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Barbara V. Howard
Researcher at MedStar Health
Publications - 622
Citations - 68693
Barbara V. Howard is an academic researcher from MedStar Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Diabetes mellitus. The author has an hindex of 112, co-authored 593 publications receiving 63071 citations. Previous affiliations of Barbara V. Howard include Memorial Hospital of South Bend & Georgetown University.
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Relations of Left Ventricular Mass to Fat-Free and Adipose Body Mass The Strong Heart Study
Jonathan N. Bella,Richard B. Devereux,Mary J. Roman,Michael J. O’Grady,Thomas K. Welty,Elisa T. Lee,Richard R. Fabsitz,Barbara V. Howard +7 more
TL;DR: LV mass is more strongly related to FFM than to adipose mass, waist/hip ratio, body mass index, or height-based surrogates for lean body weight; LV mass/FFM criteria may increase sensitivity to detect LV hypertrophy.
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A Prospective Evaluation of Insulin and Insulin-like Growth Factor-I as Risk Factors for Endometrial Cancer
Marc J. Gunter,Donald R. Hoover,Herbert Yu,Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller,JoAnn E. Manson,Jixin Li,Tiffany G. Harris,Thomas E. Rohan,Xiao Nan Xue,Gloria Y.F. Ho,Mark H. Einstein,Robert C. Kaplan,Robert D. Burk,Judith Wylie-Rosett,Michael Pollak,Garnet L. Anderson,Barbara V. Howard,Howard D. Strickler +17 more
TL;DR: A case-cohort study of incident endometrial cancer in the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study indicates that hyperinsulinemia may represent a risk factor for endometrioid adenocarcinoma that is independent of estradiol.
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Relations of central and brachial blood pressure to left ventricular hypertrophy and geometry: the Strong Heart Study.
Mary J. Roman,Peter M. Okin,Jorge R. Kizer,Elisa T. Lee,Barbara V. Howard,Richard B. Devereux +5 more
TL;DR: Left ventricular hypertrophy is more strongly related to systolic pressure than to pulse pressure, and central pressures are more stronglyrelated than brachial pressures to concentric left ventricular geometry, which suggest that absolute (systolic) pressure is more important in stimulatingleft ventricularhypertrophy and remodeling, whereas pulsatile stress (pulse pressure) is moreImportant in causing vascular hyperTrophy and atherosclerosis.
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Coronary Heart Disease Prevalence and Its Relation to Risk Factors in American Indians The Strong Heart Study
Barbara V. Howard,Elisa T. Lee,Linda D. Cowan,Richard R. Fabsitz,Wm. James Howard,Arvo J. Oopik,David C. Robbins,Peter J. Savage,Jeunliang L. Yeh,Thomas K. Welty +9 more
TL;DR: Findings from the initial Strong Heart Study examination emphasize the importance of diabetes and its associated variables as risk factors for CHD in Native American populations.
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Effect of statins alone versus statins plus ezetimibe on carotid atherosclerosis in type 2 diabetes: the SANDS (Stop Atherosclerosis in Native Diabetics Study) trial.
Jerome L. Fleg,Mihriye Mete,Barbara V. Howard,Jason G. Umans,Mary J. Roman,Robert E. Ratner,Angela Silverman,James M. Galloway,Jeffrey A. Henderson,Matthew R. Weir,Charlton Wilson,Mario Stylianou,Wm. James Howard +12 more
TL;DR: In this article, a secondary analysis from the SANDS (Stop Atherosclerosis in Native Diabetics Study) trial examined the effects of lowering low-density lipoprotein cholesterol with statins alone versus statins plus ezetimibe on common carotid artery intima-media thickness (CIMT) in patients with type 2 diabetes and no prior cardiovascular event.