Fried LP, Borhani NO, Enright P, Furberg CD, Gardin JM, Kronmal RA, Kuller LH, Manolio TA, Mittelmark MB, Newman A. The Cardiovascular Health Study: design and rationale. Ann Epidemiol. 1991  ;1(3):263-76.

O'Leary DH, Polak JF, Kronmal RA, Kittner SJ, Bond MG, Wolfson SK, Bommer W, Price TR, Gardin JM, Savage PJ. Distribution and correlates of sonographically detected carotid artery disease in the Cardiovascular Health Study. The CHS Collaborative Research Group. Stroke. 1992  ;23(12):1752-60.

Kronmal RA, Rutan GH, Manolio TA, Borhani NO. Properties of the random zero sphygmomanometer. Hypertension. 1993  ;21(5):632-7.

Higgins MW, Enright PL, Kronmal RA, Schenker MB, Anton-Culver H, Lyles M. Smoking and lung function in elderly men and women. The Cardiovascular Health Study. JAMA. 1993  ;269(21):2741-8.

Polak JF, O'Leary DH, Kronmal RA, Wolfson SK, Bond MG, Tracy RP, Gardin JM, Kittner SJ, Price TR, Savage PJ. Sonographic evaluation of carotid artery atherosclerosis in the elderly: relationship of disease severity to stroke and transient ischemic attack. Radiology. 1993  ;188(2):363-70.

Enright PL, Kronmal RA, Higgins M, Schenker M, Haponik EF. Spirometry reference values for women and men 65 to 85 years of age. Cardiovascular health study. Am Rev Respir Dis. 1993  ;147(1):125-33.

Tell GS, Rutan GH, Kronmal RA, Bild DE, Polak JF, Wong ND, Borhani NO. Correlates of blood pressure in community-dwelling older adults. The Cardiovascular Health Study. Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) Collaborative Research Group. Hypertension. 1994  ;23(1):59-67.

Manolio TA, Kronmal RA, Burke GL, Poirier V, O'Leary DH, Gardin JM, Fried LP, Steinberg EP, Bryan RN. Magnetic resonance abnormalities and cardiovascular disease in older adults. The Cardiovascular Health Study. Stroke. 1994  ;25(2):318-27.

Bryan RN, Manolio TA, Schertz LD, Jungreis C, Poirier VC, Elster AD, Kronmal RA. A method for using MR to evaluate the effects of cardiovascular disease on the brain: the cardiovascular health study. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 1994  ;15(9):1625-33.

Enright PL, Kronmal RA, Higgins MW, Schenker MB, Haponik EF. Prevalence and correlates of respiratory symptoms and disease in the elderly. Cardiovascular Health Study. Chest. 1994  ;106(3):827-34.

Enright PL, Kronmal RA, Manolio TA, Schenker MB, Hyatt RE. Respiratory muscle strength in the elderly. Correlates and reference values. Cardiovascular Health Study Research Group. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 1994  ;149(2 Pt 1):430-8.

Enright PL, Kronmal RA, Smith VE, Gardin JM, Schenker MB, Manolio TA. Reduced vital capacity in elderly persons with hypertension, coronary heart disease, or left ventricular hypertrophy. The Cardiovascular Health Study. Chest. 1995  ;107(1):28-35.

Kronmal RA, Smith VE, O'Leary DH, Polak JF, Gardin JM, Manolio TA. Carotid artery measures are strongly associated with left ventricular mass in older adults (a report from the Cardiovascular Health Study). Am J Cardiol. 1996  ;77(8):628-33.

Polak JF, Kronmal RA, Tell GS, O'Leary DH, Savage PJ, Gardin JM, Rutan GH, Borhani NO. Compensatory increase in common carotid artery diameter. Relation to blood pressure and artery intima-media thickness in older adults. Cardiovascular Health Study. Stroke. 1996  ;27(11):2012-5.

Jonas HA, Kronmal RA, Psaty BM, Manolio TA, Meilahn EN, Tell GS, Tracy RP, Robbins JA, Anton-Culver H. Current estrogen-progestin and estrogen replacement therapy in elderly women: association with carotid atherosclerosis. CHS Collaborative Research Group. Cardiovascular Health Study. Ann Epidemiol. 1996  ;6(4):314-23.

Manolio TA, Kronmal RA, Burke GL, O'Leary DH, Price TR. Short-term predictors of incident stroke in older adults. The Cardiovascular Health Study. Stroke. 1996  ;27(9):1479-86.

O'Leary DH, Polak JF, Kronmal RA, Savage PJ, Borhani NO, Kittner SJ, Tracy R, Gardin JM, Price TR, Furberg CD. Thickening of the carotid wall. A marker for atherosclerosis in the elderly? Cardiovascular Health Study Collaborative Research Group. Stroke. 1996  ;27(2):224-31.

Psaty BM, Manolio TA, Kuller LH, Kronmal RA, Cushman M, Fried LP, White R, Furberg CD, Rautaharju PM. Incidence of and risk factors for atrial fibrillation in older adults. Circulation. 1997  ;96(7):2455-61.

Price TR, Manolio TA, Kronmal RA, Kittner SJ, Yue NC, Robbins J, Anton-Culver H, O'Leary DH. Silent brain infarction on magnetic resonance imaging and neurological abnormalities in community-dwelling older adults. The Cardiovascular Health Study. CHS Collaborative Research Group. Stroke. 1997  ;28(6):1158-64.

Fitzpatrick AL, Daling JR, Furberg CD, Kronmal RA, Weissfeld JL. Use of calcium channel blockers and breast carcinoma risk in postmenopausal women. Cancer. 1997  ;80(8):1438-47.

Kronmal RA, Hart RG, Manolio TA, Talbert RL, Beauchamp NJ, Newman A. Aspirin use and incident stroke in the cardiovascular health study. CHS Collaborative Research Group. Stroke. 1998  ;29(5):887-94.

Visser M, Langlois J, Guralnik JM, Cauley JA, Kronmal RA, Robbins J, Williamson JD, Harris TB. High body fatness, but not low fat-free mass, predicts disability in older men and women: the Cardiovascular Health Study. Am J Clin Nutr. 1998  ;68(3):584-90.

Fried LP, Kronmal RA, Newman AB, Bild DE, Mittelmark MB, Polak JF, Robbins JA, Gardin JM. Risk factors for 5-year mortality in older adults: the Cardiovascular Health Study. JAMA. 1998  ;279(8):585-92.

O'Leary DH, Polak JF, Kronmal RA, Manolio TA, Burke GL, Wolfson SK. Carotid-artery intima and media thickness as a risk factor for myocardial infarction and stroke in older adults. Cardiovascular Health Study Collaborative Research Group. N Engl J Med. 1999  ;340(1):14-22.

Feinberg WM, Kronmal RA, Newman AB, Kraut MA, Bovill EG, Cooper L, Hart RG. Stroke risk in an elderly population with atrial fibrillation. J Gen Intern Med. 1999  ;14(1):56-9.

Siscovick DS, Schwartz SM, Corey L, Grayston JT, Ashley R, Wang SP, Psaty BM, Tracy RP, Kuller LH, Kronmal RA. Chlamydia pneumoniae, herpes simplex virus type 1, and cytomegalovirus and incident myocardial infarction and coronary heart disease death in older adults : the Cardiovascular Health Study. Circulation. 2000  ;102(19):2335-40.

Fitzpatrick AL, Daling JR, Furberg CD, Kronmal RA, Weissfeld JL. Hypertension, heart rate, use of antihypertensives, and incident prostate cancer. Ann Epidemiol. 2001  ;11(8):534-42.

de Simone G, McClelland R, Gottdiener JS, Celentano A, Kronmal RA, Gardin JM. Relation of hemodynamics and risk factors to ventricular-vascular interactions in the elderly: the Cardiovascular Health Study. J Hypertens. 2001  ;19(10):1893-903.

Rautaharju PM, Nelson JC, Kronmal RA, Zhang ZM, Robbins J, Gottdiener JS, Furberg CD, Manolio T, Fried L. Usefulness of T-axis deviation as an independent risk indicator for incident cardiac events in older men and women free from coronary heart disease (the Cardiovascular Health Study). Am J Cardiol. 2001  ;88(2):118-23.

Hindorff LA, Heckbert SR, Tracy R, Tang Z, Psaty BM, Edwards KL, Siscovick DS, Kronmal RA, Nazar-Stewart V. Angiotensin II type 1 receptor polymorphisms in the cardiovascular health study: relation to blood pressure, ethnicity, and cardiovascular events. Am J Hypertens. 2002  ;15(12):1050-6.

Smith NL, Barzilay JI, Shaffer D, Savage PJ, Heckbert SR, Kuller LH, Kronmal RA, Resnick HE, Psaty BM. Fasting and 2-hour postchallenge serum glucose measures and risk of incident cardiovascular events in the elderly: the Cardiovascular Health Study. Arch Intern Med. 2002  ;162(2):209-16.

Kuller L, Arnold A, Tracy R, Otvos J, Burke G, Psaty B, Siscovick D, Freedman DS, Kronmal R. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of lipoproteins and risk of coronary heart disease in the cardiovascular health study. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2002  ;22(7):1175-80.

N Yanez D, Kronmal RA, Shemanski LR, Psaty BM. A regression model for longitudinal change in the presence of measurement error. Ann Epidemiol. 2002  ;12(1):34-8.

McClelland RL, Kronmal RA. Regression-based variable clustering for data reduction. Stat Med. 2002  ;21(6):921-41.

Newman AB, Naydeck BL, Sutton-Tyrrell K, Edmundowicz D, O'Leary D, Kronmal R, Burke GL, Kuller LH. Relationship between coronary artery calcification and other measures of subclinical cardiovascular disease in older adults. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2002  ;22(10):1674-9.

Green DM, Ropper AH, Kronmal RA, Psaty BM, Burke GL. Serum potassium level and dietary potassium intake as risk factors for stroke. Neurology. 2002  ;59(3):314-20.

Lumley T, Kronmal RA, Cushman M, Manolio TA, Goldstein S. A stroke prediction score in the elderly: validation and Web-based application. J Clin Epidemiol. 2002  ;55(2):129-36.

Lemaitre RN, Psaty BM, Heckbert SR, Kronmal RA, Newman AB, Burke GL. Therapy with hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme a reductase inhibitors (statins) and associated risk of incident cardiovascular events in older adults: evidence from the Cardiovascular Health Study. Arch Intern Med. 2002  ;162(12):1395-400.

Mukamal KJ, Kronmal RA, Mittleman MA, O'Leary DH, Polak JF, Cushman M, Siscovick DS. Alcohol consumption and carotid atherosclerosis in older adults: the Cardiovascular Health Study. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2003  ;23(12):2252-9.

Smith NL, Psaty BM, Rutan GH, Lumley T, Yanez D, Chaves PHM, Kronmal RA. The association between time since last meal and blood pressure in older adults: the cardiovascular health study. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2003  ;51(6):824-8.

Heckbert SR, Hindorff LA, Edwards KL, Psaty BM, Lumley T, Siscovick DS, Tang Z, J Durda P, Kronmal RA, Tracy RP. Beta2-adrenergic receptor polymorphisms and risk of incident cardiovascular events in the elderly. Circulation. 2003  ;107(15):2021-4.

Aviles RJ, Martin DO, Apperson-Hansen C, Houghtaling PL, Rautaharju P, Kronmal RA, Tracy RP, Van Wagoner DR, Psaty BM, Lauer MS, et al. Inflammation as a risk factor for atrial fibrillation. Circulation. 2003  ;108(24):3006-10.

Arnold AM, Kronmal RA. Multiple imputation of baseline data in the cardiovascular health study. Am J Epidemiol. 2003  ;157(1):74-84.

Fried LF, Shlipak MG, Crump C, Bleyer AJ, Gottdiener JS, Kronmal RA, Kuller LH, Newman AB. Renal insufficiency as a predictor of cardiovascular outcomes and mortality in elderly individuals. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2003  ;41(8):1364-72.

Psaty BM, Anderson M, Kronmal RA, Tracy RP, Orchard T, Fried LP, Lumley T, Robbins J, Burke G, Newman AB, et al. The association between lipid levels and the risks of incident myocardial infarction, stroke, and total mortality: The Cardiovascular Health Study. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2004  ;52(10):1639-47.

Barzilay JI, Kronmal RA, Gottdiener JS, Smith NL, Burke GL, Tracy R, Savage PJ, Carlson M. The association of fasting glucose levels with congestive heart failure in diabetic adults > or =65 years: the Cardiovascular Health Study. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2004  ;43(12):2236-41.

Manolio TA, Cushman M, Gottdiener JS, Dobs A, Kuller LH, Kronmal RA. Predictors of falling cholesterol levels in older adults: the Cardiovascular Health Study. Ann Epidemiol. 2004  ;14(5):325-31.

Kronmal RA, Barzilay JI, Tracy RP, Savage PJ, Orchard TJ, Burke GL. The relationship of fasting serum radioimmune insulin levels to incident coronary heart disease in an insulin-treated diabetic cohort. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2004  ;89(6):2852-8.

Mukamal KJ, Kronmal RA, Tracy RP, Cushman M, Siscovick DS. Traditional and novel risk factors in older adults: cardiovascular risk assessment late in life. Am J Geriatr Cardiol. 2004  ;13(2):69-80.

Arnold AM, Psaty BM, Kuller LH, Burke GL, Manolio TA, Fried LP, Robbins JA, Kronmal RA. Incidence of cardiovascular disease in older Americans: the cardiovascular health study. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2005  ;53(2):211-8.

Robbins J, Schott A-M, Azari R, Kronmal R. Body mass index is not a good predictor of bone density: results from WHI, CHS, and EPIDOS. J Clin Densitom. 2006  ;9(3):329-34.

El-Saed A, Kuller LH, Newman AB, Lopez O, Costantino J, McTigue K, Cushman M, Kronmal R. Factors associated with geographic variations in stroke incidence among older populations in four US communities. Stroke. 2006  ;37(8):1980-5.

Sieh W, Edwards KL, Fitzpatrick AL, Srinouanprachanh SL, Farin FM, Monks SA, Kronmal RA, Eaton DL. Genetic Susceptibility to Prostate Cancer: Prostate-specific Antigen and its Interaction with the Androgen Receptor (United States). Cancer Causes Control. 2006  ;17(2):187-97.

El-Saed A, Kuller LH, Newman AB, Lopez O, Costantino J, McTigue K, Cushman M, Kronmal R. Geographic variations in stroke incidence and mortality among older populations in four US communities. Stroke. 2006  ;37(8):1975-9.

Kronmal RA, Barzilay JI, Smith NL, Psaty BM, Kuller LH, Burke GL, Furberg C. Mortality in pharmacologically treated older adults with diabetes: the Cardiovascular Health Study, 1989-2001. PLoS Med. 2006  ;3(10):e400.

Smith NL, Barzilay JI, Kronmal R, Lumley T, Enquobahrie D, Psaty BM. New-onset diabetes and risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality: the Cardiovascular Health Study. Diabetes Care. 2006  ;29(9):2012-7.

Mukamal KJ, Mackey RH, Kuller LH, Tracy RP, Kronmal RA, Mittleman MA, Siscovick DS. Alcohol consumption and lipoprotein subclasses in older adults. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2007  ;92(7):2559-66.

Fitzpatrick AL, Kronmal RA, Gardner JP, Psaty BM, Jenny NS, Tracy RP, Walston J, Kimura M, Aviv A. Leukocyte telomere length and cardiovascular disease in the cardiovascular health study. Am J Epidemiol. 2007  ;165(1):14-21.

Stein PK, Barzilay JI, Domitrovich PP, Chaves PM, Gottdiener JS, Heckbert SR, Kronmal RA. The relationship of heart rate and heart rate variability to non-diabetic fasting glucose levels and the metabolic syndrome: the Cardiovascular Health Study. Diabet Med. 2007  ;24(8):855-63.

Jiang R, Burke GL, Enright PL, Newman AB, Margolis HG, Cushman M, Tracy RP, Wang Y, Kronmal RA, R Barr G. Inflammatory markers and longitudinal lung function decline in the elderly. Am J Epidemiol. 2008  ;168(6):602-10.

Patton KK, Ellinor PT, Heckbert SR, Christenson RH, DeFilippi C, Gottdiener JS, Kronmal RA. N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide is a major predictor of the development of atrial fibrillation: the Cardiovascular Health Study. Circulation. 2009  ;120(18):1768-74.

Newman AB, Sachs MC, Arnold AM, Fried LP, Kronmal R, Cushman M, Psaty BM, Harris TB, Robbins JA, Burke GL, et al. Total and cause-specific mortality in the cardiovascular health study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2009  ;64(12):1251-61.

Levy D, Neuhausen SL, Hunt SC, Kimura M, Hwang S-J, Chen W, Bis JC, Fitzpatrick AL, Smith E, Johnson AD, et al. Genome-wide association identifies OBFC1 as a locus involved in human leukocyte telomere biology. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010  ;107(20):9293-8.

Schnabel RB, Aspelund T, Li G, Sullivan LM, Suchy-Dicey A, Harris TB, Pencina MJ, D'Agostino RB, Levy D, Kannel WB, et al. Validation of an atrial fibrillation risk algorithm in whites and African Americans. Arch Intern Med. 2010  ;170(21):1909-17.

Elkind MSV, Carty CL, O'Meara ES, Lumley T, Lefkowitz D, Kronmal RA, Longstreth WT. Hospitalization for infection and risk of acute ischemic stroke: the Cardiovascular Health Study. Stroke. 2011  ;42(7):1851-6.

Fitzpatrick AL, Kronmal RA, Kimura M, Gardner JP, Psaty BM, Jenny NS, Tracy RP, Hardikar S, Aviv A. Leukocyte telomere length and mortality in the Cardiovascular Health Study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2011  ;66(4):421-9.

Patton KK, Sotoodehnia N, DeFilippi C, Siscovick DS, Gottdiener JS, Kronmal RA. N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide is associated with sudden cardiac death risk: the Cardiovascular Health Study. Heart Rhythm. 2011  ;8(2):228-33.

Rosenberg MA, Patton KK, Sotoodehnia N, Karas MG, Kizer JR, Zimetbaum PJ, Chang JD, Siscovick D, Gottdiener JS, Kronmal RA, et al. The impact of height on the risk of atrial fibrillation: the Cardiovascular Health Study. Eur Heart J. 2012  ;33(21):2709-17.

Burnett-Hartman AN, Fitzpatrick AL, Kronmal RA, Psaty BM, Jenny NS, Bis JC, Tracy RP, Kimura M, Aviv A. Telomere-associated polymorphisms correlate with cardiovascular disease mortality in Caucasian women: the Cardiovascular Health Study. Mech Ageing Dev. 2012  ;133(5):275-81.

Suchy-Dicey AM, Wallace ER, Mitchell SVElkind, Aguilar M, Gottesman RF, Rice K, Kronmal R, Psaty BM, Longstreth WT. Blood pressure variability and the risk of all-cause mortality, incident myocardial infarction, and incident stroke in the cardiovascular health study. Am J Hypertens. 2013  ;26(10):1210-7.

Locke E, Thielke S, Diehr P, Wilsdon AG, R Barr G, Hansel N, Kapur VK, Krishnan J, Enright P, Heckbert SR, et al. Effects of respiratory and non-respiratory factors on disability among older adults with airway obstruction: the Cardiovascular Health Study. COPD. 2013  ;10(5):588-96.

Hoed Mden, Eijgelsheim M, Esko T, Brundel BJJM, Peal DS, Evans DM, Nolte IM, Segrè AV, Holm H, Handsaker RE, et al. Identification of heart rate-associated loci and their effects on cardiac conduction and rhythm disorders. Nat Genet. 2013  ;45(6):621-31.

Alonso A, Krijthe BP, Aspelund T, Stepas KA, Pencina MJ, Moser CB, Sinner MF, Sotoodehnia N, Fontes JD, A Janssens CJW, et al. Simple risk model predicts incidence of atrial fibrillation in a racially and geographically diverse population: the CHARGE-AF consortium. J Am Heart Assoc. 2013  ;2(2):e000102.

Sinner MF, Stepas KA, Moser CB, Krijthe BP, Aspelund T, Sotoodehnia N, Fontes JD, A Janssens CJW, Kronmal RA, Magnani JW, et al. B-type natriuretic peptide and C-reactive protein in the prediction of atrial fibrillation risk: the CHARGE-AF Consortium of community-based cohort studies. Europace. 2014  ;16(10):1426-33.

Rosenberg MA, Lopez FL, B?zková P, Adabag S, Chen LY, Sotoodehnia N, Kronmal RA, Siscovick DS, Alonso A, Buxton A, et al. Height and risk of sudden cardiac death: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities and Cardiovascular Health studies. Ann Epidemiol. 2014  ;24(3):174-179.e2.

Ferket BS, van Kempen BJH, Wieberdink RG, Steyerberg EW, Koudstaal PJ, Hofman A, Shahar E, Gottesman RF, Rosamond W, Kizer JR, et al. Separate prediction of intracerebral hemorrhage and ischemic stroke. Neurology. 2014  ;82(20):1804-12.

Corrales-Medina VF, Alvarez KN, Weissfeld LA, Angus DC, Chirinos JA, Chang C-CH, Newman A, Loehr L, Folsom AR, Elkind MS, et al. Association between hospitalization for pneumonia and subsequent risk of cardiovascular disease. JAMA. 2015  ;313(3):264-74.

Kamel H, Bartz TM, Longstreth WT, Okin PM, Thacker EL, Patton KK, Stein PK, Gottesman RF, Heckbert SR, Kronmal RA, et al. Association between left atrial abnormality on ECG and vascular brain injury on MRI in the Cardiovascular Health Study. Stroke. 2015  ;46(3):711-6.

Corrales-Medina VF, Taljaard M, Yende S, Kronmal R, Dwivedi G, Newman AB, Elkind MSV, Lyles MF, Chirinos JA. Intermediate and long-term risk of new-onset heart failure after hospitalization for pneumonia in elderly adults. Am Heart J. 2015  ;170(2):306-12.

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.

Cornelius T, Schwartz JE, Balte P, Bhatt SP, Cassano PA, Currow D, Jacobs DR, Johnson M, Kalhan R, Kronmal R, et al. A Dyadic Growth Modeling Approach for Examining Associations Between Weight Gain and Lung Function Decline. Am J Epidemiol. 2020  ;189(10):1173-1184.

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.

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.