Anne Rentoumis Cappola, M.D., Sc.M. is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Associate Scholar in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology (CCEB), Core Faculty Member of the Master's in Translational Research program, and a Fellow in the Institute on Aging. She is a Contributing Editor for the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Dr. Cappola's research focuses on the hormonal alterations that occur with aging and the clinical impact of these changes. She is funded by the National Institute on Aging. Current projects include studies of the indications for treatment of subclinical thyroid dysfunction in older men and women; the role of androgens in the health of older women; hormonal treatments for the frailty syndrome; and metabolic changes in men and women who sustain a hip fracture.
Selected Publications
Hyland KA, Arnold AM, Lee JS, Cappola AR: Persistent subclinical hypothyroidism and cardiovascular risk in the elderly: the Cardiovascular Health Study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 98(2): 533-40, Feb 2013.
Porcu E, Medici M, Pistis G, Volpato CB, Wilson SG, Cappola AR, … Toniolo D, Sanna S, Peeter RP, Naitza S: A meta-analysis of thyroid-related traits reveals novel loci and gender-specific differences in the regulation of thyroid function. PLOS Genetics 9(2): e1003266, Feb 2013.
Maggio M, Snyder P, Ceda GP, Milaneschi Y, Luci M, Cattabiani C, Volpi R, Lauretani F, Peachey H, Cappola AR, Ferrucci L: Is the hematopoietic effect of testosterone mediated by erythropoietin? The results of a clinical trial in older men. Andrology 1(1): 24-8, Jan 2013.
Sanders JL, Ding V, Arnold AM, Kaplan RC, Cappola AR, Kizer JR, Boudreau RM, Cushman M, Newman AB: Do changes in circulating biomarkers track with each other and with functional changes in older adults? J Gerontology Med Sci In press 2013.
Liu Z, Cappola AR, Crofford LJ, Guo W: Modeling bivariate longitudinal hormone profiles by hierarchical state space models. JASA In press 2013.
Reese PP, Cappola AR, Shults J, Townsend RR, Gadegbeku C, Anderson C, Baker JF, Carlow D, Sulik MJ, Lo JC, Go AS, Ky B, Mariani L, Feldman HI, Leonard MB, and the CRIC Study Investigators: Physical performance and frailty in chronic kidney disease. Am J of Nephrol In press 2013.
Demerath EW, Liu CT, Franceschini N, Chen G, Palmer JR, Smith EN, Chen CT, Ambrosone CB, Arnold AM, Bandera EV, Berenson GS, Bernstein L, Britton A, Cappola AR, Carlson CS, Chanock SJ, Chen W, Chen Z, Deming SL, Elks CE, Evans MK, Gajdos Z, Henderson BE, Hu JJ, Ingles S, John EM, Kerr KF, Kolonel LN, Le Marchand L, Lu X, Millikan RC, Musani SK, Nock NL, North K, Nyante S, Press MF, Rodriquez-Gil JL, Ruiz-Narvaez EA, Schork NJ, Srinivasan SR, Woods NF, Zheng W, Ziegler RG, Zonderman A, Heiss G, Gwen Windham B, Wellons M, Murray SS, Nalls M, Pastinen T, Rajkovic A, Hirschhorn J, Adrienne Cupples L, Kooperberg C, Murabito JM, Haiman CA: Genome-wide association study of age at menarche in African-American women. Hum Mol Genet In press 2013.
Kalyani RR, Varadhan R, Weiss CO, Fried LP, Cappola AR: Frailty status and altered glucose-insulin dynamics
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 67(12): 1300-6, Dec 2012.
Waring AC, Arnold AM, Newman AB, Bůžková P, Hirsch C, Cappola AR: Longitudinal changes in thyroid function in the oldest old and survival: the Cardiovascular Health Study All-Stars Study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 97(11): 3944-50, Nov 2012.
Speck RM, Sammel MD, Troxel AB, Cappola AR, Williams-Smith CT, Chittams J, Scott P, Tuton LW, Abbuhl SB: Factors impacting the departure rates of female and male junior medical school faculty: evidence from a longitudinal analysis
J Women's Health 21(10): 1059-65, Oct 2012.
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