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List of works by Rachel Whitmer

A call for comparative effectiveness research to learn whether routine clinical care decisions can protect from dementia and cognitive decline

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Association Between Ambient Air Pollution and Amyloid Positron Emission Tomography Positivity in Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment

scientific article published on 30 November 2020

Association Between Birth in a High Stroke Mortality State, Race, and Risk of Dementia

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Association Between Cognitive Test Performance and Subjective Cognitive Decline in a Diverse Cohort of Older Adults: Findings From the KHANDLE Study

scientific article published on 15 May 2020

Association Between Lifetime Marijuana Use and Cognitive Function in Middle Age: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study

scientific article published on February 2016

Association of Amyloid Positron Emission Tomography With Subsequent Change in Clinical Management Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Mild Cognitive Impairment or Dementia

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Association of depression with increased risk of dementia in patients with type 2 diabetes: the Diabetes and Aging Study

scientific article published on 5 December 2011

Association of genetic risk for Alzheimer disease and hearing impairment

scientific article published on 02 September 2020

Automated Assay of Telomere Length Measurement and Informatics for 100,000 Subjects in the Genetic Epidemiology Research on Adult Health and Aging (GERA) Cohort

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B4-3: Demographic and Behavioral Influences on Telomere Length and Relationship with All-Cause Mortality: Early Results from the Kaiser Permanente Research Program on Genes, Environment, and Health (RPGEH)

B4-5: Neighborhood Deprivation and Telomere Length: Preliminary Findings from the Kaiser Permanente Research Program on Genes, Environment, and Health (RPGEH).

scientific article published in September 2013

Birth in High Infant Mortality States and Dementia Risk in a Cohort of Elderly African American and White Health Care Members

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Body mass index in midlife and risk of Alzheimer disease and vascular dementia

scientific article published on April 2007

Cardiorespiratory fitness and brain volume and white matter integrity: The CARDIA Study

scientific article published on 8 May 2015

Cardiorespiratory fitness and cognitive function in middle age: the CARDIA study

scientific article published on 02 April 2014

Central obesity and increased risk of dementia more than three decades later

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Central obesity, leptin and cognitive decline: the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging

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Characterizing Race/Ethnicity and Genetic Ancestry for 100,000 Subjects in the Genetic Epidemiology Research on Adult Health and Aging (GERA) Cohort

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Childbearing may increase visceral adipose tissue independent of overall increase in body fat.

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Commentary on "Developing a national strategy to prevent dementia: Leon Thal Symposium 2009." Dementia risk indices: A framework for identifying individuals with a high dementia risk

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Dementia and cognitive decline in type 2 diabetes and prediabetic stages: towards targeted interventions.

scientific article published on 18 October 2013

Design and coverage of high throughput genotyping arrays optimized for individuals of East Asian, African American, and Latino race/ethnicity using imputation and a novel hybrid SNP selection algorithm

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Diabetes and cognition

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Diabetic Retinopathy and Dementia in Type 1 Diabetes

scientific article published on 19 December 2017

Differences in association of leisure time activities and cognition in a racially/ethnically diverse cohort of older adults: Findings from the KHANDLE study

scientific article published on 26 June 2020

Differential Item Functioning of the Everyday Cognition (ECog) Scales in Relation to Racial/Ethnic Groups

scientific article published on 24 January 2020

Do long-term HDL-C declines associated with a first birth vary by apo E phenotype? The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study

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Do the Benefits of Educational Attainment for Late-life Cognition Differ by Racial/Ethnic Group?: Evidence for Heterogenous Treatment Effects in the Kaiser Healthy Aging and Diverse Life Experience (KHANDLE) Study

scientific article published on 09 October 2020

Early Midlife Pulmonary Function and Dementia Risk

scientific article published on 14 March 2018

Early adult to midlife cardiovascular risk factors and cognitive function

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Effect of Early Adult Patterns of Physical Activity and Television Viewing on Midlife Cognitive Function

scientific article published on 2 December 2015

Feasibility study for remote assessment of cognitive function in multiple sclerosis

scientific article published on 01 January 2016

Female sex, early-onset hypertension, and risk of dementia

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

First translational 'Think Tank' on cerebrovascular disease, cognitive impairment and dementia

scientific article published on 13 February 2016

Functional hearing loss as a marker for early Alzheimer’s disease and dementia: Exploring the potential for reverse causation

scientific article published in 2020

Generation and age of immigration on later life cognitive performance in KHANDLE

scientific article published on 23 December 2020

Genotyping Informatics and Quality Control for 100,000 Subjects in the Genetic Epidemiology Research on Adult Health and Aging (GERA) Cohort

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Glycosylated hemoglobin level and development of mild cognitive impairment or dementia in older women.

scientific article published in July 2006

Heavy smoking in midlife and long-term risk of Alzheimer disease and vascular dementia

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Heterogeneity in 14-year Dementia Incidence Between Asian American Subgroups

scientific article published on 12 April 2017

Homocysteine, B vitamins, and the incidence of dementia and cognitive impairment: results from the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging

scientific article published in February 2007

Hormone replacement therapy and cognitive performance: the role of homocysteine

scientific article published in April 2003

Hostile attitudes and effortful coping in young adulthood predict cognition 25 years later

scientific article published on 2 March 2016

Hypoglycemic episodes and risk of dementia in older patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

scientific article published on April 2009

Incidence of dementia after age 90 in a multiracial cohort

scientific article published on 20 February 2019

Inequalities in dementia incidence between six racial and ethnic groups over 14 years.

scientific article published on 10 February 2016

Lactation and changes in maternal metabolic risk factors

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Locus of Control and Cognition in Older Adults With Type 1 Diabetes: Evidence For Sex Differences From the Study of Longevity in Diabetes (SOLID)

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Manuscript title: Can survival bias explain the age attenuation of racial inequalities in stroke incidence? A simulation study.

scientific article published on 4 April 2018

Metabolic syndrome and cognitive decline in elderly Latinos: findings from the Sacramento Area Latino Study of Aging study

scientific article published in May 2007

Midlife obesity and long-term risk of nursing home admission

scientific article published on August 2006

Midlife risk score for the prediction of dementia four decades later.

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Midlife serum cholesterol and increased risk of Alzheimer's and vascular dementia three decades later

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Midlife vs late-life depressive symptoms and risk of dementia: differential effects for Alzheimer disease and vascular dementia

scientific article published on May 2012

Modifiable risk factors for nursing home admission among individuals with high and low dementia risk.

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Next generation genome-wide association tool: design and coverage of a high-throughput European-optimized SNP array

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O3‐02‐04: EVALUATING REVERSE CAUSATION BETWEEN DEMENTIA AND HEARING IMPAIRMENT USING A GENETIC RISK SCORE FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE

scientific article published in 2006

Obesity in middle age and future risk of dementia: a 27 year longitudinal population based study

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PS3-16: Access and Collaboration with the Kaiser Permanente Research Program on Genes, Environment, and Health (RPGEH)

Physical activity and dementia: The need for prevention trials

scientific article published on January 2007

Post-traumatic stress disorder and risk of dementia among members of a health care delivery system

scientific article published on 13 June 2017

Progress and future challenges in aging and diversity research in the United States

scientific article published on 19 September 2018

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Sleep Quality among Older Adults: Kaiser Healthy Aging and Diverse Life Experiences (KHANDLE) Study

scientific article published on 09 July 2020

Racial/ethnic differences in dementia risk among older type 2 diabetic patients: the diabetes and aging study

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Reproductive period and risk of dementia in a diverse cohort of health care members

scientific article published on 28 March 2019

Risk score for prediction of 10 year dementia risk in individuals with type 2 diabetes: a cohort study

scientific article published on 20 August 2013

Severe diabetic retinal disease and dementia risk in type 2 diabetes

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Sleep Quality and Cognitive Function in Type 1 Diabetes: Findings From the Study of Longevity in Diabetes (SOLID)

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Statin use and risk of prostate cancer in the California Men's Health Study cohort

scientific article published on 30 October 2007

Stressors in Midlife and Risk of Dementia: The Role of Race and Education

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Survival after dementia diagnosis in five racial/ethnic groups

scientific article published on 4 February 2017

The epidemiology of adiposity and dementia

scientific article published on April 2007

Timing of hormone therapy and dementia: the critical window theory revisited

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Traumatic brain injury associated with dementia risk among people with type 1 diabetes

scientific article published on 26 September 2018

Type 2 diabetes and risk of cognitive impairment and dementia

scientific article published on September 2007

Use of angiotensin receptor blockers and risk of dementia in a predominantly male population: prospective cohort analysis

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Using Cross-Cultural Studies to Improve Evidence on Dementia Prevention: Lessons from the Special Issue Sponsored by the International Research Network on Dementia Prevention (IRNDP)

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Using Genetic Information to Explore Whether Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease Affects Hearing Difficulty

scientific article published in 2020

World-Wide FINGERS Network: A global approach to risk reduction and prevention of dementia

scientific article published on 05 July 2020