Recent publications on Aging & Geriatrics

King D, Allen P, Jones D, Marquez DX, Brown D, Rosenberg D, Janicek S, Allen L, Belza B. Safe, affordable, convenient: environmental features of malls and other public spaces used by older adults for walking. J Phys Act Health. 2015 Jul 14. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Bell CL, LaCroix AZ, Desai M, Hedlin H, Rapp SR, Cene C, Savla J, Shippee T, Wassertheil-Smoller S, Stefanick ML, Masaki K. Factors associated with nursing home admission after stroke in older women. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2015 Jul 10. pii: S1052-3057(15)00338-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2015.06.013. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Burke BT, Köttgen A, Law A, Windham BG, Segev D, Baer AN, Coresh J, McAdams-DeMarco MA. Physical function, hyperuricemia and gout in older adults enrolled in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Cohort Study. Arthritis Care Res. 2015 Jul 2. PubMed

Chaudhuri S, Kneale L, Le T, Phelan E, Thompson H, Rosenberg D, Demiris G. Older adults’ perceptions of fall detection devices.  J Appl Gerontol. 2017 Aug;36(8):915-930. doi: 10.1177/0733464815591211. Epub 2015 Jun 24. PubMed

Hohman TJ, Cooke-Bailey JN, Reitz C, Jun G, Naj A, Beecham GW, Liu Z, Carney RM, Vance JM, Cuccaro ML, Rajbhandary R, Vardarajan BN, Wang LS, Valladares O, Lin CF, Larson EB, Graff-Radford NR, Evans D, De Jager PL, Crane PK, Buxbaum JD, Murrell JR, Raj T, Ertekin-Taner N, Logue MW, Baldwin CT, Green RC, Barnes LL, Cantwell LB, Fallin MD, Go RC, Griffith P, Obisesan TO, Manly JJ, Lunetta KL, Kamboh MI, Lopez OL, Bennett DA, Hardy J, Hendrie HC, Hall KS, Goate AM, Lang R, Byrd GS, Kukull WA, Foroud TM, Farrer LA, Martin ER, Pericak-Vance MA, Schellenberg GD, Mayeux R, Haines JL, Thornton-Wells TA; Alzheimer Disease Genetics Consortium. Global and local ancestry in African-Americans: implications for Alzheimer's disease risk. Alzheimers Dement. 2015 Jun 16. pii: S1552-5260(15)00190-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jalz.2015.02.012. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Mukherjee S, Walter S, Kauwe JS, Saykin AJ, Bennett DA, Larson EB, Crane PK, Glymour MM; Adult Changes in Thought Study Investigators; Religious Orders Study/Memory and Aging Project Investigators; Alzheimer's Disease Genetics Consortium. Genetically predicted body mass index and Alzheimer’s disease-related phenotypes in three large samples: Mendelian randomization analyses. Alzheimers Dement. 2015 Jun 12. pii: S1552-5260(15)00184-3. doi: 10.1016/j.jalz.2015.05.015. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Ostergaard SD, Mukherjee S, Sharp SJ, Proitsi P, Lotta LA, Day F, Perry JR, Boehme KL, Walter S, Kauwe JS, Gibbons LE, Larson EB, Powell JF, Langenberg C, Crane PK, Wareham NJ, Scott RA. Associations between potentially modifiable risk factors and Alzheimer disease: a Mendelian randomization study. PLoS Med. 2015 16;12(6):e1001841. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001841. eCollection 2015 Jun.  PubMed

Gell NM, Wallace RB, LaCroix AZ, Mroz TM, Patel KV. Mobility device use in older adults and incidence of falls and worry about falling: findings from the 2011-2012 National Health and Aging Trends study. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2015 May 6. doi: 10.1111/jgs.13393. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Otte JL, Rand KL, Landis CA, Paudel ML, Newton KM, Woods N, Carpenter JS. Confirmatory factor analysis of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index in women with hot flashes.  Menopause. 2015 May 4. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Aneke-Nash CS, Parrinello CM, Rajpathak SN, Rohan TE, Strotmeyer ES, Kritchevsky SB, Psaty BM, Buzkova P, Kizer JR, Newman AB, Strickler HD, Kaplan RC. Changes in insulin-like growth factor-I and its binding proteins are associated with diabetes mellitus in older adults. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2015;63(5):902-9. doi: 10.1111/jgs.13390.  PubMed

Steinberg BA, Greiner MA, Hammill BG, Curtis LH, Benjamin EJ, Heckbert SR, Piccini JP. Contraindications to anticoagulation therapy and eligibility for novel anticoagulants in older patients with atrial fibrillation. Cardiovasc Ther. 2015 Apr 30. doi: 10.1111/1755-5922.12129. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Miyawaki CE. Association of filial responsibility, ethnicity, and acculturation among Japanese American family caregivers of older adults. J Appl Gerontol. 2015 Apr 16. pii: 0733464815581484 [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Desikan RS, Schork AJ, Wang Y, Thompson WK, Dehghan A, Ridker PM, Chasman DI, McEvoy LK, Holland D, Chen CH, Karow DS, Brewer JB, Hess CP, Williams J, Sims R, O'Donovan MC, Choi SH, Bis JC, Ikram MA, Gudnason V, DeStefano AL, van der Lee SJ, Psaty BM, van Duijn CM, Launer L, Seshadri S, Pericak-Vance MA, Mayeux R, Haines JL, Farrer LA, Hardy J, Ulstein ID, Aarsland D, Fladby T, White LR, Sando SB, Rongve A, Witoelar A, Djurovic S, Hyman BT, Snaedal J, Steinberg S, Stefansson H, Stefansson K, Schellenberg GD, Andreassen OA, Dale AM. Polygenic overlap between c-reactive protein, plasma lipids and Alzheimer's disease. Circulation. 2015 Apr 10. pii: CIRCULATIONAHA.115.015489. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Macheret F, Bartz TM, Djousse L, Ix JH, Mukamal KJ, Zieman SJ, Siscovick DS, Tracy RP, Heckbert SR, Psaty BM, Kizer JR. Higher circulating adiponectin levels are associated with increased risk of atrial fibrillation in older adults. Heart. 2015 Apr 8. pii: heartjnl-2014-307015. doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2014-307015 [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Joffe H, LaCroix AZ, Cohen L. Concern about the use of venlafaxine to treat vasomotor symptoms-reply. JAMA Intern Med. 2015;175(4):658-9. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.7997.  PubMed

Rosenberg DE, Cook A, Gell NM, Lozano P, Grothaus L, Arterburn D. Relationships between sitting time and health indicators, costs, and utilization in older adults. Prev Med Rep. 2015 2:247-9. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Chahal H, Heckbert SR, Barr RG, Bluemke DA, Jain A, Habibi M, Alonso A, Kronmal R, Jacobs DR Jr, Lima JA, Watson KE, Liu K, Smith LJ, Greenland P. Ability of reduced lung function to predict development of atrial fibrillation in persons aged 45 to 84 years (from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis-Lung Study). Am J Cardiol. 2015 Mar 24. pii: S0002-9149(15)00973-X. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2015.03.018 [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Jun G, Ibrahim-Verbaas CA, Vronskaya M, Lambert JC, Chung J, Naj AC, Kunkle BW, Wang LS, Bis JC, Bellenguez C, Lunetta KL, Harsol D, Destefano AL, Grenier-Boley B, Beecham GW, Smith AV, Escott-Price V, Chouraki V, Hamilton-Nelson KL, Gerrish A, Ikram A, Fievet N, Martin ER, Sims R, Schmidt H, Kamatani Y, Valladares O, Ruiz A, Zelenika D, Foroud TM, Choi SH, Boland A, Kukull WA, van der Lee SJ, Pasquier F, Beekly D, Fitzpatrick AL, Hanon O, Barber R, Gudnason V, Campio D, Bennett DA, Amin N, Berr C, Buxbaum JD, Lopez OL, Deramecourt V, Cantwell LB, Tarraga L, Dufouil C, Crane PK, Eriksdottir G, Hannequin D, Evans D, Mosley TH, Letenneur L, Goate AM, De Jager P, Jakobsdottier J, Dartigues JF, Kamboh MI, de Bruijn RFAG, Tzourio C, Larson EB, Rotter JI, Montine TJ, Nalls MA, Reiman E, Jonsson PV, St Geroge-Hyslop P, Voada M, Wendland JR, Schmidt R, Winslow AR, Younkin SG, Hofman A, Wilhelmsen KC, IGAP Consortium, Haines JL, Psaty BM, Lathrop M, Homans P, Seshadri S, Pericak-Vance MA, Amouyel P, Williams J, van Duijn CM, Schellenberg GD, Farrer LA. A novel Alzheimer disease locus located near the gene encoding tau protein. Mol Psychiatry. 2015 Mar 17. doi: 10.1038/mp.2015.23 [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Sriprasert I, Beydoun H, Barnabei V, Nassir R, LaCroix AZ, Archer DF. Incidence of endometrial spotting or bleeding during continuous-combined estrogen-progestin therapy in postmenopausal women with and without hypertension.  Menopause. 2015 Mar 9 [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Rundell SD, Sherman KJ, Heagerty PJ, Mock CN, Jarvik JG. The clinical course of pain and function in older adults with a new primary care visit for back pain. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2015 Mar 6. doi: 10.1111/jgs.13241 [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed