Swan official website
SWAN is a multi-ethnic, interdisciplinary study of the natural history of the menopausal transition. Women in the South Side (WISH) focuses on comparisons between African-American and Caucasian women, all of whom reside on Chicago’s South Side. This is a population-based study of 868 women who have been randomly selected from three community areas. It features an approximately equal range of socioeconomic status within both the African-Americans and Caucasians. WISH focuses on the early pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease in women, It also focuses on stress and cushions against stress that influence the course of the menopausal transition, ethnic disparities in health and treatment, cognitive function, and risk factors for hypertension and diabetes. For more information, contact Deidre Wesley at (708) 229-1300.
Principal Site Investigator:
Lynda H. Powell, PhD
Project Director:
Deidre Wesley, MPA
Deidre_Wesley@rush.edu
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Top row from left to right:
Alethea Callier, Kelly Vrablic,
Karla Shipp-Johnson, Eileen Fay
Bottom row from left to right:
Patricia Butler, Deidre Wesley
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Staff:
Patricia Butler
Patricia_A_Butler@rush.edu
Alethea Callier, MPH
Aletha_Callier@rush.edu
Eileen Fay, RN
Eileen_M_Fay@rush.edu
Karla Shipp-Johnson, BA
Karla_J_Shipp@rush.edu
Kelly Vrablic, BS
Kelly_Vrablic@rush.edu
WISH DIABETES RISK FACTOR STUDY
This study draws on the WISH cohort. Women undergo noninvasive CT scans of intra-abdominal fat every year as they traverse menopause. This study could help to reformulate our thinking from all obesity to only specific types of obesity being harmful to health. For more information, contact Deidre Wesley at (708) 229-1300.
Principal Site Investigator:
Lynda H. Powell, PhD
Project Director:
Deidre Wesley, MPA
Staff:
Patricia Butler
Alethea Callier, MPH
Eileen Fay, RN
Karla Shipp-Johnson, BA
Sleep During the Perimenopause in a Multi-Ethnic Cohort
The SWAN Sleep Study draws on the WISH cohort. SWAN investigators from four sites, including the Chicago WISH site, are examining sleep patterns and factors that may affect sleep during the menopausal transition. Although sleep disruptions, insomnia and breathing-related sleep disorders increase as women age, little is known about how their sleep changes as women progress through the menopausal transition to menopause. The goals of Sleep I, the baseline phase, were to (1) characterize sleep disturbances in a large, multi-ethnic sample of mid-life women; (2) characterize relationships among menopausal characteristics (for example, vasomotor symptoms and bleeding) and sleep disturbances; (3) evaluate the influence of psychobiological factors on the sleep-menopause relationship; and (4) establish baseline data for a Sleep II, the longitudinal phase of this research study. The major goals of Sleep II, currently in progress, are to identify (1) potential predisposing, precipitating, and perpetuating factors for chronic sleep disturbances during the menopausal transition, and (2) adverse effects of sleep disturbances on subsequent health status during the early post menopause.
Principal Site Investigator:
Howard Kravitz, DO, MPH
Project Director:
Deidre Wesley, MPA
Staff
Alethea Callier, MPH
Kelly Vrablic, BS
This study also draws on the WISH cohort. The aim of the study is to determine the link between menopause-related change in visceral fat and subclinical cardiovascular disease in early post-menopausal women.
Principal Site Investigator:
Lynda H. Powell, PhD
Project Director:
Deidre Wesley, MPA
