Carnegie Mellon University

PUBLICATION TOPICS: Asthma & Pulmonary Function 

Crittenden, C. N., Murphy, M. L. M., & Cohen, S. (2018). Social integration and age-related decline in lung function. Health Psychology, 37, 472-480.

Rosa, M.J., Just, A.C., Kloog, I., Pantic, I., Schnaas, L., Lee, A., Bose, S., Chiu, Y-H.M., Hsu, H-H.L., Coull, B., Schwartz, J., Cohen, S., Rojo, M.M.T., Wright, R.O., & Wright, R.J. (2017). Prenatal particulate matter exposure and wheeze in Mexican children: Effect modification by prenatal psychosocial stress. Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

Lee, A. G., Hsu, H-H. L., Chiu, Y-H. M., Bose, S., Rosa, M. J., Kloog, I., Wilson, A., Schwartz, J., Cohen, S., Coull, B. A., Wright, R. O., Wright, R. (2017). Prenatal fine particulate exposure and early childhood asthma: effect of maternal stress and fetal gender. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Lee, A.G., Chiu Y-H M., Rosa, M.J., Cohen, S., Coull, B.A., Wright, R.O., Morgan, W.J., Wright, R. J. (2017). Association of prenatal and early childhood stress with reduced lung function in 7-year-olds. Annals of Allergy and Asthma Immunology.

Bose, S., Chiu, Y-H.M., Hsu, H-H.L., Di, Q., Rosa, M.J., Lee, A., Kloog, I., Wilson, A., Schwartz, J., Wright, R.O., Cohen, S., Coull, B.A., & Wright, R.J. (2017). Prenatal nitrate exposure and childhood asthma: Influence of maternal prenatal stress and fetal sex. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Crittenden, C. N., Pressman, S. D., Cohen, S., Janicki-Deverts, D., Smith, B. W., & Seeman, T. E. (2014). Social integration and pulmonary function in the elderly. Health Psychology, 33, 535-543. Copyright 2014
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Chiu, Y.-H. M., Coull, B. A., Sternthal, M. J., Kloog, I., Schwartz, J., Cohen, S., & Wright, R. J. (2013). Effects of prenatal community violence and ambient air pollution on childhood wheeze in an urban population. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 133, 713-722.

Wright, R. J., Fisher, K., Y-H. M. Chiu, Wright, R. O., Fein, R., Cohen, S., & Coull, B. A. (2013). Disrupted prenatal maternal cortisol, maternal obesity, and childhood wheeze: Insights into prenatal programming. American
Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 187, 1186-1193.

Chiu, Y.-H. M., Coull, B .A., Cohen, S., Wooley, A., & Wright, R. J. (2012). Prenatal and postnatal maternal stress and wheeze in urban children: Effect of maternal sensitization. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 186, 147-154. Link to full-text (pdf)

Peters, J. L., Cohen, S., Staudenmayer, J., Hosen, J., Platts-Mills, A. E., & Wright, R. (2012). Prenatal negative life events increases cord blood IgE:  Interactions with dust mite allergen and maternal atopy.  Allergy, 67, 545-551. Link to full-text (pdf)

Sternthal, M. J., Coull, B. A., Chiu, Y. H. M., Cohen, S., & Wright, R. J. (2011). Associations among maternal childhood socioeconomic status, cord blood IgE levels, and repeated wheeze in urban children. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 128, 337-345. Link to full-text (pdf)

Long, K. A., Ewing, L. J., Cohen, S., Skoner, D., Gentile, D., Koehrsen, J., Howe, C., Thompson, A., Rosen, R., Ganley, M., & Marsland, A. L. (2011). Preliminary evidence for the feasibility of a stress management intervention for 7- to12-year olds with asthma. Journal of Asthma, 48, 162-170.  Link to full-text (pdf) 

Jackson, B., Kubzansky, L. D., Cohen, S., Jacobs, D. R., Jr., & Wright, R. (2007). Does harboring hostility hurt? Associations between hostility and pulmonary function in the CARDIA Study. Health Psychology, 26, 333-340. Link to full-text (pdf)

Kubzansky, L. D., Sparrow, D., Jackson, B., Cohen, S., Weiss, S. T., & Wright, R. J. (2006). Angry breathing: A prospective study of hostility and lung function in the Normative Aging Study. Thorax, 61, 863-868. Link to full-text (pdf)

Wright, R. J., Cohen, R. T., & Cohen, S. (2005). The impact of stress on the development and expression of atopy. Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 5, 23-29. Link to full-text (pdf)

Wright, R. J., Finn, P., Contreras, J. P., Cohen, S., Wright, R. O., Staudenmayer, J., Wand, M., Perkins, D., Weiss, S. T., & Gold, D. R. (2004). Chronic caregiver stress and IgE expression, allergen-induced proliferation, and cytokine profiles in a birth cohort predisposed to atopy. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 113, 1051-1057. Link to full-text (pdf)

Jackson, B., Kubzansky, L. D., Cohen, S., Weiss, S., & Wright, R. (2003). A matter of life and breath: Childhood socioeconomic status is related to young adult pulmonary function in the Cardia Study. International Journal of Epidemiology, 33, 1-8. Link to full-text (pdf)

Wright, R. J., Visness, C. M., Cohen, S., Stout, J., Evans, R., & Gold, D. R. (2004). Community violence and asthma morbidity in the Inner-City Asthma Study. American Journal of Public Health, 94, 625-632. Link to full-text (pdf)

Kubzansky, L. D., Wright, R. J., Cohen, S., Rosner, B., Weiss, S., & Sparrow, D. (2002). Breathing easy: A prospective study of optimism and pulmonary function in the Normative Aging Study. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 24, 345-353. Link to full-text (pdf)

Wright, R. J., Cohen, S., Carey, V., Weiss, S. T., & Gold, D. R. (2002). Parental stress as a predictor of wheezing in infancy: A prospective birth-cohort study. The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 165, 358-365. Link to full-text (pdf)

Cohen, S., & Rodriguez, M. (2000). Stress, viral respiratory infections, and asthma. In D. P. Skoner (Ed.), Asthma and respiratory infections. New York: Marcel Dekker. (Part of the series, Lenfant, C. [Exec. Ed.], "Lung Biology in Health and Disease" [Volume 154]). Link to full-text (pdf)

Wright, R. J., Rodriguez, M., & Cohen, S. (1999). Review of psychosocial stress and asthma: An integrated biopsychosocial approach. Thorax, 53, 1066-1074. Link to full-text (html)