Published Articles

FEATURED PUBLICATIONS

Corbin C., Tahmin C.I., Tahsin, C.T., Ahmed, Z., Mohamed, A., Racette SB, Duprez D., and Fonkoue IT. Estradiol Levels are Differentially Associated with Pulse Wave Velocity in Trauma-exposed Premenopausal Women with and without PTSD. American Journal of Physiology, Regulatory, Integrative, and Comparative Physiology. (2025). Online ahead of print   https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39824513/

 

Fonkoue IT, Silva M, Racette SB, Safo SE, de Las Fuentes L, Lowe D, Ebong IA, Buysse D, Reis SE, Saeed A. Sleep as a Possible Mediator in the Association of Mental Health Parameters with Cardiovascular Health Indices in Women: Exploratory Analyses from the Heart SCORE Study. (2025). Menopause (New York, N.Y.), 10.1097/GME.0000000000002461. Online ahead of print https://doi.org/10.1097/GME.0000000000002461

 

Tahsin, C.T., Ahmed, Z., Mohamed, A., Tahmin C.I., Wattero R., Corbin C. and Fonkoue IT. Psychiatric disorders endorsed by trauma-exposed premenopausal women enrolled in a cardiovascular research study: a 2-year report. Discover Mental Health 4, 52 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44192-024-00108-y

 

Tahmin, C.I., Tahsin C.T., Wattero, R., Ahmed, Z., Corbin, C., Carter, J.R., Park, J., Racette, S.B., Sullivan, S.S., Herr, M.D., & Fonkoue, I. T. (2024). Blunted brachial blood flow velocity response to acute mental stress in PTSD females. Physiological Reports 12(13):e16137. https://doi.org/10.14814/phy2.16137

 

Ahmed, Z., Tahmin, C. I., Tahsin, C. T., Michopoulos, V., Mohamed, A., Wattero, R., Albott, S., Cullen, K. R., Lowe, D. A., Osborn, J., & Fonkoue, I. T. (2024). Higher arterial stiffness and blunted vagal control of the heart in young women with compared to without a clinical diagnosis of PTSD. Clinical autonomic research : official journal of the Clinical Autonomic Research Society, 10.1007/s10286-024-01014-7. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10286-024-01014-7

 

Tahsin, C. T., Michopoulos, V., Powers, A., Park, J., Ahmed, Z., Cullen, K., Jenkins, N. D. M., Keller-Ross, M., & Fonkoue, I. T. (2023). Sleep efficiency and PTSD symptom severity predict microvascular endothelial function and arterial stiffness in young, trauma-exposed women. American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 325(4), H739–H750. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpheart.00169.2023

 

Fonkoue I.T., Tahsin CT, Jones TN, King KN, Tahmin CI, Jeong J, Dixon D, DaCosta DR, Park J. (2023) Sex differences in Black Veterans with PTSD: women versus men have higher sympathetic activity, inflammation, and blunted cardiovagal baroreflex sensitivity. Clinical Autonomic Research. Epub ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10286-023-00995-1 

 

Seligowski, A. V., Fonkoue, I. T., Noble, N. C., Dixon, D., Gluck, R., Kim, Y. J., Powers, A., Pace, T. W. W., Jovanovic, T., Umpierrez, G., Ressler, K. J., Quyyumi, A. A., Michopoulos, V., & Gillespie, C. F. (2022). Vagal control moderates the association between endothelial function and PTSD symptoms in women with T2DM. Brain, behavior, & immunity - health, 26, 100527. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbih.2022.100527

 

Michopoulos, V., Huibregtse, M. E., Chahine, E. B., Smith, A. K., Fonkoue, I. T., Maples-Keller, J., Murphy, A., Taylor, L., Powers, A., & Stevens, J. S. (2023). Association between perimenopausal age and greater posttraumatic stress disorder and depression symptoms in trauma-exposed women. Menopause (New York, N.Y.), 10.1097/GME.0000000000002235. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1097/GME.0000000000002235

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