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Chen, E., Matthews, K. A., & Boyce, W. T. (2002). Socioeconomic differences in children’s health: How and why do these relationships change with age? Psychological Bulletin, 128, 295–329.
Gallo, L. C., & Matthews, K. A. (2003). Understanding the association between socioeconomic status and physical health: Do negative emotions play a role? Psychological Bulletin, 129, 10–51.
Low, C. A., Thurston, R. C., & Matthews, K. A. (2010). Psychosocial factors in the development of heart disease in women: Current research and future directions. Psychosomatic Medicine, 72, 842–854.
Matthews, K. A. (1982). Psychological perspectives on the type A behavior pattern. Psychological Bulletin, 91, 293–323.
Matthews, K. A. (1989). Are sociodemographic variables markers for psychological determinants of health? Health Psychology, 8, 641–648.
Matthews, K. A. (2005). Psychological perspectives on the development of coronary heart disease. The American Psychologist, 60, 783–796.
Matthews, K. A., & Gump, B. B. (2002). Chronic work stress and marital dissolution increase risk of posttrial mortality in men from the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial. Archives of Internal Medicine, 162, 309–315.
Matthews, K. A., & Woodall, K. L. (1988). Childhood origins of overt Type A behaviors and cardiovascular reactivity to behavioral stressors. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 10, 47–59.
Matthews, K. A., Glass, D. C., Rosenman, R. H., & Bortner, R. W. (1977). Competitive drive, pattern A, and coronary heart disease: A further analysis of some data from the Western Collaborative Group Study. Journal of Chronic Diseases, 30, 489–498.
Matthews, K. A., Meilahn, E., Kuller, L. H., Kelsey, S. F., Caggiula, A. W., & Wing, R. R. (1989). Menopause and risk factors for coronary heart disease. The New England Journal of Medicine, 321, 641–646.
Matthews, K. A., Wing, R. R., Kuller, L. H., Meilahn, E. N., Kelsey, S. F., Costello, E. J., et al. (1990). Influences of natural menopause on psychological characteristics and symptoms of middle-aged healthy women. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 58, 345–351.
Matthews, K. A., Kuller, L. H., Wing, R. R., Meilahn, E. N., & Plantinga, P. (1996a). Prior to use of estrogen replacement therapy, are users healthier than nonusers? American Journal of Epidemiology, 143, 971–978.
Matthews, K. A., Woodall, K. L., Kenyon, K., & Jacob, T. (1996b). Negative family environment as a predictor of boys’ future status on measures of hostile attitudes, interview behavior, and anger expression. Health Psychology, 15, 30–37.
Matthews, K. A., Kuller, L. H., Sutton-Tyrrell, K., & Chang, Y. F. (2001). Changes in cardiovascular risk factors during the perimenopause and postmenopause and carotid artery atherosclerosis in healthy women. Stroke, 32, 1104–1111.
Matthews, K. A., Gump, B. B., Harris, K. F., Haney, T. L., & Barefoot, J. C. (2004a). Hostile behaviors predict cardiovascular mortality among men enrolled in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial. Circulation, 109, 66–70.
Matthews, K. A., Katholi, C. R., McCreath, H., Whooley, M. A., Williams, D. R., Zhu, S., et al. (2004b). Blood pressure reactivity to psychological stress predicts hypertension in the CARDIA study. Circulation, 110, 74–78.
Matthews, K. A., Owens, J. F., Salomon, K., Harris, K. F., & Berga, S. L. (2005). Influence of hormone therapy on the cardiovascular responses to stress of postmenopausal women. Biological Psychology, 69, 39–56.
Matthews, K. A., Kuller, L. H., Chang, Y., & Edmundowicz, D. (2007). Premenopausal risk factors for coronary and aortic calcification: A 20-year follow-up in the healthy women study. Preventive Medicine, 45, 302–308.
Matthews, K. A., Kamarck, T. W., Hall, H., Strollo, P. J., Owens, J. F., Buysse, D. J., et al. (2008). Blood pressure dipping and sleep disturbance in African-American and Caucasian men and women. American Journal of Hypertension, 21, 826–831.
Midei, A. J., & Matthews, K. A. (2011). Interpersonal violence in childhood as a risk factor for obesity: A systematic review of the literature and proposed pathways. Obesity Reviews, 12, e159–e172.
Raikkonen, K., & Matthews, K. A. (2008). Do dispositional pessimism and optimism predict ambulatory blood pressure during school days and nights in adolescents? Journal of Personality, 76, 605–630.
Thurston, R. C., & Matthews, K. A. (2009). Racial and socioeconomic disparities in arterial stiffness and intima media thickness among adolescents. Social Science & Medicine, 68, 807–813.
Thurston, R. C., Kuller, L. H., Edmundowicz, D., & Matthews, K. A. (2010). History of hot flashes and aortic calcification among postmenopausal women. Menopause, 17, 256–261.
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Thurston, R.C. (2019). Matthews, Karen. In: Gellman, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6439-6_816-2
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