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Karen C. Johnson is affiliated with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in the United States. Their research output is primarily within the broad field of Medicine, with notable focus on several subfields such as Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Surgery.

Their publication record includes work on topics that relate to diet, metabolism, and related health outcomes. Key areas of focus include diet and metabolism studies, nutritional studies and diet, nutrition and health in aging, vitamin D research studies, cancer risks and factors, cardiovascular health and risk factors, and obesity and health practices.

Frequent research collaborators include Mark A. Espeland, JoAnn E. Manson, Alyssa Matthews, Vagner Castro, and Tim Wendler, with whom they have coauthored multiple publications.

Johnson's work has appeared in a range of scientific venues, with substantial publication counts in:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • UNC Libraries
  • Obesity
  • The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • Diabetes Care

Some notable recent papers include:

  • Final Report of a Trial of Intensive versus Standard Blood-Pressure Control (2021, New England Journal of Medicine)
  • Association of Menopausal Hormone Therapy With Breast Cancer Incidence and Mortality During Long-term Follow-up of the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Clinical Trials (2020, JAMA)
  • Dietary Modification and Breast Cancer Mortality: Long-Term Follow-Up of the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Trial (2020, Journal of Clinical Oncology)
  • Association of Intensive Lifestyle Intervention, Fitness, and Body Mass Index With Risk of Heart Failure in Overweight or Obese Adults With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (2020, Circulation)
  • Effects of intensive versus standard blood pressure control on domain-specific cognitive function: a substudy of the SPRINT randomised controlled trial (2020, The Lancet Neurology)

Best Publications

  • Risks and benefits of estrogen plus progestin in healthy postmenopausal women: Principal results from the Women's Health Initiative randomized controlled trial

    Jacques E. Rossouw;Garnet L. Anderson;Ross L. Prentice;Andrea Z. LaCroix

  • A Randomized Trial of Intensive versus Standard Blood-Pressure Control

    Jackson T. Wright;Jeff D. Williamson;Paul K. Whelton;Joni K. Snyder

  • Effects of conjugated equine estrogen in postmenopausal women with hysterectomy: the Women's Health Initiative randomized controlled trial

    Garnet L. Anderson;Marian C. Limacher;Annlouise R. Assaf;Tamsen Bassford

  • Estrogen plus progestin and the risk of coronary heart disease

    JoAnn A E Manson;Judith Hsia;Karen C. Johnson;Jacques E. Rossouw

  • Cardiovascular effects of intensive lifestyle intervention in type 2 diabetes

    R. R. Wing;P. Bolin;F. L. Brancati;G. A. Bray

  • Calcium plus vitamin D supplementation and the risk of fractures.

    Rebecca D. Jackson;Andrea Z. LaCroix;Margery Gass;Robert B. Wallace

  • Menopausal hormone therapy and health outcomes during the intervention and extended poststopping phases of the women's health initiative randomized trials

    Jo Ann E. Manson;Rowan T. Chlebowski;Marcia L. Stefanick;Aaron K. Aragaki

  • Long-term effects of a lifestyle intervention on weight and cardiovascular risk factors in individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus: four-year results of the Look AHEAD trial.

    Rena R. Wing;Judy L. Bahnson;George A. Bray;Jeanne M. Clark

  • Sodium Reduction and Weight Loss in the Treatment of Hypertension in Older Persons: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Nonpharmacologic Interventions in the Elderly (TONE)

    Paul K. Whelton;Lawrence J. Appel;Mark A. Espeland;William B. Applegate

  • Low-fat dietary pattern and risk of cardiovascular disease : The women's health initiative randomized controlled dietary modification trial

    Barbara V. Howard;Barbara V. Howard;Linda Van Horn;Judith Hsia;JoAnn E. Manson

  • Reduction in Weight and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes: One-Year Results of the Look AHEAD Trial

    Mark Espeland;Xavier Pi-Sunyer;George Blackburn;Frederick L. Brancati

  • Calcium plus Vitamin D Supplementation and the Risk of Colorectal Cancer

    Jean Wactawski-Wende;Jane Morley Kotchen;Garnet L. Anderson;Annlouise R. Assaf;Annlouise R. Assaf

  • Effect of estrogen plus progestin on global cognitive function in postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study: a randomized controlled trial.

    Stephen R. Rapp;Mark A. Espeland;Sally A. Shumaker;Victor W. Henderson

  • Effect of Intensive vs Standard Blood Pressure Control on Probable Dementia: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Jeff D. Williamson;Nicholas M. Pajewski;Alexander P. Auchus

  • Exemestane for Breast-Cancer Prevention in Postmenopausal Women

    Paul E. Goss;James N. Ingle;José E. Alés-Martínez;Angela M. Cheung

  • Low-Fat dietary pattern and risk of invasive breast cancer: The women's health initiative randomized controlled dietary modification trial

    Ross L. Prentice;Bette Caan;Rowan T. Chlebowski;Ruth Patterson

  • Menarche, menopause, and breast cancer risk: Individual participant meta-analysis, including 118 964 women with breast cancer from 117 epidemiological studies

    N. Hamajima;K. Hirose;K. Tajima;T. Rohan

  • Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes): design and methods for a clinical trial of weight loss for the prevention of cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetes.

    Donna H Ryan;Mark A Espeland;Gary D Foster;Steven M Haffner

  • Calcium/Vitamin D Supplementation and Cardiovascular Events

    Judith Hsia;Gerardo Heiss;Hong Ren;Matthew Allison

  • Association of an intensive lifestyle intervention with remission of type 2 diabetes.

    Edward W. Gregg;Haiying Chen;Lynne E. Wagenknecht;Jeanne M. Clark

Frequent Co-Authors

JoAnn E. Manson
JoAnn E. Manson Harvard Medical School
Jean Wactawski-Wende
Jean Wactawski-Wende University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Marcia L. Stefanick
Marcia L. Stefanick Stanford University
Cora E. Lewis
Cora E. Lewis University of Alabama at Birmingham
Rowan T. Chlebowski
Rowan T. Chlebowski UCLA Medical Center
Ross L. Prentice
Ross L. Prentice Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Mark A. Espeland
Mark A. Espeland Wake Forest University
Charles B. Eaton
Charles B. Eaton Brown University
Lewis H. Kuller
Lewis H. Kuller University of Pittsburgh
Garnet L. Anderson
Garnet L. Anderson Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

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