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    • Assessment of abdominal fat compartments using DXA in premenopausal women from anorexia nervosa to morbid obesity 

      Bredella, Miriam A.; Gill, Corey M.; Keating, Leigh K.; Torriani, Martin; Anderson, Ellen J.; Punyanitya, Mark; Wilson, Kevin E.; Kelly, Thomas L.; Miller, Karen K. (2013)
      Objective: The purpose of this study was to test a newly developed DXA method for abdominal fat depot quantification in subjects with AN, normal weight, and obesity using CT as a gold standard. Design and Methods 135 ...
    • Atrial natriuretic peptide is negatively regulated by microRNA-425 

      Arora, Pankaj; Wu, Connie; Khan, Abigail May; Bloch, Donald Bendit; Davis-Dusenbery, Brandi Nicole; Ghorbani, Anahita; Spagnolli, Ester; Martinez, Andrew; Ryan, Allicia; Tainsh, Laurel T.; Kim, Samuel M; Rong, Jian; Huan, Tianxiao; Freedman, Jane E.; Levy, Daniel; Miller, Karen Klahr; Hata, Akiko; Del Monte, Federica; Vandenwijngaert, Sara; Swinnen, Melissa; Janssens, Stefan; Holmes, Tara M.; Buys, Emmanuel; Bloch, Kenneth Daniel; Newton-Cheh, Christopher Holmes; Wang, Thomas (American Society for Clinical Investigation, 2013)
      Numerous common genetic variants have been linked to blood pressure, but no underlying mechanism has been elucidated. Population studies have revealed that the variant rs5068 (A/G) in the 3′ untranslated region of NPPA, ...
    • Contribution of estradiol levels and hormonal contraceptives to sex differences within the fear network during fear conditioning and extinction 

      Hwang, Moon Jung; Zsido, Rachel G.; Song, Huijin; Pace-Schott, Edward F.; Miller, Karen Klahr; Lebron-Milad, Kelimer; Milad, Mohammed R.; Marin, Marie-France (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: Findings about sex differences in the field of fear conditioning and fear extinction have been mixed. At the psychophysiological level, sex differences emerge only when taking estradiol levels of women into ...
    • Effects of transdermal testosterone on natriuretic peptide levels in women: a randomized placebo-controlled pilot study 

      Lin, Eleanor; McCabe, Elizabeth; Newton-Cheh, Christopher Holmes; Bloch, Kenneth Daniel; Buys, Emmanuel; Wang, Thomas; Miller, Karen Klahr (Elsevier BV, 2012)
      Objective: To investigate whether testosterone administration alters natriuretic peptide levels in women. Design: Three-month, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study. Setting: Clinical research center. Patient(s): ...
    • Growth hormone status predicts left ventricular mass in patients after cure of acromegaly 

      Wexler, Tamara; Durst, Ronen; McCarty, David; Picard, Michael Howard; Gunnell, Lindsay; Omer, Zehra; Fazeli, Pouneh Khadejeh; Miller, Karen Klahr; Klibanski, Anne (Elsevier BV, 2010)
      Context: Growth hormone excess and growth hormone deficiency (GHD) are both associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity. A specific acromegaly-related cardiomyopathy has been described, characterized in part by ...