Dr. Emelia Benjamin, MD

• Cardiology

• Internal Medicine

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• Case Western Reserve University

  Medical School, 1983

• English

• Spanish

• Integrating Genetic, Transcriptional, and Functional Analyses to Identify Five Novel Genes for Atrial Fibrillation, 2014-08-14

• Evaluation of a Prediction Model for the Development of Atrial Fibrillation in a Repository of Electronic Medical Records, 2016-12-01

• COVID-19 pandemic and trends in new diagnosis of atrial fibrillation: A nationwide analysis of claims data, 2023-02-02

• Matrix Gla Protein Levels are Associated with Arterial Stiffness and Incident Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction, 2021-11-23

• Large-scale analyses of common and rare variants identify 12 new loci associated with atrial fibrillation, 2017-04-17

• Clinical and Environmental Correlates of Serum BDNF: A descriptive study with plausible implications for AD research, 2018-06-18

• Approximate conditional phenotype analysis based on genome wide association summary statistics, 2021-01-28

• Health literacy and warfarin therapy at two anticoagulation clinics in Brazil, 2017-03-03

• Metabolic Predictors of Change in Vascular Function: Prospective Associations from a Community-Based Cohort, 2017-12-26

• Comparison of Daily Routines Between Middle-aged and Older Participants With and Those Without Diabetes in the Electronic Framingham Heart Study: Cohort Study, 2022-01-07

• Integrative Omics Approach to Identifying Genes Associated with Atrial Fibrillation, 2019-12-05

• Atrial fibrillation in women: epidemiology, pathophysiology, presentation, and prognosis, 2016-04-07

• Adjusted restricted mean survival times in observational studies, 2019-05-22

• The Impact of Multi-pollutant Clusters on the Association between Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Microvascular Function, 2016-10-15

• Genetic analysis of right heart structure and function in 40,000 people, 2022-06-13

• Fostering Tobacco Regulatory Team Science through a multisite, virtual fellowship program for early-career researchers, 2022-01-01

• Deep learning enables genetic analysis of the human thoracic aorta, 2021-11-26

• Development and Validation of a Prediction Model for Atrial Fibrillation Using Electronic Health Records, 2019-10-02

• Risk Factors and Outcomes Associated with New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation during Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, 2015-06-16

• Meta-analysis identifies six new susceptibility loci for atrial fibrillation, 2012-04-29

• Association between Arterial Stiffness and Variations in Estrogen-Related Genes, 2009-02-05

• Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in >80,000 subjects identifies multiple loci for C-reactive protein levels, 2011-02-07

• Red Blood Cell Fatty Acids and Biomarkers of Inflammation: A Cross-sectional Study in a Community-based Cohort, 2015-04-03

• Relations Between BMI Trajectories and Habitual Physical Activity Measured by a Smartwatch in the Electronic Cohort of the Framingham Heart Study: Cohort Study, 2022-04-27

• Assessment of endothelial function using digital pulse amplitude tonometry, 2013-08-22

• Wearable accelerometer-derived physical activity and incident disease, 2022-09-02

• Arterial stiffness and cardiovascular events: The Framingham Heart Study, 2010-01-18

• Short-term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Biomarkers of Systemic Inflammation: The Framingham Heart Study, 2017-07-27

• Association of Sex Hormones, Aging and Atrial Fibrillation in Men: The Framingham Heart Study, 2014-03-08

• Independent Susceptibility Markers for Atrial Fibrillation on Chromosome 4q25, 2010-08-23

• Targeted sequencing in candidate genes for atrial fibrillation: The Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology Targeted Sequencing Study, 2013-11-14

• Design and Preliminary Findings From a New Electronic Cohort Embedded in the Framingham Heart Study, 2019-03-01

• Common Coding Variants inSCN10Aare associated with the Nav1.8 Late Current and Cardiac Conduction, 2019-01-29

• Whole Blood Gene Expression and Interleukin-6 Levels, 2014-10-13

• Endophenotype effect sizes support variant pathogenicity in monogenic disease susceptibility genes, 2022-08-30

• Whole Exome Sequencing in Atrial Fibrillation, 2016-09-02

• A simple clinical model predicts incident hepatic steatosis in a community-based cohort: The Framingham Heart Study, 2018-03-12

• DiminishedPRRX1Expression is Associated with Increased Risk of Atrial Fibrillation and Shortening of the Cardiac Action Potential, 2017-09-06

• Relations of Mitochondrial Genetic Variants to Measures of Vascular Function, 2017-10-07

• Micro RNAs from DNA Viruses are Found Widely in Plasma in a Large Observational Human Population, 2018-04-23

• Increasing liver fat is associated with progression of cardiovascular risk factors, 2020-04-24

• Association between Familial Atrial Fibrillation and Risk of New-onset Atrial Fibrillation, 2010-11-13

• Atrial Fibrillation without Comorbidities: Prevalence, Incidence and Prognosis (from the Framingham Heart Study), 2016-04-30

• Metabolic syndrome and inflammatory biomarkers: a community-based cross-sectional study at the Framingham Heart Study, 2012-06-20

• Components of Hemodynamic Load and Cardiovascular Events: The Framingham Heart Study, 2014-11-21

• Reproducibility of Speckle-Tracking Based Strain Measures of Left Ventricular Function in a Community-Based Study, 2013-08-14

• The Association of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Cardiac Structure and Function - Framingham Heart Study, 2020-07-25

• Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Patterns and Incidence of Heart Failure with Preserved versus Reduced Ejection Fraction, 2013-10-04

• PREVALENCE, CORRELATES, AND PROGNOSIS OF HEALTHY VASCULAR AGING IN A WESTERN COMMUNITY-DWELLING COHORT: THE FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY, 2017-05-30

• Longitudinal Associations of Pericardial and Intrathoracic Fat with Progression of Coronary Artery Calcium (From The Framingham Heart Study), 2017-10-19

• Long-term Outcomes in Individuals with a Prolonged PR Interval or First-Degree Atrioventricular Block, 2009-06-24

• Addition of Inflammatory Biomarkers Did Not Improve Diabetes Prediction in the Community: The Framingham Heart Study, 2012-08-24

• Investigating the association of traditional and non-traditional tobacco product use with subclinical and clinical cardiovascular disease: The Cross-Cohort Collaboration-Tobacco working group rationale, design, and methodology, 2023-07-07

• Anisocoria and Poor Pupil Reactivity by Quantitative Pupillometry in Patients with Intracranial Pathology, 2022-02-01

• White Blood Cell Count and Risk of Incident Atrial Fibrillation (From the Framingham Heart Study), 2011-11-17

• Whole Blood Gene Expression and Atrial Fibrillation: The Framingham Heart Study, 2014-05-07

• Shared Decision Making in Cardiac Electrophysiology Procedures and Arrhythmia Management, 2021-12-06

• Multi-Ethnic Genome-wide Association Study for Atrial Fibrillation, 2018-06-11

• Association of Lipid-Related Genetic Variants with the Incidence of Atrial Fibrillation: The AFGen Consortium, 2016-03-21

• Childhood Tobacco Smoke Exposure and Risk of Atrial Fibrillation in Adulthood, 2019-10-01

• Prevalence, Neurohormonal Correlates and Prognosis of Heart Failure Stages in the Community, 2016-07-06

• Women and atrial fibrillation, 2020-12-29

• Relations of liver fat with prevalent and incident chronic kidney disease in the Framingham Heart Study: a secondary analysis, 2019-05-24

• Relations of Matrix Remodeling Biomarkers to Blood Pressure Progression and Incidence of Hypertension in the Community, 2009-02-16

• Atrial Fibrillation Genetic Risk and Ischemic Stroke Mechanisms, 2017-05-03

• P wave duration is associated with cardiovascular and all-cause mortality outcomes: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2010-09-22

• Framingham Heart Study 100K Project: genome-wide associations for blood pressure and arterial stiffness, 2007-09-19

• Temporal trends in cause-specific mortality among individuals with newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation in the Framingham Heart Study, 2021-07-29

• Racial and Urban-Rural Difference in the Frequency of Ischemic Stroke as Initial Manifestation of Atrial Fibrillation, 2021-11-05

• Epidemiology of left ventricular systolic dysfunction and heart failure in the Framingham Study: An echocardiographic study over three decades, 2017-10-05

• Associations of Obesity and Body Fat Distribution with Incident Atrial Fibrillation in the Biracial Health Aging and Body Composition Cohort of Older Adults, 2015-06-14

• Prognostic Significance of Echocardiographic Measures of Cardiac Remodeling, 2019-10-14

• Association of Electronic Cigarette Use With Subsequent Initiation of Tobacco Cigarettes in US Youths Electronic Cigarette Use and Subsequent Cigarette Smoking Initiation, 2019-02-01

• Does distance from a clinic and poverty impact visit adherence for noncommunicable diseases? A retrospective cohort study using electronic medical records in rural Haiti, 2020-10-14

• The Association of Chronic Kidney Disease and Microalbuminuria with Heart Failure with Preserved versus Reduced Ejection Fraction, 2017-02-20

• Genome-Wide Association Study of L-Arginine and Dimethylarginines Reveals Novel Metabolic Pathway for Symmetric Dimethylarginine, 2014-09-21

• Predictive Accuracy of a Clinical and Genetic Risk Model for Atrial Fibrillation, 2021-08-31

• Cannabis Vaping among Adults in the United States: Prevalence, Trends, and Association with High-risk Behaviors and Adverse Respiratory Conditions, 2021-09-11

• CLIA-tested Genetic Variants on Commercial SNP Arrays: Potential for Incidental Findings in Genome-Wide Association Studies, 2011-03-03

• Social determinants of atrial fibrillation, 2021-06-02

• Sex and Stroke Risk in Atrial fibrillation - More Work to be Done, 2020-11-02

• Atrial fibrillation and the risk of subsequent fracture, 2020-03-05

• Epigenome-Wide Association Study of Soluble Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor 2 Levels in the Framingham Heart Study, 2018-04-24

• Multiple Novel Loci are Associated with Indices of Renal Function and Chronic Kidney Disease, 2009-05-10

• Cluster Individuals Based on Phenotype and Determine the Risk for Atrial Fibrillation in the PREVEND and Framingham Heart Study Populations, 2016-11-10

• Mediation Effects of Diabetes and Inflammation on the Relationship of Obesity to Cognitive Impairment in African Americans, 2022-08-08

• Racial and Ethnic Considerations in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: JACC Focus Seminar, 2021-12-21

• Practice Patterns and Outcomes Associated With Use of Anticoagulation Among Patients With Atrial Fibrillation During Sepsis, 2016-09-01

• Relation of Hypothyroidism and Incident Atrial Fibrillation (from the Framingham Heart Study), 2013-10-19

• Association between titin loss-of-function variants and early-onset atrial fibrillation, 2018-12-11

• Cardiovascular Biomarkers in the Prediction of Incident Heart Failure with Preserved and Reduced Ejection Fraction, 2018-03-01

• Hemodynamic Correlates of Blood Pressure Across the Adult Age Spectrum: Noninvasive Evaluation in the Framingham Heart Study, 2010-09-20

• Genome-Wide Association Analysis of Soluble ICAM-1 Concentration Reveals Novel Associations at theNFKBIK,PNPLA3,RELA, andSH2B3Loci, 2011-04-21

• Thoracic Periaortic and Visceral Adipose Tissue and Their Cross-sectional Associations with Measures of Vascular Function, 2013-06-11

• Atrial flutter - clinical risk factors and adverse outcomes in the Framingham Heart Study, 2015-07-28

• Relation of Pericardial Fat, Intrathoracic Fat, and Abdominal Visceral Fat with Incident Atrial Fibrillation (From the Framingham Heart Study), 2016-08-24

• Comorbidities and Cardiometabolic Disease: Relationship with Longitudinal Changes in Diastolic Function, 2018-03-07

• Diabetes, gender, and left ventricular structure in African-Americans: the atherosclerosis risk in communities study, 2006-11-08

• Atrial Fibrillation and Race - A Contemporary Review, 2013-09-12

• Methylome-wide Association Study of Atrial Fibrillation in Framingham Heart Study, 2017-01-09

• Clinical and Genetic Factors Associated with Lipoprotein-associated Phospholipase A2in the Framingham Heart Study, 2008-11-05

• The association between sleep-disordered breathing and aortic stiffness in a community cohort, 2015-11-27

• Pleiotropic genes for metabolic syndrome and inflammation, 2014-05-09

• The association between eicosanoids and incident atrial fibrillation in the Framingham Heart Study, 2022-11-23

• Factors associated with long-term use of digital devices in the electronic Framingham Heart Study, 2022-12-27

• Genetic Risk Prediction of Atrial Fibrillation, 2016-10-28

• FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY NOVEL EXAMINATION USING TECHNOLOGY IN COMMUNITY-DWELLING ADULTS, 2019-11-08

• Clinical Correlates, Heritability and Genetic Linkage of Circulating CD40 Ligand in the Framingham Offspring Study, 2008-10-02

• Common and Rare Coding Genetic Variation Underlying the Electrocardiographic PR Interval, 2018-03-29

• Atrial Fibrillation and Cognitive Decline in the Framingham Heart Study, 2017-09-22

• The Evolution of Mitral Valve Prolapse: Insights from the Framingham Heart Study, 2016-03-22

• Variants inZFHX3are associated with atrial fibrillation in individuals of European ancestry, 2009-07-13

• Contraindications to Anticoagulation Therapy and Eligibility for Novel Anticoagulants in Older Patients With Atrial Fibrillation, 2015-05-04

• Mentoring for Success in Tobacco Regulatory Science: A Qualitative Study, 2017-07-07

• Long-Term Outcomes of Secondary Atrial Fibrillation in the Community: The Framingham Heart Study, 2015-03-13

• Relations of Circulating Resistin and Adiponectin and Cardiac structure and Function: the Framingham Offspring study, 2011-02-24

• Worldwide Epidemiology of Atrial Fibrillation: A Global Burden of Disease 2010 Study, 2013-12-17

• Low Serum Magnesium and the Development of Atrial Fibrillation in the Community: The Framingham Heart Study, 2012-11-21

• Assessing the incremental predictive performance of novel biomarkers over standard predictors, 2014-04-09

• Vitamin D Status is Not Related to Development of Atrial Fibrillation in the Community, 2011-08-11

• Association of Coming Out as Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual+ and Risk of Cigarette Smoking in a Nationally Representative Sample of Youth and Young Adults Association of Coming Out as Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual+ and Risk of Cigarette Smoking, 2020-10-26

• A Cross-Center Virtual Education Fellowship Program for Early-Career Researchers in Atrial Fibrillation, 2020-10-08

• Cardiac index is associated with brain aging: The Framingham Heart Study, 2010-08-02

• Descriptive epidemiology and short-term outcomes of heart failure hospitalisation in rural Haiti, 2016-04-25

• Association of Device Type, Flavors, and Vaping Behavior with Tobacco Product Transitions among Adult Electronic Cigarette Users in the United States, 2021-01-21

• DNA methylation signatures of chronic low-grade inflammation are associated with complex diseases, 2016-12-12

• AORTIC-BRACHIAL ARTERIAL STIFFNESS GRADIENT AND CARDIOVASCULAR RISK IN THE COMMUNITY: THE FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY, 2017-04-10

• Transcriptome-wide association study of inflammatory biologic age, 2017-11-11

• Gene-gene Interaction Analyses for Atrial Fibrillation, 2016-11-08

• Genome-wide association of echocardiographic dimensions, brachial artery endothelial function and treadmill exercise responses in the Framingham Heart Study, 2007-09-19

• Framingham Heart Study 100K project: genome-wide associations for cardiovascular disease outcomes, 2007-09-19

• Hepatic Fibrosis Associates With Multiple Cardiometabolic Disease Risk Factors: The Framingham Heart Study, 2021-02-06

• Advantages of Continuous-Valued Risk Scores for Predicting Long-Term Costs: The Framingham Coronary Heart Disease 10-Year Risk Score, 2019-06-06

• Sex-Specific Associations of Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Biomarkers With Incident Heart Failure, 2020-09-22

• Fostering Success and Promoting Professional Development of Clinician Educator Mentees: A Workshop for Mentors, 2023-01-01

• Genome-Wide Association Study for Incident Myocardial Infarction and Coronary Heart Disease in Prospective Cohort Studies: The CHARGE Consortium, 2016-03-07

• Systematic dissection, preservation, and multiomics in whole human and bovine hearts, 2022-11-02

• Adherence of Mobile App-Based Surveys and Comparison With Traditional Surveys: eCohort Study, 2021-01-20

• Racial/Ethnic Differences in Associations of Non-cigarette Tobacco Product Use With Subsequent Initiation of Cigarettes in US Youths, 2020-09-19

• Response by Lubitz et al. to Letter Regarding Article, "Stroke as the Initial Manifestation of Atrial Fibrillation. The Framingham Heart Study.”, 2017-04-17

• Forward and backward wave morphology and central pressure augmentation in men and women in the Framingham Heart Study, 2014-07-23

• Association of Electronic Cigarette Use With Incident Respiratory Conditions Among US Adults From 2013 to 2018 Electronic Cigarette Use and Incident Respiratory Conditions Among US Adults, 2020-11-12

• Relations of arterial stiffness with postural change in mean arterial pressure in middle-aged adults: The Framingham Heart Study, 2017-02-03

• Epidemiology of Atrial Fibrillation in the 21stCentury, Novel Methods and New Insights, 2020-06-18

• Age of Natural Menopause and Atrial Fibrillation: the Framingham Heart Study, 2012-03-29

• Relations between circulating microRNAs and atrial fibrillation: data from the Framingham Offspring Study, 2014-01-18

• A comparison of the CHARGE-AF and the CHA2DS2-VASc risk scores for prediction of atrial fibrillation in the Framingham Heart Study, 2016-05-17

• Large-Scale Candidate Gene Analysis in Whites and African-Americans IdentifiesIL6RPolymorphism in Relation to Atrial Fibrillation: The NHLBI CARe Project, 2011-08-16

• E-Cigarette Use and Combustible Cigarette Smoking Initiation among Youth: Accounting for Time-Varying Exposure and Time-Dependent Confounding, 2022-03-29

• Genetic diversity fuels gene discovery for tobacco and alcohol use, 2022-12-07

• Heritability of Mitral Regurgitation: Observations from the Framingham Heart Study and Swedish Population, 2017-09-01

• Liver Fat is Associated With Markers of Inflammation and Oxidative Stress in Analysis of Data From the Framingham Heart Study, 2018-11-23

• Genome-wide association study of blood pressure and hypertension, 2009-05-10

• Relation between soluble ST2, GDF-15 and hsTnI and Incident Atrial Fibrillation, 2013-10-17

• Sequencing ofSCN5Aidentifies rare and common variants associated with cardiac conduction, 2014-08-26

• Plasma resistin, adiponectin, and risk of incident atrial fibrillation: The Framingham Offspring Study, 2011-11-17