Oelsner EC, Balte PP, Cassano PA, Couper D, Enright PL, Folsom AR, Hankinson J, Jacobs DR, Kalhan R, Kaplan R, et al. Harmonization of Respiratory Data From 9 US Population-Based Cohorts: The NHLBI Pooled Cohorts Study. Am J Epidemiol. 2018  ;187(11):2265-2278.

Oelsner EC, Balte PP, Grams ME, Cassano PA, Jacobs DR, R Barr G, Burkart KM, Kalhan R, Kronmal R, Loehr LR, et al. Albuminuria, Lung Function Decline, and Risk of Incident Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. The NHLBI Pooled Cohorts Study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2019  ;199(3):321-332.

Bhatt SP, Balte PP, Schwartz JE, Cassano PA, Couper D, Jacobs DR, Kalhan R, O'Connor GT, Yende S, Sanders JL, et al. Discriminative Accuracy of FEV1:FVC Thresholds for COPD-Related Hospitalization and Mortality. JAMA. 2019  ;321(24):2438-2447.

Balte PP, Chaves PHM, Couper DJ, Enright P, Jacobs DR, Kalhan R, Kronmal RA, Loehr LR, London SJ, Newman AB, et al. Association of Nonobstructive Chronic Bronchitis With Respiratory Health Outcomes in Adults. JAMA Intern Med. 2020  ;180(5):676-686.

Oelsner EC, Balte PP, Bhatt SP, Cassano PA, Couper D, Folsom AR, Freedman ND, Jacobs DR, Kalhan R, Mathew AR, et al. Lung function decline in former smokers and low-intensity current smokers: a secondary data analysis of the NHLBI Pooled Cohorts Study. Lancet Respir Med. 2020  ;8(1):34-44.

Zhao X, Qiao D, Yang C, Kasela S, Kim W, Ma Y, Shrine N, Batini C, Sofer T, Taliun SAGagliano, et al. Whole genome sequence analysis of pulmonary function and COPD in 19,996 multi-ethnic participants. Nat Commun. 2020  ;11(1):5182.

Eckhardt CM, Balte PP, Barr RGraham, Bertoni AG, Bhatt SP, Cuttica M, Cassano PA, Chaves P, Couper D, Jacobs DR, et al. Lung function impairment and risk of incident heart failure: the NHLBI Pooled Cohorts Study. Eur Heart J. 2022  ;43(23):2196-2208.

Hu X, Qiao D, Kim W, Moll M, Balte PP, Lange LA, Bartz TM, Kumar R, Li X, Yu B, et al. Polygenic transcriptome risk scores for COPD and lung function improve cross-ethnic portability of prediction in the NHLBI TOPMed program. Am J Hum Genet. 2022  .

Bhatt SP, Balte PP, Schwartz JE, Jaeger BC, Cassano PA, Chaves PH, Couper D, Jacobs DR, Kalhan R, Kaplan R, et al. Pooled Cohort Probability Score for Subclinical Airflow Obstruction. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2022  ;19(8):1294-1304.

Zhang Y, Dron JS, Bellows BK, Khera AV, Liu J, Balte PP, Oelsner EC, Amr SSamir, Lebo MS, Nagy A, et al. Association of Severe Hypercholesterolemia and Familial Hypercholesterolemia Genotype With Risk of Coronary Heart Disease. Circulation. 2023  ;147(20):1556-1559.

Zhang Y, Dron JS, Bellows BK, Khera AV, Liu J, Balte PP, Oelsner EC, Amr SSamir, Lebo MS, Nagy A, et al. Familial Hypercholesterolemia Variant and Cardiovascular Risk in Individuals With Elevated Cholesterol. JAMA Cardiol. 2024  .

Liu J, Bellows BK, Jacobs DR, Woo JG, Urbina EM, Balte PP, Oelsner EC, Kazi DS, Siscovick D, Allen NB, et al. Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Level Distributions Across Different Ages: Implications for Screening Children for Severe and Familial Hypercholesterolemia. Circulation. 2024  ;150(21):1741-1744.

Bhatt SP, Wu C, Sun Y, Balte PP, Schwartz JE, Divo MJ, Jaeger BC, Chaves PH, Couper D, Jacobs DR, et al. Low Lung Function Is Associated with High Population Attributable Fraction for Cardiovascular Mortality. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2025  ;22(3):359-366.