Publications

Selected recent work from our group include:

  1. Lefferts EC, Saavedra JM, Song BK, Brellenthin AG, Pescatello LS, Lee DC. Increasing Lifestyle Walking by 3000 Steps per Day Reduces Blood Pressure in Sedentary Older Adults with Hypertension: Results from an e-Health Pilot Study. J Cardiovasc Dev Dis. 2023 Jul 27;10(8). PMID: 37623330
  2. Lefferts WK, Weiner CM, Mascone SE, Augustine JA, Heffernan KS, Lefferts EC. Influence of sex and presence of cardiovascular risk factors on relations between cardiorespiratory fitness and cerebrovascular hemodynamics. J Appl Physiol (1985). 2022 Oct 1;133(4):1019-1030. PMID: 36074924
  3. Lefferts WK, Lefferts EC, Hibner BA, Smith KJ, Fernhall B. Impact of acute changes in blood pressure and arterial stiffness on cerebral pulsatile hemodynamics in young and middle-aged adults. Experimental Physiology; 2021 Jul;106(7):1643-1653. PMID: 33938052.
  4. Lefferts WK, Smith KJ. Let’s talk about sex, let’s talk about pulsatility, let’s talk about all the good things and the bad things of MCAv. Journal of Applied Physiology; in press. PMID: 33856255.
  5. Lefferts EC, Hibner BA, Lefferts WK, Lima NS, Baynard T, Haus JM, Lane-Cordova AD, Phillips SA, Fernhall B. Oral vitamin C restores endothelial function during acute inflammation in young and older adults. Physiol Rep. 2021 Nov;9(21):e15104. PMID: 34762777.
  6. Lefferts WK, DeBlois JP, Augustine JA, Keller AP, Heffernan KS. Age, sex, and the vascular contributors to cerebral pulsatility and pulsatile damping. Journal of Applied Physiology 2020; 129: 1092-1101. PMID: 32940561.
  7. Lima NS, Krishna H, Gerber BS, Heffernan KS, Gump BB, Lefferts WK. Greater physical activity is associated with lower pulsatile load but not carotid stiffness in children. Journal of Human Hypertension 2020. PMID: 33712711.
  8. Lefferts WK, Augustine JA, Spartano NL, Hughes WE, Babcock MC, Heenan B, Heffernan KS. Effects of whey protein supplementation on aortic stiffness, cerebral reactivity and cognitive function in community-dwelling older adults: findings from the ANCHORS-A-WHEY clinical trial. Nutrients 2020; 12(4):1054. PMID: 32290271.
  9. Lefferts WK, DeBlois JP, Soriano JE, Mann L, Rampuri Z, Herrington B, Thrall S, Bird J, Harman TS, Day TA, Heffernan KS, Brutsaert TD. Preservation of neurovascular coupling to cognitive activity in anterior cerebrovasculature during incremental ascent to high altitude. High Altitude Medicine & Biology 2020; 21(1):20-27. PMID: 31750741.

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