{"id":246,"date":"2026-04-30T09:49:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/?p=246"},"modified":"2026-05-04T10:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:23:14","slug":"francesca-seta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/2026\/04\/30\/francesca-seta\/","title":{"rendered":"Francesca Seta"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 100%; height: 225px; float: none; margin-left: 0; background-color: #329998; color: #fff; border-left: none; -webkit-box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(204,204,204,1); -moz-box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(204,204,204,1); box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(204,204,204,1);\">\n<div style=\"float: left; margin: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/whra\/files\/2026\/04\/francesca-seta.jpg\" alt=Francesca Seta\" width=\"178\" height=\"178\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"padding-top: 0.5em; color: #ffffff;\">Associate Professor<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>Chobanian &#038; Avedisian School of Medicine &#8211; Vascular Biology\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Research Areas<\/h3>\n<p>Vascular biology<\/p>\n<h3>Why Women&#8217;s Health?<\/h3>\n<p>Sex dymorphism is observed in cardiovascular health particularly in post-menopause females; role of reproductive hormones and\/or sex chromosomes on the cardiovascular system is not fully understood; my expertise is on arterial remodeling in aging with a focus on smooth muscle cells; these cells are also present in the uterus so they may affect reproduction and pregnancy-related conditions, an area I am interested in exploring further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":21681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}