Joseph A. Vita
Boston University
270 Papers
3.9K Citations
Joseph A. Vita is an academic researcher from Boston University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Endothelium. The author has an hindex of 98, co-authored 270 publications. Previous affiliations of Joseph A. Vita include Brigham and Women's Hospital & University of Udine.
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Papers
Common Genetic Variation at the Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase Locus and Relations to Brachial Artery Vasodilator Function in the Community
Sekar Kathiresan,Martin G. Larson,Ramachandran S. Vasan,Chao-Yu Guo,Joseph A. Vita,Gary F. Mitchell,Michelle J. Keyes,Christopher Newton-Cheh,Stacy L. Musone,Amy L. Lochner,Jared A. Drake,Daniel Levy,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Emelia J. Benjamin +14 more
TL;DR: A parsimonious set of SNPs captures common genetic variation at the NOS3 locus and should be viewed as hypothesis-generating observations and may merit testing in other cohorts and experimental designs.
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Coronary vasospasm in humans: the role of atherosclerosis and of impaired endothelial vasodilator function.
Peter Ganz,Franz Weidinger,Alan C. Yeung,V I Vekshtein,Joseph A. Vita,Thomas J. Ryan,James M. McLenachan,Andrew P. Selwyn +7 more
TL;DR: The traditional view that coronary stenoses cause myocardial ischemia by limiting increases in blood flow is now thought to be incomplete.
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Clinical Clues to the Cause of Addison’s Disease
TL;DR: In this article, the cause of adrenal insufficiency was found to be carcinomatous replacement of the adrenal glands in 28 patients with idiopathic Addison's disease.
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Maladaptive enlargement of the brachial artery in severe obesity is reversed with weight loss.
Naomi M. Hamburg,Melanie Mott,Sherman J Bigornia,Mai-Ann Duess,Matthew A. Kluge,Donald T. Hess,Caroline M. Apovian,Joseph A. Vita,Noyan Gokce +8 more
TL;DR: The presence of maladaptive arterial remodeling in advanced obesity that was ameliorated by significant weight loss was demonstrated and decreased systemic inflammation was associated with weight loss-induced reverse remodeling of the brachial artery.
Effects of shear stress and flow pulsatility on endothelial function: insights gleaned from external counterpulsation therapy.
Joseph A. Vita,Gary F. Mitchell +1 more
TL;DR: Poised at the interface between flowing blood and the vascular wall, the endothelium transduces biological and physical stimuli within the circulation into physiological responses that affect vascular and tissue homeostasis.
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