Gurka MJ, Ice CL, Sun SS, DeBoer MD. (2012). A confirmatory factor analysis of the metabolic syndrome in adolescents: an examination of sex and racial/ethnic differences. Cardiovascular Diabetology 11: 128. PMCID: PMC3489601

DeBoer MD, Gurka MJ. (2014). Low sensitivity of the metabolic syndrome to identify adolescents with impaired glucose tolerance: an analysis of NHANES 1999-2010. Cardiovascular Diabetology 13: 83. PMCID: PMC4000320

DeBoer MD, Gurka MJ, Woo JG, Morrison JA. (2015). Severity of metabolic syndrome as a predictor of cardiovascular disease between childhood and adulthood. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 66(6): 755-757. PMCID: PMC4612636

DeBoer MD, Gurka MJ, Woo JG, Morrison JA. (2015). Severity of the metabolic syndrome as a predictor of type 2 diabetes between childhood and adulthood: the Princeton Lipid Research Cohort Study. Diabetologia 58(12): 2745-2752. PMCID: PMC4734129

Vishnu A, Gurka MJ, DeBoer MD. (2015). The severity of the metabolic syndrome increases over time within individuals, independent of baseline metabolic syndrome status and medication use: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. Atherosclerosis 243(1): 278-285. PMCID: PMC4734118

Lee AM, Gurka MJ, DeBoer MD. (2016). Trends in metabolic syndrome severity and lifestyle factors among adolescents. Pediatrics 138(1): e20153177. PMCID: PMC4771130

Lee AM, Gurka MJ, DeBoer MD. (2016). A metabolic syndrome severity score to estimate risk in adolescents and adults: current evidence and future potential. Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy 14(4): 411-413. PMCID: PMC5142443

Gurka MJ, Vishnu A, Okereke OI, Musani S, Sims M, DeBoer MD. (2016). Depressive symptoms are associated with worsened severity of the metabolic syndrome in African American women independent of lifestyle factors: A consideration of mechanistic links from the Jackson Heart Study. Psychoneuroendocrinology 68: 82-90. PMCID: PMC5105331

DeBoer MD, Gurka MJ, Morrison JA, Woo JG. (2016). Inter-relationships between the severity of metabolic syndrome, insulin and adiponectin and their relationship to future type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. International Journal of Obesity 40(9): 1353-1359. PMCID: PMC5310821

Lee AM, Charlton JR, Carmody JB, Gurka MJ, DeBoer MD. (2016). Metabolic risk factors in nondiabetic adolescents with glomerular hyperfiltration. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 32(9):1517-1524. PMCID: PMC5837549

Gurka MJ, Vishnu A, Santen RJ, DeBoer MD. (2016). Progression of metabolic syndrome severity during the menopausal transition. Journal of the American Heart Association 5(8): e003609. PMCID: PMC5015287

Lee AM, Fermin CR, Filipp SL, Gurka MJ, DeBoer MD. (2017). Examining trends in prediabetes and its relationship with the metabolic syndrome in US adolescents, 1999–2014. Acta Diabetologica 54(4): 373-381. PMCID: PMC5394428

Lee AM, Gurka MJ, DeBoer MD. (2017). Correlation of metabolic syndrome severity with cardiovascular health markers in adolescents. Metabolism 69: 87-95. PMCID: PMC5394425

DeBoer MD, Gurka MJ. (2017). Clinical utility of metabolic syndrome severity scores: considerations for practitioners. Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy 10: 65-72. PMCID: PMC5325095

DeBoer MD, Gurka MJ, Golden SH, Musani SK, Sims M, Vishnu A, Guo Y, Pearson TA. (2017). Independent associations between metabolic syndrome severity and future coronary heart disease by sex and race. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 69(9): 1204-1205. PMCID: PMC5481721

Musani SK, Martin LJ, Woo JG, Olivier M, Gurka MJ, DeBoer MD. (2017). Heritability of the severity of the metabolic syndrome in whites and blacks in 3 large cohorts. Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics 10(2). PMCID: PMC5481724

Gurka MJ, Golden SH, Musani SK, Sims M, Vishnu A, Guo Yi, Cardel M, Pearson TA, DeBoer MD. (2017). Independent associations between a metabolic syndrome severity score and future diabetes by sex and race: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study and Jackson Heart Study. Diabetologia 60(7): 1261-1270. PMCID: PMC5481783

Fermin CR, Lee AM, Filipp SL, Gurka MJ, DeBoer MD. (2017). Serum alanine aminotransferase trends and their relationship with obesity & metabolic syndrome in U.S. adolescents, 1999-2014. Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders 15(6): 276-282. PMCID: PMC5564053

Kapral N, Miller SE, Scharf RJ, Gurka MJ, DeBoer MD. (2017). Associations between birthweight and overweight and obesity in school-age children. Pediatric Obesity 13(6): 333-341. PMCID: PMC5756626

Gurka MJ, Filipp SL, Musani SK, Sims M, DeBoer MD. (2018). Use of BMI as the marker of adiposity in a metabolic syndrome severity score: Derivation and validation in predicting long-term disease outcomes. Metabolism 83:68-74. PMCID: PMC5960618

Gurka MJ, Guo Y, Filipp SL, DeBoer MD. (2018). Metabolic syndrome severity is significantly associated with future coronary heart disease in type 2 diabetes. Cardiovascular Diabetology 17(1): 17. PMCID: PMC5775549

Wang LX, Filipp SL, Urbina EM, Gurka MJ, DeBoer MD. (2018). Longitudinal associations of metabolic syndrome severity between childhood and young adulthood: the Bogalusa Heart Study. Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders 16(5):208-214. PMCID: PMC5984565

Gurka MJ, Filipp SL, DeBoer MD. (2018). Geographical variation in the prevalence of obesity, metabolic syndrome, and diabetes among US adults. Nutrition and Diabetes 8(1): 14. PMCID: PMC5856741

Cardel MI, Min YI, Sims M, Musani SK, Dulin-Keita A, DeBoer MD, Gurka MJ. (2018). Association of psychosocial stressors with metabolic syndrome severity among African Americans in the Jackson Heart Study. Psychoneuroendocrinology 90:141-147. PMCID: PMC5864559

DeBoer MD, Filipp SL, Musani SK, Sims M, Okusa MD, Gurka MJ. (2018). Metabolic syndrome severity and risk of CKD and worsened GFR: the Jackson Heart Study. Kidney Blood Pressure Research.43(2):555-567 PMCID: PMC6037309

Guo Y, Musani SK, Sims M, Pearson TA, DeBoer MD, Gurka MJ. (2018). Assessing the added predictive ability of a metabolic syndrome severity score in predicting incident cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study and Jackson Heart Study. Diabetology and Metabolic Syndrome 10:42. PMCID: PMC5956946

Wang LX, Gurka MJ, DeBoer MD. (2018). Metabolic syndrome severity and lifestyle factors among adolescents. Minerva Pediatrica 70(5): 467-75. https://doi.org/10.23736/S0026-4946.18.05290-8

Gurka MJ, Filipp SL, Pearson TA, DeBoer MD. (2018). Assessing baseline and temporal changes in cardiometabolic risk using metabolic syndrome severity and common risk scores. Journal of the American Heart Association 7(16):e009754. PMCID: PMC6201393

DeBoer MD, Filipp SL, Gurka MJ. (2018). Use of a metabolic syndrome severity z-score to track risk during treatment of prediabetes: an analysis of the Diabetes Prevention Program. Diabetes Care 41(11): 2421-2430. PMCID: PMC6196828