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

Overview

Mark A. Espeland is affiliated with Wake Forest University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with particular attention to subfields including health, toxicology and mutagenesis, psychiatry and mental health, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, physiology, and endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism.

The scientist's work spans several main topics in health and aging research. These topics include:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Frailty in Older Adults
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies

Mark A. Espeland has coauthored numerous publications with frequent collaborators such as Kathleen M. Hayden, Stephen R. Rapp, Susan M. Resnick, Margaret Gatz, and Jiu-Chiuan Chen. Their research has appeared extensively in a variety of academic venues.

Prominent publication venues for this scientist include:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Innovation in Aging
  • UNC Libraries
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series A
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Mark A. Espeland are:

  • "Physical Rehabilitation for Older Patients Hospitalized for Heart Failure," 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "World-Wide FINGERS Network: A global approach to risk reduction and prevention of dementia," 2020, Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • "Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Progression as Surrogate Marker for Cardiovascular Risk," 2020, Circulation
  • "A practical solution to pseudoreplication bias in single-cell studies," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "The Brain Chart of Aging: Machine-learning analytics reveals links between brain aging, white matter disease, amyloid burden, and cognition in the iSTAGING consortium of 10,216 harmonized MR scans," 2020, Alzheimer's & Dementia

Mark A. Espeland was recognized as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 1996.

Best Publications

  • Cardiovascular effects of intensive lifestyle intervention in type 2 diabetes

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Effect of Structured Physical Activity on Prevention of Major Mobility Disability in Older Adults: The LIFE Study Randomized Clinical Trial

    Marco Pahor;Jack M. Guralnik;Jack M. Guralnik;Walter T. Ambrosius;Steven Blair

  • 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

  • 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 lovastatin on early carotid atherosclerosis and cardiovascular events. Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Progression Study (ACAPS) Research Group.

    C D Furberg;H P Adams;W B Applegate;R P Byington

  • 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

  • Conjugated equine estrogens and global cognitive function in postmenopausal women: Women's Health Initiative Memory Study.

    Mark A. Espeland;Stephen R. Rapp;Sally A. Shumaker;Robert Brunner

  • Metformin as a Tool to Target Aging.

    Nir Barzilai;Jill P. Crandall;Stephen B. Kritchevsky;Mark A. Espeland

  • Effects of a physical activity intervention on measures of physical performance: Results of the lifestyle interventions and independence for Elders Pilot (LIFE-P) study.

    Marco Pahor;Steven N. Blair;Mark Espeland;Roger Fielding

  • Evaluation of the associations between carotid artery atherosclerosis and coronary artery stenosis. A case-control study.

    Timothy E. Craven;Jacqueline E. Ryu;Mark A. Espeland;Frederic R. Kahl

  • Evaluation of the azoospermic patient.

    Jonathan P. Jarow;Mark A. Espeland;Mark A. Espeland;Larry I. Lipshultz;Larry I. Lipshultz

  • Effects of Hormone Replacement Therapy on Endometrial Histology in Postmenopausal Women: The Postmenopausal Estrogen/Progestin Interventions (PEPI) Trial

    Howard L. Judd;Irma Mebane-Sims;Claudine Legault;Carol Wasilauskas

  • Menopausal Hormone Therapy and Long-Term All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality: The Women's Health Initiative Randomized Trials

    Joann E. Manson;Aaron K. Aragaki;Jacques E. Rossouw;Garnet L. Anderson

  • Effect of Linagliptin vs Glimepiride on Major Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: The CAROLINA Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Julio Rosenstock;Steven E. Kahn;Odd Erik Johansen;Bernard Zinman;Bernard Zinman

  • The association of pericardial fat with incident coronary heart disease: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)

    Jingzhong Ding;Fang Chi Hsu;Tamara B. Harris;Yongmei Liu

  • Effect of a 24-Month Physical Activity Intervention vs Health Education on Cognitive Outcomes in Sedentary Older Adults: The LIFE Randomized Trial.

    Kaycee M. Sink;Mark A. Espeland;Cynthia M. Castro;Timothy Church

  • Conjugated Equine Estrogens and Global Cognitive Function in Postmenopausal Women: Women’s Health Initiative Memory Study

    Mark A. Espeland;Stephen R. Rapp;Sally A. Shumaker;Robert Brunner

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan M. Resnick
Susan M. Resnick National Institutes of Health
JoAnn E. Manson
JoAnn E. Manson Harvard Medical School
Karen C. Johnson
Karen C. Johnson University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Rena R. Wing
Rena R. Wing Brown University
William C. Knowler
William C. Knowler National Institutes of Health
Cora E. Lewis
Cora E. Lewis University of Alabama at Birmingham
Marcia L. Stefanick
Marcia L. Stefanick Stanford University
Laura D. Baker
Laura D. Baker Wake Forest University
Jeff D. Williamson
Jeff D. Williamson Wake Forest University
Helena C. Chui
Helena C. Chui University of Southern California

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