Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller

32.3k citations

284 papers · 14.0k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 59

Impact in

Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism top 0.2%
- Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine top 0.5%
- Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
- Cardiac Health and Mental Health

Papers in

Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 84
- Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies 38
- Cardiac Health and Mental Health 19
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism 42
- Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments 19

Co-authors: JoAnn E. Manson Susan L. Hendrix Judith K. Ockene Matthew Allison Thomas E. Rohan Aaron K. Aragaki Jean Wactawski‐Wende Robert C. Kaplan
Journals: Circulation (12 papers)Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention (11 papers)Cancer Causes & Control (9 papers)American Journal of Hypertension (8 papers)Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (7 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany Saudi Arabia

In The Last Decade

Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller

273 papers receiving 13.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Prevalence of Major Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Cardiovascular Diseases Among Hispanic/Latino Individuals of Diverse Backgrounds in the United States 2012 · 692 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2012 JAMA
2010 Annals of Epidemiology
2003 JAMA
2003 JAMA

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All Works

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1	Intentional Weight Loss, Waist Circumference Reduction, and Mortality Risk Among Postmenopausal Women JAMA Network Open ·Michael Hendryx, JoAnn E. Manson, Robert J. Ostfeld, Rowan T. Chlebowski, Erin S. LeBlanc, Molly E. Waring, Wendy E. Barrington, Marisa A. Bittoni, Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller, A. Yu. Alekseeva, Juhua Luo	2025	3
2	Cancer Incidence in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL)—The Onco-SOL Ancillary Study Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·Humberto Parada, Ilir Agalliu, Daniela Sotres‐Alvarez, Andrew F. Olshan, Kelly R. Evenson, Thomas E. Rohan, Robert C. Kaplan, Caroline A. Thompson, Linda C. Gallo, Frank J. Penedo, J. Cai, Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller, Bharat Thyagarajan, Stefani N. Thomas, Toshio Kitahara, Martha L. Daviglus, Gregory A. Talavera	2025	0
3	Proton Pump Inhibitor Use and Incident Hypertension in Menopausal Women Journal of the American Heart Association ·M. A. Bento, Jean Wactawski‐Wende, Amy E. Millen, Shelly L. Gray, Charles B. Eaton, Kathleen M. Hovey, Macarius Donneyong, Nazmus Saquib, Charles P. Mouton, Deepika Laddu, Simin Liu, Daichi Shimbo, Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller, Michael J. LaMonte	2025	1
4	Cumulative All-Cause Mortality in Diverse Hispanic/Latino Adults Annals of Internal Medicine ·Jianwen Cai, Amber Pirzada, Pedro L. Baldoni, Gerardo Heiss, John Kunz, Wayne D. Rosamond, Marston Youngblood, Larissa Avilés‐Santa, Linda C. Gallo, Carmen R. Isasi, Robert C. Kaplan, James P. Lash, David Lee, Maria M. Llabre, Neil Schneiderman, Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller, Gregory A. Talavera, Martha L. Daviglus	2024	3
5	Systolic Blood Pressure and Survival to Very Old Age: Results From the Women’s Health Initiative Circulation ·Bernhard Haring, Chris Andrews, Kathleen M. Hovey, Aladdin H. Shadyab, Andrea Z. LaCroix, Lisa W. Martin, Milagros C. Rosal, Lewis H. Kuller, Elena Salmoirago‐Blotcher, Nazmus Saquib, Patrick Koo, Deepika Laddu, Marcia L. Stefanick, JoAnn E. Manson, Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller, Michael J. LaMonte	2024	0
6	A polygenic risk score for Alzheimer’s disease constructed using APOE-region variants has stronger association than APOE alleles with mild cognitive impairment in Hispanic/Latino adults in the U.S. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy ·Tamar Sofer, Nuzulul Kurniansyah, Einat Granot‐Hershkovitz, Matthew Goodman, Wassim Tarraf, Iris Broce, Richard B. Lipton, Martha L. Daviglus, Melissa Lamar, Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller, Jianwen Cai, Charles DeCarli, Hector M. González, Myriam Fornage	2023	8
7	Life's Essential 8 and Incident Hypertension Among US Hispanic/Latino Adults: Results From the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos Journal of the American Heart Association ·Mohamed Ramz Hechiche, Natalie A. Bello, Bingren Li, Neil Schneiderman, Tatjana Rundek, Fernando D. Testai, Amber Pirzada, Martha L. Daviglus, Krista M. Perreira, Linda C. Gallo, Frank J. Penedo, Daniela Sotres‐Alvarez, Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller, Tali Elfassy	2023	10
8	Blood Pressure Variability and Heart Failure Hospitalization: Results From the Women's Health Initiative American Journal of Preventive Medicine ·Bernhard Haring, 鶴田和仁, JoAnn E. Manson, Michael J. LaMonte, Liviu Klein, Matthew Allison, Robert A. Wild, Robert B. Wallace, Aladdin H. Shadyab, Khadijah Breathett, Charles B. Eaton, Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller, Daichi Shimbo	2022	7
9	Healthy Lifestyle and Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential: Results From the Women's Health Initiative Journal of the American Heart Association ·Bernhard Haring, Alexander P. Reiner, Jingmin Liu, Deirdre K. Tobias, Eric A. Whitsel, Jeffrey S. Berger, Pinkal Desai, Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller, Michael J. LaMonte, Kathleen M. Hayden, Alexander G. Bick, Pradeep Natarajan, Joshua Weinstock, Patricia K. Nguyen, Marcia L. Stefanick, Michael S. Simon, Charles B. Eaton, Charles Kooperberg, JoAnn E. Manson	2021	60
10	Low-Fat Dietary Modification and Risk of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ of the Breast in the Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·Rita Peila, Rowan T. Chlebowski, JoAnn E. Manson, Tracy E. Crane, Dorothy S. Lane, Nazmus Saquib, Aladdin H. Shadyab, Fred K. Tabung, Ana Barac, Zhenzhen Zhang, Kathy Pan, Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller, Thomas E. Rohan	2021	4
11	Racial Differences in Helicobacter pylori CagA Sero-prevalence in a Consortium of Adult Cohorts in the United States Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·Matthew G. Varga, Julia Butt, William J. Blot, Loı̈c Le Marchand, Christopher A. Haiman, Yu Chen, Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller, Lesley F. Tinker, Richard M. Peek, John D. Potter, Timothy L. Cover, Terry Hyslop, Anne Zeleniuch‐Jacquotte, Sonja I. Berndt, Allan Hildesheim, Tim Waterboer, Michael Pawlita, Meira Epplein	2020	25
12	Artificially Sweetened Beverages and Stroke, Coronary Heart Disease, and All-Cause Mortality in the Women’s Health Initiative Stroke ·Yasmin Mossavar‐Rahmani, Victor Kamensky, JoAnn E. Manson, Brian Silver, Stephen R. Rapp, Bernhard Haring, Shirley A.A. Beresford, Linda Snetselaar, Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller	2019	92
13	Association between regional body fat and cardiovascular disease risk among postmenopausal women with normal body mass index European Heart Journal ·Guo‐Chong Chen, Rhonda Arthur, Neil M. Iyengar, Victor Kamensky, Xiaonan Xue, Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller, Matthew Allison, Aladdin H. Shadyab, Robert A. Wild, Yangbo Sun, Hailey R. Banack, Jin Choul Chai, Jean Wactawski‐Wende, JoAnn E. Manson, Marcia L. Stefanick, Andrew J. Dannenberg, Thomas E. Rohan, Qibin Qi	2019	165
14	Polygenic Risk for Depression Increases Risk of Ischemic Stroke Stroke ·Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller, Qibin Qi, Tushar Dave, Braxton D. Mitchell, Rebecca D. Jackson, Simin Liu, Ki Park, Joel Salinas, Erin C. Dunn, Enrique C. Leira, Huichun Xu, Kathleen A. Ryan, Jordan W. Smoller	2018	13
15	Religiosity prevalence and its association with depression and anxiety symptoms among Hispanic/Latino adults PLoS ONE ·А. Ивашов, Molly Jung, Elva M. Arredondo, Janice Barnhart, Jianwen Cai, Sheila F. Castañeda, Martha L. Daviglus, Rebeca A. Espinoza, Aida L. Giachello, Kristine M. Molina, Krista M. Perreira, Hugo Salgado, Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller, Robert C. Kaplan	2018	29
16	Genome-wide association study of depressive symptoms in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos Journal of Psychiatric Research ·Erin C. Dunn, Tamar Sofer, Min‐Jung Wang, Thomas W. Soare, Linda C. Gallo, Stephanie M. Gogarten, Kathleen F. Kerr, Chia‐Yen Chen, Murray B. Stein, Robert J. Ursano, Xiuqing Guo, Yucheng Jia, Jie Yao, Jerome I. Rotter, Maria Argos, Jianwen Cai, Krista M. Perreira, Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller, Jordan W. Smoller	2017	7
17	Hemostatic Markers and Long-Term Risk of Intracerebral Hemorrhage in Postmenopausal Women Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases ·Ju Mi Lee, Juned Siddique, Hyeon Chang Kim, David Green, Linda Van Horn, Matthew Allison, Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller, Philip Greenland	2016	3
18	Abstract 50: Hypertension, Antihypertensive Treatment, Sodium Intake and Cognitive Decline Circulation ·Bernhard Haring, Chunyuan Wu, Laura H. Coker, Arjun Seth, Linda Snetselaar, JoAnn E. Manson, Jacques E. Rossouw, Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller	2015	1
19	Testing the proportional hazards assumption in case-cohort analysis BMC Medical Research Methodology ·Xiaonan Xue, Xianhong Xie, Marc J. Gunter, Thomas E. Rohan, Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller, Gloria Y. F. Ho, Dominic J. Cirillo, Herbert Yu, Howard D. Strickler	2013	107
20	Walking Speed and Risk of Incident Ischemic Stroke Among Postmenopausal Women Stroke ·Aileen P. McGinn, Robert C. Kaplan, Joe Verghese, Daniel M. Rosenbaum, Bruce M. Psaty, Alison E. Baird, J.A. Lynch, Philip A. Wolf, Charles Kooperberg, Joseph C. Larson, Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller	2008	69

About Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller

Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Nutrition and Dietetics and Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, having authored 284 papers that have together received 14.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Nutritional Studies and Diet (43 papers), Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (38 papers), Cancer Risks and Factors (36 papers), Sodium Intake and Health (26 papers), Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments (19 papers), Cardiac Health and Mental Health (19 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (18 papers) and Nutrition and Health in Aging (16 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (3.3k citations), Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (3.3k citations), Behavioral Neuroscience (405 citations), Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (2.8k citations) and Pathology and Forensic Medicine (1.6k citations). Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Saudi Arabia. Frequent co-authors include JoAnn E. Manson, Susan L. Hendrix, Judith K. Ockene, Matthew Allison, Thomas E. Rohan, Aaron K. Aragaki, Jean Wactawski‐Wende, Robert C. Kaplan, Sally A. Shumaker and Jane Morley Kotchen. Their work appears in journals such as Circulation, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, Cancer Causes & Control, American Journal of Hypertension and Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

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