Recent Conference Presentations

Invited Addresses:     

1.      West, S.G. (2002).  Effects of diet on vascular reactivity:  An emerging marker of vascular risk.  Canadian Federation of Biological Societies, Annual Meeting, University of Guelph, Canada.  June 13- June 16, 2002.

2.      West, S.G. (2002).  Vasoactive supplements and functional foods:  Endothelial health as a new therapeutic target.  Nutracon, Anaheim, CA, March 10-12, 2002.

3.      West, S.G., Likos, A., Schoemer S.L., Zhao, G., & Kris-Etherton, P.M. (2002).  Effects of omega-3 fatty acids from walnuts on blood pressure (BP) reactivity to stress.  Society for Experimental Biology/American Society for Nutritional Sciences, New Orleans, LA.  April 24-29, 2002.

4.      West, S.G, Stoney, C.M., Habash, D.L., Nelligan, J.A. (2002). Mechanisms for the blood pressure (BP) lowering effects of soy: A preliminary study in middle aged men. Society for Experimental Biology/American Society for Nutritional Sciences, New Orleans, LA.  April 24-29, 2002.

5.    West, S.G., (Chair), Light, K.C., Wilson, D.K., and Saab, P.G.  (2002).  Dietary change as behavioral medicine:  Effects on cardiovascular responses in the lab and in the field. Symposium at the Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., April 4-6. 

6.      West, S.G., Kris-Etherton, P.M., Stoney, C.M. (2002). Individual differences in cardiovascular response to soy phytoestrogens:  Effects on stress reactivity and fasting lipids.  Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., April 4-6. 

7.      Light, K.C., West, S.G., Brownley, K.A., Bragdon, E.E., Girdler, S.S., Hinderliter, A.L. (2002).  Slow sodium excretion during and after stress:  Effects of gender, race, hypertension, family history, and diet.  Society of behavioral Medicine Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., April 4-6. 

8.      West, S.G., Stoney, C.M., Habash, K.M., Nelligan J.  (2001).  Daily soy supplements with phytoestrogens reduce blood pressure at rest and during stress.  Fourth International Symposium on the Role of Soy in Preventing and Treating Chronic Disease, San Diego, CA, November 4-7.

9.    West, S.G., Coval, S.M., Hecker, K.D., Bordi, P., Juturu, V., & Kris-Etherton, P.M. (2001).  Dietary phytoestrogens and low fat diets for treating high cholesterol: Lack of effect on HRT treated women.  Society for Experimental Biology/American Society for Nutritional Sciences, April 2, 2001 Orlando, Florida.

10.   West SG, Light KC, Girdler SG, Chung SH, Grewen K, Adamian M, Wells EC.  (1998).  Transdermal estrogen reduces blood pressure and vascular responses to stress in postmenopausal women:  A placebo controlled, prospective study.  International Congress of  Behavioral Medicine, Copenhagen Denmark.  

11.   West SG, Stanwyck CL, Brownley KA, Bragdon EE, Hinderliter AL, Light KC.  (1997).  Salt restriction increases norepinephrine and cholesterol in Blacks more than in Whites.  Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 19 (suppl):  67. 

12.   West, S.G., Coval, S.M., Hecker, K.D., Bordi, P., Juturu, V., & Kris-Etherton, P.M. Dietary phytoestrogens and low fat diets for treating high cholesterol: Lack of effect on HRT treated women.  To be presented at the March 2001 meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology/American Society for Nutritional Sciences.

Abstracts and other conference presentations:

1.   West, S.G. (Chair), “Graduate student research in behavioral medicine: Thesis, Dissertation, and Beyond.”  Panel discussion sponsored by the Education and Training Council of the Society of behavioral Medicine, Washington, D.C., April 4-6, 2002.

2.   Brandon, D.T., Whitfield, K.E., Vogler, G.P., West, S.G.  Perceived stress and blood pressure among African American adults.  Poster to be presented at the Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., April 4-6.

3.   West, S.G., Likos A., Wojtowicz T.F., Galloway, J.L. Schoemer, S.L., and Kris-Etherton, P.M.  Omega-3 fatty acids reduce DBP and HR at rest and during stress:  Effects of a diet high in walnuts.  Poster to be presented at the Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., April 4-6. 

4.   West, S.G., Bordi P.L., Clemmer, K.F., Kris-Etherton, P.M. (2001).  Comparing a soy-rich diet to a           traditional low fat diet for treating high cholesterol:  Does Hormone replacement therapy make a            difference?  Poster presented at the Fourth International Symposium on the Role of Soy in Preventing   and Treating Chronic Disease, San Diego, CA, November 4-7.

5.     West, S.G., Coval, S.M., Hecker, K.D., Bordi, P., Juturu, V., & Kris-Etherton, P.M. Dietary phytoestrogens and low fat diets for treating high cholesterol: Lack of effect on HRT treated women.  To be presented at the March 2001 meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology/American Society for Nutritional Sciences.

6.    Hinderliter AL, Girdler SS, West SG, Brownley KA, Light KC.  (2000). Low sodium and high potassium diets reduce ambulatory blood pressure but do not influence dipping in young normotensives.  Circulation  102:II-414.

7.   West SG, Stoney CM, Habash DL, Cook KM, and Bonfiglio, DB.  (2000).  Soy supplements reduce resting and stress blood pressure (BP) in middle-aged men.  Annals of Behavioral Medicine, Annual Meeting Supplement, March 2000.

8.    Thornton, L. M., West, S. G., Hughes, J. W., & Stoney, C. M. (2000). Cardiovascular Reactivity Among Asian Indian and Caucasian Women. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 22 (Suppl.), S035. Invited Address.

9.    Adamian MS, Girdler SG, West SG, Grewen KM, Chung SH, Koo-Loeb J, Hinderliter AL, Light KC.  (1999).  Hormone replacement reduces lab and 24 hour blood pressure in hypertensive postmenopausal women.  Psychosomatic Medicine, 61:  85.  Citation Poster.

10.    Light KC, Girdler SS, West SG, Grewen K, Steege J, Stanwyck C, Ranc J, Lamothe T, Chung S, Hinderliter AL.  (1998).  Hormone replacement reduces vasoconstriction and mean blood pressure at rest and during stress in healthy postmenopausal women.  Psychosomatic Medicine, 60: 111.

11.    Hinderliter AL, West SG, Light KC.  (1998). Salt sensitivity is not associated with left ventricular remodeling or hypertrophy in subjects with normal or mildly elevated blood pressure. American Journal of Hypertension 11:2A.

12.    Hinderliter AL, West SG, Light KC.  (1998).  Left ventricular remodeling in African Americans is not explained by a blunted nocturnal blood pressure fall in salt sensitive subjects. American Journal of Hypertension 11:190A.

13.   West SG, Stoney CM, Hughes JW, Matacin ML, Arebalo TM.  (1998). Oral contraceptives buffer DBP reactivity in smokers but not in nonsmokers.  Poster Presented at the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Nineteenth Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

14. West SG, Light KC, Hinderliter AL, Stanwyck CL, Bragdon EE, Smith TE, Brownley KA.  (1998).  Both  high potassium and low sodium diets reduce BP responses to stress.  Proceedings of the Society of Behavioral Medicine’s Nineteenth Annual Meeting, S106.

15. Chung SH, West SG, Stanwyck CL, Light KC.  (1997).  Hostility’s influence on blood pressure response to stress in white men. Proceedings of the Carolinas Psychology Conference, 1997.  David Heinning-Boynton (ed). North Carolina State University Press: 54.

16. Brown HJ, Girdler SS, West SG, Lamothe TL, Ranc J, Steege J, Stanwyck CL, Chung SH, Light KC.  (1997).  Estrogen replacement and vascular responses at rest and during stress:  preliminary findings of a 6-month randomized, placebo controlled trial.  Psychophysiology, 34 (suppl 1):  S24.

17.  Bragdon EE, Brownley KA, West SG, Girdler SS, Sherwood A, Light KC.  (1997).  Social support may mitigate hostility’s influence on blood pressure in young men. Psychophysiology, 34 (suppl 1):  S23.

18.  Grewen K, Girdler SS, West SG, Ranc J, Koo J, Hinderliter A, Adamian M, Light KC. (1997).  Low sense of self mastery and increased 24 hour ambulatory blood pressure in postmenopausal women. Psychophysiology, 34 (suppl 1):  S40.

19.  West SG, Stanwyck C, Hinderliter AL, Light KC. (1996).  Salt restriction and atherogenic lipid profiles:  A study of cholesterol responses to stress.  Annals of Behavioral Medicine:  Fourth International conference proceedings: 141.

20.  Girdler SG, Sherwood A, Brownley KA, Bragdon EE, West SG, Light KC.  (1996).  Cardiovascular stress responses predict ambulatory blood pressure 10 years later.  Annals of Behavioral Medicine:  Fourth International conference proceedings: 135.

21.  West SG,  Brownley KA, and Light KC.  (1996).  Racial differences in post exercise stress reactivity.  Psychosomatic Medicine, 58: 78.

22.  Light KC, Lysle DT, Bragdon EE, West SG and Folds JD.  (1994).  Effect of sympathetic blockade and salt intake on natural killer cells after mental stress in healthy black adults.  Psychosomatic Medicine, 56 (2): 154.

23. Light KC, Girdler SS and West SG.  (1994).  Blood pressure response to laboratory challenges and occupational stress in women.  Invited Paper at the Conference on Women, Stress and Heart Disease.  Stockholm, Sweden.  September, 1994. 

24.  West SG, Brownley KB and Light KC.  (1994).  Acute stress and recovery hemodynamics during the Post-Exercise Period.  Presented at the Society for Psychophysical Research, 1994. 

25.  West SG, Bove AB, and Light KC. (1993).  Chronic stress in women: Estrogen and cardiovascular function. Psychosomatic Medicine, 5 (1): 115.

26.  West SG, Girdler SS and Light KC. (1991).  Menstrual cycle effect on heart rate reactivity to stress:  A comparison of women with PMS and controls.  Proceedings of the Carolinas Psychology Conference, 1991. Don Mershon, Ph.D. (ed).  NC State University Press: 53.