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Marcia L. Stefanick

Marcia L. Stefanick

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Best Female Scientists
2025

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Best Female Scientists

D-Index
126
Citations
89415
World Ranking
408
National Ranking
244

Medicine

D-Index
128
Citations
93068
World Ranking
2646
National Ranking
1480

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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Marcia L. Stefanick is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has an extensive research portfolio primarily in the field of Medicine. Their work spans several subfields including Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Physiology, Oncology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Genetics.

Their research covers a range of topics, with notable focus areas including:

  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Cancer Risks and Factors
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Estrogen and related hormone effects
  • Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors

Marcia L. Stefanick has contributed to numerous publications, frequently collaborating with several coauthors. Key frequent collaborators include:

  • JoAnn E. Manson (47 joint publications)
  • Aladdin H. Shadyab (43 joint publications)
  • Michael J. LaMonte (33 joint publications)
  • Andrea Z. LaCroix (28 joint publications)
  • Jane A. Cauley (17 joint publications)

Their work has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, among which are:

  • UNC Libraries (21 publications)
  • Circulation (9 publications)
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series A (6 publications)
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology (5 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (5 publications)

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Marcia L. Stefanick include:

  • Menopause Transition and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Implications for Timing of Early Prevention: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association, 2020, Circulation
  • 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
  • Gender-related variables for health research, 2021, Biology of Sex Differences
  • Association of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes With Risk of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in Postmenopausal Women, 2020, JAMA Cardiology
  • The Women's Health Initiative Randomized Trials and Clinical Practice, 2024, JAMA

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

  • 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

  • Influence of Estrogen Plus Progestin on Breast Cancer and Mammography in Healthy Postmenopausal Women: The Women’s Health Initiative Randomized Trial

    Rowan T. Chlebowski;Susan L. Hendrix;Robert D. Langer;Marcia L. Stefanick

  • Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease by Age and Years Since Menopause

    Jacques E. Rossouw;Ross L. Prentice;JoAnn E. Manson;LieLing Wu

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

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

  • Effects of Estrogen or Estrogen/ Progestin Regimens on Heart Disease Risk Factors in Postmenopausal Women: The Postmenopausal Estrogen/Progestin Interventions (PEPI) Trial

    Valery T. Miller;John LaRosa;Vanessa Barnabei;Craig Kessler

  • Walking compared with vigorous exercise for the prevention of cardiovascular events in women.

    Joann E. Manson;Philip Greenland;Andrea Z. LaCroix;Marcia L. Stefanick

  • 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

  • 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

  • Conjugated equine estrogens and incidence of probable dementia and mild cognitive impairment in postmenopausal women: Women's Health Initiative Memory Study

    Sally A. Shumaker;Claudine Legault;Lewis Kuller;Stephen R. Rapp

  • Effects of estrogen plus progestin on risk of fracture and bone mineral density: the Women's Health Initiative randomized trial.

    Jane A. Cauley;John Robbins;Zhao Chen;Steven R. Cummings

  • 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

  • National use of postmenopausal hormone therapy: annual trends and response to recent evidence.

    Adam L. Hersh;Marcia L. Stefanick;Randall S. Stafford

  • 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

  • Effect of Postmenopausal Hormones on Inflammation-Sensitive Proteins The Postmenopausal Estrogen/Progestin Interventions (PEPI) Study

    Mary Cushman;Claudine Legault;Elizabeth Barrett-Connor;Marcia L. Stefanick

  • Changes in Plasma Lipids and Lipoproteins in Overweight Men during Weight Loss through Dieting as Compared with Exercise

    P D Wood;M L Stefanick;D M Dreon;B Frey-Hewitt

  • Influence of a diet very high in vegetables, fruit, and fiber and low in fat on prognosis following treatment for breast cancer: the Women's Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) randomized trial.

    John P. Pierce;Loki Natarajan;Bette J. Caan;Barbara A. Parker

  • Estrogen therapy and coronary-artery calcification.

    Jo Ann E. Manson;Matthew A. Allison;Jacques E. Rossouw;J. Jeffrey Carr

  • Effects of diet and exercise in men and postmenopausal women with low levels of HDL cholesterol and high levels of LDL cholesterol.

    Marcia L. Stefanick;Sally Mackey;Mary Sheehan;Nancy Ellsworth

Frequent Co-Authors

JoAnn E. Manson
JoAnn E. Manson Harvard Medical School
Rowan T. Chlebowski
Rowan T. Chlebowski UCLA Medical Center
Jean Wactawski-Wende
Jean Wactawski-Wende University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Karen C. Johnson
Karen C. Johnson University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Ross L. Prentice
Ross L. Prentice Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Garnet L. Anderson
Garnet L. Anderson Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Jane A. Cauley
Jane A. Cauley University of Pittsburgh
Cynthia A. Thomson
Cynthia A. Thomson University of Arizona
Cora E. Lewis
Cora E. Lewis University of Alabama at Birmingham
Karen L. Margolis
Karen L. Margolis HealthPartners

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