Dr. Yunsheng Ma, M.D. Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Medicine's Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine at the University of
Massachusetts Medical School. His research interest include: effect of diet and other
lifestyle factors on obesity, diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, and heart disease;
characteristics, health trends, and healthcare utilization of Medicaid insured
individuals; cardiovascular disease epidemiology; and applied statistical methods in
clinical and population research.

Articles

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Statin therapy and the risk for diabetes among adult women: do the benefits outweigh the risk (with Annie L. Culver, Jacques E. Rossouw, Barbara C. Olendzki, Philip A. Merriam, Bill Lian, and Ira S. Ockene), Therapeutic advances in cardiovascular disease (2012)
 

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Antidepressant Use, Depression, and New Onset Diabetes among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries (with Usha Sambamoorthi, Patricia A. Findley, and George Rust), Journal of diabetes (2012)
 

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Validity of self-reported height and weight and factors associated with errors in self-report (with Anil Chankaramangalam Mathew, Thazhuthekudiyil Sathyan Anithadevi, Rowther Shamna Safar, Singanallur Lakshmanan Ravi Shankar, and Moosa Saira Banu), International Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology (2012)
 

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Diagnostic Value of Ankle-Brachial Index in Peripheral Arterial Disease: A Meta-Analysis (with Dachun Xu, Liling Zou, Yan Xing, Lei Hou, Yidong Wei, Ji Zhang, Yongxia Qiao, Dayi Hu, Yawei Xu, and Jue Li), The Canadian journal of cardiology (2012)
 

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Clinical features of chinese coronary heart disease patients with chronic kidney disease (with Yong Wang, Dongdong Zhao, Yan Xing, Jue Li, Dayi Hu, Yawei Xu, and Philip A. Merriam), Renal Failure (2012)
 

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Presentations and Posters

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Pilot Testing a Novel Treatment for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (with Barbara C. Olendzki, Gioia Persuitte, Taryn Silverstein, Katherine Baldwin, David Cave, John K. Zawacki, and Kanishka Bhattacharya), Clinical and Translational Science Research Retreat (2011)
 

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Simple messages to improve dietary quality: A pilot investigation (with Barbara C. Olendzki, Kristin L. Schneider, Philip A. Merriam, Annie L. Culver, Ira S. Ockene, and Sherry L. Pagoto), American Dietetic Association Annual Meeting (2008)