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Lifestyle, Exercise, and Arteries Lab
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The Lifestyle, Exercise, and Arteries (LEA) Lab focuses on the effects of lifestyle behaviors, e.g., exercise, physical activity, sedentary behavior, sleep, psychosocial stress, nutrition, and lactation, on arterial and cardiometabolic health. Our research is informed by population-level associations of lifestyle and cardiometabolic outcomes, such as risk factors, heart disease, and diabetes. The lab anchors on these findings to define mechanisms underlying associations and/or intervene on cardiometabolic health. Most investigations are focused on females around reproductive events like pregnancy and menopause. We account for social determinants of health.
Member(s)
Additional Staff
Annalee Nowak, AES '23, Study Coordinator
Nick Merritt, Undergraduate Research Assistant
Igor Trifunovic, Undergraduate Research Assistant
Jacob Zoller, Undergraduate Research Assistant
Lab measurements (PDF) – what we do and why we do it. The measurements we regularly perform in the LEA Lab are described in the pdf document. Not every measurement is used in every study.