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| Kushang V PatelSummaryAffiliation: National Institutes of Health Country: USA Publications
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Joint effects of adiposity and physical activity on incident mobility limitation in older adultsAnnemarie Koster
Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 56:636-43. 2008..To examine joint associations of physical activity and adiposity measures (body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, percentage body fat) with incident mobility limitation...- Racial variation in the relationship of anemia with mortality and mobility disability among older adultsKushang V Patel
Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Blood 109:4663-70. 2007..Conversely, older blacks classified as anemic by WHO criteria were not at risk for adverse events, indicating that alternative criteria are warranted... - Midlife physical activity and mobility in older age: The InCHIANTI studyKushang V Patel
Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Am J Prev Med 31:217-24. 2006.... - Haemoglobin concentration and the risk of death in older adults: differences by race/ethnicity in the NHANES III follow-upKushang V Patel
Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 9205, USA
Br J Haematol 145:514-23. 2009..In conclusion, the haemoglobin threshold below which mortality rises significantly is a full g/dl lower in non-Hispanic blacks than in non-Hispanic whites and Mexican Americans... - Comorbidity and disability in elderly Mexican and Mexican American adults: findings from Mexico and the southwestern United StatesKushang V Patel
Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, 7201 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 3C309, Bethesda, MD 20892 9205, USA
J Aging Health 18:315-29. 2006..Despite differences in prevalence, the associations of morbidity and comorbidity with disability had similar magnitudes in both populations... - Red blood cell distribution width and the risk of death in middle-aged and older adultsKushang V Patel
Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, 7201 Wisconsin Ave, Ste 3C309, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:515-23. 2009..In patients with symptomatic cardiovascular disease (CVD), RDW is associated with mortality. However, it has not been demonstrated that RDW is a predictor of mortality independent of nutritional deficiencies or in the general population... - Epidemiology of anemia in older adultsKushang V Patel
Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, 7201 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Semin Hematol 45:210-7. 2008..Several studies demonstrate that anemia is associated with poorer survival in older adults. This review details the distribution and consequences of anemia in older adults and identifies future epidemiologic research needs... - Characteristics of 400-meter walk test performance and subsequent mortality in older adultsSonja Vestergaard
Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 9205, USA
Rejuvenation Res 12:177-84. 2009..We conclude that multiple aspects of performance in the 400-meter walk test provide complementary information on mortality prognosis in older persons... - Red cell distribution width and mortality in older adults: a meta-analysisKushang V Patel
Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 9205, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 65:258-65. 2010..Whether RDW is prognostic in more representative community-based populations is unclear... - Proinflammatory state, hepcidin, and anemia in older personsLuigi Ferrucci
Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD 21225, USA
Blood 115:3810-6. 2010..Future studies should test whether hepcidin production becomes up-regulated only in situations of overt inflammation... - Disparities in influenza vaccine coverage in the United States, 2008Shauna T Linn
Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 58:1333-40. 2010..To determine the distribution of influenza vaccine coverage in the United States in 2008... - Fatigue in a representative population of older persons and its association with functional impairment, functional limitation, and disabilitySonja Vestergaard
Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 64:76-82. 2009..The aim of the present study was to evaluate fatigue and its association with measures of physical function and disability in a representative sample of the older population... - Association of executive function and performance of dual-task physical tests among older adults: analyses from the InChianti studyAntonia K Coppin
Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Age Ageing 35:619-24. 2006..Further research is needed to determine whether improvement in executive function abilities translates to better performance on selected complex walking tasks... - Daily activity energy expenditure and mortality among older adultsTodd M Manini
National Institute on Aging, Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography and Biometry, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
JAMA 296:171-9. 2006..Exercise is associated with mortality benefits but simply expending energy through any activity in an individual's free-living environment may confer survival advantages... - Multiple loci are associated with white blood cell phenotypesMichael A Nalls
Laboratory of Neurogenetics, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
PLoS Genet 7:e1002113. 2011.... - Magnitude of underascertainment of impaired kidney function in older adults with normal serum creatinineSandra V Giannelli
Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:816-23. 2007.... - Stopping to rest during a 400-meter walk and incident mobility disability in older persons with functional limitationsSonja Vestergaard
Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 57:260-5. 2009..To examine the association between stopping to rest during a 400-m usual-pace walk test (400-MWT) and incident mobility disability in older persons with functional limitations... - Plasma selenium is positively related to performance in neurological tasks assessing coordination and motor speedAvner Shahar
Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography and Biometry, National Institue on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Mov Disord 25:1909-15. 2010..Lower levels of selenium were significantly associated withdecreased performance in neurological tests of coordination among older adults. Prospective studies are needed to further investigate the effects of selenium on SN dysfunction... - Seat belt use among American Indians/Alaska Natives and non-Hispanic whitesAndrea N Garcia
Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 9205, USA
Am J Prev Med 33:200-6. 2007..The purpose of this study was to examine geographic variation and the existence of a seat belt law on seat belt use among AI/AN and non-Hispanic whites (NHW)... - Menopausal characteristics and physical functioning in older adulthood in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey IIISarah E Tom
From the 1Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 2Medical Research Council Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing and Division of Population Health, University College London, London, UK 3Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD and 4Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Division of Gerontology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Menopause 19:283-9. 2012..We hypothesized that natural menopause would be related to better physical functioning compared with surgical menopause and that later age at menopause would be related to better physical functioning... - Multiple loci influence erythrocyte phenotypes in the CHARGE ConsortiumSanthi K Ganesh
National Human Genome Research Institute, Division of Intramural Research, Bethesda, MD, USA
Nat Genet 41:1191-8. 2009..This study has identified new determinants of erythrocyte traits, offering insight into common variants underlying variation in erythrocyte measures... - Admixture mapping of white cell count: genetic locus responsible for lower white blood cell count in the Health ABC and Jackson Heart studiesMichael A Nalls
Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography and Biometry, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Am J Hum Genet 82:81-7. 2008..Additional studies are needed to determine the biological mechanism for this effect and its clinical implications... - The association of language with prevalence of undiagnosed hypertension among older Mexican AmericansPracha P Eamranond
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02246, USA
Ethn Dis 17:699-706. 2007..Language barriers have been shown to negatively impact health care for immigrants. We evaluated the association between language use and the diagnosis of hypertension among elderly Mexican Americans... - Neighborhood context and self-rated health in older Mexican AmericansKushang V Patel
Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
Ann Epidemiol 13:620-8. 2003..In addition, older Mexican Americans experience a health benefit from living in neighborhoods populated with other Hispanics... - Cognitive status and incident disability in older Mexican Americans: findings from the Hispanic established population for the epidemiological study of the elderlyMukaila A Raji
Department of Internal Medicine, Center on Aging, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555 0460, USA
Ethn Dis 14:26-31. 2004..To determine the effects of baseline cognitive function on incidence of disability in activities of daily living (ADL) in initially non-disabled Mexican-American elderly over a 7-year period... - Early mental ability may predict future ability to live independentlyMukaila A Raji
Ethn Dis 14:158-9. 2004 - Evaluation of mortality data for older Mexican Americans: implications for the Hispanic paradoxKushang V Patel
Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, Division of Sociomedical Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
Am J Epidemiol 159:707-15. 2004..77 (95% CI: 0.65, 0.92) for men and 0.92 (95% CI: 0.77, 1.09) for women but were 0.84 and 1.18, respectively, with adjustment for underascertainment. Findings suggest that NDI-based Hispanic mortality rates may be understated... - Neighborhood context and mortality among older Mexican Americans: is there a barrio advantage?Karl Eschbach
University of Texas Medical Branch, Department of Internal Medicine Geriatrics, 301 University Blvd, Galveston, TX 77555 0460, USA
Am J Public Health 94:1807-12. 2004..We examined whether Mexican Americans living in high-density Mexican American neighborhoods experience increased morbidity and mortality compared with the rates observed among Mexican Americans living in low-density areas... - Re: "evaluation of mortality data for older Mexican Americans: implications for the Hispanic paradox"Kushang V Patel
Am J Epidemiol 160:1030-1. 2004 - Expanding the disablement process model among older Mexican AmericansM Kristen Peek
Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, Sealy Center on Aging, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd, Route 1153, Galveston, Texas 77555 1153, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 60:334-9. 2005.... - Knee extension strength cutpoints for maintaining mobilityTodd M Manini
Institute on Aging, Department of Aging and Geriatric Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:451-7. 2007..To identify levels of knee extensor strength that are associated with high and low risk of incident severe mobility limitation (SML) in initially well-functioning older adults... - Prevalence of and risk factors for exertional chest pain in older Mexican AmericansKushang V Patel
Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health and the Sealy Center on Aging, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA
Am J Public Health 93:433-5. 2003