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José A. Luchsinger
Researcher at Columbia University
Publications - 267
Citations - 21579
José A. Luchsinger is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dementia & Risk factor. The author has an hindex of 68, co-authored 231 publications receiving 19153 citations. Previous affiliations of José A. Luchsinger include Columbia University Medical Center & University of California, Davis.
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Measures of Adiposity and Future Risk of Ischemic Stroke and Coronary Heart Disease in Older Men and Women
Jorge R. Kizer,Mary L. Biggs,Joachim H. Ix,Kenneth J. Mukamal,Susan J. Zieman,Ian H. de Boer,Dariush Mozaffarian,Joshua I. Barzilay,Elsa S. Strotmeyer,José A. Luchsinger,Mitchell S.V. Elkind,W. T. Longstreth,Lewis H. Kuller,David S. Siscovick +13 more
TL;DR: Although only waist/hip ratio was significantly associated with ischemic stroke in quintile analysis in women, dichotomized body mass index (BMI) was the only significant predictor in men and there were significant positive adjusted associations for all adiposity measures, without interaction by sex.
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Validity of Self-reported Stroke in Elderly African Americans, Caribbean Hispanics, and Whites
Christiane Reitz,Nicole Schupf,José A. Luchsinger,Adam M. Brickman,Jennifer J. Manly,Howard Andrews,Ming X. Tang,Charles DeCarli,Truman R. Brown,Richard Mayeux +9 more
TL;DR: Using brain MRI as the standard for stroke diagnosis, specificity and sensitivity of stroke self-report are low and sensitive neuroimaging techniques rather than strokeSelf-report should be used to determine stroke history.
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Type 2 Diabetes and Ethnic Disparities in Cognitive Impairment
TL;DR: Reducing ethnic Differences in T2D prevalence could partially reduce ethnic differences in incident CID, and it is estimated that reducing the ethnic disparities in diabetes prevalence could reduce the CID ethnic disparities by 17%.
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Lobar microbleeds are associated with a decline in executive functioning in older adults.
Irene B. Meier,Yian Gu,Vanessa A Guzaman,Anne F. Wiegman,Nicole Schupf,Jennifer J. Manly,José A. Luchsinger,Anand Viswanathan,Sergi Martinez-Ramirez,Steven M. Greenberg,Richard Mayeux,Adam M. Brickman +11 more
TL;DR: Lobar microbleeds, a marker of cerebral amyloid angiopathy, are associated with an accelerated rate of executive function decline among non-demented older adults, and may be an important source of cognitive decline in aging.
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Sex hormone binding globulin and incident Alzheimer's disease in elderly men and women.
TL;DR: It is observed that in both men and women higher levels of SHBG were associated with an increased risk for AD and overall dementia, independent of vascular risk factors and bioactive hormone levels.