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Carlos F. Mendes de Leon

Carlos F. Mendes de Leon

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
73
Citations
22866
World Ranking
629
National Ranking
302

Medicine

D-Index
73
Citations
23190
World Ranking
19583
National Ranking
9752

Overview

Carlos F. Mendes de Leon is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields of study including Social Sciences, Environmental Science, and Health Professions, with notable contributions in several subfields such as Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, General Health Professions, Health, Demography, and Clinical Psychology.

Their work primarily focuses on topics related to air quality and health impacts, health disparities and outcomes, noise effects and management, climate change and health impacts, employment and welfare studies, air quality monitoring and forecasting, as well as dementia and cognitive impairment research.

Frequent co-authors include Adam A. Szpiro, Joel D. Kaufman, Richard A. Hirth, Sara D. Adar, and Jennifer Weuve.

They have published extensively in several venues, with the most frequent being:

  • ISEE Conference Abstracts
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Innovation in Aging
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • JAMA Network Open

Among their recent papers are:

  • Comparison of Particulate Air Pollution From Different Emission Sources and Incident Dementia in the US, 2023, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Long-term community noise exposure in relation to dementia, cognition, and cognitive decline in older adults, 2020, Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Aging and the Left Behind: Puerto Rico and Its Unconventional Rapid Aging, 2022, The Gerontologist
  • Medical Debt as a Social Determinant of Health, 2021, JAMA
  • The association of fire or police first responder initiated interventions with out of hospital cardiac arrest survival, 2022, Resuscitation

Best Publications

  • Participation in Cognitively Stimulating Activities and Risk of Incident Alzheimer Disease

    Robert S. Wilson;Carlos F. Mendes de Leon;Lisa L. Barnes;Julie A. Schneider

  • Population based study of social and productive activities as predictors of survival among elderly Americans

    Thomas A Glass;Carlos Mendes de Leon;Richard A Marottoli;Lisa F Berkman

  • CONSEQUENCES OF DRIVING CESSATION: DECREASED OUT-OF-HOME ACTIVITY LEVELS

    R A Marottoli;Cfm de Leon;T A Glass;C S Williams

  • Driving Cessation and Increased Depressive Symptoms: Prospective Evidence from the New Haven EPESE

    Richard A. Marottoli;Carlos F. Mendes de Leon;Thomas A. Glass;Christianna S. Williams

  • Social Engagement and Depressive Symptoms in Late Life Longitudinal Findings

    Thomas A. Glass;Carlos F. Mendes De Leon;Shari S. Bassuk;Lisa F. Berkman

  • Social engagement and disability in a community population of older adults: the New Haven EPESE.

    Carlos F. Mendes de Leon;Thomas A. Glass;Lisa F. Berkman

  • Lack of Association Between Cholesterol and Coronary Heart Disease Mortality and Morbidity and All-Cause Mortality in Persons Older Than 70 Years

    Harlan M. Krumholz;Teresa E. Seeman;Susan S. Merrill;Carlos F. Mendes de Leon

  • Elder self-neglect and abuse and mortality risk in a community-dwelling population.

    Xin Qi Dong;Melissa Simon;Carlos Mendes De Leon;Terry Fulmer

  • Accounting for bias due to selective attrition: The example of smoking and cognitive decline

    Jennifer Weuve;Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen;M. Maria Glymour;Todd L. Beck

  • Prognostic Importance of Emotional Support for Elderly Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure

    Harlan M. Krumholz;Javed Butler;Jeremy Miller;Viola Vaccarino

  • Self-efficacy, Physical Decline, and Change in Functioning in Community-Living Elders: A Prospective Study

    Carlos F. Mendes de Leon;Teresa E. Seeman;Dorothy I. Baker;Emily D. Richardson

  • The Rush Memory and Aging Project: study design and baseline characteristics of the study cohort.

    David A. Bennett;Julie A. Schneider;Aron S. Buchman;Carlos Mendes de Leon

  • Disability as a Function of Social Networks and Support in Elderly African Americans and Whites The Duke EPESE 1986–1992

    Carlos F. Mendes de Leon;Deborah T. Gold;Thomas A. Glass;Lori Kaplan

  • Analysis of Change in Self-reported Physical Function among Older Persons in Four Population Studies

    Laurel A. Beckett;Dwight B. Brock;Jon H. Lemke;Carlos F. Mendes de Leon

  • Social Networks and Disability Transitions Across Eight Intervals of Yearly Data in the New Haven EPESE

    Carlos F. Mendes de Leon;Thomas A. Glass;Laurel A. Beckett;Teresa E. Seeman

  • Clinical Value of Acute Rest Technetium-99m Tetrofosmin Tomographic Myocardial Perfusion Imaging in Patients With Acute Chest Pain and Nondiagnostic Electrocardiograms

    Gary V Heller;Stephen A Stowers;Robert C Hendel;Steven D Herman

  • Risk due to inactivity in physically capable older adults.

    E M Simonsick;M E Lafferty;C L Phillips;C F Mendes de Leon

  • Cognitive Aging in Black and White Americans: Cognition, Cognitive Decline, and Incidence of Alzheimer Disease Dementia

    Jennifer Weuve;Lisa L. Barnes;Carlos F. Mendes de Leon;Kumar B. Rajan

  • Cardiovascular events and mortality in newly and chronically depressed persons > 70 years of age

    Brenda W.J.H Penninx;Jack M Guralnik Md;Carlos F Mendes de Leon;Marco Pahor

  • Neighborhood social cohesion and disorder in relation to walking in community-dwelling older adults: a multilevel analysis.

    Carlos F. Mendes de Leon;Kathleen A. Cagney;Julia L. Bienias;Lisa L. Barnes

Frequent Co-Authors

Denis A. Evans
Denis A. Evans Rush University Medical Center
Robert S. Wilson
Robert S. Wilson Rush University Medical Center
Lisa L. Barnes
Lisa L. Barnes Rush University Medical Center
Julia L. Bienias
Julia L. Bienias Rush University Medical Center
Lisa F. Berkman
Lisa F. Berkman Harvard University
David A. Bennett
David A. Bennett Rush University Medical Center
Teresa E. Seeman
Teresa E. Seeman University of California, Los Angeles
Harlan M. Krumholz
Harlan M. Krumholz Yale University
XinQi Dong
XinQi Dong Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Stanislav V. Kasl
Stanislav V. Kasl Yale University

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