GARY D. JAMES

Email: gdjames@binghamton.edu

(PhD Pennsylvania State University 1984), Research Professor of Nursing and of Anthropology, Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Professor in the Decker School of Nursing and Director of the Institute for Primary and Preventative Health Care, is a human population biologist whose research focuses on physiological and endocrinological adaptations to the dynamic stresses of everyday life and the relation of these responses to the development of chronic diseases. His investigations in Polynesia and among urban women in New York City have included studies of how behavior and the psychosocial environment affect blood pressure and vasoactive hormone variation. He also has interests in women's health issues, the biobehavioral and health consequences of modernization, natural experimental approaches to the study of disease and evolutionary medicine.

2001 (with D. H. Bovbjerg) Age and perceived stress independently influence daily blood pressure levels and variation among women employed in wage jobs. American Journal of Human Biology 13: 268-274.

2001 Evaluation of journals, diaries, and indexes of worksite and environmental stress. In: Contemporary Cardiology: Blood Pressure Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine and Therapeutics, H. White (ed.), The Human Press, Totawa, New Jersey, pp. 29-44.

In press (with K. Kario, R. Marion, M. Ahmed and T. G. Pickering) The influence of work- and home-related stress on the levels and diurnal variation of ambulatory blood pressure and neurohumeral factors in employed women. Hypertension Research.

 

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