DF/HCC Program Affiliation

Member, Cancer Epidemiology Program
Member, Cancer Risk Reduction Program

DF/HCC Associations

Member, Center Scientific Council

Research Abstract

My research focuses on psychological and social factors in health with particular interests in a) the role of stress and emotion in cardiovascular disease, cancer, and healthy aging b) relationships between social disparities, psychosocial factors (social support, anxiety, anger, optimism), and health. My work also considers how positive psychosocial resources like optimism and social support are related both to the social structure and to health outcomes, including the development and progression of chronic diseases.

Publications

• Kubzansky LD, Wright RJ, Cohen S, Weiss S, Rosner B, Sparrow D. Breathing easy: a prospective study of optimism and pulmonary function in the normative aging study. Ann Behav Med 2002 Fall; 24(4):345-53
  PMID: 12434946
• Siegman AW, Kubzansky LD, Kawachi I, Boyle S, Vokonas PS, Sparrow D. A prospective study of dominance and coronary heart disease in the Normative Aging Study. Am J Cardiol 2000 Jul 15; 86(2):145-9
  PMID: 10913473
• Kubzansky LD, Kawachi I. Going to the heart of the matter: do negative emotions cause coronary heart disease? J Psychosom Res 2000 Apr-May; 48(4-5):323-37
  PMID: 10880655
• Kubzansky LD, Kawachi I, Sparrow D. Socioeconomic status, hostility, and risk factor clustering in the Normative Aging Study: any help from the concept of allostatic load? Ann Behav Med 1999 Fall; 21(4):330-8
  PMID: 10721441