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  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Elisa T. Lee is affiliated with the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions in cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, molecular biology, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, epidemiology, and physiology.

The scientist's work covers several key topics, including cardiovascular health and risk factors, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, cardiovascular disease and adiposity, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, diabetes, cardiovascular risks and lipoproteins, health, environment and cognitive aging, as well as diet, metabolism, and disease.

Several recent papers authored or coauthored by Elisa T. Lee highlight these research interests. These include:

  • Longitudinal Plasma Lipidome and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in a Large Sample of American Indians With Normal Fasting Glucose: The Strong Heart Family Study, 2021, published in Diabetes Care
  • Lipidomic profiling in the Strong Heart Study identified American Indians at risk of chronic kidney disease, 2022, published in Kidney International
  • Subclinical atherosclerosis in adolescents and young adults and the risk of cardiovascular disease: The Strong Heart Family Study (SHFS), 2022, published in Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Plasma lipidomic profile of depressive symptoms: a longitudinal study in a large sample of community-dwelling American Indians in the strong heart study, 2023, published in Molecular Psychiatry
  • Dyslipidemia in American Indian Adolescents and Young Adults: Strong Heart Family Study, 2024, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association

The scientist has frequently published in journals such as Circulation, UNC Libraries, GeroScience, Journal of the American Heart Association, and Diabetes Care.

Elisa T. Lee collaborates regularly with a range of co-authors. Frequent collaborators include Jason G. Umans, Barbara V. Howard, Shelley A. Cole, Richard B. Devereux, and Jinying Zhao.

In 1996, Elisa T. Lee was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA).

Best Publications

  • Sleep-disordered breathing and cardiovascular disease: cross-sectional results of the Sleep Heart Health Study.

    Shahar E;Whitney Cw;Redline S;Lee Et

  • Central pressure more strongly relates to vascular disease and outcome than does brachial pressure: the Strong Heart Study.

    Mary J. Roman;Richard B. Devereux;Jorge R. Kizer;Elisa T. Lee

  • Impact of Diabetes on Cardiac Structure and Function The Strong Heart Study

    Richard B. Devereux;Mary J. Roman;Mary Paranicas;Michael J. O’Grady

  • THE STRONG HEART STUDY A STUDY OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IN AMERICAN INDIANS: DESIGN AND METHODS

    Elisa T. Lee;Thomas K. Welty;Richard Fabsitz;Linda D. Cowan

  • Rising tide of cardiovascular disease in American Indians. The Strong Heart Study.

    Barbara V. Howard;Elisa T. Lee;Linda D. Cowan;Richard B. Devereux

  • Mitral Ratio of Peak Early to Late Diastolic Filling Velocity as a Predictor of Mortality in Middle-Aged and Elderly Adults The Strong Heart Study

    Jonathan N. Bella;Vittorio Palmieri;Mary J. Roman;Jennifer E. Liu

  • Assessment of QT interval and QT dispersion for prediction of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in American Indians: The Strong Heart Study.

    Peter M. Okin;Richard B. Devereux;Barbara V. Howard;Richard R. Fabsitz

  • Left atrial diameter as an independent predictor of first clinical cardiovascular events in middle-aged and elderly adults: the Strong Heart Study (SHS).

    Jorge R. Kizer;Jonathan N. Bella;Vittorio Palmieri;Jennifer E. Liu

  • The impact of diabetes on left ventricular filling pattern in normotensive and hypertensive adults: the strong heart study☆

    Jennifer E Liu;Vittorio Palmieri;Mary J Roman;Jonanthan N Bella

  • Normal Limits in Relation to Age, Body Size and Gender of Two-Dimensional Echocardiographic Aortic Root Dimensions in Persons ≥15 Years of Age

    Richard B. Devereux;Giovanni De Simone;Donna K. Arnett;Lyle G. Best

  • Haptoglobin phenotype is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease in individuals with diabetes: the strong heart study

    Andrew P Levy;Irit Hochberg;Kathleen Jablonski;Helaine E Resnick

  • LDL cholesterol as a strong predictor of coronary heart disease in diabetic individuals with insulin resistance and low LDL: The Strong Heart Study.

    Barbara V. Howard;David C. Robbins;Maurice L. Sievers;Elisa T. Lee

  • HIGH CENTRAL PULSE PRESSURE IS INDEPENDENTLY ASSOCIATED WITH ADVERSE CARDIOVASCULAR OUTCOME: THE STRONG HEART STUDY

    Mary J. Roman;Richard B. Devereux;Jorge R. Kizer;Peter M. Okin

  • Adverse Effects of Diabetes on Multiple Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Women: The Strong Heart Study

    Barbara V. Howard;Linda D. Cowan;Oscar Go;Thomas K. Welty

  • Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors among American Indians The Strong Heart Study

    Thomas K. Welty;Elisa T. Lee;Jeunliang Yeh;Linda D. Cowan

  • Congestive heart failure despite normal left ventricular systolic function in a population-based sample: the Strong Heart Study ∗

    Richard B Devereux;Mary J Roman;Jennifer E Liu;Thomas K Welty

  • Prehypertension, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in a Population-Based Sample The Strong Heart Study

    Ying Zhang;Elisa T. Lee;Richard B. Devereux;Jeunliang Yeh

  • Impact of Obesity on Cardiac Geometry and Function in a Population of Adolescents. The Strong Heart Study

    Marcello Chinali;Marcello Chinali;Giovanni de Simone;Giovanni de Simone;Mary J. Roman;Elisa T. Lee

  • Coronary Heart Disease Prevalence and Its Relation to Risk Factors in American Indians The Strong Heart Study

    Barbara V. Howard;Elisa T. Lee;Linda D. Cowan;Richard R. Fabsitz

  • Effect of lower targets for blood pressure and LDL cholesterol on atherosclerosis in diabetes: the SANDS randomized trial.

    Barbara V. Howard;Mary J. Roman;Richard B. Devereux;Jerome L. Fleg

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara V. Howard
Barbara V. Howard MedStar Health
Richard B. Devereux
Richard B. Devereux Cornell University
Mary J. Roman
Mary J. Roman Cornell University
Richard R. Fabsitz
Richard R. Fabsitz George Mason University
Giovanni de Simone
Giovanni de Simone University of Naples Federico II
Shelley A. Cole
Shelley A. Cole Texas Biomedical Research Institute
Peter M. Okin
Peter M. Okin Cornell University
Kari E. North
Kari E. North University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Harald H H Göring
Harald H H Göring The University of Texas at Austin
Laura Almasy
Laura Almasy University of Pennsylvania

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