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Gerdi Weidner
Researcher at San Francisco State University
Publications - 104
Citations - 5916
Gerdi Weidner is an academic researcher from San Francisco State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Psychosocial & Blood pressure. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 100 publications receiving 5538 citations. Previous affiliations of Gerdi Weidner include University of Mainz & Scripps Health.
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Intensive lifestyle changes may affect the progression of prostate cancer.
Dean Ornish,Gerdi Weidner,William R. Fair,Ruth Marlin,Elaine B. Pettengill,Caren J. Raisin,Stacey Dunn-Emke,Lila Crutchfield,F. Nicholas Jacobs,R. James Barnard,William J. Aronson,Patricia McCormac,Damien J. McKNIGHT,Jordan D. Fein,Ann M. Dnistrian,Jeanmaire Weinstein,Tung H. Ngo,Nancy R. Mendell,Peter R. Carroll +18 more
TL;DR: Intensive lifestyle changes may affect the progression of early, low grade prostate cancer in men, and changes in serum PSA and also in LNCaP cell growth were significantly associated with the degree of change in diet and lifestyle.
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Increased telomerase activity and comprehensive lifestyle changes: a pilot study
Dean Ornish,Jue Lin,Jennifer Daubenmier,Gerdi Weidner,Elissa S. Epel,Colleen Kemp,Mark Jesus M. Magbanua,Ruth Marlin,Loren Yglecias,Peter R. Carroll,Elizabeth H. Blackburn +10 more
TL;DR: Comprehensive lifestyle changes significantly increase telomerase activity and consequently telomere maintenance capacity in human immune-system cells, and this is reported as a significant association rather than inferring causation.
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Effect of comprehensive lifestyle changes on telomerase activity and telomere length in men with biopsy-proven low-risk prostate cancer: 5-year follow-up of a descriptive pilot study.
Dean Ornish,Jue Lin,June M. Chan,Elissa S. Epel,Colleen Kemp,Gerdi Weidner,Ruth Marlin,Steven J. Frenda,Mark Jesus M. Magbanua,Jennifer Daubenmier,Ivette S. Estay,Nancy K. Hills,Nita Chainani-Wu,Peter R. Carroll,Elizabeth H. Blackburn +14 more
TL;DR: The comprehensive lifestyle intervention followed with a programme of comprehensive lifestyle changes was associated with increases in relative telomere length after 5 years of follow-up, compared with controls, in this small pilot study.
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Effects of pomegranate juice consumption on myocardial perfusion in patients with coronary heart disease.
Michael D. Sumner,Melanie Elliott-Eller,Gerdi Weidner,Jennifer Daubenmier,Mailine H. Chew,Ruth Marlin,Caren J. Raisin,Dean Ornish,Dean Ornish +8 more
TL;DR: Daily consumption of pomegranate juice may improve stress-induced myocardial ischemia in patients who have ischemic coronary heart disease, without changes in cardiac medications, blood sugar, hemoglobin A1c, weight, or blood pressure in either group.
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Changes in prostate gene expression in men undergoing an intensive nutrition and lifestyle intervention
Dean Ornish,Mark Jesus M. Magbanua,Gerdi Weidner,Vivian Weinberg,Colleen Kemp,Christopher T. Green,Michael D. Mattie,Ruth Marlin,Jeff Simko,Katsuto Shinohara,Christopher M. Haqq,Peter R. Carroll +11 more
TL;DR: A pilot study to examine changes in prostate gene expression in a unique population of men with low-risk prostate cancer who declined immediate surgery, hormonal therapy, or radiation and participated in an intensive nutrition and lifestyle intervention while undergoing careful surveillance for tumor progression.