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Overview

David S. Krantz is affiliated with the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a focus on cardiology and clinical psychology. Their research primarily spans cardiology and cardiovascular medicine as well as clinical psychology, with additional contributions related to public health and complementary and alternative medicine.

The scientist's work addresses several topics, including:

  • Cardiac Health and Mental Health
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Psychedelics and Drug Studies
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors

David S. Krantz has frequent publication collaborations with several researchers, including:

  • C. Noel Bairey Merz
  • Puja K. Mehta
  • Carl J. Pepine
  • Vera Bittner
  • Eileen Handberg

They have published multiple articles in a range of scientific journals. Key publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Applied Social Psychology
  • Health Psychology
  • Heart and Mind
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by David S. Krantz are:

  • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a systemic disorder: Pathways to cardiovascular disease, 2021, Health Psychology
  • The Perceived Stress Scale as a Measure of Stress: Decomposing Score Variance in Longitudinal Behavioral Medicine Studies, 2023, Annals of Behavioral Medicine
  • The Role of Psychedelics and Counseling in Mental Health Treatment, 2020, Journal of Mental Health Counseling
  • Impact of Mental Stress and Anger on Indices of Diastolic Function in Patients With Heart Failure, 2020, Journal of Cardiac Failure
  • Psychological stress, cardiac symptoms, and cardiovascular risk in women with suspected ischaemia but no obstructive coronary disease, 2020, Stress and Health

Best Publications

  • Acute psychophysiologic reactivity and risk of cardiovascular disease: A review and methodologic critique.

    David S. Krantz;Stephen B. Manuck

  • Mental stress and the induction of silent myocardial ischemia in patients with coronary artery disease.

    A Rozanski;C N Bairey;D S Krantz;J Friedman

  • The Effect of Atherosclerosis on the Vasomotor Response of Coronary Arteries to Mental Stress

    Alan C. Yeung;Vladimir I. Vekshtein;David S. Krantz;Joseph A. Vita

  • Effects of psychological and social factors on organic disease: a critical assessment of research on coronary heart disease.

    David S Krantz;Melissa K McCeney

  • An Introduction to Health Psychology

    Robert J. Gatchel;Andrew Baum;David S. Krantz;Jerome E. Singer

  • Assessment of preferences for self-treatment and information in health care.

    David S. Krantz;Andrew Baum;Margaret V. Wideman

  • Helplessness, stress level, and the coronary-prone behavior pattern

    David S Krantz;David C Glass;Melvin L Snyder

  • Physiological, motivational, and cognitive effects of aircraft noise on children: Moving from the laboratory to the field.

    Sheldon Cohen;Gary W. Evans;David S. Krantz;Daniel Stokols

  • Effects of mental stress on myocardial ischemia during daily life.

    Elizabeth C. D. Gullette;James A. Blumenthal;Michael Babyak;Wei Jiang

  • Mental stress--induced myocardial ischemia and cardiac events.

    Wei Jiang;Michael Babyak;David S. Krantz;Robert A. Waugh

  • Cardiovascular reactivity to the cold pressor test as a predictor of hypertension

    M. S. Menkes;K. A. Matthews;D. S. Krantz;U. Lundberg

  • Stress management and exercise training in cardiac patients with myocardial ischemia : Effects on prognosis and evaluation of mechanisms

    J A Blumenthal;W Jiang;M A Babyak;D S Krantz

  • Ischemic, Hemodynamic, and Neurohormonal Responses to Mental and Exercise Stress Experience From the Psychophysiological Investigations of Myocardial Ischemia Study (PIMI)

    A. David Goldberg;Lewis C. Becker;Robert Bonsall;Jerome D. Cohen

  • Association of extreme first-trimester free human chorionic gonadotropin-β, pregnancy-associated plasma protein A, and nuchal translucency with intrauterine growth restriction and other adverse pregnancy outcomes

    David Krantz;Laura Goetzl;Joe Leigh Simpson;Elizabeth Thom

  • Mental Stress-Induced Ischemia and All-Cause Mortality in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease Results From the Psychophysiological Investigations of Myocardial Ischemia Study

    David S. Sheps;Robert P. McMahon;Lewis Becker;Robert M. Carney

  • Assessment of preferences for self-treatment and information in health care.

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  • Mental stress as a trigger of myocardial ischemia and infarction.

    David S. Krantz;Willem J. Kop;Helen T. Santiago;John S. Gottdiener

  • Individual differences in behaviorally evoked cardiovascular response: temporal stability and hemodynamic patterning.

    Alfred L. Kasprowicz;Stephen B. Manuck;Susan B. Malkoff;David S. Krantz

  • Environmental Stress and Health

    Sheldon Cohen;Gary W. Evans;Daniel Stokols;David S. Krantz

  • Automated physical activity monitoring: validation and comparison with physiological and self-report measures.

    Stephen M. Patterson;David S. Krantz;Leslie C. Montgomery;Patricia A. Deuster

  • Depression, the metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular risk.

    Viola Vaccarino;Candace McClure;B Delia Johnson;David S. Sheps

Frequent Co-Authors

John S. Gottdiener
John S. Gottdiener University of Maryland, Baltimore
C. Noel Bairey Merz
C. Noel Bairey Merz Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Thomas Rutledge
Thomas Rutledge University of California, San Diego
Carl J. Pepine
Carl J. Pepine University of Florida
Vera Bittner
Vera Bittner University of Alabama at Birmingham
Stephen S. Gottlieb
Stephen S. Gottlieb University of Maryland, Baltimore
Daniel Stokols
Daniel Stokols University of California, Irvine
Gary W. Evans
Gary W. Evans Cornell University
Sheldon Cohen
Sheldon Cohen Carnegie Mellon University
Viola Vaccarino
Viola Vaccarino Emory University

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