Robert D. Langer MD MPH

PubMed

• 3 citations
  'Tis but a scratch: a critical review of the Women's Health Initiative evidence associating menopausal hormone therapy with the risk of breast cancer.
  Avrum Z Bluming, Howard N Hodis, Robert D Langer
  Menopause. 2023-12-01
• 12 citations
  Progesterone from ovulatory menstrual cycles is an important cause of breast cancer.
  Herjan J T Coelingh Bennink, Iman J Schultz, Marcus Schmidt, V Craig Jordan, Paula Briggs
  Breast Cancer Research. 2023-05-30
• 32 citations
  Low concentrations of serum testosterone predict acute myocardial infarction in men with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
  Bledar Daka, Robert Langer, Charlotte A Larsson, Thord Rosen, Per-Anders Jansson
  BMC Endocrine Disorders. 2015-07-25

Journal Articles

• Updated 2013 International Menopause Society recommendations on menopausal hormone therapy and preventive strategies for midlife health  
  de Villiers TJ, Pines A, Panay N, Gambacciani M, Archer DF, Baber RJ, Davis SR, Gompel AA, Henderson VW, Langer R, Lobo RA, Plu-Bureau G, Sturdee DW; International Men..., Climacteric, 6/1/2013
• Live well: a practical and effective low-intensity dietary counseling intervention for use in primary care patients with dyslipidemia--a randomized controlled pilot trial  
  Kulick D, Langer RD, Ashley JM, Gans KM, Schlauch K, Feller C, BMC Fam Pract, 5/12/2013
• Do no harm: not even to some degree  
  Kripke DF, Langer RD, Kline LE, J Clin Sleep Med, 8/1/2012
• Hypnotics association with mortality or cancer: a matched cohort study  
  Kripke DF, Langer RD, Kline LE, BMJ Open, 2/27/2012
• Mortality related to actigraphic long and short sleep  
  Kripke DF, Langer RD, Elliott JA, Klauber MR, Rex KA, Sleep Med, 1/1/2011
• On the need to clarify and disseminate contemporary knowledge of hormone therapy initiated near menopause  
  Langer RD, Climacteric, 8/1/2010
• Calcium/vitamin D supplementation and coronary artery calcification in the Women's Health Initiative  
  Manson JE, Allison MA, Carr JJ, Langer RD, et al, Menopause, 7/1/2010
• Estrogen Alone and Breast Cancer Detection by Mammography and Breast Biopsy  
  Chlebowski RT, Anderson G, Manson J, Pettinger M, Yasmeen S, Lane D, Langer RD, et al, J Clin Oncol, 6/1/2010
• Aspirin use, dose, and clinical outcomes in postmenopausal women with stable cardiovascular disease the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study  
  Berger JS, Brown DL, Burke GL, Oberman A, Kostis JB, Langer RD, Wong ND, Wassertheil-Smoller S, Circ Outcomes, 1/1/2009
• Ankle brachial index combined with Framingham Risk Score to predict cardiovascular events and mortality: a meta-analysis  
  Ankle Brachial Index Collaboration, JAMA, 7/9/2008
• Elevated blood pressure in primary care varies in relation to circadian and seasonal changes  
  Thomas C, Wood GC, Langer RD, Stewart WF, J Hum Hypertens, 6/5/2008
• Usefulness of baseline lipids and C-reactive protein in women receiving menopausal hormone therapy as predictors of treatment-related coronary events  
  Bray PF, Larson JC, LaCroix AZ, Manson J, Limacher MC, Rossouw JE, Lasser NL, Lawson WE, Stefanick ML, Langer RD, Margolis KL; Women's Health Initiative Investigators., Am J Cardiol, 6/1/2008
• Oophorectomy, hormone therapy, and subclinical coronary artery disease in women with hysterectomy: the Women's Health Initiative coronary artery calcium study  
  Allison MA, Manson JE, Langer RD, Carr JJ, Rossouw JE, Pettinger MB, Phillips L, Cochrane BB, Eaton CB, Greenland P, Hendrix S, Hsia J, Hunt JR, Jackson RD, Johnson KC..., Menopause, 5/2/2008
• Measurement and predictors of resilience among community-dwelling older women  
  Lamond AJ, Depp CA, Allison M, Langer R, Reichstadt J, Moore DJ, Golshan S, Ganiats TG, Jeste DV, J Psychiatr Res, 4/30/2008
• Estrogen Plus Progestin and Breast Cancer Detection by Means of Mammography and Breast Biopsy  
  Chlebowski RT, Anderson G, Pettinger M, Lane D, Langer RD, Gillian MA, Walsh BW, Chen C, McTiernan A, Arch Intern Med, 1/1/2008
• Self-reported sleep latency in postmenopausal women  
  Park DH, Kripke DF, Louis GJ, Elliott JA, Klauber MR, Rex KM, Tuunainen A, Langer RD, J Korean Med Sci, 12/1/2007
• WHI and WHI-CACS Investigators Estrogen therapy and coronary-artery calcification  
  Manson JE, Allison MA, Rossouw JE, Carr JJ, Langer RD, et al, N Engl J Med, 6/21/2007
• Ethnic-specific prevalence of peripheral arterial disease in the United States  
  Allison MA, Ho E, Denenberg JO, Langer RD, Newman AB, Fabsitz RR, Criqui MH, Am J Prev Med, 4/1/2007
• Progesterone and progestins in postmenopausal hormone therapy  
  Langer RD, J Fam Pract, 2/1/2007
• The more things change, CHD and the Womens Health Initiative  
  Langer RD, Sexuality Reprod & Menop J, 1/1/2007
• Should Symptomatic Menopausal Women Be Offered Hormone Therapy?  
  Lobo RA, Creasman WT, Frankel NR, Goodman NE, Hall JE, Ivey SL, Kingsberg S, Langer R, Lehman R, MacArthur DB, Montgomery-Rice V, Notelovitz M, Packin GS, Rebar RW, Ro..., Medscape General Medicine, 8/17/2006
• The Association between Aspirin Use and the Incidence of Colorectal Cancer in Women  
  Allison M, Garland C, Chlebowski R, Criqui M, Langer R, Wu L, Roy H, McTiernan A, Kuller L, Am J Epidemiol, 7/17/2006
• Light exposure is related to social and emotional functioning and to quality of life in older women  
  Grandner MA, Kripke DF, Langer RD, Psychiatry Res, 6/30/2006
• Calcium plus vitamin D supplementation and the risk of colorectal cancer  
  Women's Health Initiative Investigators, N Engl J Med, 2/16/2006
• Mitral and Aortic Annular Calcification Are Highly Associated With Systemic alcified Atherosclerosis  
  Allison MA, Cheung P, Criqui MH, Langer RD, Wright CM, Circulation, 2/6/2006
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Books/Book Chapters

• Wiley Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials. 
  Chapter: Postmenopausal Estrogen/Progestin Intervention Trial (PEPI). 
  Langer RDEditors: D'Agostino R, Sullivan L, Massaro J.John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ2008
• The Vein Book. 
  Criqui MH, Denenberg JO, Langer RD, Kaplan RM, Fronek A2007
• Hypertension Primer. 
  Chapter: Peripheral arterial disease and hypertension. 
  Page 215 - 217Criqui MH, Denenberg JO, Langer RD, Fronek AF, Bensussen GEditors: JL Izzo and HR Black.American Heart AssociationEdition 2nd,1998
• Preventing Illness Among People with Coronary Heart Disease. 
  Chapter: The paradoxical effects of CHD risk factors in the oldest old. 
  Page 19 - 32Langer RD, Kaplan RMEditors: JD Piette, RM Kaplan, JR Ferrari.The Haworth Press, Inc.1996
• Cardiovascular Health and Disease in Women. 
  Chapter: Stroke and peripheral vascular diseases in women. 
  Page 137 - 149Langer RD & Criqui MHEditors: Douglas PS.WB Saunders, Philadelphia, PA1993
• Hypertension Primer. 
  Chapter: Peripheral arterial disease in hypertension. 
  Page 184 - 187Criqui MH, Denenberg J, Langer RD, Fronek A, Bensussen GEditors: Taubert KA.American Heart Association, Dallas, TX1993
• Epidemiology of Peripheral Vessel Disease. 
  Chapter: Large Vessel and Isolated SVD. 
  Page 85 - 96Criqui MH, Langer RD, Fronek A, Feigelson HS, Klauber MREditors: Fowkes FGR.Springer-Verlag, Ireland1991
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Abstracts/Posters

• Better Treatment Rates for Undiagnosed Hypertension in Older Patients: A Possible Effect of Comorbidity: The Geisinger Clinic Population.
  Langer RD, Wood GC, Thomas C, 46th Annual Conference on CVD Epidemiology and Prevention, Phoenix, AZ, 3/2/2006
• Markedly negative within individual DBP slope in men aged 75 and older. The Geisinger Clinic Population.
  Langer RD, Wood GC, Thomas C, 46th Annual Conference on CVD Epidemiology and Prevention, Phoenix, AZ, 3/2/2006
• Tibolone Does Not Increase Mammographic Density over a 3-Year Period: OPAL Study.
  Langer, RD, Helmond FA, Yaffe MJ, Stathopoulos VM, Pathiraja K, Gunasekara A, Menopause, 1/1/2006

Lectures

• Calcium and Vitamin D: Prevention or Harm? 
  Macau, China - 2/1/2014
• Is There A Critical Window for Initiating Hormone Therapy to Prevent Disease? 
  Macau, China - 2/1/2014
• The WHI: Where the Right Went Wrong. 
  Vienna, Austria - 10/1/2013
• Debate: Is there evidence for a critical HRT window to prevent disease? 
  11/1/2012
• HRT: Where Do We Come From? Where Are We Going? 
  11/1/2012
• HRT: State of the art 10 years after WHI. 
  11/1/2012
• Strengths and weaknesses of WHI - methodological perspectives. 
  5/1/2012
• Shortacting Hypnotic Drugs Increase Mortality and Obese Patients are Particularly Vulnerable. 
  3/1/2012
• It is Impossible to Predict Women in Whom Hormone Therapy Will Increase Breast Cancer Risk and Evidence Is Inadequate to Attribute Risk to Specific Regimens. 
  Sanya, Hainan, China - 12/1/2011
• Should we Treat Women with Low Bone Mineral Density Who are Younger than 70 Years, and How? 
  Sanya, Hainan, China - 12/1/2011
• Is There Evidence for a Hormone Therapy Critical Window to Prevent Disease? 
  Sanya, Hainan, China - 12/1/2011
• The Women's Health Initiative in Light of Recent Evidence: Time is of the Essence. 
  Amsterdam, the Netherlands - 9/1/2010
• Benefits and Risks for Hormone Replacement Therapy Initiated Near Menopause. 
  Tel Aviv, Israel - 8/1/2009
• The WHI Findings for HRT Started Near Menopause. 
  Tel Aviv, Israel - 8/1/2009
• Stark Contrasts in the Control of Blood Sugar & Blood Pressure Among Diabetics In Swedish and US Cohorts. 
  Skovde, Sweden - 4/1/2007
• Contemporary Pharmacoepidemiology In a Large Integrated US Health System. 
  Stockholm, Sweden - 4/1/2007
• Contrasts in Outpatient Records-Based Research Between US and Swedish Integrated Healthcare Systems. 
  Gothenburg, Sweden - 9/1/2006
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Other

• New-onset breast tenderness is not a useful predictor of breast cancer. 
  Langer RD, International Menopause Society - Menopause Live
  http://www.imsociety.org/updates_view_open.php?menopauseliveID=561&SESSID=mpcigywu
  11/30/2009