C. ALEX McMAHAN, Ph.D.
Professor
Phone (voice): 210 567 4026
E-mail: mcmahan@uthscsa.edu
Degrees
1970, Ph.D., Rice University
1968, M.A., Rice University
1966, B.S., Louisiana State University
Posdoctoral Training
1970-73, Case Western Reserve University
Description of Research
Research efforts are concentrated in study design and analysis of epidemiological and
experimental studies of atherosclerosis. My group functions as the statistical center for
a national study of atherosclerosis in the arteries of young adults dying from trauma.
This study focuses on the period of transition of the arterial fatty streak to the fibrous
plaque. Experimental studies are concerned with nutrition, genetics, atherosclerosis, and
lipoproteins in the baboon. Independent statistical studies are concerned with analysis of
finite range random variables particularly variables having a discrete probability mass at
zero.
Selected References
McGill HC, McMahan CA, Malcom GT, Oalmann MC, Strong JP, and the Pathobiological
Determinants of Atherosclerosis in Youth Research Group. Relation of glycohemoglobin and
adiposity to atherosclerosis in youth. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology
15:431-440, 1995.
McGill HC, Strong JP, Tracy RE, McMahan CA, Oalmann MC, and the Pathobiological
Determinants of Atherosclerosis in Youth Research Group. Relation of a postmortem renal
index of hypertension to atherosclerosis in youth. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and
Vascular Biology 15:2222-2228, 1995.
McGill HC, McMahan CA, Malcom, GT, Oalmann, MC, Strong, JP, and the Pathobiological
Determinants of Atherosclerosis in Youth Research Group. Effects of serum lipoproteins and
smoking on atherosclerosis in young men and women. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and
Vascular Biology 17:95-106, 1997.
Phillips WT, Lemen L, Goins B, Rudolph AS, Klipper R, Fresne D, Jerabek PA, Emch ME,
Martin C, Fox PT, and McMahan CA. Use of oxygen-15 to measure oxygen-carrying capacity of
blood substitutes in vivo. American J. Physiology 272:H2492-H2499, 1997.