Jennifer Weuve

a research and faculty member profile

Postmenopausal hormone use and risk of Alzheimer disease.

A summary of epidemiologic studies of use of postmenopausal hormones and risk of Alzheimer disease dementia.  Credits: O’Brien J, Weuve J, Blacker D.

See news item and commentary.

Homocysteine and risk of Alzheimer disease

A summary of epidemiologic studies of plasma homocysteine and risk of Alzheimer disease.  Credits: Li S*, Goonesekera S*, Weuve J, Blacker D.

*contributed equally

Rejoinder to commentary on “Selective attrition, smoking and cognitive decline.”

Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ, Glymour MM, Shpitser I, Weuve J. To weight or not to weight? On the relation between inverse-probability-weighting and principal stratification for truncation by death. Epidemiology 2012;23(1):132-137.

Related items:

The original paper (Weuve J. et al)

Commentary (Chaix B. et al)

Clarification (Tchtegen Tchetgen E.J. et al)

Selective attrition, smoking and cognitive decline: an application of inverse probability of attrition weights.

Weuve J, Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ, Glymour MM, Beck TL, Aggarwal NT, Wilson RS, Evans DA, Mendes de Leon CF. Accounting for bias due to selective attrition in analyses of cognitive decline: the example of smoking and cognitive decline in older adults. Epidemiology 2012;23(1):119-128.

Related items:

Commentary (Chaix B. et al)

Rejoinder (Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ. et al)

Clarification of methods (Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ. et al)

Performance on simple motor tasks predicts outcomes in Parkinson’s disease.

Grill S, Weuve J, Weisskopf MG. Predicting outcomes in Parkinson’s disease: comparison of simple motor performance measures and the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale-III. Journal of Parkinson’s Disease 2011;1(3):287-298.

(Source: iospress.metapress.com)

Impact of attrition on associations between demographic factors and cognitive decline.

Rajan KB, Leurgans SE, Weuve J, Beck TL, Evans DA. Effect of demographic risk factors on the change in cognitive function in the presence of non-participation and truncation due to death. Journal of Biometrics & Biostatistics 2011;S3:001.

(Source: omicsonline.org)

Blood pressure/hypertension and Alzheimer disease, on AlzRisk.

A summary of epidemiologic studies of blood pressure and hypertension in relation to risk of Alzheimer disease.  Credits: Power MC, Weuve J, Gagne J, McQueen MB, Viswanathan A, Blacker D.

See news item and commentary.

See the accompanying paper.

Nutritional antioxidants and risk of Alzheimer disease.

A summary of epidemiologic studies of nutritional antioxidants (vitamins C and E) and risk of Alzheimer disease.  Credits: Koyama A*, Weuve J*, Ray M, McQueen MB, Blacker D.

*contributed equally

Blood pressure and risk of Alzheimer disease, in Epidemiology.

Power MC, Weuve J, Gagne JJ, McQueen MB, Viswanathan A, Blacker D. The association between blood pressure and incident Alzheimer disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Epidemiology 2011 22(5):646-659.

See the complementary entry on AlzRisk here.

(Source: journals.lww.com)

Does lung function predict subsequent cognitive aging?

Weuve J, Glymour MM, Hu H, Sparrow D, Spiro A 3rd, Vokonas PS, Litonjua AA. Forced expiratory volume in 1 second and cognitive aging in men. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2011;59: 1283–1292.

(Source: onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

Lead exposure and Parkinson’s disease.

Weisskopf MG, Weuve J, Nie H, Saint-Hilaire M-H, Sudarsky L, Simon DK, Hersh B, Schwartz J, Wright RO, Hu H. Association of cumulative lead exposure with Parkinson’s disease. Environmental Health Perspectives 2010;118:1609–1613.

(Source: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Phthalates in association with endometriosis and uterine leiomyomata (aka fibroids).

Weuve J, Hauser R, Calafat AM, Missmer SA, Wise LA. Association of exposure to phthalates with endometriosis and uterine leiomyomata: findings from NHANES, 1999-2004. Environmental Health Perspectives 2010;118(6):825-832.

(Source: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Biomarkers of inflammation and Alzheimer disease.

A summary of epidemiologic studies of inflammatory biomarkers and risk of Alzheimer disease.  Credits: O’Brien J, Weuve J, Blacker D.

Cadmium exposure in association with stroke and heart failure.

Peters JL, Perlstein TS, Perry MJ, McNeely E, Weuve J. Cadmium exposure in association with history of stroke and heart failure. Environmental Research 2010;110:199-206.

(Source: sciencedirect.com)