• Apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype, dementia, and memory performance among Caribbean Hispanic versus US populations 

      Llibre-Guerra, Jorge J.; Li, Jing; Qian, Yuting; Llibre-Rodriguez, Juan de Jesús; Jiménez-Velázquez, Ivonne Z.; Acosta, Daisy; Salas, Aquiles; Llibre-Guerra, Juan Carlos; Valvuerdi, Adolfo; Harrati, Amal (Alzheimer's Association, 2022-06-04)
      Apolipoprotein E (APOE) is considered the major susceptibility gene for developing Alzheimer's disease. However, the strength of this risk factor is not well established across diverse Hispanic populations. We investigated ...
    • Dementia Research in the Caribbean Hispanic Islands: Present Findings and Future Trends 

      Acosta, Daisy; Llibre-Guerra, Jorge Jesús; Jiménez-Velázquez, Ivonne Z.; Lllibre-Rodríguez, Juan J. (Front. Public Health, 2021-01-18)
      During the last decade, the Caribbean Hispanic islands experienced accelerated demographic aging, representing the fastest aging region within Latin America. Age-related non-communicable diseases, including dementia, are ...
    • Dependence- and disability-free life expectancy across eight low- and middle-income countries: a 10/66 study 

      Prina, A. Matthew; Wu, Yu-Tzu; Kralj, Carolina; Acosta, Daisy; Acosta, Isaac; Guerra, Mariella; Huang, Yueqin; Jotheeswaran, Amuthavalli T.; Jiménez-Velázquez, Ivonne Z.; Liu, Zhaorui; Llibre Rodriguez, Juan J.; Salas, Aquiles; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Prince, Martin J. (Journal of Aging and Health, 2019-01-30)
      The objective of this study was to estimate healthy life expectancies in eight low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), using two indicators: disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) and dependence-free life expectancy ...
    • Latin American initiative for lifestyle intervention to prevent cognitive decline (LatAm-FINGERS): study design and harmonization 

      Crivelli, Lucia; Calandri, Luis; Kimie Suemoto, Claudia; Salinas, Rosa María; Velilla, Lina Marcela; Sanches Yassuda, Mônica; Caramelli, Paulo; Lopera, Francisco; Nitrini, Ricardo; Sevlever, Gustavo Emilio; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Acosta, Daisy; Charamelo Baietti, Ana María; Cusicanqui, María Isabel; Custodio, Nilton; De Simone, Sergio Dansilio; Delgado Derio, Carolina; Duque-Peñailillo, Lissette; Duran, Juan Carlos; Jiménez-Velázquez, Ivonne Z.; Leon-Salas, Jorge Mario; Bergamo, Yanina; Florencia Clarens, María; Damian, Andrés; Demey, Ignacio; Belén Helou, María; Márquez, Carlos; Martin, María Eugenia; Morais Martin, Maria da Graça; Querze, Diego; Surace, Ezequiel Ignacio; Acosta-Egea, Sabrina; Aguirre–Salvador, Esteban; da Cunha Peixoto Cançado, Gustavo Henrique; Dozzi Brucki; Dozzi Brucki, Sonia Maria; Vasconcelos Friedlaender, Clarisse; Braga Gomes, Karina; Gutierrez, Myriam; Laforcada Ríos, Carlos; Martinez Galindo, Joyce Graciela; Montesinos, Rosa; Nuñez-Herrera, Alberto; Ospina-Henao, Sebastián; Rodríguez, Guillermina; Ruiz Masson, Victoria; Sánchez, Mónica; Christian E. Schenk, Christian; Soto, Ligia; Tonidandel Barbosa, Maira; Gonçalves Tosatti, Jéssica Abdo; Vicuña, Yosselin; Espeland, Mark; Hakansson, Krister; Kivipelto, Miia; Baker, Laura; Snyder, Heather; Carrillo, María; Allegri, Ricardo Francisco (Alzheimer's Association®, 2023-05-19)
      Latin American Initiative for Lifestyle Intervention to Prevent Cognitive Decline (LatAm-FINGERS) is the first non-pharmacological multicenter randomized clinical trial (RCT) to prevent cognitive impairment in Latin America ...
    • Prevalence, distribution, and impact of mild cognitive impairment in Latin America, China, and India: a 10/66 population-based study. 

      Sosa, Ana Luisa; Albanese, Emiliano; Stephan, Blossom C. M; Dewey, Michael; Acosta, Daisy; Ferri, Cleusa P.; Guerra, Mariella; Huang, Yueqin; Jacob, K. S.; Jiménez-Velázquez, Ivonne Z.; Llibre Rodríguez, Juan J.; Salas, Aquiles; Williams, Joseph; Acosta, Isaac; González-Viruet, Maribella; Guerra Hernández, Milagros A; Shuran, Li; Prince, Martin J.; Stewart, Robert (PLoS Medicine | www.plosmedicine.org, 2012-02)
      Rapid demographic ageing is a growing public health issue in many low- and middle-income countries (LAMICs). Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a construct frequently used to define groups of people who may be at risk ...
    • Progranulin mutations in clinical and neuropathological Alzheimer’s disease 

      Vardarajan, Badri N.; Reyes-Dumeyer, Dolly; L. Piriz1, Angel; Lantigua, Rafael A.; Medrano, Martin; Rivera, Diones; Jiménez-Velázquez, Ivonne Z.; Martin, Eden; Pericak-Vance, Margaret A.; Bush, William; Farrer, Lindsay; Haines, Jonathan L.; Wang, Li-San; Yee Leung, Yuk; Schellenberg, Gerard; Kukull, Walter; De Jager, Philip; Bennett, David A.; Schneider, Julie A.; Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project; Mayeux, Richard (Alzheimers Dement., 2022-12-10)
      Progranulin (GRN) mutations occur in frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) and in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), often with TDP-43 pathology. We determined the frequency of rs5848 and rare, pathogenic GRN mutations in two ...