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• Do Religion and Spirituality Buffer the Effect of Childhood Trauma on Depressive Symptoms? Examination of a South Asian Cohort from the USA.
  Laura Upenieks, Blake Victor Kent, Megha Nagaswami, Yue Gu, Alexandra E Shields, Alka M Kanaya> ;Journal of Religion and Health. 2024 Apr 10
• Predictors of weight and waist gain in US South Asians: Findings from the Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America (MASALA) Study.
  Isabel Allen, Meghana Gadgil, Lisa Topor, Shylaja Srinivasan, Sujatha Seetharaman, Alka Kanaya> ;Research Square. 2024 Mar 28
• Association of cardiovascular health with subclinical coronary atherosclerosis progression among five racial and ethnic groups: The MASALA and MESA studies.
  Mahmoud Al Rifai, Sameera A Talegawkar, Jaideep Patel, Alka M Kanaya, Nilay S Shah, Salim S Virani, Erin D Michos, Roger S Blumenthal, Vardhmaan Jain> ;Atherosclerosis. 2024 Mar 17
• Social and psychosocial determinants of racial and ethnic differences in cardiovascular health: The MASALA and MESA studies.
  Huang, X., Petito, L., Bancks, M., Talegawkar, S., Farhan, S., Carnethon, M., Allen, N., Shah, N., Kanaya, A., Lloyd-Jones, D., Kandula, N., Khan, S.> ;American Journal of Preventive Cardiology. 2024 Mar 1
• Demographic and Clinical Factors Associated With SARS-CoV-2 Spike 1 Antibody Response Among Vaccinated US Adults: the C4R Study.
  Kim, J., Sun, Y., Balte, P., Cushman, M., Boyle, R., Tracy, R., Styer, L., Bell, T., Anderson, M., Allen, N., Schreiner, P., Bowler, R., Schwartz, D., Lee, J., Xanthak...> ;Nature Communications. 2024 Feb 19
• Adipose tissue-derived metabolite risk scores and risk for type 2 diabetes in South Asians.
  Cheng, J., Gadgil, M., Herrington, D., Kandula, N., Kanaya, A.> ;International Journal of Obesity. 2024 Jan 20
• Diabetes in South Asians: Uncovering Novel Risk Factors With Longitudinal Epidemiologic Data: Kelly West Award Lecture 2023.
  Alka M Kanaya> ;Diabetes Care. 2024 Jan 1
• Inverse association between total bilirubin and type 2 diabetes in U.S. South Asian males but not females.
  Gadgil, M., Satagopan, J., Visaria, A., Kanaya, A., Setoguchi, S.> ;Plos One. 2024 Jan 1
• Reflecting on a Year at the Helm of Diabetes Care.
  Kahn, S., Anderson, C., Buse, J., Selvin, E., Angell, S., Aroda, V., Cheng, A., Danne, T., Echouffo-Tcheugui, J., Fitzpatrick, S., Gadgil, M., Gastaldelli, A., Gloyn, ...> ;Diabetes Care. 2024 Jan 1
• "Does Religious Service Attendance Modify the Relationship between Everyday Discrimination and Risk of Obesity? Results from the Study on Stress, Spirituality and Heal...
  James Clark Davidson, Blake Victor Kent, Yvette C Cozier, Alka M Kanaya, Erica T Warner, A Heather Eliassen, David R Williams, Alexandra E Shields> ;Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. 2023 Nov 3
• 1 citations
  Association of diabetes with coronary artery calcium in South Asian adults and other race/ethnic groups: The multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis and the mediators of...
  Ned Premyodhin, Wenjun Fan, Millie Arora, Matthew J Budoff, Alka M Kanaya, Namratha Kandula, Latha Palaniappan, Jamal S Rana, Masood Younus, Nathan D Wong> ;Diabetes & Vascular Disease Research. 2023 Oct 5
• Association of lipoprotein subfractions with incidence of type 2 diabetes among five U.S. Race and Ethnic groups: The Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Livi...
  Meghana D Gadgil, David M Herrington, Sukhmani K Singh, Namratha R Kandula, Alka M Kanaya> ;Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. 2023 Oct 1
• 1 citations
  Why Is Religious Attendance Linked to More Anxiety in U.S. South Asians? The Mediating Role of Congregational Neglect.
  Samuel Stroope, Blake Victor Kent, Anna Boonin Schachter, Alka M Kanaya, Alexandra E Shields> ;Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. 2023 Sep 18
• Concordance between Dash Diet and Hypertension: Results from the Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America (MASALA) Study.
  Bridget Murphy Hussain, Andrea L Deierlein, Alka M Kanaya, Sameera A Talegawkar, Joyce A O'Connor, Meghana D Gadgil, Yong Lin, Niyati Parekh> ;Nutrients. 2023 Aug 17
• 1 citations
  MicroRNA biomarkers target genes and pathways associated with type 2 diabetes.
  Dorian Kariuki, Bradley E Aouizerat, Kesava Asam, Alka M Kanaya, Li Zhang, Jose C Florez, Elena Flowers> ;Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. 2023 Sep 1
• Examining the Relationship Between Multilevel Resilience Resources and Cardiovascular Disease Incidence, Overall and by Psychosocial Risks, Among Participants in the J...
  Jee Won Park, Akilah J Dulin, Matthew M Scarpaci, Laura A Dionne, Belinda L Needham, Mario Sims, Alka M Kanaya, Namratha R Kandula, Eric B Loucks, Joseph L Fava, Charl...> ;American Journal of Epidemiology. 2023 Nov 3
• Metabolomic Profile of the Healthy Eating Index-2015 in the Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
  Meghana D Gadgil, Alexis C Wood, Ibrahim Karaman, Goncalo Graça, Ioanna Tzoulaki, Victor W Zhong, Philip Greenland, Alka M Kanaya, David M Herrington> ;The Journal of Nutrition. 2023 Aug 1
• 2 citations
  Religion/Spirituality and Prevalent Hypertension among Ethnic Cohorts in the Study on Stress, Spirituality, and Health.
  Blake Victor Kent, Laura Upenieks, Alka M Kanaya, Erica T Warner, Yvette C Cozier, Martha L Daviglus, Heather Eliassen, Daniel Y Jang, Alexandra E Shields> ;Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2023 Jul 19
• 3 citations
  A South Asian Mediterranean-style diet is associated with favorable adiposity measures and lower diabetes risk: The MASALA cohort.
  Sharan K Rai, Steven L Gortmaker, Frank B Hu, Alka M Kanaya, Namratha R Kandula, Qi Sun, Shilpa N Bhupathiraju> ;Obesity. 2023 Jun 1
• 2 citations
  Cardiovascular Health by Life's Essential 8 and Associations With Coronary Artery Calcium in South Asian American Adults in the MASALA Study.
  Nilay S Shah, Sameera A Talegawkar, Yichen Jin, Bridget Murphy Hussain, Namratha R Kandula, Alka M Kanaya> ;The American Journal of Cardiology. 2023 Jul 15
• Inclusion of Vietnamese Americans: Opportunities to understand dementia disparities.
  Oanh L Meyer, Van Ta Park, Alka M Kanaya, Sarah Tomaszewski Farias, Ladson Hinton, Quyen Q Tiet, Quyen Vuong, Stephanie Nguyen, Danielle Harvey, Rachel A Whitmer> ;Alzheimer's & Dementia. 2023 May 24
• 1 citations
  Asian Americans' and Pacific Islanders' preferences in recruitment strategies and messaging for participation in the CARE registry: A discrete choice experiment.
  Van M Ta Park, Joshua D Grill, Janice Tsoh, Oanh L Meyer, Niloufar Ameli, Sarit Helman, Marian Tzuang, Bora Nam, Ladson Hinton, Alka Kanaya, Dolores Gallagher-Thompson...> ;Alzheimer's & Dementia. 2023 Nov 1
• 1 citations
  Associations of Discrimination, Low Social Support, and Limited English Proficiency with Depression in South Asian Immigrants.
  Shireen Roy, Saria Hassan, Alka M Kanaya, Namratha R Kandula, Mayur M Desai> ;Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. 2023 Oct 1
• 2 citations
  A multilevel framework to investigate cardiovascular health disparities among South Asian immigrants in the United States.
  Namratha R Kandula, Nadia Islam, Belinda L Needham, Naheed Ahmed, Lorna Thorpe, Kiarri N Kershaw, Edith Chen, Neil A Zakai, Alka M Kanaya> ;Annals of Epidemiology. 2023 May 1
• 1 citations
  Cardiovascular risk-enhancing factors and coronary artery calcium in South Asian American adults: The MASALA study.
  Harini Shah, Emma Garacci, Supreeti Behuria, Miguel Cainzos-Achirica, Namratha R Kandula, Alka M Kanaya, Nilay S Shah> ;American Journal of Preventive Cardiology. 2023 Mar 1
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Journal Articles

• Body Composition and Diabetes Risk in South Asians: Findings from the MASALA and MESA Studies  
  Ravi Shah, Alka M Kanaya, Diabetes Care

Lectures

• Glycemic Progression among Asian Indians in the United States: Longitudinal Results from the MASALA Study 
  San Francisco, CA - 6/15/2014