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Eleanor M. Simonsick is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and has made significant contributions to the field of Medicine, with a primary focus on aging. Their research spans multiple subfields including Physiology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The scientist's work addresses a variety of topics related to aging and health. Key areas of research include Nutrition and Health in Aging, Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention, Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders, Physical Activity and Health, Nutritional Studies and Diet, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, and Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Eleanor M. Simonsick include:

  • "A roadmap to build a phenotypic metric of ageing: insights from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging," 2020, Journal of Internal Medicine
  • "Update of the fracture risk prediction tool FRAX: a systematic review of potential cohorts and analysis plan," 2022, Osteoporosis International
  • "Prevalence of protein intake below recommended in community-dwelling older adults: a meta-analysis across cohorts from the PROMISS consortium," 2020, Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle
  • "Age-related changes in gait biomechanics and their impact on the metabolic cost of walking: Report from a National Institute on Aging workshop," 2023, Experimental Gerontology
  • "Longitudinal phenotypic aging metrics in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging," 2022, Nature Aging

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Luigi Ferrucci
  • Jennifer A. Schrack
  • Amal A. Wanigatunga
  • Qu Tian
  • Susan M. Resnick

The scientist has published extensively in a range of journals and publication venues:

  • Innovation in Aging (75 publications)
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series A (35 publications)
  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (7 publications)
  • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise (7 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (7 publications)

Best Publications

  • A short physical performance battery assessing lower extremity function: association with self-reported disability and prediction of mortality and nursing home admission.

    Jack M. Guralnik;Eleanor M. Simonsick;Luigi Ferrucci;Robert J. Glynn

  • Lower-Extremity Function in Persons over the Age of 70 Years as a Predictor of Subsequent Disability

    Jack M. Guralnik;Luigi Ferrucci;Eleanor M. Simonsick;Marcel E. Salive

  • The Loss of Skeletal Muscle Strength, Mass, and Quality in Older Adults: The Health, Aging and Body Composition Study

    Bret H Goodpaster;Seok Won Park;Tamara B Harris;Steven B Kritchevsky

  • Sleep complaints among elderly persons: an epidemiologic study of three communities.

    Foley Dj;Monjan Aa;Brown Sl;Simonsick Em

  • Strength, But Not Muscle Mass, Is Associated With Mortality in the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study Cohort

    Anne B. Newman;Varant Kupelian;Marjolein Visser;Eleanor M. Simonsick

  • Hearing loss and cognitive decline in older adults

    Frank R. Lin;Kristine Yaffe;Jin Xia;Qian Li Xue

  • Muscle mass, muscle strength, and muscle fat infiltration as predictors of incident mobility limitations in well-functioning older persons

    M. Visser;B.H. Goodpaster;S.B. Kritchevsky;A.B. Newman

  • Elevated aortic pulse wave velocity, a marker of arterial stiffness, predicts cardiovascular events in well-functioning older adults.

    Kim Sutton-Tyrrell;Samer S. Najjar;Robert M. Boudreau;Lakshmi Venkitachalam

  • Relationship of interleukin-6 and tumor necrosis factor-alpha with muscle mass and muscle strength in elderly men and women: the Health ABC Study.

    Marjolein Visser;Marco Pahor;Dennis R. Taaffe;Bret H. Goodpaster

  • Prognostic value of usual gait speed in well-functioning older people--results from the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study.

    Matteo Cesari;Stephen B. Kritchevsky;Brenda W. H. J. Penninx;Barbara J. Nicklas

  • Inflammatory markers and onset of cardiovascular events: results from the Health ABC study.

    Matteo Cesari;Brenda W.J.H. Penninx;Anne B. Newman;Stephen B. Kritchevsky

  • The Metabolic Syndrome, Inflammation, and Risk of Cognitive Decline

    Kristine Yaffe;Alka Kanaya;Karla Lindquist;Eleanor M. Simonsick

  • Association of long-distance corridor walk performance with mortality, cardiovascular disease, mobility limitation, and disability.

    Anne B. Newman;Eleanor M. Simonsick;Barbara L. Naydeck;Robert M. Boudreau

  • Sarcopenia: Alternative Definitions and Associations with Lower Extremity Function

    Anne B. Newman;Varant Kupelian;Marjolein Visser;Eleanor Simonsick

  • Predictors of functional recovery one year following hospital discharge for hip fracture: a prospective study.

    J. Magaziner;E. M. Simonsick;T. M. Kashner;J. R. Hebel

  • Depressive symptoms and physical decline in community-dwelling older persons.

    Brenda W. J. H. Penninx;Jack M. Guralnik;Luigi Ferrucci;Eleanor M. Simonsick

  • SARC‐F: a symptom score to predict persons with sarcopenia at risk for poor functional outcomes

    Theodore K. Malmstrom;Douglas K. Miller;Eleanor M. Simonsick;Luigi Ferrucci

  • Inflammatory markers and cognition in well-functioning African-American and white elders

    K. Yaffe;K. Lindquist;B. W. Penninx;E. M. Simonsick

  • Obesity, regional body fat distribution, and the metabolic syndrome in older men and women

    Bret H. Goodpaster;Shanthi Krishnaswami;Tamara B. Harris;Andreas Katsiaras

  • A Drug Burden Index to Define the Functional Burden of Medications in Older People

    Sarah N. Hilmer;Donald E. Mager;Donald E. Mager;Eleanor M. Simonsick;Ying Cao

Frequent Co-Authors

Luigi Ferrucci
Luigi Ferrucci National Institutes of Health
Tamara B. Harris
Tamara B. Harris National Institutes of Health
Anne B. Newman
Anne B. Newman University of Pittsburgh
Kristine Yaffe
Kristine Yaffe University of California, San Francisco
Suzanne Satterfield
Suzanne Satterfield University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Stephen B. Kritchevsky
Stephen B. Kritchevsky Wake Forest University
Caterina Rosano
Caterina Rosano University of Pittsburgh
Douglas C. Bauer
Douglas C. Bauer University of California, San Francisco
Jack M. Guralnik
Jack M. Guralnik University of Maryland, Baltimore
Joseph T. Hanlon
Joseph T. Hanlon University of Pittsburgh

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