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William M. Vollmer

William M. Vollmer

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Medicine

D-Index
94
Citations
47324
World Ranking
10275
National Ranking
5281

Overview

William M. Vollmer is affiliated with Kaiser Permanente in the United States and specializes in the field of Medicine, with a focus on subfields including General Health Professions, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Periodontics, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their research spans multiple topics such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Dental Health and Care Utilization, Oral Microbiology and Periodontitis Research, Dental Erosion and Treatment, and Diabetes Management and Education.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by William M. Vollmer include:

  • Prevalence and Population-Attributable Risk for Chronic Airflow Obstruction in a Large Multinational Study, 2020, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Restricted spirometry and cardiometabolic comorbidities: results from the international population based BOLD study, 2022, Respiratory Research
  • Costs incurred by patients with drug-susceptible pulmonary tuberculosis in semi-urban and rural settings of Western India, 2020, Infectious Diseases of Poverty
  • Moderators of the effectiveness of an intervention to increase colorectal cancer screening through mailed fecal immunochemical test kits: results from a pragmatic randomized trial, 2020, Trials
  • Interactive group-based orientation sessions: A method to improve adherence and retention in pragmatic clinical trials, 2020, Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications

Collaboration plays a significant role in their work, with frequent co-authors including Eric J. Puttock, Fagen Xie, Stanley Xu, Robert S. Zeiger, and Wansu Chen.

William M. Vollmer has contributed to research published predominantly in venues such as UNC Libraries, The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice, Annals of Allergy Asthma & Immunology, The Permanente Journal, and Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Best Publications

  • A Clinical Trial of the Effects of Dietary Patterns on Blood Pressure

    Lawrence J. Appel;Thomas Burton Moore;Thomas Burton Moore;Eva Obarzanek;William M. Vollmer

  • Effects on Blood Pressure of Reduced Dietary Sodium and the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Diet

    F M Sacks;L P Svetkey;W M Vollmer;L J Appel

  • International variation in the prevalence of COPD (The BOLD Study): a population-based prevalence study

    A Sonia Buist;Mary Ann McBurnie;William M. Vollmer;Suzanne Gillespie

  • Effects of comprehensive lifestyle modification on blood pressure control: main results of the PREMIER clinical trial.

    Lawrence J Appel;Catherine M Champagne;David W Harsha;Lawton S Cooper

  • Comparison of strategies for sustaining weight loss: the weight loss maintenance randomized controlled trial.

    Laura P. Svetkey;Victor J. Stevens;Phillip J. Brantley;Lawrence J. Appel

  • Effects of Comprehensive Lifestyle Modification on Diet, Weight, Physical Fitness, and Blood Pressure Control: 18-Month Results of a Randomized Trial

    Patricia J. Elmer;Eva Obarzanek;William M. Vollmer;Denise Simons-Morton

  • Effects of Diet and Sodium Intake on Blood Pressure: Subgroup Analysis of the DASH-Sodium Trial

    William M Vollmer;Frank M Sacks;Jamy D Ard;Lawrence J. Appel

  • Effects on blood lipids of a blood pressure-lowering diet: the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Trial.

    Eva Obarzanek;Frank M. Sacks;William M. Vollmer;George A. Bray

  • COPD in never smokers: results from the population-based burden of obstructive lung disease study.

    Bernd Lamprecht;Mary Ann McBurnie;William M. Vollmer;Gunnar Gudmundsson

  • Shared Treatment Decision Making Improves Adherence and Outcomes in Poorly Controlled Asthma

    Sandra R. Wilson;Peg Strub;A. Sonia Buist;Sarah B. Knowles

  • Effects of Dietary Patterns on Blood Pressure: Subgroup Analysis of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Randomized Clinical Trial

    Laura P. Svetkey;Denise Simons-Morton;William M. Vollmer;Lawrence J. Appel

  • Rationale and design of the dietary approaches to stop hypertension trial (DASH) : a multicenter controlled feeding study of dietary patterns to lower blood pressure

    Frank M. Sacks;Frank M. Sacks;Eva Obarzanek;Marlene M. Windhauser;Laura P. Svetkey

  • Human Melatonin Production Decreases With Age

    Robert L. Sack;Alfred J. Lewy;Danielle L. Erb;William M. Vollmer

  • Association of Asthma Control with Health Care Utilization and Quality of Life

    W. M. Vollmer;L. E. Markson;E. O'connor;L. L. Sanocki

  • Weight loss during the intensive intervention phase of the weight-loss maintenance trial.

    Jack F. Hollis;Christina M. Gullion;Victor J. Stevens;Phillip J. Brantley

  • The Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease Initiative (BOLD): rationale and design.

    A. Sonia Buist;William M. Vollmer;Sean D. Sullivan;Kevin B. Weiss

  • Caesarean section delivery and the risk of allergic disorders in childhood.

    H. Renz-Polster;M. R. David;A. S. Buist;W. M. Vollmer

  • Characteristics of patients with asthma within a large HMO: A comparison by age and gender

    M. L. Osborne;W. M. Vollmer;K. L. P. Linton;A. S. Buist

  • Comparison of spirometry criteria for the diagnosis of COPD: results from the BOLD study.

    W M Vollmer;Thorn Gíslason;P Burney;P L Enright

  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in the Older Adult: What Defines Abnormal Lung Function?

    David M Mannino;A Sonia Buist;William M Vollmer

Frequent Co-Authors

A. Sonia Buist
A. Sonia Buist Oregon Health & Science University
Lawrence J. Appel
Lawrence J. Appel Johns Hopkins University
Laura P. Svetkey
Laura P. Svetkey Duke University
Peter Burney
Peter Burney Imperial College London
Frank M. Sacks
Frank M. Sacks Harvard University
Cynthia S. Rand
Cynthia S. Rand Johns Hopkins University
David M. Mannino
David M. Mannino University of Kentucky
Jerry A. Krishnan
Jerry A. Krishnan University of Illinois at Chicago
George A. Bray
George A. Bray Louisiana State University
Michael Schatz
Michael Schatz Kaiser Permanente

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