M M Glymour

Summary

Affiliation: Harvard University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Commentary: Selected samples and nebulous measures: some methodological difficulties in life-course epidemiology
    M Maria Glymour
    Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, 722 W. 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA
    Int J Epidemiol 36:566-8. 2007
  2. ncbi Does childhood schooling affect old age memory or mental status? Using state schooling laws as natural experiments
    M M Glymour
    Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntingdon Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
    J Epidemiol Community Health 62:532-7. 2008
  3. ncbi Early life predictors of atrial fibrillation-related mortality: Evidence from the health and retirement study
    M Maria Glymour
    Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Kresge 617, Boston, MA 02115, USA Electronic address
    Health Place 21:133-9. 2013
  4. ncbi Brain MRI markers and dropout in a longitudinal study of cognitive aging: the Three-City Dijon Study
    M Maria Glymour
    Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
    Neurology 79:1340-8. 2012
  5. ncbi Long-term rate of change in memory functioning before and after stroke onset
    Qianyi Wang
    Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Stroke 43:2561-6. 2012
  6. ncbi Is cognitive aging predicted by one's own or one's parents' educational level? results from the three-city study
    M Maria Glymour
    Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Kresge 617, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 175:750-9. 2012
  7. ncbi Stroke incidence in older US Hispanics: is foreign birth protective?
    J Robin Moon
    Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Stroke 43:1224-9. 2012
  8. ncbi Elevated depressive symptoms and incident stroke in Hispanic, African-American, and White older Americans
    M Maria Glymour
    Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Kresge 617, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    J Behav Med 35:211-20. 2012
  9. ncbi Credible Mendelian randomization studies: approaches for evaluating the instrumental variable assumptions
    M Maria Glymour
    Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 175:332-9. 2012
  10. ncbi Lifecourse social conditions and racial disparities in incidence of first stroke
    M Maria Glymour
    Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA
    Ann Epidemiol 18:904-12. 2008

Detail Information

Publications32

  1. ncbi Commentary: Selected samples and nebulous measures: some methodological difficulties in life-course epidemiology
    M Maria Glymour
    Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, 722 W. 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA
    Int J Epidemiol 36:566-8. 2007
  2. ncbi Does childhood schooling affect old age memory or mental status? Using state schooling laws as natural experiments
    M M Glymour
    Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntingdon Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
    J Epidemiol Community Health 62:532-7. 2008
    ..Changes in CSL predict changes in average years of schooling completed by children who are affected by the new laws. These educational differences are presumably independent of innate individual characteristics such as IQ...
  3. ncbi Early life predictors of atrial fibrillation-related mortality: Evidence from the health and retirement study
    M Maria Glymour
    Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Kresge 617, Boston, MA 02115, USA Electronic address
    Health Place 21:133-9. 2013
    ..Conventional childhood and adult cardiovascular risk factors did not explain the association between place of birth and AF-related mortality...
  4. ncbi Brain MRI markers and dropout in a longitudinal study of cognitive aging: the Three-City Dijon Study
    M Maria Glymour
    Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
    Neurology 79:1340-8. 2012
    ..Existing methods to handle dropouts account for differences based on past health and cognitive measures. We assess whether such adjustments fully account for differences in future dementia risk...
  5. ncbi Long-term rate of change in memory functioning before and after stroke onset
    Qianyi Wang
    Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Stroke 43:2561-6. 2012
    ..We compared the long-term trajectory of memory functioning before and after stroke with memory change in stroke-free elderly individuals...
  6. ncbi Is cognitive aging predicted by one's own or one's parents' educational level? results from the three-city study
    M Maria Glymour
    Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Kresge 617, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 175:750-9. 2012
    ..These findings suggest that the possible impacts of educational experiences on cognitive change are small, domain-specific, and potentially incorrectly estimated in conventional analyses because of measurement ceilings...
  7. ncbi Stroke incidence in older US Hispanics: is foreign birth protective?
    J Robin Moon
    Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Stroke 43:1224-9. 2012
    ..We compare stroke incidence and socioeconomic predictors in US- and foreign-born Hispanics with patterns among non-Hispanic whites...
  8. ncbi Elevated depressive symptoms and incident stroke in Hispanic, African-American, and White older Americans
    M Maria Glymour
    Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Kresge 617, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    J Behav Med 35:211-20. 2012
    ..3% for whites/others, 7.8% for blacks, and 10.3% for Hispanics...
  9. ncbi Credible Mendelian randomization studies: approaches for evaluating the instrumental variable assumptions
    M Maria Glymour
    Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 175:332-9. 2012
    ..Methods that assess the IV assumptions are generally not conclusive, but routinely applying such methods is nonetheless likely to improve the scientific contributions of MR studies...
  10. ncbi Lifecourse social conditions and racial disparities in incidence of first stroke
    M Maria Glymour
    Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA
    Ann Epidemiol 18:904-12. 2008
    ..Previous research was hampered by incomplete SES assessments, without measures of childhood conditions or adult wealth. We assess the role of lifecourse SES in explaining stroke risk and stroke disparities...
  11. ncbi Can self-reported strokes be used to study stroke incidence and risk factors?: evidence from the health and retirement study
    M Maria Glymour
    Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA
    Stroke 40:873-9. 2009
    ..We examine whether incidence estimates from clinically verified studies are consistent with estimates from a nationally representative US sample assessing self-reported stroke...
  12. ncbi Birth and adult residence in the Stroke Belt independently predict stroke mortality
    M Maria Glymour
    Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
    Neurology 73:1858-65. 2009
    ..Understanding how the timing of exposure to the US Stroke Belt (SB) influences stroke risk may illuminate mechanisms underlying the SB phenomenon and factors influencing population stroke rates...
  13. ncbi Neighborhood disadvantage and self-assessed health, disability, and depressive symptoms: longitudinal results from the health and retirement study
    M Maria Glymour
    Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Ann Epidemiol 20:856-61. 2010
    ..By using a longitudinal cohort, we assessed the association between neighborhood disadvantage and incidence of poor health and function in three domains...
  14. ncbi Depressive symptoms predict incident stroke independently of memory impairments
    M M Glymour
    Department of Society, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Neurology 75:2063-70. 2010
    ..We hypothesized that if depressive symptoms are causally related to stroke through mechanisms unrelated to cerebrovascular disease, depressive symptoms should predict stroke independently of memory impairment...
  15. ncbi Geographic distribution of dementia mortality: elevated mortality rates for black and white Americans by place of birth
    M Maria Glymour
    Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
    Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord 25:196-202. 2011
    ..This suggests important roles for geographically patterned childhood exposures in establishing cognitive reserve...
  16. ncbi Methodological challenges in causal research on racial and ethnic patterns of cognitive trajectories: measurement, selection, and bias
    M Maria Glymour
    Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Neuropsychol Rev 18:194-213. 2008
    ..For each, we describe how to recognize when such biases may be relevant and some possible analytic or design approaches to remediating these biases...
  17. ncbi Lifecourse social conditions and racial and ethnic patterns of cognitive aging
    M Maria Glymour
    Department of Society Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Neuropsychol Rev 18:223-54. 2008
    ..A lifecourse framework can help inform clinical encounters, neuropsychological research, and surveillance regarding the population prevalence of cognitive impairments...
  18. ncbi Spousal smoking and incidence of first stroke: the Health and Retirement Study
    M Maria Glymour
    Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, USA
    Am J Prev Med 35:245-8. 2008
    ..Few prospective studies have investigated the relationship between spousal cigarette smoking and the risk of incident stroke...
  19. ncbi Is the 'stroke belt' worn from childhood?: risk of first stroke and state of residence in childhood and adulthood
    M Maria Glymour
    Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
    Stroke 38:2415-21. 2007
    ..Most Stroke Belt studies define exposure based on residence at stroke onset. We assessed whether residence in the Stroke Belt during childhood confers extra stroke risk in adulthood, even among people who left the region...
  20. ncbi When is baseline adjustment useful in analyses of change? An example with education and cognitive change
    M Maria Glymour
    Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 162:267-78. 2005
    ..In some cases, change-score analyses without baseline adjustment provide unbiased causal effect estimates when baseline-adjusted estimates are biased...
  21. ncbi Social ties and cognitive recovery after stroke: does social integration promote cognitive resilience?
    M Maria Glymour
    Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY 10032, USA
    Neuroepidemiology 31:10-20. 2008
    ..Understanding this association may help us identify strategies to improve stroke recovery and help elucidate the etiology of dementia...
  22. ncbi Occupational solvent exposure and cognition: does the association vary by level of education?
    E L Sabbath
    Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
    Neurology 78:1754-60. 2012
    ..Cognitive reserve may protect solvent-exposed workers from cognitive impairment. We tested whether the association between chronic solvent exposure and cognition varied by educational attainment, a proxy for cognitive reserve...
  23. ncbi APOE epsilon 4 allele predicts faster cognitive decline in mild Alzheimer disease
    S Cosentino
    Cognitive Neuroscience Division of the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
    Neurology 70:1842-9. 2008
    ..To determine whether APOE epsilon 4 predicts rate of cognitive change in incident and prevalent Alzheimer disease (AD)...
  24. ncbi Effects of social integration on preserving memory function in a nationally representative US elderly population
    Karen A Ertel
    Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Am J Public Health 98:1215-20. 2008
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  25. ncbi Frailty modifies effectiveness of psychosocial intervention in recovery from stroke
    K A Ertel
    Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Clin Rehabil 21:511-22. 2007
    ..To evaluate the impact of a psychosocial intervention on instrumental activities of daily living, physical performance, cognition and mortality after stroke...
  26. ncbi Contribution of vascular risk factors to the progression in Alzheimer disease
    Elizabeth P Helzner
    Gertrude H Sergievsky Center, Columbia University Medical Center, NY, New York, USA
    Arch Neurol 66:343-8. 2009
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  27. ncbi The Families In Recovery From Stroke Trial (FIRST): primary study results
    Thomas A Glass
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Psychosom Med 66:889-97. 2004
    ..This study examined whether a family-systems intervention designed to influence social support and self-efficacy affects functional outcome in older stroke patients...
  28. ncbi Physician race and ethnicity, professional satisfaction, and work-related stress: results from the Physician Worklife Study
    M Maria Glymour
    Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Health and Social Behavior, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    J Natl Med Assoc 96:1283-9, 1294. 2004
    ..Significant racial and ethnic variations were found with respect to several specific satisfaction domains: autonomy, patient care issues, relations with staff, relations with the community, pay, and resources...
  29. ncbi Level and change in cognitive test scores predict risk of first stroke
    Triveni DeFries
    Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, USA
    J Am Geriatr Soc 57:499-505. 2009
    ..To determine whether cognitive test scores and cognitive decline predict incidence of first diagnosed stroke...
  30. ncbi Invited commentary: when bad genes look good - APOE*E4, cognitive decline, and diagnostic thresholds
    M Maria Glymour
    Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 165:1239-46; author reply 1247. 2007
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  31. ncbi Lesion characteristics, NIH stroke scale, and functional recovery after stroke
    M Maria Glymour
    Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
    Am J Phys Med Rehabil 86:725-33. 2007
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  32. ncbi Stroke disparities in older Americans: is wealth a more powerful indicator of risk than income and education?
    Mauricio Avendano
    Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Stroke 39:1533-40. 2008
    ..This study examines the independent effect of wealth, income, and education on stroke and how these disparities evolve throughout middle and old age in a representative cohort of older Americans...