Browsing by Author "Glymour, Maria"
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Body mass index and cognitive function: the potential for reverse causation
Suemoto, C K; Gilsanz, Paola; Mayeda, E R; Glymour, Maria Lee (Nature Publishing Group, 2015)Background/Objective: Higher late life body mass index (BMI) is unrelated to or even predicts lower risk of dementia in late-life, a phenomenon that may be explained by reverse causation due to weight loss during pre-clinical ... -
Can Social Policy Influence Socioeconomic Disparities? Korean War GI Bill Eligibility and Markers of Depression
Vable, Anusha M.; Canning, David; Kawachi, Ichiro; Jimenez, Marcia P.; Subramanian, Subu V.; Glymour, Maria (Elsevier BV, 2016-02)Purpose: The Korean War GI Bill provided socioeconomic benefits to veterans; however, its association with health is unclear; we hypothesize GI Bill eligibility is associated with fewer depressive symptoms and smaller ... -
Changes in Depressive Symptoms and Incidence of First Stroke Among Middle-Aged and Older US Adults
Gilsanz, Paola; Walter, Stefan; Tchetgen, Eric; Patton, Kristen; Moon, James; Capistrant, Benjamin; Marden, Jessica Rachel; Kubzansky, Laura D; Kawachi, Ichiro; Glymour, Maria Lee (Wiley Blackwell, 2015)BACKGROUND: Although research has demonstrated that depressive symptoms predict stroke incidence, depressive symptoms are dynamic. It is unclear whether stroke risk persists if depressive symptoms remit. METHODS AND ... -
Elevated Depressive Symptoms and Incident Stroke in Hispanic, African-American, and White Older Americans
Glymour, Maria Lee; Yen, Jessica J.; Kosheleva, Anna A; Moon, J. Robin; Capistrant, Benjamin Davoli; Patton, Kristen K. (Springer US, 2011)Although depressive symptoms have been linked to stroke, most research has been in relatively ethnically homogeneous, predominantly white, samples. Using the United States based Health and Retirement Study, we compared the ... -
The Health Effects of US Unemployment Insurance Policy: Does Income from Unemployment Benefits Prevent Cardiovascular Disease?
Walter, Stefan; Glymour, Maria; Avendano, Mauricio (Public Library of Science, 2014)Objective: Previous studies suggest that unemployment predicts increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, but whether unemployment insurance programs mitigate this risk has not been assessed. Exploiting US state variations ... -
Migraine and Cognitive Decline Among Women: Prospective Cohort Study
Rist, Pamela Marie; Kang, Jae Hee Hee; Buring, Julie Elizabeth; Glymour, Maria Lee; Grodstein, Francine; Kurth, Tobias (BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2012)Objective: To evaluate the association between migraine and cognitive decline among women. Design Prospective cohort study. Setting Women’s Health Study, United States. Participants 6349 women aged 65 or older enrolled in ... -
Social Integration and Reduced Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in WomenNovelty and Significance
Chang, Shun-Chiao; Glymour, Maria Lee; Cornelis, Marilyn; Walter, Stefan; Rimm, Eric Bruce; Tchetgen Tchetgen, Eric Joel; Kawachi, Ichiro; Kubzansky, Laura Diane (Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2017)RATIONALE: Higher social integration is associated with lower cardiovascular mortality; however, whether it is associated with incident coronary heart disease (CHD), especially in women, and whether associations differ ... -
Timing of Onset of Cognitive Decline: Results from Whitehall II Prospective Cohort Study
Singh-Manoux, Archana; Kivimaki, Mika; Glymour, Maria Lee; Elbaz, Alexis; Berr, Claudine; Ebmeier, Klaus P; Ferrie, Jane E; Dugravot, Aline (BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2012)Objectives: To estimate 10 year decline in cognitive function from longitudinal data in a middle aged cohort and to examine whether age cohorts can be compared with cross sectional data to infer the effect of age on cognitive ...