (with Harriet Davidson, P H Folcarelli, L J Duprat, and J C Clifford), Medical care (1997)

OBJECTIVES: Among the consequences of downsizing and cost containment in hospitals are major changes in...

 

Nursing Homes

Informal care vs. formal services: changes in patterns of care over time (with S Tennstedt and B Harrow), Journal of aging and social policy (1995)

Longitudinal data from a representative sample of community-residing older persons were used to document changes...

 
How does formal and informal community care affect nursing home use (with A M Jette and S Tennstedt), The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences (1995)

We examined the effects of informal and formal community care on the 6-year risk of...

 

Nursing Staff, Hospital

The effects of health care reforms on job satisfaction and voluntary turnover among hospital-based nurses (with Harriet Davidson, P H Folcarelli, L J Duprat, and J C Clifford), Medical care (1997)

OBJECTIVES: Among the consequences of downsizing and cost containment in hospitals are major changes in...

 

Obesity

Body mass index in mid-life women: relative influence of menopause, hormone use, and ethnicity (with Karen A. Matthews, B Abrams, T Miles, R Neer, L H Powell, and D Wesley), International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity (2001)

OBJECTIVE: To assess the relative influence of menopausal status and hormone use on body...

 

Observer Variation

Does collecting repeated blood samples from each subject improve the precision of estimated steroid hormone levels (with D J Brambilla, S M McKinlay, J B McKinlay, S R Weiss, Catherine B. Johannes, and C Longcope), Journal of clinical epidemiology (1996)

Measuring levels of steroid hormones in epidemiologic studies is difficult because pulsatile release can cause...

 

Odds Ratio

Vasomotor symptom prevalence is associated with polymorphisms in sex steroid-metabolizing enzymes and receptors (with Carolyn J. Crandall and Ellen B. Gold), The American journal of medicine (2006)

The relation of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of genes involved in estrogen function to vasomotor...

 

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The value of follicle-stimulating hormone concentration and clinical findings as markers of the late menopausal transition (with John F. Randolph Jr., Lorraine Dennerstein, Kevin Cain, Sioban D. Harlow, Roderick Little, Ellen S. Mitchell, Bin Nan, John Taffe, and Matheos Yosef), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: The Stages of Reproductive Aging Workshop proposed bleeding and hormonal criteria for the menopausal...

 
Interviewer effects in a cohort study. Results from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study (with Catherine B. Johannes and J B McKinlay), American journal of epidemiology (1997)

Although interviewer error is widely recognized as an important source of variation in epidemiologic investigations,...

 
Psychosocial, behavioral, and health factors related to menopause symptomatology (with Nancy E. Avis and S M McKinlay), Women's health (Hillsdale, N.J.) (1997)

Despite wide variation in the reporting of hot flashes and night sweats among menopausal women,...

 

Organizational Innovation

The effects of health care reforms on job satisfaction and voluntary turnover among hospital-based nurses (with Harriet Davidson, P H Folcarelli, L J Duprat, and J C Clifford), Medical care (1997)

OBJECTIVES: Among the consequences of downsizing and cost containment in hospitals are major changes in...

 

Outcome Assessment (Health Care)

Help-seeking behaviors of blacks and whites dying from coronary heart disease (with Susan M Frayne, Sarah A McGraw, Kevin W Smith, and John B McKinlay), Ethnicity and health (2003)

OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine whether blacks and whites with life-threatening cardiac events...

 

Ovulation Detection

Assessing menstrual cycles with urinary hormone assays (with N Santoro, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Gail A. Greendale, Stan Korenman, William L. Lasley, D McConnell, P McGaffigan, R Midgely, M Schocken, M Sowers, and G Weiss), American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism (2002)

The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) is a multiethnic cohort study of...

 

Paper

An electronic menstrual cycle calendar: comparison of data quality with a paper version (with Catherine B. Johannes, J Woods, R B Goldstein, D Tran, S Mehrotra, Karen B. Johnson, and N Santoro), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVES: This pilot study compared a prototype electronic menstrual calendar on a handheld computer...

 

Patient Acceptance of Health Care

Utilization of services by chronically ill people in managed care and indemnity plans: implications for quality (with Stephen M Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, J Michael Oakes, David Blumenthal, and Daniel P Valentine), Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing (2003)

Because incentives for managed care organizations favor cost containment, concerns have been raised that quality...

 
Help-seeking behaviors of blacks and whites dying from coronary heart disease (with Susan M Frayne, Sarah A McGraw, Kevin W Smith, and John B McKinlay), Ethnicity and health (2003)

OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine whether blacks and whites with life-threatening cardiac events...

 
Psychosocial, behavioral, and health factors related to menopause symptomatology (with Nancy E. Avis and S M McKinlay), Women's health (Hillsdale, N.J.) (1997)

Despite wide variation in the reporting of hot flashes and night sweats among menopausal women,...

 

Patient Satisfaction

An electronic menstrual cycle calendar: comparison of data quality with a paper version (with Catherine B. Johannes, J Woods, R B Goldstein, D Tran, S Mehrotra, Karen B. Johnson, and N Santoro), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVES: This pilot study compared a prototype electronic menstrual calendar on a handheld computer...

 

Perimenopause

Evaluation of four proposed bleeding criteria for the onset of late menopausal transition (with Sioban D. Harlow, Kevin Cain, Lorraine Dennerstein, Roderick Little, Ellen S. Mitchell, Bin Nan, John F. Randolph Jr., John Taffe, and Matheos Yosef), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: The current criterion for onset of late menopausal transition is amenorrhea of 90 d...

 
Can follicle-stimulating hormone be used to define menopausal status (with R K Stellato, S M McKinlay, and C Longcope), Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (2004)

OBJECTIVE: To assess the ability of the level of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) to distinguish...

 

Phenols

Selected diet and lifestyle factors are associated with estrogen metabolites in a multiracial/ethnic population of women (with MaryFran R Sowers, Daniel S McConnell, John F Jr Randolph, Ellen B. Gold, Margaret K Wilkin, and William L. Lasley), The Journal of nutrition (2006)

Diet and lifestyle factors, body size, and smoking behavior may influence estrogen metabolism, but the...

 

Physician's Practice Patterns

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Chronic disease medication use in managed care and indemnity insurance plans (with Randall S. Stafford, Stephen M. Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and David Blumenthal), Health services research (2003)

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of managed care on the use of chronic disease...

 

Pilot Projects

PDA-assisted low glycemic index dietary intervention for type II diabetes: a pilot study (with Yunsheng Ma, Barbara C. Olendzki, David E. Chiriboga, Milagros C. Rosal, E. Sinagra, Andrea R. Hafner, Sherry L. Pagoto, Robert P. Magner, and Ira S. Ockene), European journal of clinical nutrition (2006)

BACKGROUND: Epidemiological and dietary intervention studies suggest that a low-glycemic index (GI) diet is beneficial...

 
An electronic menstrual cycle calendar: comparison of data quality with a paper version (with Catherine B. Johannes, J Woods, R B Goldstein, D Tran, S Mehrotra, Karen B. Johnson, and N Santoro), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVES: This pilot study compared a prototype electronic menstrual calendar on a handheld computer...

 
Does collecting repeated blood samples from each subject improve the precision of estimated steroid hormone levels (with D J Brambilla, S M McKinlay, J B McKinlay, S R Weiss, Catherine B. Johannes, and C Longcope), Journal of clinical epidemiology (1996)

Measuring levels of steroid hormones in epidemiologic studies is difficult because pulsatile release can cause...

 

Population

Understanding the variability in the effectiveness of community heart health programs: a meta-analysis (with D E Sellers, Karen Bullock, and J B McKinlay), Social science and medicine (1982) (1997)

Over the past 25 years, community interventions to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been conducted...

 

Population Surveillance

Selected diet and lifestyle factors are associated with estrogen metabolites in a multiracial/ethnic population of women (with MaryFran R Sowers, Daniel S McConnell, John F Jr Randolph, Ellen B. Gold, Margaret K Wilkin, and William L. Lasley), The Journal of nutrition (2006)

Diet and lifestyle factors, body size, and smoking behavior may influence estrogen metabolism, but the...

 

Postmenopause

Conjugated equine estrogens and coronary heart disease: the Women's Health Initiative (with Judith Hsia, Robert D Langer, Joann E Manson, Lewis Kuller, Karen C. Johnson, Susan L Hendrix, Mary Pettinger, Susan R Heckbert, Nancy Greep, Charles B Eaton, John B Kostis, Pat Caralis, and Ross Prentice), Archives of internal medicine (2006)

BACKGROUND: In recent randomized trials, conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) with continuous medroxyprogesterone acetate provided no...

 
Can follicle-stimulating hormone be used to define menopausal status (with R K Stellato, S M McKinlay, and C Longcope), Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (2004)

OBJECTIVE: To assess the ability of the level of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) to distinguish...

 

Predictive Value of Tests

Interviewer effects in a cohort study. Results from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study (with Catherine B. Johannes and J B McKinlay), American journal of epidemiology (1997)

Although interviewer error is widely recognized as an important source of variation in epidemiologic investigations,...

 

Pregnanediol

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Relation of cardiovascular risk factors in women approaching menopause to menstrual cycle characteristics and reproductive hormones in the follicular and luteal phases (with Karen A. Matthews, Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Yuefang Chang, Richard C. Pasternak, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, and Maryfran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: Menstrual cycle characteristics may be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

OBJECTIVE: The objective...

 
Body size and ethnicity are associated with menstrual cycle alterations in women in the early menopausal transition: The Study of Women's Health across the Nation (SWAN) Daily Hormone Study (with Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Dan McConnell, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Joel S. Finkelstein, Gail A. Greendale, Jenny Kelsey, Stan Korenman, Judith L. Luborsky, Karen A. Matthews, Rees Midgley, Lynda Powell, Janice Sabatine, Miriam Schocken, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2004)

The dynamics of reproductive hormones that characterize the menopausal transition (perimenopause) are incompletely understood, particularly...

 

Premenopause

Can follicle-stimulating hormone be used to define menopausal status (with R K Stellato, S M McKinlay, and C Longcope), Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (2004)

OBJECTIVE: To assess the ability of the level of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) to distinguish...

 
Association of lipoprotein(a), insulin resistance, and reproductive hormones in a multiethnic cohort of pre- and perimenopausal women (The SWAN Study) (with MaryFran Sowers, Jane A Cauley, and Evan Stein), The American journal of cardiology (2003)

Because evidence suggests lipoprotein (Lp(a)) may be an important cardiovascular risk factor in women, we...

 

Prevalence

Vasomotor symptom prevalence is associated with polymorphisms in sex steroid-metabolizing enzymes and receptors (with Carolyn J. Crandall and Ellen B. Gold), The American journal of medicine (2006)

The relation of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of genes involved in estrogen function to vasomotor...

 

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Blood lead level and dental caries in school-age children (with Allison Gemmel, Mary Tavares, Susan Alperin, Jennifer Soncini, David Daniel, Julie Dunn, Norman Braveman, Thomas W. Clarkson, Sonja McKinlay, and David C. Bellinger), Environmental health perspectives (2002)

The association between blood lead level and dental caries was evaluated in cross-sectional analyses of...

 
Do blacks and whites differ in reporting Rose Questionnaire angina? Results of the Boston Health Care Project (with K W Smith, S A McGraw, and J B McKinlay), Ethnicity and disease (1993)

We investigated the prevalence of angina (as determined by the Rose Questionnaire) in a random...

 

Primary Health Care

Utilization of services by chronically ill people in managed care and indemnity plans: implications for quality (with Stephen M Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, J Michael Oakes, David Blumenthal, and Daniel P Valentine), Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing (2003)

Because incentives for managed care organizations favor cost containment, concerns have been raised that quality...

 

Primary Prevention

Understanding the variability in the effectiveness of community heart health programs: a meta-analysis (with D E Sellers, Karen Bullock, and J B McKinlay), Social science and medicine (1982) (1997)

Over the past 25 years, community interventions to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been conducted...

 

Probability

Assessment of digit preference in self-reported year at menopause: choice of an appropriate reference distribution (with Catherine B. Johannes and Rebecca K Stellato), American journal of epidemiology (2002)

Estimated associations between self-reported age at menopause and health may be attenuated if self-report is...

 

Program Evaluation

Understanding the variability in the effectiveness of community heart health programs: a meta-analysis (with D E Sellers, Karen Bullock, and J B McKinlay), Social science and medicine (1982) (1997)

Over the past 25 years, community interventions to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been conducted...

 

Proportional Hazards Models

Conjugated equine estrogens and coronary heart disease: the Women's Health Initiative (with Judith Hsia, Robert D Langer, Joann E Manson, Lewis Kuller, Karen C. Johnson, Susan L Hendrix, Mary Pettinger, Susan R Heckbert, Nancy Greep, Charles B Eaton, John B Kostis, Pat Caralis, and Ross Prentice), Archives of internal medicine (2006)

BACKGROUND: In recent randomized trials, conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) with continuous medroxyprogesterone acetate provided no...

 
Factors associated with age at natural menopause in a multiethnic sample of midlife women (with Ellen B. Gold, J Bromberger, S Samuels, Gail A. Greendale, Sioban D. Harlow, and J Skurnick), American journal of epidemiology (2001)

An unprecedented number of women will experience menopause in the next decade. Although the timing...

 

Prospective Studies

Evaluation of four proposed bleeding criteria for the onset of late menopausal transition (with Sioban D. Harlow, Kevin Cain, Lorraine Dennerstein, Roderick Little, Ellen S. Mitchell, Bin Nan, John F. Randolph Jr., John Taffe, and Matheos Yosef), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: The current criterion for onset of late menopausal transition is amenorrhea of 90 d...

 
Association of lipoprotein(a), insulin resistance, and reproductive hormones in a multiethnic cohort of pre- and perimenopausal women (The SWAN Study) (with MaryFran Sowers, Jane A Cauley, and Evan Stein), The American journal of cardiology (2003)

Because evidence suggests lipoprotein (Lp(a)) may be an important cardiovascular risk factor in women, we...

 
Assessing menstrual cycles with urinary hormone assays (with N Santoro, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Gail A. Greendale, Stan Korenman, William L. Lasley, D McConnell, P McGaffigan, R Midgely, M Schocken, M Sowers, and G Weiss), American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism (2002)

The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) is a multiethnic cohort study of...

 
Longitudinal study of hormone levels and depression among women transitioning through menopause (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, and C Longcope), Climacteric : the journal of the International Menopause Society (2001)

OBJECTIVE: To address the association between depression and absolute levels of estradiol, and change...

 
Interviewer effects in a cohort study. Results from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study (with Catherine B. Johannes and J B McKinlay), American journal of epidemiology (1997)

Although interviewer error is widely recognized as an important source of variation in epidemiologic investigations,...

 
Psychosocial, behavioral, and health factors related to menopause symptomatology (with Nancy E. Avis and S M McKinlay), Women's health (Hillsdale, N.J.) (1997)

Despite wide variation in the reporting of hot flashes and night sweats among menopausal women,...

 

Psychology

Is there an association between menopause status and sexual functioning (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, Catherine B. Johannes, and C Longcope), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to address whether: (1) there is an...

 

Psychometrics

Test-retest reliability of self-reported disability measures in older adults (with A M Jette and S L Tennstedt), Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (1997)
 

Psychophysiologic Disorders

Is there a menopausal syndrome? Menopausal status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, J Bromberger, P Ganz, V Cain, and M Kagawa-Singer), Social science and medicine (1982) (2001)

In recent years, research on menopausal symptomalogy has focused on identifying symptom groupings experienced by...

 

Puerto Rico

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HIV risk among Latino adolescents in two New England cities (with K. W. Smith, S. A. McGraw, L. A. Costa, and J. B. McKinlay), American journal of public health (1993)

OBJECTIVES. Latino adolescents in two urban New England areas were surveyed to assess risk of...

 
Health survey methods with minority populations: some lessons from recent experience (with S A McGraw, J B McKinlay, L A Costa, and D L Cohen), Ethnicity and disease (1992)

Until recently, minority populations have been inadequately or inaccurately represented in health research. Researchers are...

 

Quality Control

An electronic menstrual cycle calendar: comparison of data quality with a paper version (with Catherine B. Johannes, J Woods, R B Goldstein, D Tran, S Mehrotra, Karen B. Johnson, and N Santoro), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVES: This pilot study compared a prototype electronic menstrual calendar on a handheld computer...

 

Quality of Health Care

Utilization of services by chronically ill people in managed care and indemnity plans: implications for quality (with Stephen M Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, J Michael Oakes, David Blumenthal, and Daniel P Valentine), Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing (2003)

Because incentives for managed care organizations favor cost containment, concerns have been raised that quality...

 

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Do blacks and whites differ in their use of health care for symptoms of coronary heart disease (with S. A. McGraw, K. W. Smith, J. B. McKinlay, and J. E. Pierson), American journal of public health (1994)

OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to identify the role of race in seeking...

 

Quality of Life

Correlates of circulating androgens in mid-life women: the study of women's health across the nation (with Nanette Santoro, Javier Torrens, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Joel S. Finkelstein, Ellen B. Gold, Stan Korenman, William L. Lasley, Judith L. Luborsky, Dan McConnell, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2005)

CONTEXT: Androgens influence sexual differentiation and behavior, body composition, and physical functioning in men, but...

 

Questionnaires

Quality of life among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2005)

PURPOSE: To describe quality of life (QOL) of younger women 4 to 42 months after...

 
Is there a menopausal syndrome? Menopausal status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, J Bromberger, P Ganz, V Cain, and M Kagawa-Singer), Social science and medicine (1982) (2001)

In recent years, research on menopausal symptomalogy has focused on identifying symptom groupings experienced by...

 
Is there an association between menopause status and sexual functioning (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, Catherine B. Johannes, and C Longcope), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to address whether: (1) there is an...

 
Test-retest reliability of self-reported disability measures in older adults (with A M Jette and S L Tennstedt), Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (1997)
 

Random Allocation

Do blacks and whites differ in reporting Rose Questionnaire angina? Results of the Boston Health Care Project (with K W Smith, S A McGraw, and J B McKinlay), Ethnicity and disease (1993)

We investigated the prevalence of angina (as determined by the Rose Questionnaire) in a random...

 

Randomized Controlled Trials

PDA-assisted low glycemic index dietary intervention for type II diabetes: a pilot study (with Yunsheng Ma, Barbara C. Olendzki, David E. Chiriboga, Milagros C. Rosal, E. Sinagra, Andrea R. Hafner, Sherry L. Pagoto, Robert P. Magner, and Ira S. Ockene), European journal of clinical nutrition (2006)

BACKGROUND: Epidemiological and dietary intervention studies suggest that a low-glycemic index (GI) diet is beneficial...

 

Records

An electronic menstrual cycle calendar: comparison of data quality with a paper version (with Catherine B. Johannes, J Woods, R B Goldstein, D Tran, S Mehrotra, Karen B. Johnson, and N Santoro), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVES: This pilot study compared a prototype electronic menstrual calendar on a handheld computer...

 

Reference Values

Lifestyle and demographic factors in relation to vasomotor symptoms: baseline results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (with Ellen B. Gold, Gladys Block, Laurie Lachance, Gordon FitzGerald, Heidi Miracle, and Sheryl Sherman), American journal of epidemiology (2004)

Results of recent trials highlight the risks of hormone therapy, increasing the importance of identifying...

 

Referral and Consultation

Utilization of services by chronically ill people in managed care and indemnity plans: implications for quality (with Stephen M Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, J Michael Oakes, David Blumenthal, and Daniel P Valentine), Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing (2003)

Because incentives for managed care organizations favor cost containment, concerns have been raised that quality...

 

Regression Analysis

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HIV risk among Latino adolescents in two New England cities (with K. W. Smith, S. A. McGraw, L. A. Costa, and J. B. McKinlay), American journal of public health (1993)

OBJECTIVES. Latino adolescents in two urban New England areas were surveyed to assess risk of...

 

Reimbursement, Incentive

Utilization of services by chronically ill people in managed care and indemnity plans: implications for quality (with Stephen M Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, J Michael Oakes, David Blumenthal, and Daniel P Valentine), Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing (2003)

Because incentives for managed care organizations favor cost containment, concerns have been raised that quality...

 

Reproducibility of Results

Use of a flow-mediated vasodilation technique to assess endothelial function in dogs (with Gary D Puglia, Lisa M Freeman, John E Rush, and Ryan G P King), American journal of veterinary research (2006)

OBJECTIVE: To develop and assess the reproducibility of a protocol to noninvasively test endothelial function...

 
Test-retest reliability of self-reported disability measures in older adults (with A M Jette and S L Tennstedt), Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (1997)
 
Measuring depressive symptoms in the frail elderly (with H Davidson and P H Feldman), Journal of gerontology (1994)

To determine the usefulness of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) as a...

 
Health survey methods with minority populations: some lessons from recent experience (with S A McGraw, J B McKinlay, L A Costa, and D L Cohen), Ethnicity and disease (1992)

Until recently, minority populations have been inadequately or inaccurately represented in health research. Researchers are...

 

Research

Health survey methods with minority populations: some lessons from recent experience (with S A McGraw, J B McKinlay, L A Costa, and D L Cohen), Ethnicity and disease (1992)

Until recently, minority populations have been inadequately or inaccurately represented in health research. Researchers are...

 

Research Design

Understanding the variability in the effectiveness of community heart health programs: a meta-analysis (with D E Sellers, Karen Bullock, and J B McKinlay), Social science and medicine (1982) (1997)

Over the past 25 years, community interventions to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been conducted...

 
Health survey methods with minority populations: some lessons from recent experience (with S A McGraw, J B McKinlay, L A Costa, and D L Cohen), Ethnicity and disease (1992)

Until recently, minority populations have been inadequately or inaccurately represented in health research. Researchers are...

 

Residence Characteristics

Do characteristics of informal caregivers affect the length of hospital stay for frail elders (with K M Skinner and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1994)

Studies examining the length of hospital stay for the very old rarely include characteristics of...

 

Risk

Factors associated with age at natural menopause in a multiethnic sample of midlife women (with Ellen B. Gold, J Bromberger, S Samuels, Gail A. Greendale, Sioban D. Harlow, and J Skurnick), American journal of epidemiology (2001)

An unprecedented number of women will experience menopause in the next decade. Although the timing...

 
How does formal and informal community care affect nursing home use (with A M Jette and S Tennstedt), The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences (1995)

We examined the effects of informal and formal community care on the 6-year risk of...

 

Risk Assessment

Ethnic differences in cardiovascular risk factor burden among middle-aged women: Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) (with Karen A. Matthews, Mary Fran Sowers, Carol A. Derby, Evan Stein, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and Richard C. Pasternak), American heart journal (2005)

BACKGROUND: We evaluated ethnic differences in the 10-year risk of myocardial infarction or coronary death...

 
Quality of life among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2005)

PURPOSE: To describe quality of life (QOL) of younger women 4 to 42 months after...

 

Risk Factors

Negative life events: risk to health-related quality of life in children and youth with HIV infection (with Lois C. Howland, Deborah S. Storm, Yunsheng Ma, Steven L. Gortmaker, and James M. Oleske), The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC (2007)

Children and youth with perinatally acquired HIV infection are living longer because of improved drug...

 

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Relation of cardiovascular risk factors in women approaching menopause to menstrual cycle characteristics and reproductive hormones in the follicular and luteal phases (with Karen A. Matthews, Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Yuefang Chang, Richard C. Pasternak, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, and Maryfran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: Menstrual cycle characteristics may be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

OBJECTIVE: The objective...

 
Ethnic differences in cardiovascular risk factor burden among middle-aged women: Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) (with Karen A. Matthews, Mary Fran Sowers, Carol A. Derby, Evan Stein, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and Richard C. Pasternak), American heart journal (2005)

BACKGROUND: We evaluated ethnic differences in the 10-year risk of myocardial infarction or coronary death...

 

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Blood lead level and dental caries in school-age children (with Allison Gemmel, Mary Tavares, Susan Alperin, Jennifer Soncini, David Daniel, Julie Dunn, Norman Braveman, Thomas W. Clarkson, Sonja McKinlay, and David C. Bellinger), Environmental health perspectives (2002)

The association between blood lead level and dental caries was evaluated in cross-sectional analyses of...

 
Understanding the variability in the effectiveness of community heart health programs: a meta-analysis (with D E Sellers, Karen Bullock, and J B McKinlay), Social science and medicine (1982) (1997)

Over the past 25 years, community interventions to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been conducted...

 

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HIV risk among Latino adolescents in two New England cities (with K. W. Smith, S. A. McGraw, L. A. Costa, and J. B. McKinlay), American journal of public health (1993)

OBJECTIVES. Latino adolescents in two urban New England areas were surveyed to assess risk of...

 
Do blacks and whites differ in reporting Rose Questionnaire angina? Results of the Boston Health Care Project (with K W Smith, S A McGraw, and J B McKinlay), Ethnicity and disease (1993)

We investigated the prevalence of angina (as determined by the Rose Questionnaire) in a random...

 

Rural Population

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Blood lead level and dental caries in school-age children (with Allison Gemmel, Mary Tavares, Susan Alperin, Jennifer Soncini, David Daniel, Julie Dunn, Norman Braveman, Thomas W. Clarkson, Sonja McKinlay, and David C. Bellinger), Environmental health perspectives (2002)

The association between blood lead level and dental caries was evaluated in cross-sectional analyses of...

 

Sampling Studies

Psychosocial, behavioral, and health factors related to menopause symptomatology (with Nancy E. Avis and S M McKinlay), Women's health (Hillsdale, N.J.) (1997)

Despite wide variation in the reporting of hot flashes and night sweats among menopausal women,...

 
Health survey methods with minority populations: some lessons from recent experience (with S A McGraw, J B McKinlay, L A Costa, and D L Cohen), Ethnicity and disease (1992)

Until recently, minority populations have been inadequately or inaccurately represented in health research. Researchers are...

 

Self Care

Determining the pattern of community care: is coresidence more important than caregiver relationship (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of gerontology (1993)

Researchers have previously emphasized the importance of kinship tie to explaining the pattern of care...

 

Sensitivity and Specificity

Test-retest reliability of self-reported disability measures in older adults (with A M Jette and S L Tennstedt), Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (1997)
 

Sex Factors

Measuring depressive symptoms in the frail elderly (with H Davidson and P H Feldman), Journal of gerontology (1994)

To determine the usefulness of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) as a...

 
Determining the pattern of community care: is coresidence more important than caregiver relationship (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of gerontology (1993)

Researchers have previously emphasized the importance of kinship tie to explaining the pattern of care...

 

Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin

Correlates of circulating androgens in mid-life women: the study of women's health across the nation (with Nanette Santoro, Javier Torrens, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Joel S. Finkelstein, Ellen B. Gold, Stan Korenman, William L. Lasley, Judith L. Luborsky, Dan McConnell, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2005)

CONTEXT: Androgens influence sexual differentiation and behavior, body composition, and physical functioning in men, but...

 
Association of lipoprotein(a), insulin resistance, and reproductive hormones in a multiethnic cohort of pre- and perimenopausal women (The SWAN Study) (with MaryFran Sowers, Jane A Cauley, and Evan Stein), The American journal of cardiology (2003)

Because evidence suggests lipoprotein (Lp(a)) may be an important cardiovascular risk factor in women, we...

 

Sexual Behavior

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HIV risk among Latino adolescents in two New England cities (with K. W. Smith, S. A. McGraw, L. A. Costa, and J. B. McKinlay), American journal of public health (1993)

OBJECTIVES. Latino adolescents in two urban New England areas were surveyed to assess risk of...

 

Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological

Is there an association between menopause status and sexual functioning (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, Catherine B. Johannes, and C Longcope), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to address whether: (1) there is an...

 

Sexuality

Is there an association between menopause status and sexual functioning (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, Catherine B. Johannes, and C Longcope), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to address whether: (1) there is an...

 

Sickness Impact Profile

Quality of life among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2005)

PURPOSE: To describe quality of life (QOL) of younger women 4 to 42 months after...

 

Smoking

Selected diet and lifestyle factors are associated with estrogen metabolites in a multiracial/ethnic population of women (with MaryFran R Sowers, Daniel S McConnell, John F Jr Randolph, Ellen B. Gold, Margaret K Wilkin, and William L. Lasley), The Journal of nutrition (2006)

Diet and lifestyle factors, body size, and smoking behavior may influence estrogen metabolism, but the...

 
Lifestyle and demographic factors in relation to vasomotor symptoms: baseline results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (with Ellen B. Gold, Gladys Block, Laurie Lachance, Gordon FitzGerald, Heidi Miracle, and Sheryl Sherman), American journal of epidemiology (2004)

Results of recent trials highlight the risks of hormone therapy, increasing the importance of identifying...

 
The relationship of circulating dehydroepiandrosterone, testosterone, and estradiol to stages of the menopausal transition and ethnicity (with William L. Lasley, Nanette Santoro, John F Randolf, Ellen B. Gold, Gerson Weiss, Daniel S McConnell, and Mary Fran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2002)

In this report, 3029 women between the ages of 42 and 54 yr from five...

 
Factors associated with age at natural menopause in a multiethnic sample of midlife women (with Ellen B. Gold, J Bromberger, S Samuels, Gail A. Greendale, Sioban D. Harlow, and J Skurnick), American journal of epidemiology (2001)

An unprecedented number of women will experience menopause in the next decade. Although the timing...

 
A longitudinal study of weight and the menopause transition: results from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study (with V A Casey, Nancy E. Avis, and S M McKinlay), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVE: Results of past studies of menopause and weight are inconsistent, in part because...

 
Understanding the variability in the effectiveness of community heart health programs: a meta-analysis (with D E Sellers, Karen Bullock, and J B McKinlay), Social science and medicine (1982) (1997)

Over the past 25 years, community interventions to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been conducted...

 

Social Change

Is family care on the decline? A longitudinal investigation of the substitution of formal long-term care services for informal care (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), The Milbank quarterly (1993)

The focus on rising costs of long-term care now encompasses community as well as institutional...

 

Social Environment

Determining the pattern of community care: is coresidence more important than caregiver relationship (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of gerontology (1993)

Researchers have previously emphasized the importance of kinship tie to explaining the pattern of care...

 

Social Support

Determining the pattern of community care: is coresidence more important than caregiver relationship (with S L Tennstedt and J B McKinlay), Journal of gerontology (1993)

Researchers have previously emphasized the importance of kinship tie to explaining the pattern of care...

 

Social Work

Employment and caregiving: exploration of African American caregivers (with Karen Bullock and Sharon L Tennstedt), Social work (2003)

To more completely understand the challenges African American families face when combining employment commitments and...

 

Socioeconomic Factors

Is there a menopausal syndrome? Menopausal status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, J Bromberger, P Ganz, V Cain, and M Kagawa-Singer), Social science and medicine (1982) (2001)

In recent years, research on menopausal symptomalogy has focused on identifying symptom groupings experienced by...

 

PDF

Do blacks and whites differ in their use of health care for symptoms of coronary heart disease (with S. A. McGraw, K. W. Smith, J. B. McKinlay, and J. E. Pierson), American journal of public health (1994)

OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to identify the role of race in seeking...

 
Do blacks and whites differ in reporting Rose Questionnaire angina? Results of the Boston Health Care Project (with K W Smith, S A McGraw, and J B McKinlay), Ethnicity and disease (1993)

We investigated the prevalence of angina (as determined by the Rose Questionnaire) in a random...

 

Statistics

Correlation and regression, Circulation (2006)

In many health-related studies, investigators wish to assess the strength of an association between 2...

 
Can follicle-stimulating hormone be used to define menopausal status (with R K Stellato, S M McKinlay, and C Longcope), Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (2004)

OBJECTIVE: To assess the ability of the level of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) to distinguish...

 

Stress, Psychological

Quality of life among younger women with breast cancer (with Nancy E. Avis and Janeen Manuel), Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2005)

PURPOSE: To describe quality of life (QOL) of younger women 4 to 42 months after...

 
Lifestyle and demographic factors in relation to vasomotor symptoms: baseline results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (with Ellen B. Gold, Gladys Block, Laurie Lachance, Gordon FitzGerald, Heidi Miracle, and Sheryl Sherman), American journal of epidemiology (2004)

Results of recent trials highlight the risks of hormone therapy, increasing the importance of identifying...

 
The everyday impacts of providing informal care to dependent elders and their consequences for the care recipients (with J B McKinlay and S L Tennstedt), Journal of aging and health (1995)

Longitudinal data were used to identify the relationship between different areas of negative impact and...

 

Sweating

Psychosocial, behavioral, and health factors related to menopause symptomatology (with Nancy E. Avis and S M McKinlay), Women's health (Hillsdale, N.J.) (1997)

Despite wide variation in the reporting of hot flashes and night sweats among menopausal women,...

 

Telephone

Body mass index in mid-life women: relative influence of menopause, hormone use, and ethnicity (with Karen A. Matthews, B Abrams, T Miles, R Neer, L H Powell, and D Wesley), International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity (2001)

OBJECTIVE: To assess the relative influence of menopausal status and hormone use on body...

 
Interviewer effects in a cohort study. Results from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study (with Catherine B. Johannes and J B McKinlay), American journal of epidemiology (1997)

Although interviewer error is widely recognized as an important source of variation in epidemiologic investigations,...

 

Terminal Care

Help-seeking behaviors of blacks and whites dying from coronary heart disease (with Susan M Frayne, Sarah A McGraw, Kevin W Smith, and John B McKinlay), Ethnicity and health (2003)

OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine whether blacks and whites with life-threatening cardiac events...

 

Terminally Ill

Help-seeking behaviors of blacks and whites dying from coronary heart disease (with Susan M Frayne, Sarah A McGraw, Kevin W Smith, and John B McKinlay), Ethnicity and health (2003)

OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine whether blacks and whites with life-threatening cardiac events...

 

Testosterone

Correlates of circulating androgens in mid-life women: the study of women's health across the nation (with Nanette Santoro, Javier Torrens, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Joel S. Finkelstein, Ellen B. Gold, Stan Korenman, William L. Lasley, Judith L. Luborsky, Dan McConnell, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2005)

CONTEXT: Androgens influence sexual differentiation and behavior, body composition, and physical functioning in men, but...

 
Association of lipoprotein(a), insulin resistance, and reproductive hormones in a multiethnic cohort of pre- and perimenopausal women (The SWAN Study) (with MaryFran Sowers, Jane A Cauley, and Evan Stein), The American journal of cardiology (2003)

Because evidence suggests lipoprotein (Lp(a)) may be an important cardiovascular risk factor in women, we...

 
The relationship of circulating dehydroepiandrosterone, testosterone, and estradiol to stages of the menopausal transition and ethnicity (with William L. Lasley, Nanette Santoro, John F Randolf, Ellen B. Gold, Gerson Weiss, Daniel S McConnell, and Mary Fran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2002)

In this report, 3029 women between the ages of 42 and 54 yr from five...

 

Thyrotropin

Association of lipoprotein(a), insulin resistance, and reproductive hormones in a multiethnic cohort of pre- and perimenopausal women (The SWAN Study) (with MaryFran Sowers, Jane A Cauley, and Evan Stein), The American journal of cardiology (2003)

Because evidence suggests lipoprotein (Lp(a)) may be an important cardiovascular risk factor in women, we...

 

Time and Motion Studies

Employment and caregiving: exploration of African American caregivers (with Karen Bullock and Sharon L Tennstedt), Social work (2003)

To more completely understand the challenges African American families face when combining employment commitments and...

 

Time Factors

Ethnic differences in cardiovascular risk factor burden among middle-aged women: Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) (with Karen A. Matthews, Mary Fran Sowers, Carol A. Derby, Evan Stein, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and Richard C. Pasternak), American heart journal (2005)

BACKGROUND: We evaluated ethnic differences in the 10-year risk of myocardial infarction or coronary death...

 

Treatment Outcome

PDA-assisted low glycemic index dietary intervention for type II diabetes: a pilot study (with Yunsheng Ma, Barbara C. Olendzki, David E. Chiriboga, Milagros C. Rosal, E. Sinagra, Andrea R. Hafner, Sherry L. Pagoto, Robert P. Magner, and Ira S. Ockene), European journal of clinical nutrition (2006)

BACKGROUND: Epidemiological and dietary intervention studies suggest that a low-glycemic index (GI) diet is beneficial...

 

Triglycerides

Conjugated equine estrogens and coronary heart disease: the Women's Health Initiative (with Judith Hsia, Robert D Langer, Joann E Manson, Lewis Kuller, Karen C. Johnson, Susan L Hendrix, Mary Pettinger, Susan R Heckbert, Nancy Greep, Charles B Eaton, John B Kostis, Pat Caralis, and Ross Prentice), Archives of internal medicine (2006)

BACKGROUND: In recent randomized trials, conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) with continuous medroxyprogesterone acetate provided no...

 

Ultrasonography, Doppler, Pulsed

Use of a flow-mediated vasodilation technique to assess endothelial function in dogs (with Gary D Puglia, Lisa M Freeman, John E Rush, and Ryan G P King), American journal of veterinary research (2006)

OBJECTIVE: To develop and assess the reproducibility of a protocol to noninvasively test endothelial function...

 

United States

Selected diet and lifestyle factors are associated with estrogen metabolites in a multiracial/ethnic population of women (with MaryFran R Sowers, Daniel S McConnell, John F Jr Randolph, Ellen B. Gold, Margaret K Wilkin, and William L. Lasley), The Journal of nutrition (2006)

Diet and lifestyle factors, body size, and smoking behavior may influence estrogen metabolism, but the...

 
Conjugated equine estrogens and coronary heart disease: the Women's Health Initiative (with Judith Hsia, Robert D Langer, Joann E Manson, Lewis Kuller, Karen C. Johnson, Susan L Hendrix, Mary Pettinger, Susan R Heckbert, Nancy Greep, Charles B Eaton, John B Kostis, Pat Caralis, and Ross Prentice), Archives of internal medicine (2006)

BACKGROUND: In recent randomized trials, conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) with continuous medroxyprogesterone acetate provided no...

 
Ethnic differences in cardiovascular risk factor burden among middle-aged women: Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) (with Karen A. Matthews, Mary Fran Sowers, Carol A. Derby, Evan Stein, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and Richard C. Pasternak), American heart journal (2005)

BACKGROUND: We evaluated ethnic differences in the 10-year risk of myocardial infarction or coronary death...

 
Correlates of circulating androgens in mid-life women: the study of women's health across the nation (with Nanette Santoro, Javier Torrens, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Joel S. Finkelstein, Ellen B. Gold, Stan Korenman, William L. Lasley, Judith L. Luborsky, Dan McConnell, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2005)

CONTEXT: Androgens influence sexual differentiation and behavior, body composition, and physical functioning in men, but...

 
Body size and ethnicity are associated with menstrual cycle alterations in women in the early menopausal transition: The Study of Women's Health across the Nation (SWAN) Daily Hormone Study (with Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Dan McConnell, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Joel S. Finkelstein, Gail A. Greendale, Jenny Kelsey, Stan Korenman, Judith L. Luborsky, Karen A. Matthews, Rees Midgley, Lynda Powell, Janice Sabatine, Miriam Schocken, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2004)

The dynamics of reproductive hormones that characterize the menopausal transition (perimenopause) are incompletely understood, particularly...

 
Association of lipoprotein(a), insulin resistance, and reproductive hormones in a multiethnic cohort of pre- and perimenopausal women (The SWAN Study) (with MaryFran Sowers, Jane A Cauley, and Evan Stein), The American journal of cardiology (2003)

Because evidence suggests lipoprotein (Lp(a)) may be an important cardiovascular risk factor in women, we...

 

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Chronic disease medication use in managed care and indemnity insurance plans (with Randall S. Stafford, Stephen M. Davidson, Harriet Davidson, Heidi Miracle-McMahill, and David Blumenthal), Health services research (2003)

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of managed care on the use of chronic disease...

 
Assessment of digit preference in self-reported year at menopause: choice of an appropriate reference distribution (with Catherine B. Johannes and Rebecca K Stellato), American journal of epidemiology (2002)

Estimated associations between self-reported age at menopause and health may be attenuated if self-report is...

 
Is there a menopausal syndrome? Menopausal status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, J Bromberger, P Ganz, V Cain, and M Kagawa-Singer), Social science and medicine (1982) (2001)

In recent years, research on menopausal symptomalogy has focused on identifying symptom groupings experienced by...

 
Factors associated with age at natural menopause in a multiethnic sample of midlife women (with Ellen B. Gold, J Bromberger, S Samuels, Gail A. Greendale, Sioban D. Harlow, and J Skurnick), American journal of epidemiology (2001)

An unprecedented number of women will experience menopause in the next decade. Although the timing...

 
Informal care vs. formal services: changes in patterns of care over time (with S Tennstedt and B Harrow), Journal of aging and social policy (1995)

Longitudinal data from a representative sample of community-residing older persons were used to document changes...

 

Urban Health

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Do blacks and whites differ in their use of health care for symptoms of coronary heart disease (with S. A. McGraw, K. W. Smith, J. B. McKinlay, and J. E. Pierson), American journal of public health (1994)

OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to identify the role of race in seeking...

 

Urban Population

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Blood lead level and dental caries in school-age children (with Allison Gemmel, Mary Tavares, Susan Alperin, Jennifer Soncini, David Daniel, Julie Dunn, Norman Braveman, Thomas W. Clarkson, Sonja McKinlay, and David C. Bellinger), Environmental health perspectives (2002)

The association between blood lead level and dental caries was evaluated in cross-sectional analyses of...

 

Vasodilation

Use of a flow-mediated vasodilation technique to assess endothelial function in dogs (with Gary D Puglia, Lisa M Freeman, John E Rush, and Ryan G P King), American journal of veterinary research (2006)

OBJECTIVE: To develop and assess the reproducibility of a protocol to noninvasively test endothelial function...

 

Vasomotor System

Lifestyle and demographic factors in relation to vasomotor symptoms: baseline results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (with Ellen B. Gold, Gladys Block, Laurie Lachance, Gordon FitzGerald, Heidi Miracle, and Sheryl Sherman), American journal of epidemiology (2004)

Results of recent trials highlight the risks of hormone therapy, increasing the importance of identifying...

 

Vulnerable Populations

Employment and caregiving: exploration of African American caregivers (with Karen Bullock and Sharon L Tennstedt), Social work (2003)

To more completely understand the challenges African American families face when combining employment commitments and...

 

Weight Gain

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Relation of cardiovascular risk factors in women approaching menopause to menstrual cycle characteristics and reproductive hormones in the follicular and luteal phases (with Karen A. Matthews, Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Yuefang Chang, Richard C. Pasternak, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, and Maryfran Sowers), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)

CONTEXT: Menstrual cycle characteristics may be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

OBJECTIVE: The objective...

 

Women

Is there a menopausal syndrome? Menopausal status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, J Bromberger, P Ganz, V Cain, and M Kagawa-Singer), Social science and medicine (1982) (2001)

In recent years, research on menopausal symptomalogy has focused on identifying symptom groupings experienced by...

 

Women's Health

Body size and ethnicity are associated with menstrual cycle alterations in women in the early menopausal transition: The Study of Women's Health across the Nation (SWAN) Daily Hormone Study (with Nanette Santoro, William L. Lasley, Dan McConnell, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Ellen B. Gold, Joel S. Finkelstein, Gail A. Greendale, Jenny Kelsey, Stan Korenman, Judith L. Luborsky, Karen A. Matthews, Rees Midgley, Lynda Powell, Janice Sabatine, Miriam Schocken, Mary Fran Sowers, and Gerson Weiss), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2004)

The dynamics of reproductive hormones that characterize the menopausal transition (perimenopause) are incompletely understood, particularly...

 
Association of lipoprotein(a), insulin resistance, and reproductive hormones in a multiethnic cohort of pre- and perimenopausal women (The SWAN Study) (with MaryFran Sowers, Jane A Cauley, and Evan Stein), The American journal of cardiology (2003)

Because evidence suggests lipoprotein (Lp(a)) may be an important cardiovascular risk factor in women, we...

 
Longitudinal study of hormone levels and depression among women transitioning through menopause (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, and C Longcope), Climacteric : the journal of the International Menopause Society (2001)

OBJECTIVE: To address the association between depression and absolute levels of estradiol, and change...

 
Is there a menopausal syndrome? Menopausal status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, J Bromberger, P Ganz, V Cain, and M Kagawa-Singer), Social science and medicine (1982) (2001)

In recent years, research on menopausal symptomalogy has focused on identifying symptom groupings experienced by...

 
Is there an association between menopause status and sexual functioning (with Nancy E. Avis, R Stellato, Catherine B. Johannes, and C Longcope), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to address whether: (1) there is an...

 
A longitudinal study of weight and the menopause transition: results from the Massachusetts Women's Health Study (with V A Casey, Nancy E. Avis, and S M McKinlay), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2000)

OBJECTIVE: Results of past studies of menopause and weight are inconsistent, in part because...

 

Workload

The effects of health care reforms on job satisfaction and voluntary turnover among hospital-based nurses (with Harriet Davidson, P H Folcarelli, L J Duprat, and J C Clifford), Medical care (1997)

OBJECTIVES: Among the consequences of downsizing and cost containment in hospitals are major changes in...

 

World Health

Understanding the variability in the effectiveness of community heart health programs: a meta-analysis (with D E Sellers, Karen Bullock, and J B McKinlay), Social science and medicine (1982) (1997)

Over the past 25 years, community interventions to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been conducted...

 

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A pilot study of mindfulness-based stress reduction for hot flashes (with James Carmody and Linda Churchill), Menopause (New York, N.Y.) (2006)

OBJECTIVE: A variety of results from both population and laboratory studies suggest that stress and...