Recent Publications

Matthews, K. A., Flory, J. D., Muldoon, M. F., & Manuck, S. B. (2000). Does socioeconomic status relate to central serotonergic responsivity in healthy adults? Psychosomatic Medicine, 62, 231-237.  Article

Matthews, K. A., Räikkönen, K., Everson, S. A., Flory, J. D., Marco, C. A., Owens, J. F., & Lloyd, C. E. (2000). Do the daily experiences of healthy men and women vary according to occupational prestige and work strain? Psychosomatic Medicine, 62, 346-353.   Article

Gump, B. B., & Matthews, K. A. (2000). Are vacations good for your health? The 9 year mortality experience after the multiple risk factor intervention trial. Psychosomatic Medicine, 62, 608-612.  Article

Allen, M.T., Matthews, K.A., & Kenyon, K.L.  (2000). The relationships of resting baroreflex sensitivity, heart rate variability and measures of impulse control in children and adolescents.  International Journal of Psychophysiology, 37, 185-194.  Article

Salomon, K., Matthews, K.A., & Allen, M. T. (2000). Patterns of sympathetic and parasympathetic reactivity in a sample of children and adolescents. Psychophysiology, 17, 842-849.  Article

Gump, B. B., Matthews, K. A., Scheier, M. F., Schulz, R., Bridges, M. W., & Magovern, G. J., Sr. (2001). Illness representations according to age and effects on health behaviors following coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 49, 284-289. 

Sutton-Tyrrell, K., Kuller, L.H., Edmundowicz, D., Feldman, A., Holubkov, R., Givens, L. & Matthews, K.A. (2001).  Usefulness of electron beam tomography to detect progression of coronary and aortic calcium in middle-aged women.  American Journal of Cardiology, 87, 560-564.  Article

Rutledge, T., Reis, S.E., Olson, M., Owens, J., Kelsey, S.F., Pepine, C.J., Reichek, N., Rogers, W.J., Bairey Merz, C.N., Sopko, G., Cornell, C.E., & Matthews, K.A. (2001).  Psychosocial variables are associated with atherosclerosis risk factors among women with chest pain: The WISE study.  Psychosomatic Medicine, 63, 282-288.  Article

Matthews, K.A., Kuller, L.H., Sutton-Tyrrell, K., & Chang, Y-F. (2001).  Changes in cardiovascular risk factors during the peri and post-menopause and carotid artery atherosclerosis in health women. Stroke, 23, 1104-1111.   Article

Matthews, K.A., Flory, J.D., Owens, J.F., Harris, K.F., & Berga, S.L.  (2001). Influence of estrogen replacement therapy on cardiovascular responses to stress of healthy postmenopausal women.  Psychophysiology, 38, 391-398.  Article

Detre, K., Kip, K.E., Feinleib, M., Matthews, K.A., & Belle, S. (2001).  Mortality of males to females in comparable high level jobs: 15-year experience in the federal women’s study.  American Journal of Epidemiology, 154, 221-229.  Ó 2001 Oxford Journals.  

Chen, E., & Matthews, K.A.  (2001). Cognitive appraisal biases: An approach to understanding the relationship between socioeconomic status and cardiovascular reactivity in children.  Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 23, 101-111.

Rutledge, T., Reis, S.E., Olson, M., Owens, M., Kelsey, S.F., Pepine, C.J., Reichek, N., Rogers, W.J., Merz, C.N.B., Sopko, G., Cornell, C.E., Sharaf, B., & Matthews, K.A. (2001).  History of anxiety disorders is associated with a decreased likelihood of angiographic coronary artery disease in women with chest pain:  The WISE study.  Journal of American College of Cardiology, 37, 780-785.   Article

Matthews, K.A., Abrams, B., Crawford, S., Miles, T., Neer, R., Powell, L.H., Wesley, D. (2001).  Body mass index in mid-life women:  Relative influence of menopause, hormone use, and ethnicity.  International Journal of Obesity, 25, 863-873.  Article

Guyll, M., Matthews, K.A., & Bromberger, J.T.  (2001).  Discrimination and unfair treatment:  relationship to cardiovascular reactivity among African American and European American women.  Health Psychology 20, 315-325.   Ó2001 American Psychological Association.

Matthews, K.A., Gump, B.B., & Owens, J.F. (2001).  Chronic stress influences cardiovascular and neuroendocrine responses during acute stress and recovery especially in men. Health Psychology, 20, 403-410.   Ó2001 American Psychological Association.

Räikkönen, K., Matthews, K.A., & Kuller, L.H. (2001).  Trajectory of psychological risk and incident hypertension in middle-aged women.  Hypertension, 38, 798-802.  Article

Gallo, L.C., Matthews, K.A., Kuller, L.H., Sutton-Tyrrell, K. & Edmundowicz, D. (2001). Educational attainment and coronary and aortic calcification in post-menopausal women.  Psychosomatic Medicine, 63, 925-935.  Article

Sutton-Tyrrell, K., Kuller, L.H., Matthews, K.A., Holubkov, R., Patel, A., Edmundowicz, D., & Newman, A. (2002).  Subclinical atherosclerosis in multiple vascular beds: An index of Atherosclerotic burden evaluated in postmenopausal women.  Atherosclerosis, 160, 407-416.  Article

Matthews, K.A., & Gump, B.B. (2002).  Chronic work stress and marital dissolution increase risk of post-trial mortality in men from the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial.  Archives of Internal Medicine, 162, 309-315.   © 2002 American Medical Association.

Matthews, K.A., Kiefe, C.I., Lewis, C.E., Liu, K., Sidney, S., & Yunis, C. (2002).  Socioeconomic trajectories and incident hypertension in a biracial cohort of young adults.  Hypertension, 39, 772-776.  Article

Chen, E., Matthews, K.A., Boyce, W.T.  & Thomas, W. (2002).  Socioeconomic differences in children’s health: How and why do these relationships change with age?  Psychological Bulletin, 128, 295-329.   Ó2002  American Psychological Association.

Flory, J.D., Matthews, K.A., Sistilli, C.G., Caggiula, A.R., Berga, S.L., & Owens, J.F. (2002).  Short-term suppression of ovarian function and immune measures in healthy women.  Psychoneuroendocrinology,  27, 749-768.  Article

Brady, S.S., & Matthews, K.A. (2002).  The influence of socioeconomic status and ethnicity on adolescents’ exposure to stressful life events.  Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 27, 575-583.   Ó 2002 Oxford Journals.

Chen, E., Matthews, K.A., Salomon, K., & Ewart, C.K.  (2002). Cardiovascular reactivity during social and nonsocial stressors:  do children’s personal goals and expressive skills matter?  Health Psychology, 21, 16-24.   Ó2002 American Psychological Association.

Ewart, C.K., Jorgensen, R.S., Suchday, S., Chen, E., & Matthews, K.A.  (2002).  Measuring stress resilience and coping in vulnerable youth:  the social competence interview.  Psychological Assessment, 14, 339-352.   Ó2002 American Psychological Association.

Owens, J.F., Matthews, K.A., & Everson, S.A. (2002).  Effects of suppressing ovarian hormones on cognitive function in young women.  Menopause, 9, 227-235. 

Whooley, M.A., Kiefe, C.I., Chesney, M.A., Markovitz, J.H., Matthews, K.A., & Hulley, S.B.  (2002).  Depressive symptoms, unemployment, and loss of income:  The CARDIA Study.  Archives of Internal Medicine,  162, 2614-2620.  © 2002 American Medical Association.

Räikkönen, K., Matthews, K.A., & Kuller, L.H.  (2002).  The relationship between psychological risk attributes and the metabolic syndrome in healthy women:  Antecedent or consequence?  Metabolism, 51, 1537-1577.  

Matthews, K.A., Salomon, K., Kenyon, K., & Allen, M.T.  (2002).  Stability of children’s and adolescents’ hemodynamic responses to psychological challenge:  A 3-year longitudinal study of a multiethnic cohort of boys and girls.  Psychophysiology,  39, 826-834.  Article

Matthews, K.A. (2002). Commentary: Is an educated wife hazardous to her husband's heart?: never, always, or sometimes?  International Journal of Epidemiology, 31, 806-807.  Ó 2002 Oxford Journals. 

Chaput, L.A., Adams, S.H., Simon, J.A., Blumenthal, R.S., Vittinghoff, E., Lin, F., Loh, E., & Matthews, K.A. for the Heart and Estrogen/progestin Replacement Study (HERS) Research Group. (2002). Hostility predicts recurrent coronary events among postmenopausal women with heart disease.  American Journal of Epidemiology, 156, 1092-1099.  Ó 2002 Oxford Journals.

Chen, E., & Matthews, K.A.  (2003).  Development of the cognitive appraisal and understanding of social events (CAUSE) videos:  Application to explaining the link between socioeconomic status and cardiovascular reactivity in older adolescents.  Health Psychology, 22, 106-110.  Ó2003 American Psychological Association.

Gallo, L.C., Troxel, W.M., Matthews, K.A., Jansen-McWilliams, L., Kuller, L.H., & Sutton-Tyrrell, K.  (2003).  Occupation and subclinical carotid artery disease in women:  Are clerical workers at greater risk?  Health Psychology, 22, 19-29.  Ó2003 American Psychological Association.

Jones, D.J., Matthews, K.A., Bromberger, J.T., & Sutton-Tyrrell, K.  (2003). Lifetime history of depression and carotid atherosclerosis in middle-aged women. Archives of General Psychiatry, 60, 153-160.  Article

Mackey, R.H., Kuller, L.H., Sutton-Tyrrell, K., Evans, R.W., Holubkov, R., & Matthews, K.A. (2003).  Lipoprotein subclasses and coronary artery calcification in postmenopausal women from the Healthy Women Study.  American Journal of Cardiology, 90, 71-76.  Article

Gallo, L.C., & Matthews, K. A.  (2003).  Understanding the association between socioeconomic status and health:  Do negative emotions play a role?  Psychological Bulletin, 129, 10-51.  Ó2003 American Psychological Association. 

Bairey Merz, C.N., Johnson, B.D., Sharaf, B.L., Bittner, V., Berga, S.L., Braunstein, G.D., Hodgson, T.K., Matthews, K.A., Pepine, C.J., Reis, S.E., Reichek, N., Rogers, W.J., Pohost, W.J., Pohost, G.M., Kelsey, S.F., & Sopko, G. for the WISE Study Group.  (2003).  Hypoestrogenemia of hypothalalmic origin and coronary artery disease in premenopausal women:  A report from the NHLBI-sponsored WISE study.  Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 41, 413-419.  Article

Owens, J.F., Matthews, K.A., Räikkönen, K, & Kuller, L.H. (2003).  It is never too late: Change in physical activity fosters change in cardiovascular risk factors in middle aged women.  Preventive Cardiology, 6, 22-28.

Rutledge, T., Reis, S.E., Olson, M., Owens, J.F., Kelsey, S.F., Pepine, C.J., Reichek, N., Rogers, W.J., Merz, C.N.B., Sopko, G., Cornell, C.E., & Matthews, K.A. (2003).  Socioeconomic status variables predict cardiovascular disease risk factors and prospective mortality risk among women with chest pain:  The WISE study. Behavioral Modification, 27, 54-67.

Harris, K.F., Matthews, K.A., Sutton-Tyrrell, K., & Kuller, L.H.  (2003).  Associations between psychological traits and endothelial function in postmenopausal women.  Psychosomatic Medicine, 65, 402-409.  Article

Matthews, K.A., Salomon, K., Brady, S.S., & Allen, M.T. (2003).  Cardiovascular reactivity to stress predicts future blood pressure in adolescence.  Psychosomatic Medicine, 65, 410-415.  Article

Gump, B.B., & Matthews, K.A. (2003). Special intervention reduces CVD mortality for adherent participants in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial.  Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 26, 61-68.

Rutledge, T., Matthews, K.A., Lui, L-Y., Stone, K.L., & Cauley, J.A.  (2003).  Social networks and marital status predict mortality in older-aged women:  Prospective evidence from the study of osteoporotic fractures (SOF). Psychosomatic Medicine, 65, 688-694.  Article

Räikkönen, K., Matthews, K.A., & Salomon, K.  (2003). Hostility predicts metabolic syndrome risk factors in children and adolescents.  Health Psychology 22:279-286.  Ó2003  American Psychological Association.

Troxel, W.M., Matthews, K.A., Bromberger, J.T., & Sutton-Tyrrell, K. (2003). Chronic stress burden, discrimination, and subclinical carotid artery disease in African American and Caucasian women.  Health Psychology, 22, 300-309.  Ó2003  American Psychological Association.

Randolph, J.F. Jr., Sowers, M.F., Gold, E.B., Mohr, B.A., Luborsky, J., Santoro, N., McConnell, D.S., Finkelstein, J.S., Korenman, S.G., Matthews, K.A., Sternfeld, B., & Lasley, B.L. (2003).  Reproductive hormones in the early menopausal transition:  Relationship to ethnicity, body size, and menopausal status.  Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 88, 1516-1522.  Article

Olson,  M.B., Kelsey, S.F., Matthews, K.A., Shaw, L.J., Sharaf, B.L., Pohost, G.M., Cornell, C.E., McGorray, S.P., Vido, D., & Bairey Merz, C.N.  (2003).  Symptoms, myocardia ischaemia and quality of life in women:  Results from the NHLBI-sponsored WISE study.  European Heart Journal, 24, 1506-1514.  Article

Yan, L.L., Liu, K., Matthews, K.A., Daviglus, M.L., Ferguson, T.F., & Kiefe, C.I.  (2003). Psychosocial factors and risk for hypertension:  The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study.  Journal of the American Medical Association, 290, 2138-2148.   Article

 Yan, L. L., Liu, K., Matthews, K.A., Daviglus, M.L., Ferguson, T.F., & Kiefe, C.I.  (2003). Comment on Psychosocial factors and risk for hypertension:  The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study.  Journal of the American Medical Association, 290, 2190-2192. 

Gallo, L.C., Troxel, W.M., Kuller, L.H., Sutton-Tyrrell, K., Edmundowicz, D., & Matthews, K.A. (2003).  Marital status, marital quality and atherosclerotic burden in postmenopausal women.  Psychosomatic Medicine, 65, 952-962.    Article

Gallo, L.C., Troxel, W.M., Matthews, K.A., & Kuller, L.H. (2003). Marital status and quality in middle-aged women: Association with levels and trajectories of cardiovascular risk factors.  Health Psychology, 22, 453-463.  Ó2003  American Psychological Association.

Avis, N.E., Ory, M., Matthews, K., Schocken, M., Bromberger, J., & Colvin, A. (2003).  Health-related quality of life in a multi-ethnic sample of middle-aged women:  Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN).  Medical Care, 41, 1262-1276.

Matthews, K.A., Gump, B.B., Harris, K.F., Haney, T.L., & Barefoot, J.C.  (2004).  Hostile behaviors predict cardiovascular mortality among men enrolled in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial.  Circulation, 109, 66-70.  Article

Troxel, W.M., & Matthews, K.A. (2004).  What are the costs of marital conflict and dissolution to children's physical health?  Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 7, 29-57.  Article

Harris, K.F., & Matthews, K.A.  (2004). Interactions between autonomic nervous system activity and endothelial function:  A model for the development of cardiovascular disease.  Psychosomatic Medicine, 66, 153-164.  Article

Räikkönen, K., Matthews, K.A., Sutton-Tyrrell, K., & Kuller, L.H. (2004). Trait anger and the metabolic syndrome predict progression of carotid atherosclerosis in healthy middle-aged women. Psychosomatic Medicine, 66, 903-908.  Article

Cyranowski, J.M., Bromberger, J., Youk, A., Matthews, K.A., Kravitz, H.M., & Powell, L.H. (2004). Lifetime depression history and sexual function in women at midlife. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 33, 539-548.  Article

Santoro, N., Lasley, B., McConnell, D., Allsworth, J., Crawford, S., Gold, E. B., Finkelstein, J. S., Greendale, G. A., Kelsey, J., Korenman, S., Luborsky, J. L., Matthews, K., Midgley, R., Powell, L., Sabatine, J., Schocken, M., Sowers, M. F., & Weiss, G.  (2004).  Body size and ethnicity are associated with menstrual cycle alterations in women in the early menopausal transition: the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) Daily Hormone Study.  Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 89, 2622-2631.

Everson-Rose, S.A., Meyer, P.M., Powell, L.H., Pandey, D., Torrens, J.I., Kravitz, H.M., Bromberger, J.T., & Matthews K.A.  (2004).  Depressive symptoms, insulin resistance, and risk for diabetes in women at mid-life. Diabetes Care, 27, 2856-2862.  Article

Sternfeld, B., Wang, W., Quesenberry Jr., C.P., Abrams, B., Everson-Rose, S., Greendale, G.A., Matthews, K.A., & Sowers, M.F. (2004). Physical activity and changes in weight and waist circumference in mid-life women: Findings from the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation.  American Journal of Epidemiology, 160, 912-922.   Ó 2004 Oxford Journals.

Yan, L.L., Liu, K., Matthews, K., Davidglus, M. L., & Kiefe C. (2005). Hypertension and psychosocial factors.  Cardiology Review, 22, 39-44.

Iribarren, C., Jacobs, D., Hulley, S., Kiefe, C., Lewis, C., Matthews, K. A., & Roseman J.  (2005).  Causes and demographic, medical, lifestyle and psychosocial predictors of premature mortality:  The CARDIA study.  Social Science and Medicine, 60, 471-482.  Article

Matthews, K.A., Salomon, K., Kenyon, K., & Zhou, F. (2005). Unfair treatment, discrimination, and ambulatory blood pressure in black and white adolescents. Health Psychology,  24, 258-265. Ó2005  American Psychological Association.

Gump, B. B., Matthews, K. A., Eberly, L. E., & Chang, Y. F for the MRFIT Research Group.  (2005). Depressive symptoms and mortality in men.  Results from the multiple risk factor intervention trial.  Stroke, 36, 98-102.  Article

Gallo, L.C., Bogart LM, Vranceanu, A, & Matthews, K.A. (2005).  Socioeconomic status, resources, psychological experiences, and emotional responses: A test of the reserve capacity model?  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 336-399.  Ó2005 American Psychological Association. 

Mackey, R.H., Kuller, L.H., Sutton-Tyrrell K., Evans, R.W., Holubkov, R., Matthews, K.A. (2005). Hormone replacement therapy, lipoprotein subclasses and coronary artery calcification: the Healthy Women Study. Archives of  Internal Medicine, 165, 510-515.  Article

Matthews, K. A., Owens, J. F., Salomon, K., Harris, K. F., & Berga, S. L.  (2005).  Influence of hormone therapy on the cardiovascular responses to stress of postmenopausal women.  Biological Psychology, 69, 39-56.  Article

Troxel, W. M., Matthews, K. A., Gallo, L. C., & Kuller, L. H.  (2005).  Marital quality and occurrence of the metabolic syndrome in women.   Archives of Internal Medicine, 165, 1022-1027.  Article

Matthews, K.A.  (2005).  Psychological perspectives on the development of coronary heart disease.  American Psychologist, 60, 780-796.

Agatisa, P.K., Matthews, K.A., Bromberger, J.T., Edmundowicz, D., Chang, Y.F., & Sutton-Tyrrell, K. (2005).  Coronary and aortic calcification in women with major depression history. Archives of Internal Medicine, 165,  1229-1236.  Article

Bromberger, J.T., Kravitz, H.M., Wei, H.L., Brown, C., Youk, A. O., Cordal, A., Powell, L.H., & Matthews, K.A.  (2005). History of depression and women’s current health and functioning during midlife.  General Hospital Psychiatry, 27, 200-208.  Article

Goldbacher, E. M., Matthews, K. A., & Salomon, K.  (2005).  Central adiposity is associated with cardiovascular reactivity to stress in adolescents.  Health Psychology.    Ó2005 American Psychological Association.

Sutton-Tyrrell, K., Wildman, R. P., Matthews, K. A., Chae, C., Lasley, B. L., Brockwell, S., Pasternak, R. C., Lloyd-Jones, D., Sowers, M. F., Torréns, J. I.  (2005).  Sex hormone binding globulin and the free androgen index are related to CV risk factors in multi-ethnic pre and peri-menopausal women enrolled in the Study of Women Across the Nation (SWAN).  Circulation, 111, 1242-1249.   Article

Karlamangla, A.S., Singer, B.H., Williams, D.R., Schwartz, J.E., Matthews, K.A., Kiefe, C.I., & Seeman, T.E. (2005). Impact of socioeconomic status on longitudinal accumulation of cardiovascular risk in young adults: The CARDIA Study (USA).  Social Science and Medicine, 60, 999-1015.   Article

Patel, A.S., Mackey, R.H., Wildman, R.P., Thompson, T., Matthews, K., Kuller, L., & Sutton-Tyrrell, K.  (2005).  Cardiovascular risk factors associated with enlarged diameter of the abdominal aortic and iliac arteries in healthy women.  Atherosclerosis, 178, 311-317.  Article

Everson-Rose, S.A., Matthews, K.A., Torrens, J. I., Bromberger, J. T., Kravitz, H.M., & Meyer, P.M.  (2005). Depressive symptoms, insulin resistance, and risk of diabetes in women at midlife: Response to Pouwer and de Jonge.  Diabetes Care, 28, 1266. 

Gianaros, P.J., Salomon, K., Zhou, F., Owens, J.F., Edmundowicz, D., Kuller, L.H., & Matthews, K. A.  (2005). A greater reduction in high-frequency heart rate variability to a psychological stressor is associated with subclinical coronary and aortic calcification in postmenopausal women.  Psychosomatic Medicine, 67, 553-560.  Article

Powell, L.H., Meyer, P., Weiss, G., Matthews, K.A., Santoro, N., Randolph, J.F., Jr., Schocken, M., Skurnick, J., Ory, M.G., Sutton-Tyrrell, K.  (2005). Ethnic differences in past hysterectomy for benign conditions.  Women's Health Issues, 15, 179-186.

Lloyd-Jones, D.M., Sutton-Tyrrell, K., Patel, A.S., Matthews, K.A., Pasternak, R.C., Everson-Rose, S.A., Scuteri, A., Chae, C.U.  (2005). Ethnic variation in hypertension among premenopausal and perimenopausal women Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation.  Hypertension, 46, 1-7.  Article

Gump, B.B., Stewart, P., Reihman, J., Lonky, E., Darvill, T., Matthews, K.A., Parsons, P.J.  (2005). Prenatal and early childhood blood lead levels and cardiovascular functioning in 9 ½ year old children.  Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 27, 655-665.  Abstract

Matthews, K.A., Sowers, M.F., Derby, C., Stein, E., Miracle-McMahill, H., & Crawford, S. (2005).  Ethnic differences in cardiovascular risk factor burden among middle-aged women:  Study of Women’s Health across the Nation.  American Heart Journal, 149, 1066-1073.  Article

Brunner, R.L., Gass, M., Aragaki, A., Hays, J., Granek, I., Woods, N., Mason, E., Brzyski, R., Ockene, J., Assaf, A., LaCroix, A., Matthews, K., & Wallace, R., for the Women’s Health Initiative Investigators.  (2005).  Effects of conjugated equine estrogen on health-related quality of life in postmenopausal women with hysterectomy: Results from the Women’s Health Initiative Randomized Clinical Trial.  Archives of Internal Medicine, 165, 1976-1986.   Article

Sowers, M.R., Jannausch, M., Randolph, J.F., McConnell, D., Little, R., Lasley, B., Pasternak, R., Sutton-Tyrrell, K., & Matthews, K.A.  (2005). Androgens are associated with hemostatic and inflammatory factors among women at the mid-life.  Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 90, 6064-6071.  Article

Randolph, J.F., Jr., Sowers, M, Bondarenko, I., Gold, E.B., Greendale, G.A., Bromberger, J.T., Brockwell, S.E., & Matthews, K.A.  (2005).  The relationship of longitudinal change in reproductive hormones and vasomotor symptoms during the menopausal transition.  Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 90, 6106-6112.  Article

Matthews, K.A. & Bromberger, J.T.  (2005).  Does the menopausal transition affect health-related quality of life?  The American Journal of Medicine, 118 (12B), 25S-36S.  Article

Brown, C., Matthews K.A., & Bromberger J. (2005). How do African American and Caucasian women view themselves at midlife? Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 35, 2057-2075.  Abstract

Hess, R., Matthews, K., McNeil, M., Chang, C.C.J., Kapoor, W., & Bryce, C.  (2005).  Health services research in the privacy age.  Journal of General Internal Medicine, 20, 1045-1049.  Article

Sowers, M., Matthews, K.A., Jannausch, M., Randolph, J.F., McConnell, D., Sutton-Tyrrell K., Little R., Lasley, B., & Pasternak, R. (2005).  Hemostatic factors and estrogen during the menopausal transition.  Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 90, 5942-5948.  Article

Knox, S., Barnes, A., Kiefe, C., Lewis, C.E., Iribarren, C., Matthews, K.A., Wong, N.D., & Whooley, M.  (2006).  History of depression, race, and cardiovascular risk in CARDIA.  International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 13, 44-50.  Article

Brady, S.S., & Matthews, K.A.  (2006).  Chronic stress influences ambulatory blood pressure in adolescents.  Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 31, 80-88.  Article

Matthews, K.A., Zhu, S., Tucker, D.C., & Whooley, M.A.  (2006).  Blood pressure reactivity to psychological stress and coronary calcification in the CARDIA Study.  Hypertension, 47, 391-395. Article

Gallo, L.C., & Matthews, K.A.  (2006).  Adolescents’ attachment orientation influences ambulatory blood pressure responses to every day social interactions.  Psychosomatic Medicine, 68, 253-261.

Brady, S.S. & Matthews, K.A.  (2006).  Effects of media violence on health-related outcomes among young men.  Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 160, 341-347.  Article

Yan, L. L., Liu, K., Daviglus, M. L., Colangelo, L. A., Kiefe, C. I., Sidney, S., Matthews, K. A., & Greenland, P.  (2006).  Education, 15-year risk factor progression, and coronary artery calcium in young adulthood and early middle age:  The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults study.  Journal of the American Medical Association, 295, 1793-1800.  Article

Lewis, T. T., Everson-Rose, S. A., Powell, L. H., Matthews, K. A., Brown, C., Karavolos, K., Sutton-Tyrrell, K., Jacobs, E., & Wesley, D.  (2006).  Chronic exposure to everyday discrimination and coronary artery calcification in African-American women: The SWAN Heart Study.  Psychosomatic Medicine, 68, 362-368.

Scheier, M., Ingersoll, K., Wrosch, C., Schulz, R., Matthews, K., Baum, A., Zdaniuk, B., Martire, C., & Cohen, S.  (2006).  The life engagement test: Assessing purpose in life.  Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 29, 291-298.  Article

Chen, E., Martin, A.D., & Matthews, K.A.  (2006).  Understanding health disparities:  The role of race and socioeconomic status in children’s health.  American Journal of Public Health, 96, 702-708.  Article

Matthews, K. A., Santoro, N., Lasley, B., Chang, Y., Crawford, S., Pasternak, R. C., Sutton-Tyrrell, K., & Sowers, M. F.  (2006).  Relation of  cardiovascular risk factors in women approaching menopause to menstrual cycle characteristics and reproductive hormones in the follicular and luteal phases.  Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 91, 1789-1795.  Article

Matthews, K. A., Owens, J. F., Edmundowicz, D., Lee, L., & Kuller, L. H.  (2006).  Positive and negative attributes for coronary and aortic calcification in healthy women.  Psychosomatic Medicine, 68, 355-361.

Rutledge, T., Reis, S. E., Olson, M. B., Owens, J., Kelsey, S. F., Pepine, C. J., Mankad, S., Rogers, W. J., Bairey Merz, N., Sopko, G., Cornell, C. E., Sharaf, B., & Matthews, K. A.  (2006).  Depression symptom severity and reported treatment history in the prediction of cardiac risk in women with suspected myocardial ischemia.  Archives of General Psychiatry, 63, 874-880.  Article

Heinonen, K., Raikkonen, K., & Matthews, K.A., Scheier, M., Raitakari, O.T., Pulkki, L., Keltikangas-Järvinen, L.  (2006).  Socioeconomic status in childhood and adulthood: Associations with dispositional optimism and pessimism over a 21-year follow-up.  Journal of Personality, 74, 1111-1126.  Article

McGrath, J. J., Matthews, K. A., & Brady, S. S.  (2006).  Individual versus neighborhood socioeconomic status and race as predictors of adolescent ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate.  Social Science and Medicine, 63, 1442-1453.  Article

Gold, E.B., Colvin, A., Avis, N., Bromberger, J., Greendale, G., Powell, L., Sternfeld, B., & Matthews, K.A.  (2006).  Longitudinal analysis of vasomotor symptoms and race/ethnicity across the menopausal transition:  Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN).  American Journal of Public Health, 96, 1226-1235.  Article

Matthews, K. A., Schwartz, J., Cohen, S., & Seeman, T.  (2006).  Diurnal cortisol decline is related to coronary calcification: CARDIA Study.  Psychosomatic Medicine, 68, 657-661.

Ruiz, J.M., Matthews, K.A., Scheier, M.F., Schulz, R.  (2006).  Does whom you marry matter for your health?  Influence of patient’s and spouse’s personality on their partner’s psychological well-being following coronary artery bypass surgery.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 255-267.

Brown, C., Matthews, K. A., & Bromberger, J. T.  (2006).  The relation between perceived unfair treatment and blood pressure in a racially/ethnically diverse sample of women.  American Journal of Epidemiology, 164, 257-262.  Article

Krantz, D. S., Olson, M. B., Phankao, C., Bairey Merz, C. N., Sopko, G., Vido, D. A., Shaw, L. J., Sheps, D. S., Francis, J., Pepine, C. J., & Matthews, K. A. for the WISE Investigators.  (2006).  Anger, hostility, and cardiac symptoms in women with suspected coronary artery disease: The Women’s Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) Study.  Journal of Women's Health, 15, 112-120.  Article

Everson-Rose, S. A., Lewis, T., Karavolos, K., Powell, L., Sutton-Tyrrell, K., & NMatthews, K. A.  (2006).  Cynical hostility and carotid atherosclerosis in African-American and white women: The SWAN Heart study.   American Heart Journal., 152, 982e7-982e13.  Article

Farhat, G., Cauley, J., Matthews, K. A., Newman,  A., Johnston, J., Mackey, R., Edmundowicz, D., & Sutton-Tyrrell, K.  (2006).  Volumetric bone mineral density and vascular calcification in middle-aged women: The Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation.  Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 21, 1839-1846.  Article

Matthews, K. A., Schott, L. L., Bromberger, J., Cyranowski, J., Everson-Rose, S. A., & Sowers, M. F. (2007).  Associations between depressive symptoms and inflammatory/hemostatic markers in women during the menopausal transition.  Psychosomatic Medicine, 69, 124-130.

Cyranowski, J. M., Marsland, A. L., Bromberger, J. T., Whiteside, T., Chang, Y. F., & Matthews, K. A. (2007).  Depressive symptoms and production of proinflammatory cytokines by peripheral blood mononuclear cells stimulated in vitro.  Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 21, 229-237.  Article

Gianaros, P. J., Jennings, J. R., Sheu, L. K., Derbyshire, W. G., & Matthews, K. A.  (2007).  Heightened functional neural activation to psychological stress covaries with exaggerated blood pressure reactivity.  Hypertension, 49, 134-140.  Article

Santoro, N., Brockwell, S., Johnston, J., Crawford, S. L., Gold, E. B., Harlow, S. D., Matthews, K. A. & Sutton-Tyrrell, K.  (2007).  Helping midlife women predict the onset of the final menses:  SWAN, the Study of Women's Health Across the nation.  Menopause, 14, 1-9.

Gianaros, P. J., Jennings, J. R., Sheu, L. K., Greer, P. J., Kuller, L. H., & Matthews, K. A.  (2007).  Prospective reports of chronic life stress predict decreased grey matter volume in the hippocampus.  NeuroImage, 35, 795-803.  Article

Gump, B.B., Reihman, J.B., Stewarl, P., Lonky, E., Darvill, T., & Matthews, K.A.  (2007).  Blood lead (Pb) levels:  A potential environmental mechanism explaining the relation between socioeconomic status and cardiovascular reactivity in children.  Health Psychology, 26, 296-304.

Räikkönen, K., Matthews, K. A., & Kuller, L. H.  (2007).  Depressive symptoms and stressful life events predict metabolic syndrome among middle-aged women: A comparison of World Health Organization, Adult Treatment Panel III, and International Diabetes Foundation definitions.  Diabetes Care, 30, 872-877.

Farhat, G. N., Newman, A. B., Sutton-Tyrrell, K., Matthews, K. A., Boudreau, R., Schwartz, A. V., Lavsky, F., Visser, M., & Cauley, J. A.  for the Health ABC Study.  (2007).  The association of bone mineral density measures with incident cardiovascular disease in older adults.  Osteoporosis International, 18, 999-1008.  Article

Chen, E., Matthews, K. A., & Martin, A. D.  (in press).  Trajectories of socioeconomic status across children’s lifetimes predict health.  Pediatrics.

Bromberger, J. T., Matthews, K. A., Schott, L. L., Brockwell, S., Avis, N. E., Kravitz, H. M., Everson-Rose, S. A., Gold, E. B., Sowers, M. F., & Randolph, J. F. Jr.  (in press).  Depressive symptoms during the menopausal transition: The Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN).  Journal of Affective Disorders.

Chen, E., Matthews, K. A., & Zhou, F.  (in press).  Interpretations of ambiguous social situations and cardiovascular responses in adolescents.  Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 

Ohira, T., Hozawa, A., Iribarren, C., Daviglus, M. L., Matthews, K., Gross, M. D., & Jacobs, D. R., Jr.  (in press).  Longitudinal association of serum carotenoids and tocopherols with hostility: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study.  American Journal of Epidemiology.

Thurston, R. C., Brown, C., Goldbacher, E., Cyranowski, J., Bromberger, J., & Matthews, K.A.  (in press).  Childhood abuse or neglect is associated with increased vasomotor symptom reporting among midlife women.  Menopause.

Goldman, S.E., Ancoli-Israel, S., Cauley, J., Newman, A., Blackwell, T., Boudreau, R., Hall, M., Matthews, K.A., & Ewing, S.  (in press).  Poor sleep is associated with poorer physical performance and greater functional limitation in older women.  Sleep.

Gump, B.B., Reihman, J., Stewart, P., Lonky, E., Darvill, T., Granger, D.A., & Matthews, K.A.  (in press).  Trajectories of maternal depressive symptoms over their child’s lifespan: Relation to adrenocortical, cardiovascular, and emotional functioning in children.  Development and Psychopathology.

Matthews, K.A., Kuller, L.H., Chang, Y., Edmundowicz, D. (in press).  Premenopausal Risk Factors for Coronary and Aortic Calcification: A 20-year Follow-up in the Healthy Women Study. Preventive Medicine.

Gianaros, P.J., Horenstein, J.A., Cohen, S., Matthews, K. A., Brown, S. M., Flory, J. D., Critchley, H. D., Manuck, S. B., & Hariri, A.R. (in press). Perigenual anterior cingulate morphology covaries with perceived social standing.  Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience.

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