Research Interests
fitness/physical
,
obesity
Recent Publications
Atchley AE, Iskandrian AE, Bensimhon D, Ellis SJ, Kitzman DW, Shaw LK, Pagnanelli RA, Whellan DJ, Gardin JM, Kao A, et al.
Relationship of technetium-99m tetrofosmin-gated rest single-photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging to death and hospitalization in heart failure patients:. Am Heart J.
2011;
161(6):1038-1045.
Willard SL, Register TC, Bennett AJ, Pierre PJ, Laudenslager ML, Kitzman DW, Childers MK, Grange RW, Kritschevsky SB [sic] [Kritchevsky SB], Shively CA.
Developing models of aging and physical function in three species of old world monkeys [abstract]. Am J Primatol.
2011;
73(Suppl 1):81.
Arena R, Myers J, Abella J, Pinkstaff S, Brubaker P, Kitzman DW, Peberdy MA, Bensimhon D, Chase P, Guazzi M.
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing is equally prognostic in young, middle-aged and older individuals diagnosed with heart failure. Int J Cardiol.
2011;
151(3):278-283.
Arena R, Myers J, Abella J, Pinkstaff S, Brubaker P, Kitzman D, Peberdy MA, Bensimhon D, Chase P, Forman DE, et al.
Defining the optimal prognostic window for cardiopulmonary exercise testing in patients with heart failure. Circ Heart Fail.
2010;
3(3):405-411.
Cheng H-J, Zhou P, Kitzman DW, Kritchevsky SB, Sane DC, Little WC, Cheng C-P.
Reversal of aging-induced upregulation of cardiac inducible nitric oxide synthase and beta-adrenergic desensitization in mice lacking the beta3-adrenoreceptor [abstract]. Circulation.
2010;
122(21 Suppl):A13008.
Murad K, Soliman EZ, Morgan TM, Fitzgerald DM, Eggebeen JD, Goff DC, Kitzman DW.
Exercise training improves heart rate variability in older patients with heart failure. A randomized, controlled, single-blinded study [abstract]. J Card Fail.
2010;
16(8 Suppl 1):S67.
Pitt B, Huang IZ, Anker S, Bushinsky D, Kitzman D, Zannad F.
The PEARL HF (multicenter randomized double blind placebo controlled, parallel group multiple dose to evaluate the effects of RLY5016 in heart failure patients) Trial [abstract]. J Card Fail.
2010;
16(11):912.
Felker GM, Fiuzat M, Shaw LK, Donahue M, Adams KF, Zannad F, Whellan D, Kitzman D, Pina I, O'connor CM.
Prognostic value of Galectin-3 in chronic heart failure: results from the HF-ACTION Study [abstract]. Eur Heart J.
2010;
31(Suppl 1):429.
Agarwal SK, Loehr L, Shahar E, Kitzman DW, Wood JL, Punjabi N, Heiss G.
Lung function and incident hospitalized heart failure: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study [abstract]. Circulation.
2009;
119(10):e283.
Flynn KE, Pina IL, Whellan DJ, Lin L, Blumenthal JA, Ellis SJ, Fine LJ, Howlett JG, Keteyian SJ, Kitzman DW, et al.
Effects of exercise training on health status in patients with chronic heart failure: HF-ACTION randomized controlled trial. JAMA.
2009;
301(14):1451-1459.
O'Connor CM, Whellan DJ, Lee KL, Keteyian SJ, Cooper LS, Ellis SJ, Leifer ES, Kraus WE, Kitzman DW, Blumenthal JA, et al.
Efficacy and safety of exercise training in patients with chronic heart failure: HF-ACTION randomized controlled trial. JAMA.
2009;
301(14):1439-1450.
Shea MK, Davis CC, Nicklas BJ, Kitzman DW, Miller ME, Kennedy K, Kritchevsky SB.
The effect of intentional weight-loss on total mortality in older adults [abstract]. J Am Geriatr Soc.
2009;
57(Suppl 1):S122.
Arena R, Myers J, Abella J, Pinkstaff S, Brubaker P, Moore B, Kitzman D, Peberdy MA, Bensimhon D, Chase P, et al.
Determining the preferred percent-predicted equation for peak oxygen consumption in patients with heart failure. Circ Heart Fail.
2009;
2(2):113-120.
Oliveira RB, Myers J, Araujo CGS, Arena R, Mandic S, Bensimhon D, Abella J, Chase P, Guazzi M, Kitzman D, et al.
Does peak oxygen pulse complement peak oxygen uptake in risk stratifying patients with heart failure?. Am J Cardiol.
2009;
104(4):554-558.
Puntawagkoon C, Kitzman DW, Kritchevsky SB, Hamilton CA, Nicklas B, Leng X, Brubaker PH, Hundley WG.
Exercise limb blood flow is reduced despite adequate cardiac output in elderly patients with heart failure [abstract]. J Card Fail.
2009;
15(6 Suppl 1):S69.
Cheng H-J, Zhou P, Cross M, Kitzman D, Kritchevsky S, Sane DC, Little WC, Cheng C-P.
Upregulation of cardiac SERCA 2a by chronic beta3-adrenergic receptor (AR) deficiency: a key molecular mechanism of the protective effect of beta3-AR deficiency on myocardial aging [abstract]. Circulation.
2009;
120(18 Suppl):S584-S585.
Jeevanantham V, Chughtai HL, Little WC, Morgan TM, Kitzman DW, Ntim WO, Hamilton CA, Hundley WG.
Aging affects the response of the left atrium to adrenergic stress [abstract]. Circulation.
2009;
120(18 Suppl):S493.
Arena R, Myers J, Abella J, Pinkstaff S, Brubaker P, Moore B, Kitzman D, Peberdy MA, Bensimhon D, Chase P, et al.
Influence of etiology of heart failure on the obesity paradox. Am J Cardiol.
2009;
104(8):1116-1121.
Atchley AE, Kitzman DW, Whellan DJ, Iskandrian AE, Ellis SJ, Pagnanelli RA, Kao A, Abdul-Nour K, O'Connor CM, Ewald G, et al.
Myocardial perfusion, function, and dyssynchrony in patients with heart failure: baseline results from the single-photon emission computed tomography imaging ancillary study of the Heart. Am Heart J.
2009;
158(4 Suppl 1):S53-S63.
Atchley AE, Kitzman DW, Whellan DJ, Iskandrian AE, Ellis SJ, Shaw LK, Pagnanelli RA, Kao A, Abdul-Nour K, Ewald G, et al.
Relationship of baseline gated rest SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging to death and hospitalization in heart failure patients: results from the Nuclear Substudy of the HF-ACTION Trial [abstract]. J Card Fail.
2009;
15(9):814.
Myers J, Arena R, Oliveira RB, Bensimhon D, Hsu L, Chase P, Guazzi M, Brubaker P, Moore B, Kitzman D, et al.
The lowest VE/VCO2 ratio during exercise as a predictor of outcomes in patients with heart failure. J Card Fail.
2009;
15(9):756-762.
Fleg JL, Leifer E, Kitzman DW, Whellan DJ, Kokkinos P, Wolfel G, Gardin JM.
Clinical and Doppler echocardiographic correlates of VE/VCO2 slope in systolic heart failure: the HF-ACTION Trial [abstract]. Circulation.
2009;
120(18 Suppl 2):S365.
Forman DE, Clare R, Kitzman DW, Ellis SJ, Chiara T, Fletcher G, Fleg JL, Kraus WE.
Impact of age on aerobic capacity in patients with systolic heart failure: the HF-ACTION Study [abstract]. Circulation.
2009;
120(18 Suppl 2):S550.
Kitzman DW, Haas MM, Carson PE, Hetzel S, Komajda M, Zile M, Johnson RH, Mckelvie R, Mcmurray JJ, Demets D, et al.
Obesity and its relationship to adverse cardiovascular outcomes in older patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction in the I-PRESERVE Trial [abstract]. Circulation.
2009;
120(18 Suppl 2):S757-S758.
Bensimhon DR, Leifer ES, Ellis SJ, Fleg JL, Keteyian SJ, Pina IL, Kitzman DW, McKelvie RS, Kraus WE, Forman DE, et al.
Reproducibility of peak oxygen uptake and other cardiopulmonary exercise testing parameters in patients with heart failure (from the Heart Failure and A Controlled Trial Investigating Outcomes of exercise traiNing). Am J Cardiol.
2008;
102(6):712-717.
Arena R, Myers J, Abella J, Pinkstaff S, Brubaker P, Moore B, Kitzman D, Peberdy MA, Bensimhon D, Chase P, et al.
The partial pressure of resting end-tidal carbon dioxide predicts major cardiac events in patients with systolic heart failure. Am Heart J.
2008;
156(5):982-988.
Mulvagh SL, Rakowski H, Vannan MA, Abdelmoneim SS, Becher H, Bierig SM, Burns PN, Castello R, Coon PD, Kitzman DW, et al.
American Society of Echocardiography Consensus Statement on the clinical applications of ultrasonic contrast agents in echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr.
2008;
21(11):1179-1201.
Arena R, Brubaker P, Moore B, Kitzman D.
The oxygen uptake efficiency slope is reduced in older patients with heart failure and a normal ejection fraction [abstract]. Circulation.
2008;
118(18 Suppl 2):S1023.
Barasch E, Gottdiener JS, Han J, Aurigemma GP, Kitzman DW, Tracy R.
The relation between age and serum markers of collagen turnover in healthy elderly individuals; the Cardiovascular Health Study [abstract]. Circulation.
2008;
118(18 Suppl 2):S1084.
Borges-Neto S, Iskandrian AE, Whellan DJ, O'Connor CM, Ellis SJ, Pagnanelli R, Settles S, Kao A, Abdul-Nour K, Kitzman D, et al.
Effect of exercise training on myocardial perfusion, function and dyssynchrony, in heart failure patients: a sub-study of the HF-ACTION Trial [abstract]. Circulation.
2008;
118(18 Suppl 2):S1028.
Nicklas BJ, Brinkley T, Leng X, Miller M, Kitzrnan D [sic] [Kitzman D], Berry M, Marsh A, Pahor M, Kritchevsky S.
Chronic inflammation is associated with low physical function in older adults across multiple comorbidities [abstract]. Gerontologist.
2008;
48(Special Issue 3):491-492.
Kitzman DW, Fleg JL.
Heart failure. In: Aronow WS, Fleg JL, Rich MW, eds. Cardiovascular disease in the elderly. 4th ed.
New York: Informa Healthcare USA;
2008:
541-576.
Whellan DJ, O'Connor CM, Lee KL, Keteyian SJ, Cooper LS, Ellis SJ, Leifer ES, Kraus WE, Kitzman DW, Blumenthal JA, et al.
Heart failure and a controlled trial investigating outcomes of exercise TraiNing (HF-ACTION): design and rationale. Am Heart J.
2007;
153(2):201-211.
Ahmed A, Zile MR, Rich MW, Fleg JL, Adams KF Jr, Love TE, Young JB, Aronow WS, Kitzman DW, Gheorghiade M, et al.
Hospitalizations due to unstable angina pectoris in diastolic and systolic heart failure. Am J Cardiol.
2007;
99(4):460-464.
Bella JN, Tang W, Kraja A, Rao DC, Hunt SC, Miller MB, Palmieri V, Roman MJ, Kitzman DW, Oberman A, et al.
Genome-wide linkage mapping for valve calcification susceptibility loci in hypertensive sibships: the Hypertension Genetic Epidemiology Network Study. Hypertension.
2007;
49(3):453-460.
Kritchevsky SB, Leng I, Miller ME, Ding JZ, Kitzman D.
DXA derived body composition measures are consistently associated with physical performance across 4 older populations [abstract]. FASEB J.
2007;
21(6):A1068.
Wenger NS, Solomon DH, Amin A, Besdine RK, Blazer DG, Cohen H, Fulmer T, Ganz PA, Grunwald M, Kitzman DW, et al.
Application of assessing care of vulnerable elders-3 quality indicators to patients with advanced dementia and poor prognosis. J Am Geriatr Soc.
2007;
55(Suppl 2):S457-S463.
Bella JN, Tang W, Kraja A, Hunt SC, Miller M, Palmieri V, Roman MJ, Kitzman DW, Oberman A, Devereux RB, et al.
Genetic linkage of aortic valve sclerosis and mitral annular calcification: the HyperGEN study [abstract]. Circulation.
2006;
114(18 Suppl):845-846.
Gottdiener JS, Massie BM, Carson PE, Bhaumik A, Ptzszynska A, Komajda M, McKelvie R, Kitzman D, McMurray J, Zile M.
Cardiac structural changes and diastolic function in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction--importance of left atrial volume: the iPRESERVE study [abstract]. Circulation.
2006;
114(18 Suppl):816.
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