Christopher Barrett Bowling

Christopher Barrett Bowling
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Geriatrics, Medicine 2017
Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences, Population Health Sciences, Basic Science Departments 2018

Contact Information

Box 3003 DUMC, Durham, NC 27710
barrett.bowling@duke.edu

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Advanced Geriatrics Special Fellowship, University of Alabama at Birmingham 2010 - 2012
- M.S.P.H., University of Alabama at Birmingham 2012
- Geriatric Medicine Clinical Fellowship, University of Alabama at Birmingham 2009 - 2010
- Internal Medicine Internship and Residency, University of Alabama at Birmingham 2006 - 2009
- M.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine 2006
Research
Selected Grants
- Sustained blood pressure control and progression of multimorbidity awarded by National Institutes of Health 2017 - 2020
- Ambulatory blood pressure and falls in older treated patients with hypertension awarded by Kaiser Permanente Division of Research 2018 - 2019
- Development of a CKD Discordance Index to Identify High Healthcare Utilization awarded by Kaiser Permanente 2017 - 2018
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Plantinga, L, Tift, BD, Dunlop-Thomas, C, Sam Lim, S, Barrett Bowling, C, and Drenkard, C. "Geriatric Assessment of Physical and Cognitive Functioning in a Diverse Cohort of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients: A Pilot Study." Arthritis Care & Research 70, no. 10 (October 2018): 1469-1477. Full Text
  - Lynch, RJ, Patzer, RE, Pastan, SO, Bowling, CB, and Plantinga, LC. "Recent History of Serious Fall Injuries and Posttransplant Outcomes among U.S. Kidney Transplant Recipients." Transplantation (September 21, 2018). Full Text
  - Bowling, CB, Hall, RK, Khakharia, A, Franch, HA, and Plantinga, LC. "Serious Fall Injury History and Adverse Health Outcomes After Initiating Hemodialysis Among Older U.S. Adults." The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 73, no. 9 (August 2018): 1216-1221. Full Text
  - Vandenberg, AE, Echt, KV, Johnson, TM, and Bowling, CB. "Patient discourse on chronic kidney disease monitoring: a qualitative study at a Veterans Affairs Renal Clinic." Bmc Nephrology 19, no. 1 (July 19, 2018): 183-null. Full Text
  - Plantinga, LC, Lynch, RJ, Patzer, RE, Pastan, SO, and Bowling, CB. "Association of Serious Fall Injuries among United States End Stage Kidney Disease Patients with Access to Kidney Transplantation." Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : Cjasn 13, no. 4 (April 2018): 628-637. Full Text
  - Plantinga, L, Lim, SS, Bowling, CB, and Drenkard, C. "Perceived stress and reported cognitive symptoms among Georgia patients with systemic lupus erythematosus." Lupus 26, no. 10 (September 2017): 1064-1071. Full Text
  - Bromfield, SG, Ngameni, C-A, Colantonio, LD, Bowling, CB, Shimbo, D, Reynolds, K, Safford, MM, Banach, M, Toth, PP, and Muntner, P. "Blood Pressure, Antihypertensive Polypharmacy, Frailty, and Risk for Serious Fall Injuries Among Older Treated Adults With Hypertension." Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) 70, no. 2 (August 2017): 259-266. Full Text
  - Plantinga, LC, Patzer, RE, Franch, HA, and Bowling, CB. "Serious Fall Injuries Before and After Initiation of Hemodialysis Among Older ESRD Patients in the United States: A Retrospective Cohort Study." American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 70, no. 1 (July 2017): 76-83. Full Text
  - Bowling, CB, Plantinga, L, Phillips, LS, McClellan, W, Echt, K, Chumbler, N, McGwin, G, Vandenberg, A, Allman, RM, and Johnson, TM. "Association of Multimorbidity with Mortality and Healthcare Utilization in Chronic Kidney Disease." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 65, no. 4 (April 2017): 704-711. Full Text
  - Bowling, CB, Vandenberg, AE, Phillips, LS, McClellan, WM, Johnson, TM, and Echt, KV. "Older Patients' Perspectives on Managing Complexity in CKD Self-Management." Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : Cjasn 12, no. 4 (April 2017): 635-643. Full Text
  - Bowling, CB, and Plantinga, LC. "When All You Have Is a Hammer: The Need for Tools to Define and Apply Patient-Centered Outcomes in Hemodialysis." Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 12, no. 3 (March 2017): 382-384. Full Text
  - Bowling, CB, Plantinga, L, Hall, RK, Mirk, A, Zhang, R, and Kutner, N. "Association of Nondisease-Specific Problems with Mortality, Long-Term Care, and Functional Impairment among Older Adults Who Require Skilled Nursing Care after Dialysis Initiation." Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : Cjasn 11, no. 12 (December 2016): 2218-2224. Full Text
  - Hall, RK, Haines, C, Gorbatkin, SM, Schlanger, L, Shaban, H, Schell, JO, Gurley, SB, Colón-Emeric, CS, and Bowling, CB. "Incorporating Geriatric Assessment into a Nephrology Clinic: Preliminary Data from Two Models of Care." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 64, no. 10 (October 2016): 2154-2158. Full Text
  - Reynolds, K, Shimbo, D, Bowling, CB, Deng, L, Bress, A, Sim, J, and Muntner, P. "OS 16-06 RISK FACTORS FOR SERIOUS FALL INJURIES FOLLOWING INITIATION OF ANTIHYPERTENSIVE MEDICATION." Journal of hypertension 34 Suppl 1 - ISH 2016 Abstract Book (September 2016): e219-e220. Full Text
  - Bowling, CB, Bromfield, SG, Colantonio, LD, Gutiérrez, OM, Shimbo, D, Reynolds, K, Wright, NC, Curtis, JR, Judd, SE, Franch, H, Warnock, DG, McClellan, W, and Muntner, P. "Association of Reduced eGFR and Albuminuria with Serious Fall Injuries among Older Adults." Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : Cjasn 11, no. 7 (July 2016): 1236-1243. Full Text
  - Shimbo, D, Barrett Bowling, C, Levitan, EB, Deng, L, Sim, JJ, Huang, L, Reynolds, K, and Muntner, P. "Short-Term Risk of Serious Fall Injuries in Older Adults Initiating and Intensifying Treatment With Antihypertensive Medication." Circulation. Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes 9, no. 3 (May 10, 2016): 222-229. Full Text
  - O'Hare, AM, Rodriguez, RA, and Bowling, CB. "Caring for patients with kidney disease: shifting the paradigm from evidence-based medicine to patient-centered care." Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation : Official Publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association European Renal Association 31, no. 3 (March 2016): 368-375. (Review) Full Text
  - Colantonio, LD, Tanner, RM, Warnock, DG, Gutiérrez, OM, Judd, S, Muntner, P, and Bowling, CB. "The role of cystatin-C in the confirmation of reduced glomerular filtration rate among the oldest old." Archives of medical science : AMS 12, no. 1 (February 2, 2016): 55-67. Full Text
  - Tanner, RM, Shimbo, D, Seals, SR, Reynolds, K, Bowling, CB, Ogedegbe, G, and Muntner, P. "White-Coat Effect Among Older Adults: Data From the Jackson Heart Study." Journal of Clinical Hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) 18, no. 2 (February 2016): 139-145. Full Text
  - Plantinga, L, Lim, SS, Bowling, CB, and Drenkard, C. "Association of age with health-related quality of life in a cohort of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: the Georgians Organized Against Lupus study." Lupus science & medicine 3, no. 1 (January 2016): e000161-. Full Text
  - Reynolds, K, Bowling, CB, Sim, JJ, Sridharan, L, Harrison, TN, and Shimbo, D. "The Utility of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring for Diagnosing White Coat Hypertension in Older Adults." Current hypertension reports 17, no. 11 (November 2015): 86-. (Review) Full Text
  - O'Neal, WT, Qureshi, WT, Judd, SE, Bowling, CB, Howard, VJ, Howard, G, and Soliman, EZ. "Effect of Falls on Frequency of Atrial Fibrillation and Mortality Risk (from the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke Study)." The American journal of cardiology 116, no. 8 (October 2015): 1213-1218. Full Text
  - Bowling, CB, Batten, A, and O'Hare, AM. "Distribution of survival times in a real-world cohort of older adults with chronic kidney disease: the median may not be the message." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 63, no. 5 (May 2015): 1033-1035. (Letter) Full Text
  - Bowling, CB, Zhang, R, Franch, H, Huang, Y, Mirk, A, McClellan, WM, Johnson, TM, and Kutner, NG. "Underreporting of nursing home utilization on the CMS-2728 in older incident dialysis patients and implications for assessing mortality risk." Bmc Nephrology 16 (March 21, 2015): 32-null. Full Text
  - Muntner, P, Gutiérrez, OM, Zhao, H, Fox, CS, Wright, NC, Curtis, JR, McClellan, W, Wang, H, Kilgore, M, Warnock, DG, and Bowling, CB. "Validation study of medicare claims to identify older US adults with CKD using the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study." American Journal of Kidney Diseases : the Official Journal of the National Kidney Foundation 65, no. 2 (February 2015): 249-258. Full Text
  - Bowling, CB, Booth, JN, Gutiérrez, OM, Kurella Tamura, M, Huang, L, Kilgore, M, Judd, S, Warnock, DG, McClellan, WM, Allman, RM, and Muntner, P. "Nondisease-specific problems and all-cause mortality among older adults with CKD: the REGARDS Study." Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : Cjasn 9, no. 10 (October 2, 2014): 1737-1745. Full Text
  - Bowling, CB, Sharma, P, and Muntner, P. "Prevalence, trends and functional impairment associated with reduced estimated glomerular filtration rate and albuminuria among the oldest-old U.S. adults." The American journal of the medical sciences 348, no. 2 (August 2014): 115-120. Full Text
  - Muntner, P, Bowling, CB, and Shimbo, D. "Systolic blood pressure goals to reduce cardiovascular disease among older adults." The American Journal of the Medical Sciences 348, no. 2 (August 2014): 129-134. Full Text
  - Tanner, RM, Calhoun, DA, Bell, EK, Bowling, CB, Gutiérrez, OM, Irvin, MR, Lackland, DT, Oparil, S, McClellan, W, Warnock, DG, and Muntner, P. "Incident ESRD and treatment-resistant hypertension: the reasons for geographic and racial differences in stroke (REGARDS) study." American Journal of Kidney Diseases : the Official Journal of the National Kidney Foundation 63, no. 5 (May 2014): 781-788. (Review) Full Text
  - Bromfield, SG, Bowling, CB, Tanner, RM, Peralta, CA, Odden, MC, Oparil, S, and Muntner, P. "Trends in hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control among US adults 80 years and older, 1988-2010." Journal of Clinical Hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) 16, no. 4 (April 2014): 270-276. Full Text
  - Bowling, CB, Muntner, P, Sawyer, P, Sanders, PW, Kutner, N, Kennedy, R, and Allman, RM. "Community mobility among older adults with reduced kidney function: a study of life-space." American Journal of Kidney Diseases : the Official Journal of the National Kidney Foundation 63, no. 3 (March 2014): 429-436. Full Text
  - Guessous, I, Luthi, J-C, Bowling, CB, Theler, J-M, Paccaud, F, Gaspoz, J-M, and McClellan, W. "Prevalence of frailty indicators and association with socioeconomic status in middle-aged and older adults in a swiss region with universal health insurance coverage: a population-based cross-sectional study." Journal of aging research 2014 (January 2014): 198603-. Full Text
  - Kutner, NG, Zhang, R, Allman, RM, and Bowling, CB. "Correlates of ADL difficulty in a large hemodialysis cohort." Hemodialysis International. International Symposium on Home Hemodialysis 18, no. 1 (January 2014): 70-77. Full Text
  - Bowling, CB, Sharma, P, Fox, CS, O'Hare, AM, and Muntner, P. "Prevalence of reduced estimated glomerular filtration rate among the oldest old from 1988-1994 through 2005-2010." Jama 310, no. 12 (September 2013): 1284-1286. Full Text
  - Tanner, RM, Calhoun, DA, Bell, EK, Bowling, CB, Gutiérrez, OM, Irvin, MR, Lackland, DT, Oparil, S, Warnock, D, and Muntner, P. "Prevalence of apparent treatment-resistant hypertension among individuals with CKD." Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : Cjasn 8, no. 9 (September 2013): 1583-1590. Full Text
  - Bowling, CB, Sanders, PW, Allman, RM, Rogers, WJ, Patel, K, Aban, IB, Rich, MW, Pitt, B, White, M, Bakris, GC, Fonarow, GC, and Ahmed, A. "Effects of enalapril in systolic heart failure patients with and without chronic kidney disease: insights from the SOLVD Treatment trial." International Journal of Cardiology 167, no. 1 (July 2013): 151-156. Full Text
  - Bowling, CB, Muntner, P, Bradbury, BD, Kilpatrick, RD, Isitt, JJ, Warriner, AH, Curtis, JR, Judd, S, Brown, CJ, Allman, RM, Warnock, DG, and McClellan, W. "Low hemoglobin levels and recurrent falls in U.S. men and women: prospective findings from the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) cohort." The American Journal of the Medical Sciences 345, no. 6 (June 2013): 446-454. Full Text
  - Bowling, CB, Booth, JN, Safford, MM, Whitson, HE, Ritchie, CS, Wadley, VG, Cushman, M, Howard, VJ, Allman, RM, and Muntner, P. "Nondisease-specific problems and all-cause mortality in the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke study." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 61, no. 5 (May 2013): 739-746. Full Text
  - Tanner, RM, Gutiérrez, OM, Judd, S, McClellan, W, Bowling, CB, Bradbury, BD, Safford, MM, Cushman, M, Warnock, D, and Muntner, P. "Geographic variation in CKD prevalence and ESRD incidence in the United States: results from the reasons for geographic and racial differences in stroke (REGARDS) study." American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 61, no. 3 (March 2013): 395-403. Full Text
  - Platts-Mills, TF, Richmond, NL, Hunold, KM, and Bowling, CB. "Life-threatening hyperkalemia after 2 days of ibuprofen." The American journal of emergency medicine 31, no. 2 (February 2013): 465.e1-465.e2. Full Text
  - Bowling, CB, and Inker, LA. "Metabolic complications in elderly adults with CKD." American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 60, no. 6 (December 2012): 893-895. Full Text
  - Bowling, CB, and Muntner, P. "Epidemiology of chronic kidney disease among older adults: a focus on the oldest old." The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 67, no. 12 (December 2012): 1379-1386. Full Text
  - Bowling, CB, Fonarow, GC, Patel, K, Zhang, Y, Feller, MA, Sui, X, Blair, SN, Alagiakrishnan, K, Aban, IB, Love, TE, Allman, RM, and Ahmed, A. "Impairment of activities of daily living and incident heart failure in community-dwelling older adults." European Journal of Heart Failure 14, no. 6 (June 2012): 581-587. Full Text
  - Bowling, CB, and O'Hare, AM. "Managing older adults with CKD: individualized versus disease-based approaches." American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 59, no. 2 (February 2012): 293-302. Full Text
  - Bowling, CB, Inker, LA, Gutiérrez, OM, Allman, RM, Warnock, DG, McClellan, W, and Muntner, P. "Age-specific associations of reduced estimated glomerular filtration rate with concurrent chronic kidney disease complications." Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : Cjasn 6, no. 12 (December 2011): 2822-2828. Full Text
  - Muntner, P, Bowling, CB, Gao, L, Rizk, D, Judd, S, Tanner, RM, McClellan, W, and Warnock, DG. "Age-specific association of reduced estimated glomerular filtration rate and albuminuria with all-cause mortality." Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : Cjasn 6, no. 9 (September 2011): 2200-2207. Full Text
  - Bowling, CB, Sawyer, P, Campbell, RC, Ahmed, A, and Allman, RM. "Impact of chronic kidney disease on activities of daily living in community-dwelling older adults." The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 66, no. 6 (June 2011): 689-694. Full Text
  - Bowling, CB, Feller, MA, Mujib, M, Pawar, PP, Zhang, Y, Ekundayo, OJ, Aban, IB, Love, TE, Sanders, PW, Anker, SD, Fonarow, GC, and Ahmed, A. "Relationship between stage of kidney disease and incident heart failure in older adults." American journal of nephrology 34, no. 2 (January 2011): 135-141. Full Text
  - Bowling, CB, Pitt, B, Ahmed, MI, Aban, IB, Sanders, PW, Mujib, M, Campbell, RC, Love, TE, Aronow, WS, Allman, RM, Bakris, GL, and Ahmed, A. "Hypokalemia and outcomes in patients with chronic heart failure and chronic kidney disease: findings from propensity-matched studies." Circulation. Heart Failure 3, no. 2 (March 2010): 253-260. Full Text
- Book Sections
  - Bowling, CB, and Hall, RK. "Kidney Disease." In Geriatrics for Specialists, 305-316.: Springer International Publishing, 2017. Full Text
  - O’Hare, AM, Bowling, CB, and Tamura, MK. "Kidney Disease in the Elderly." In National Kidney Foundation Primer on Kidney Diseases, 437-445.: Elsevier, 2014. Full Text
- Conference Papers
  - Hoge, C, Bowling, CB, Lim, SS, Drenkard, C, and Plantinga, L. "Association of Poverty Income Ratio with Physical Functioning in a Cohort of Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus." : WILEY, September 1, 2018. Link to Item
  - Plantinga, L, Drenkard, C, Bowling, CB, and Lim, SS. "Perceived Stress and Reported Cognitive Symptoms Among Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus." October 2016. Link to Item
  - Reynolds, K, Shimbo, D, Bowling, CB, Deng, L, Bress, A, Sim, J, and Muntner, P. "RISK FACTORS FOR SERIOUS FALL INJURIES FOLLOWING INITIATION OF ANTIHYPERTENSIVE MEDICATION." : LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, September 1, 2016. Full Text Link to Item
  - Tanner, RM, Calhoun, DA, Bell, EK, Bowling, CB, Gutierrez, OM, Irvin, MR, Lackland, DT, Oparill, S, Warnock, D, and Muntner, P. "Prevalence of Treatment Resistant Hypertension Among Individuals with Chronic Kidney Disease: Results from the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study." March 26, 2013. Link to Item
  - Bowling, CB, Desai, RV, Ahmed, MI, Feller, MA, Mujib, M, Alagiakrishnan, K, Forman, DE, Zieman, SJ, White, M, Fonarow, GC, Aronow, WS, Allman, RM, and Ahmed, A. "Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Impairment is an Independent Predictor of Incident Heart Failure, Acute Myocardial Infarction and All-Cause Mortality in Community-Dwelling Older Adults." November 23, 2010. Link to Item

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