
Professor in Residence
M_Epidemiology & Biostatistics
+1 415 514-8291
Publications
Use of Antihypertensives, Blood Pressure, and Estimated Risk of Dementia in Late Life: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis.
JAMA network open
An Association between Large Optic Cupping and Total and Regional Brain Volume: The Women's Health Initiative.
American journal of ophthalmology
Dose-response relationship between late-life physical activity and incident dementia: A pooled analysis of 10 cohort studies of memory in an international consortium.
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Red blood cell fatty acids and age-related macular degeneration in postmenopausal women.
European journal of nutrition
Estimating the effects of Mexico to U.S. migration on elevated depressive symptoms: evidence from pooled cross-national cohorts.
Annals of epidemiology
nIntergenerational Educational Mobility and Type 2 Diabetes in the Sacramento Area Latino Study of Aging.
Annals of epidemiology
Intergenerational Educational Attainment and Cardiometabolic Health in Latino Individuals Living in the United States.
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.)
Acculturation, Cognitive Performance and Decline, and Incident Dementia/CIND: The Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging.
American journal of epidemiology
APOE e4 and the influence of sex, age, vascular risk factors, and ethnicity on cognitive decline.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences
A cross-national study of depression in preclinical dementia: A COSMIC collaboration study.
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
A Biopsychosocial Model of Chronic Pain for Older Adults.
Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.)
Adult Child US Migration Status and Cognitive Decline Among Older Parents Who Remain in Mexico.
American journal of epidemiology
Education and the moderating roles of age, sex, ethnicity and apolipoprotein epsilon 4 on the risk of cognitive impairment.
Archives of gerontology and geriatrics
Nativity, Neighborhoods, and Body Composition in the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging.
The Gerontologist
The Association of Sedentary Behaviour and Cognitive Function in People Without Dementia: A Coordinated Analysis Across Five Cohort Studies from COSMIC.
Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)
Heterogeneous Exposure Associations in Observational Cohort Studies: The Example of Blood Pressure in Older Adults.
American journal of epidemiology
Association of anthropometry and weight change with risk of dementia and its major subtypes: A meta-analysis consisting 2.8 million adults with 57 294 cases of dementia.
Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity
The Role of Physical Activity and Inflammation for Mortality, Cognition, and Depressive Symptoms in older Mexican Americans.
American journal of epidemiology
Determinants of cognitive performance and decline in 20 diverse ethno-regional groups: A COSMIC collaboration cohort study.
PLoS medicine
Allostatic Load, Unhealthy Behaviors, and Depressive Symptoms by Birthplace Among Older Adults in the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging (SALSA).
Journal of aging and health
An association between large optic nerve cupping and cognitive function.
American journal of ophthalmology
Spanish Language Use Across Generations and Depressive Symptoms Among US Latinos.
Child psychiatry and human development
Neighborhood language isolation and depressive symptoms among elderly U.S. Latinos.
Annals of epidemiology
Racial Differences in the Effects of Hormone Therapy on Incident Open-Angle Glaucoma in a Randomized Trial.
American journal of ophthalmology
Educational Mobility Across Generations and Depressive Symptoms Over 10 Years Among US Latinos.
American journal of epidemiology
Cross-border ties, nativity, and inflammatory markers in a population-based prospective study of Latino adults.
Social science & medicine (1982)
Relation of Diabetes to Cognitive Function in Hispanics/Latinos of Diverse Backgrounds in the United States.
Journal of aging and health
Association Between Immigration History and Inflammatory Marker Profiles Among Older Adult Mexican Americans.
Biodemography and social biology
Education, bilingualism, and cognitive trajectories: Sacramento Area Latino Aging Study (SALSA).
Neuropsychology
Perceived Walking Speed, Measured Tandem Walk, Incident Stroke, and Mortality in Older Latino Adults: A Prospective Cohort Study.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences
Perceived discrimination and depressive symptoms among US Latinos: the modifying role of educational attainment.
Ethnicity & health
Life-Space Assessment Predicts Hospital Readmission in Home-Limited Adults.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Early life socioeconomic position and immune response to persistent infections among elderly Latinos.
Social science & medicine (1982)
Intergenerational education mobility and depressive symptoms in a population of Mexican origin.
Annals of epidemiology
A longitudinal analysis of cross-border ties and depression for Latino adults.
Social science & medicine (1982)
Effects of Hormone Therapy on Intraocular Pressure: The Women's Health Initiative-Sight Exam Study.
American journal of ophthalmology
Diabetes Mellitus as a Risk Factor for Development of Depressive Symptoms in a Population-Based Cohort of Older Mexican Americans.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Gender Differences in the Combined Effects of Cardiovascular Disease and Osteoarthritis on Progression to Functional Impairment in Older Mexican Americans.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences
Does type 2 diabetes increase rate of cognitive decline in older Mexican Americans?
Alzheimer disease and associated disorders
Associations of intergenerational education with metabolic health in U.S. Latinos.
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.)
Type 2 diabetes and cognitive decline over 14 years in middle-aged African Americans and whites: the ARIC Brain MRI Study.
Neuroepidemiology
Impact of acculturation on cardiovascular risk factors among elderly Mexican Americans.
Annals of epidemiology
Genome-wide association and admixture analysis of glaucoma in the Women's Health Initiative.
Human molecular genetics
Immigrant generation and diabetes risk among Mexican Americans: the Sacramento area Latino study on aging.
American journal of public health
Development and validation of a brief dementia screening indicator for primary care.
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Racial/ethnic differences in dementia risk among older type 2 diabetic patients: the diabetes and aging study.
Diabetes care
Reduced heart rate variability is associated with worse cognitive performance in elderly Mexican Americans.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979)
[Immigrant generation and diabetes risk among Mexican Americans: the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging].
Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health
Cardiovascular risk score, cognitive decline, and dementia in older Mexican Americans: the role of sex and education.
Journal of the American Heart Association
Type 2 diabetes and 10-year risk of dementia and cognitive impairment among older Mexican Americans.
Diabetes care
Immigrant generation and diabetes risk among Mexican Americans: the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging.
American journal of public health
A multilevel intervention to increase community hospital use of alteplase for acute stroke (INSTINCT): a cluster-randomised controlled trial.
The Lancet. Neurology
Association between chronic kidney disease detected using creatinine and cystatin C and death and cardiovascular events in elderly Mexican Americans: the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Effectiveness Guidance Document (EGD) for acupuncture research - a consensus document for conducting trials.
BMC complementary and alternative medicine
Rethinking the association of high blood pressure with mortality in elderly adults: the impact of frailty.
Archives of internal medicine
Leptin, mild cognitive impairment, and dementia among elderly women.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences
Central obesity, leptin and cognitive decline: the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging.
Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
Impact of gender and blood pressure on poststroke cognitive decline among older Latinos.
Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association
The association of blood pressure and mortality differs by self-reported walking speed in older Latinos.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences
Life-course exposure to early socioeconomic environment, education in relation to late-life cognitive function among older Mexicans and Mexican Americans.
Journal of aging and health
The metabolic syndrome, biomarkers, and the acculturation-health relationship among older Mexican Americans.
Journal of aging and health
Life-span socioeconomic trajectory, nativity, and cognitive aging in Mexican Americans: the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging.
The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences
Neighborhood socioeconomic context and cognitive decline among older Mexican Americans: results from the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging.
American journal of epidemiology
Life-course socioeconomic position and incidence of dementia and cognitive impairment without dementia in older Mexican Americans: results from the Sacramento area Latino study on aging.
American journal of epidemiology
Operationalizing diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer's disease and other age-related cognitive impairment-Part 1.
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Safety of intravenous thrombolytic use in four emergency departments without acute stroke teams.
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Cytomegalovirus antibody levels, inflammation, and mortality among elderly Latinos over 9 years of follow-up.
American journal of epidemiology
Roberts et al. respond to "Human CMV, inflammation, and mortality".
American journal of epidemiology
Apolipoprotein E Genotype and Cardiovascular Diseases in the Elderly.
Current cardiovascular risk reports
Can statins prevent dementia in older adults?
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Review: statins do not protect against development of dementia.
Evidence-based mental health
Metabolic evidence of vitamin B-12 deficiency, including high homocysteine and methylmalonic acid and low holotranscobalamin, is more pronounced in older adults with elevated plasma folate.
The American journal of clinical nutrition
Longitudinal influences of partner depression on cognitive functioning in latino spousal pairs.
Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
Are health-related quality-of-life and self-rated health associated with mortality? Insights from Translating Research Into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD).
Primary care diabetes
Body adiposity in late life and risk of dementia or cognitive impairment in a longitudinal community-based study.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences
The effect of age at migration on cardiovascular mortality among elderly Mexican immigrants.
Annals of epidemiology
The PPAR-gamma Pro12Ala polymorphism and risk of cognitive impairment in a longitudinal study.
Neurobiology of aging
Persistent infection, inflammation, and functional impairment in older Latinos.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences
Fraction of total plasma vitamin B12 bound to transcobalamin correlates with cognitive function in elderly Latinos with depressive symptoms.
Clinical chemistry
C-reactive protein mediates the effect of apolipoprotein E on cytomegalovirus infection.
The Journal of infectious diseases
Socioeconomic gradients in immune response to latent infection.
American journal of epidemiology
Is the metabolic syndrome, with or without diabetes, associated with progressive disability in older Mexican Americans?
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences
C-reactive protein and rate of dementia in carriers and non carriers of Apolipoprotein APOE4 genotype.
Neurobiology of aging
Socioeconomic position and incident mobility impairment in the Cardiovascular Health Study.
BMC geriatrics
Metabolic syndrome and cognitive decline in elderly Latinos: findings from the Sacramento Area Latino Study of Aging study.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Risk factors for mortality among patients with diabetes: the Translating Research Into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD) Study.
Diabetes care
Homocysteine, B vitamins, and the incidence of dementia and cognitive impairment: results from the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging.
The American journal of clinical nutrition
Hormone therapy and age-related macular degeneration: the Women's Health Initiative Sight Exam Study.
Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960)
The influence of latent viral infection on rate of cognitive decline over 4 years.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Therapy Insight: type 2 diabetes mellitus and the risk of late-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Nature clinical practice. Neurology
Antidepressant class and dosing among older Mexican Americans: application of geropsychiatric treatment guidelines.
The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
Measurement of total vitamin B12 and holotranscobalamin, singly and in combination, in screening for metabolic vitamin B12 deficiency.
Clinical chemistry
Low folate status is associated with impaired cognitive function and dementia in the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging.
The American journal of clinical nutrition
Education, income, occupation, and the 34-year incidence (1965-99) of Type 2 diabetes in the Alameda County Study.
International journal of epidemiology
Spanish and English neuropsychological assessment scales: relationship to demographics, language, cognition, and independent function.
Neuropsychology
Comparing SF-36 scores across three groups of women with different health profiles.
Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation
A semantic verbal fluency test for English- and Spanish-speaking older Mexican-Americans.
Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists
Spanish and English Neuropsychological Assessment Scales (SENAS): further development and psychometric characteristics.
Psychological assessment
Plasma folate concentrations are associated with depressive symptoms in elderly Latina women despite folic acid fortification.
The American journal of clinical nutrition
Correlates of memory function in community-dwelling elderly: the importance of white matter hyperintensities.
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS
Everyday functioning in relation to cognitive functioning and neuroimaging in community-dwelling Hispanic and non-Hispanic older adults.
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS
Can dementia be prevented? Brain aging in a population-based context.
Annual review of public health
Homocysteine and cognitive function in the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging.
The American journal of clinical nutrition
Plasma vitamin B-12 concentrations in an elderly latino population are predicted by serum gastrin concentrations and crystalline vitamin B-12 intake.
The Journal of nutrition
Impact of diabetes on cognitive function among older Latinos: a population-based cohort study.
Journal of clinical epidemiology
Impact of antidiabetic medications on physical and cognitive functioning of older Mexican Americans with diabetes mellitus: a population-based cohort study.
Annals of epidemiology
Can vitamin supplements prevent cognitive decline and dementia in old age?
The American journal of clinical nutrition
Hormone replacement therapy and cognitive performance: the role of homocysteine.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences
Diabetes as a predictor of change in functional status among older Mexican Americans: a population-based cohort study.
Diabetes care
Prevalence of dementia in older latinos: the influence of type 2 diabetes mellitus, stroke and genetic factors.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Risk factors for dementia in the cardiovascular health cognition study.
Neuroepidemiology
A verbal learning and memory test for English- and Spanish-speaking older Mexican-American adults.
The Clinical neuropsychologist
Effect of extrapyramidal signs and Lewy bodies on survival in patients with Alzheimer disease.
Archives of neurology
A new verbal learning and memory test for English- and Spanish-speaking older people.
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS
Acculturation and the prevalence of depression in older Mexican Americans: baseline results of the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Trends in dementia-free life expectancy among elderly members of a large health maintenance organization.
International journal of epidemiology
Factors associated with weight gain in women after diagnosis of breast cancer. Women's Healthy Eating and Living Study Group.
Journal of the American Dietetic Association
Can social engagement prevent cognitive decline in old age?
Annals of internal medicine
Chart-recorded psychiatric diagnoses in women giving birth in California in 1992.
The American journal of psychiatry
Understanding changing risk factor associations with increasing age in adults.
Annual review of public health
Medically recognized urinary incontinence and risks of hospitalization, nursing home admission and mortality.
Age and ageing
The impact of aging and chronic disease on use of hospital and outpatient services in a large HMO: 1971-1991.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
The influence of diabetes, hypertension, and stroke on ethnic differences in physical and cognitive functioning in an ethnically diverse older population.
Annals of epidemiology
Functional imaging predicts cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease.
Journal of neuroimaging : official journal of the American Society of Neuroimaging
Trends in cardiovascular disease incidence and survival in the elderly.
Annals of epidemiology
Age-related trends in cardiovascular morbidity and physical functioning in the elderly: the Cardiovascular Health Study.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Job strain and ischaemic heart disease: an epidemiologic study of metal workers.
Annals of clinical research