Published in J Pers on April 08, 2008
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Beyond frequency: who is most bothered by vasomotor symptoms? Menopause (2008) 2.35
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A pandemic of the poor: social disadvantage and the U.S. HIV epidemic. Am Psychol (2013) 2.27
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Negative affect and vasomotor symptoms in the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation Daily Hormone Study. Menopause (2011) 2.19
Influence of race and socioeconomic status on sleep: Pittsburgh SleepSCORE project. Psychosom Med (2008) 2.16
Depressive symptoms and stressful life events predict metabolic syndrome among middle-aged women: a comparison of World Health Organization, Adult Treatment Panel III, and International Diabetes Foundation definitions. Diabetes Care (2007) 2.16
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Race and financial strain are independent correlates of sleep in midlife women: the SWAN sleep study. Sleep (2009) 2.13
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A higher sense of purpose in life is associated with sexual enjoyment in midlife women. Menopause (2011) 2.09
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Hot flashes and carotid intima media thickness among midlife women. Menopause (2011) 1.99
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Associations of endogenous sex hormones with the vasculature in menopausal women: the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN). Menopause (2008) 1.94
Burden of subclinical cardiovascular disease in "metabolically benign" and "at-risk" overweight and obese women: the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN). Atherosclerosis (2011) 1.89
Ethnic differences in C-reactive protein concentrations. Clin Chem (2008) 1.87
Marital happiness and sleep disturbances in a multi-ethnic sample of middle-aged women. Behav Sleep Med (2009) 1.83
Individual differences in stressor-evoked blood pressure reactivity vary with activation, volume, and functional connectivity of the amygdala. J Neurosci (2008) 1.83
Prospective reports of chronic life stress predict decreased grey matter volume in the hippocampus. Neuroimage (2007) 1.82
Poor sleep is associated with poorer physical performance and greater functional limitations in older women. Sleep (2007) 1.82
Hot flashes and cardiac vagal control during women's daily lives. Menopause (2012) 1.78
Coronary and aortic calcification in women with a history of major depression. Arch Intern Med (2005) 1.77
Increases in job strain are associated with incident hypertension in the CARDIA Study. Ann Behav Med (2004) 1.76
Socioeconomic status and health: do gradients differ within childhood and adolescence? Soc Sci Med (2005) 1.75
Racial and socioeconomic disparities in arterial stiffness and intima media thickness among adolescents. Soc Sci Med (2009) 1.75
Longitudinal change in reproductive hormones and depressive symptoms across the menopausal transition: results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN). Arch Gen Psychiatry (2010) 1.73
Does risk for anxiety increase during the menopausal transition? Study of women's health across the nation. Menopause (2013) 1.72
Pregnancy and birth history influence women's experience of menopause. Menopause (2008) 1.71
Depressive symptoms and mortality in men: results from the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial. Stroke (2004) 1.68
Intra-individual variability in sleep duration and fragmentation: associations with stress. Psychoneuroendocrinology (2009) 1.67
Are vasomotor symptoms associated with sleep characteristics among symptomatic midlife women? Comparisons of self-report and objective measures. Menopause (2012) 1.65
History of hot flashes and aortic calcification among postmenopausal women. Menopause (2010) 1.63
Depressive symptoms are related to progression of coronary calcium in midlife women: the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) Heart Study. Am Heart J (2011) 1.61
Gain in adiposity across 15 years is associated with reduced gray matter volume in healthy women. Psychosom Med (2009) 1.60
Childhood abuse or neglect is associated with increased vasomotor symptom reporting among midlife women. Menopause (2008) 1.59
The impact of hormone therapy on health-related quality of life: longitudinal results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation. Menopause (2008) 1.57
Are psychological characteristics related to risk of the metabolic syndrome? A review of the literature. Ann Behav Med (2007) 1.57
Sleep symptoms predict the development of the metabolic syndrome. Sleep (2010) 1.55
Volumetric BMD and vascular calcification in middle-aged women: the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation. J Bone Miner Res (2006) 1.54
Improving the performance of physiologic hot flash measures with support vector machines. Psychophysiology (2009) 1.54
Ethnic differences in past hysterectomy for benign conditions. Womens Health Issues (2005) 1.52
The Life Engagement Test: assessing purpose in life. J Behav Med (2006) 1.50
Low socioeconomic status over 12 years and subclinical cardiovascular disease: the study of women's health across the nation. Stroke (2014) 1.50
Association of socioeconomic status with inflammation markers in black and white men and women in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study. Soc Sci Med (2009) 1.50
Socioeconomic status, resources, psychological experiences, and emotional responses: a test of the reserve capacity model. J Pers Soc Psychol (2005) 1.49
How well do different measurement modalities estimate the number of vasomotor symptoms? Findings from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation FLASHES Study. Menopause (2014) 1.48
Cognitive function effects of suppressing ovarian hormones in young women. Menopause (2002) 1.47
Mood symptoms after natural menopause and hysterectomy with and without bilateral oophorectomy among women in midlife. Obstet Gynecol (2012) 1.47
Negative attitudes and affect do not predict elective hysterectomy: a prospective analysis from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation. Menopause (2011) 1.47
Impact of socioeconomic status on longitudinal accumulation of cardiovascular risk in young adults: the CARDIA Study (USA). Soc Sci Med (2005) 1.46
Adiposity and reporting of vasomotor symptoms among midlife women: the study of women's health across the nation. Am J Epidemiol (2007) 1.46
Hypoestrogenemia of hypothalamic origin and coronary artery disease in premenopausal women: a report from the NHLBI-sponsored WISE study. J Am Coll Cardiol (2003) 1.44
Potential neural embedding of parental social standing. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci (2008) 1.42
Self-reported and accelerometer-derived physical activity levels and coronary artery calcification progression in older women: results from the Healthy Women Study. Menopause (2013) 1.42
Understanding health disparities: the role of race and socioeconomic status in children's health. Am J Public Health (2006) 1.42
Childhood family psychosocial environment and coronary heart disease risk. Psychosom Med (2011) 1.40
Marital quality and occurrence of the metabolic syndrome in women. Arch Intern Med (2005) 1.39
Trajectories of socioeconomic status across children's lifetime predict health. Pediatrics (2007) 1.38
Social networks are associated with lower mortality rates among women with suspected coronary disease: the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute-Sponsored Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation study. Psychosom Med (2004) 1.36
Gains in body fat and vasomotor symptom reporting over the menopausal transition: the study of women's health across the nation. Am J Epidemiol (2009) 1.36
Factors related to age at natural menopause: longitudinal analyses from SWAN. Am J Epidemiol (2013) 1.34
Lifetime history of major depression predicts the development of the metabolic syndrome in middle-aged women. Psychosom Med (2009) 1.34
Helping midlife women predict the onset of the final menses: SWAN, the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation. Menopause (2007) 1.34
Interactions between autonomic nervous system activity and endothelial function: a model for the development of cardiovascular disease. Psychosom Med (2004) 1.29
Lipid changes during the menopause transition in relation to age and weight: the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation. Am J Epidemiol (2009) 1.29
What are the costs of marital conflict and dissolution to children's physical health? Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev (2004) 1.24
Depressive symptoms, race, and circulating C-reactive protein: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study. Psychosom Med (2010) 1.23
Individual versus neighborhood socioeconomic status and race as predictors of adolescent ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate. Soc Sci Med (2006) 1.23
Causes and demographic, medical, lifestyle and psychosocial predictors of premature mortality: the CARDIA study. Soc Sci Med (2005) 1.23
Hostility predicts recurrent events among postmenopausal women with coronary heart disease. Am J Epidemiol (2002) 1.23
Association of enjoyable leisure activities with psychological and physical well-being. Psychosom Med (2009) 1.22
The relation between perceived unfair treatment and blood pressure in a racially/ethnically diverse sample of women. Am J Epidemiol (2006) 1.22
Heightened functional neural activation to psychological stress covaries with exaggerated blood pressure reactivity. Hypertension (2006) 1.22
Socioeconomic status is related to urinary catecholamines in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study. Psychosom Med (2007) 1.21
The influence of socioeconomic status and ethnicity on adolescents' exposure to stressful life events. J Pediatr Psychol (2002) 1.20
Childhood abuse, parental warmth, and adult multisystem biological risk in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults study. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2013) 1.19
Lipoprotein subclasses and coronary artery calcium in postmenopausal women from the healthy women study. Am J Cardiol (2002) 1.19
Associations between psychological traits and endothelial function in postmenopausal women. Psychosom Med (2003) 1.19
Lipids, menopause, and early atherosclerosis in Study of Women's Health Across the Nation Heart women. Menopause (2011) 1.19
Elevated C-reactive protein in adolescents: roles of stress and coping. Psychosom Med (2013) 1.18
Socioeconomic status in childhood and adulthood: associations with dispositional optimism and pessimism over a 21-year follow-up. J Pers (2006) 1.17
Are sleep and depression independent or overlapping risk factors for cardiometabolic disease? Sleep Med Rev (2010) 1.17