Stefano Guerra , MD, PhD, MPH

2023

Guerra S, Ledford JG, Melén E, et al. "Creatine Kinase Is Decreased in Childhood Asthma." Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2023;207(5):544-552. PMCID: PMC10870915 PMID: 35876143

Carr TF, Stern DA, Morgan W, Guerra S, Martinez FD. "Elevated Childhood Insulin-related Asthma Is a Risk Factor for Reduced Lung Function." Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2023;207(6):790-792. PMCID: PMC10037476 PMID: 36521027

2022

Voraphani N, Stern DA, Zhai J, et al. "The role of growth and nutrition in the early origins of spirometric restriction in adult life: a longitudinal, multicohort, population-based study." Lancet Respir Med. 2022;10(1):59-71. PMID: 34843665

2021

Wang G, Kull I, Bergström A, et al. "Early-life risk factors for reversible and irreversible airflow limitation in young adults: findings from the BAMSE birth cohort." Thorax. 2021;76(5):503-507. PMCID: PMC8070638 PMID: 33184098

Johnson MDL, Younis US, Menghani SV, et al. "CC16 Binding to αβ Integrin Protects against Infection." Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2021;203(11):1410-1418. PMCID: PMC8456541 PMID: 33326355

2020

Zhou JJ, Zhai J, Zhou H, et al. "Supraglottic Lung Microbiome Taxa Are Associated with Pulmonary Abnormalities in an HIV Longitudinal Cohort." Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2020;202(12):1727-1731. PMCID: PMC7737582 PMID: 32783620

Guerra S, Lombardi E, Stern DA, et al. "Fetal Origins of Asthma: A Longitudinal Study from Birth to Age 36 Years." Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med.. 2020. PMID: 32649838

Polverino F, Stern DA, Ruocco G, et al. "Comorbidities, Cardiovascular Therapies, and COVID-19 Mortality: A Nationwide, Italian Observational Study (ItaliCO)." Front Cardiovasc Med. 2020;7:585866. PMCID: PMC7583635

2019

Zhai J, Insel M, Addison KJ, et al. "Club Cell Secretory Protein Deficiency Leads to Altered Lung Function." Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med.. 2019;199(3):302-312. PMCID: PMC6363971 PMID: 30543455

Beamer PI, Furlong M, Lothrop N, et al. "CC16 Levels into Adult Life are Associated with Nitrogen Dioxide Exposure at Birth." Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med.. 2019. PMID: 30789752

2018

Vasquez MM, Sherrill DL, LeVan TD, Morgan WJ, Sisson JH, Guerra S. "Persistent light to moderate alcohol intake and lung function: A longitudinal study." Alcohol. 2018;67:65-71. PMCID: PMC5826814 PMID: 29396309

Gerhart KD, Stern DA, Guerra S, Morgan WJ, Martinez FD, Wright AL. "Protective effect of breastfeeding on recurrent cough in adulthood." Thorax. 2018;73(9):833-839.

Zhai J, Stern DA, Sherrill DL, et al. "Trajectories and Early Determinants of Circulating CC16 from Birth to Age 32 Years." Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med.. 2018;198(2):267-270. PMCID: PMC6058982 PMID: 29485918

Huang S, Hu C, Bell ML, et al. "Regularized continuous-time Markov Model via elastic net." Biometrics. 2018;74(3):1045-1054.

F Dijk N, Xu C, Melén E, et al. "Genetic regulation of methylation and IL1RL1-a protein levels in asthma." Eur. Respir. J.. 2018;51(3).

Chang EH, Stern DA, Willis AL, Guerra S, Wright AL, Martinez FD. "Early life risk factors for chronic sinusitis: A longitudinal birth cohort study." J. Allergy Clin. Immunol.. 2018;141(4):1291-1297.e2. PMCID: PMC5937937 PMID: 29355680

Martinez FD, Guerra S. "Early Origins of Asthma. Role of Microbial Dysbiosis and Metabolic Dysfunction." Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med.. 2018;197(5):573-579. PMCID: PMC6005239 PMID: 29048927

Xu C-J, Söderhäll C, Bustamante M, et al. "DNA methylation in childhood asthma: an epigenome-wide meta-analysis." Lancet Respir Med. 2018;6(5):379-388.

Hiranrattana A, Stern DA, Guerra S, et al. "sensitisation at age 6 years is associated with subsequent airway hyper-responsiveness in non-asthmatics." Thorax. 2018;73(12):1170-1173.

Vasquez MM, Zhou M, Hu C, Martinez FD, Guerra S. "Reply to Bush: Low Lung Function in Young Adult Life Is Associated with Early Mortality." Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med.. 2018;197(4):539. PMCID: PMC5821910 PMID: 28925717

Guerra S, Melén E, Sunyer J, et al. "Genetic and epigenetic regulation of YKL-40 in childhood." J. Allergy Clin. Immunol.. 2018;141(3):1105-1114.

2017

Melén E, Guerra S. "Recent advances in understanding lung function development." F1000Res. 2017;6:726. PMCID: PMC5461903

DeVries A, Wlasiuk G, Miller SJ, et al. "Epigenome-wide analysis links SMAD3 methylation at birth to asthma in children of asthmatic mothers." J. Allergy Clin. Immunol.. 2017;140(2):534-542. PMCID: PMC5479765 PMID: 28011059

Diaz AA, Rahaghi FN, Doyle TJ, et al. "Differences in Respiratory Symptoms and Lung Structure Between Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White Smokers: A Comparative Study." Chronic Obstr Pulm Dis. 2017;4(4):297-304. PMCID: PMC5764843 PMID: 29354674

Aguilar D, Pinart M, Koppelman GH, et al. "Computational analysis of multimorbidity between asthma, eczema and rhinitis." PLoS ONE. 2017;12(6):e0179125. PMCID: PMC5466323

Study Title (link to more info on this site)	Link to Study	Trial Status	Principal Investigator
CC16 COVID Pilot	view	Current Trial - Enrolling	Stefano Guerra , MD, PhD, MPH
Tucson Children's Respiratory Study (TCRS)	view	Current Trial - Enrollment Complete	Stefano Guerra , MD, PhD, MPH, Fernando Martinez, MD
Tucson Epidemiological Study of Airway Obstructive Disease (TESAOD)	view	Current Trial - Enrollment Complete	Stefano Guerra , MD, PhD, MPH, Fernando Martinez, MD

Selected Publications