Karen Margolis
Senior clinical investigator
medicine
HealthPartners Research Foundation
United States of America
Biography
Karen Margolis is a Professor of medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis; adjunct appointment, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota.She had Completed her MD, University of Michigan; MPH, University of Minnesota, MinneapolisIn addition to leading her own research studies on hypertension, Dr. Margolis has been an investigator in several large multi-center, federally funded trials involving cardiovascular disease, diabetes and women's health, including the Women's Health Initiative, the Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial (ALLHAT), Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD), the Aspirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly trial (ASPREE) and the Vitamin D and Type 2 Diabetes (D2d) study. Dr. Margolis has published numerous papers in medical journals such as the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine and the Archives of Internal Medicine..
Research Interest
Postmenopausal women's health, prevention of heart disease, hypertension, diabetes.
Publications
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McNeil JJ, Woods RL, Nelson MR, Murray AM, Reid CM, et al., (2017) Baseline Characteristics of Participants in the ASPREE (ASPirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly) Study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci.
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Sperl-Hillen J, Margolis K, Crain L (2017) Risk and Benefit Information and Use of Aspirin. JAMA Intern Med. 177:291.
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Liang X, Margolis KL, Hendryx M, Rohan TE, Groessl EJ, et al., (2017) Metabolic Phenotype and Risk of Colorectal Cancer in Normal-Weight Postmenopausal Women.Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 26(2):155-161.
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Daley MF, Reifler LM, Johnson ES, Sinaiko AR, Margolis KL, et al., (2017) Predicting Hypertension Among Children With Incident Elevated Blood Pressure. Acad Pediatr. 17(3):275-282.
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Luo J, Chlebowski RT, Hendryx M, Rohan T, Wactawski-Wende J, et al., (2017) Intentional Weight Loss and Endometrial Cancer Risk. J Clin Oncol. 35(11):1189-1193.
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Liang X, Margolis KL, Hendryx M, Reeves K, Wassertheil-Smoller S, et al., (2017) Effect of depression before breast cancer diagnosis on mortality among postmenopausal women.Cancer. 123(16):3107-3115.
