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Laura Fratiglioni

Laura Fratiglioni

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Best Female Scientists
2025
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Medicine
Sweden
2023

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Best Female Scientists

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142
Citations
107622
World Ranking
216
National Ranking
3

Medicine

D-Index
147
Citations
114921
World Ranking
1253
National Ranking
24

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Laura Fratiglioni is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, contributing extensively to research in the field of Medicine. Their work encompasses a range of subfields including Psychiatry and Mental Health, Health, General Health Professions, Physiology, and Geriatrics and Gerontology.

The primary research focus centers on dementia and cognitive impairment, with significant attention to related areas such as health disparities and outcomes, frailty in older adults, chronic disease management strategies, nutritional studies and diet, health systems, economic evaluations, quality of life, and geriatric care and nursing homes.

Some recent publications highlight various aspects of cognitive health and aging:

  • Education and Cognitive Functioning Across the Life Span, 2020, Gothic.net
  • The impact of diabetes on cognitive impairment and its progression to dementia, 2021, Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Prevention of dementia in an ageing world: Evidence and biological rationale, 2020, Ageing Research Reviews
  • Twelve-year clinical trajectories of multimorbidity in a population of older adults, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Multimorbidity burden and dementia risk in older adults: The role of inflammation and genetics, 2021, Alzheimer s & Dementia

Frequent collaborators in their research include the following coauthors:

  • Davide Liborio Vetrano
  • Giulia Grande
  • Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga
  • Erika J. Laukka
  • Debora Rizzuto

The main venues where their research is published reflect their focus on aging and dementia-related topics:

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series A
  • Innovation in Aging
  • Age and Ageing
  • Aging

Their contributions to medicine cover a broad range of issues relevant to aging populations, including clinical trajectories of multimorbidity and the biological mechanisms underlying dementia risk, with a substantial record of publications over the years. This body of work addresses both biological and systemic dimensions of health in older adults.

Best Publications

  • Global prevalence of dementia: a Delphi consensus study

    Cleusa P Ferri;Martin Prince;Carol Brayne;Henry Brodaty

  • Mild cognitive impairment--beyond controversies, towards a consensus: report of the International Working Group on Mild Cognitive Impairment.

    B. Winblad;K. Palmer;Miia Kivipelto;V. Jelic

  • The size and burden of mental disorders and other disorders of the brain in Europe 2010

    H.U. Wittchen;F. Jacobi;J. Rehm;J. Rehm;Anders Gustavsson

  • Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease

    Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Carla A Ibrahim-Verbaas;Denise Harold;Adam C Naj

  • Aging with multimorbidity: a systematic review of the literature

    Alessandra Marengoni;Sara Angleman;René Melis;René Melis;Francesca Mangialasche

  • An active and socially integrated lifestyle in late life might protect against dementia.

    Laura Fratiglioni;Stephanie Paillard-Borg;Bengt Winblad

  • Cost of disorders of the brain in Europe 2010

    Anders Gustavsson;Mikael Svensson;Frank Jacobi;Christer Allgulander

  • Air pollution and lung cancer incidence in 17 European cohorts : Prospective analyses from the European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (ESCAPE)

    Ole Raaschou-Nielsen;Zorana Jovanovic Andersen;Rob Beelen;Evangelia Samoli

  • Role of Genes and Environments for Explaining Alzheimer Disease

    Margaret Gatz;Chandra A. Reynolds;Laura Fratiglioni;Boo Johansson

  • Mild cognitive impairment: A concept in evolution

    Ronald C. Petersen;Barbara Caracciolo;Barbara Caracciolo;Carol Brayne;Serge Gauthier

  • Influence of social network on occurrence of dementia: a community-based longitudinal study

    Laura Fratiglioni;Hui-Xin Wang;Kjerstin Ericsson;Margaret Maytan

  • Prevalence of dementia and major subtypes in Europe : A collaborative study of population-based cohorts

    A. Lobo;L. J. Launer;L. Fratiglioni;K. Andersen

  • Defeating Alzheimer's disease and other dementias: a priority for European science and society

    Bengt Winblad;Bengt Winblad;Philippe Amouyel;Sandrine Andrieu;Clive Ballard

  • Obesity and vascular risk factors at midlife and the risk of dementia and Alzheimer disease.

    Miia Kivipelto;Tiia Ngandu;Laura Fratiglioni;Matti Viitanen

  • Effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on natural-cause mortality : An analysis of 22 European cohorts within the multicentre ESCAPE project

    Rob Beelen;Ole Raaschou-Nielsen;Massimo Stafoggia;Zorana Jovanovic Andersen

  • The age-dependent relation of blood pressure to cognitive function and dementia

    Chengxuan Qiu;Bengt Winblad;Laura Fratiglioni

  • Gene-wide analysis detects two new susceptibility genes for Alzheimer's disease.

    Valentina Escott-Price;Céline Bellenguez;Li-San Wang;Seung-Hoan Choi

  • Late-Life Engagement in Social and Leisure Activities Is Associated with a Decreased Risk of Dementia: A Longitudinal Study from the Kungsholmen Project

    Hui-Xin Wang;Anita Karp;Bengt Winblad;Laura Fratiglioni

  • Incidence of dementia and major subtypes in Europe: A collaborative study of population-based cohorts. Neurologic Diseases in the Elderly Research Group.

    Fratiglioni L;Launer Lj;Andersen K;Breteler Mm

  • Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

    Rebecca Sims;Sven J. Van Der Lee;Adam C. Naj;Céline Bellenguez;Céline Bellenguez

Frequent Co-Authors

Bengt Winblad
Bengt Winblad Karolinska Institute
Lars Bäckman
Lars Bäckman Karolinska Institute
Nancy L. Pedersen
Nancy L. Pedersen Karolinska Institute
Matti Viitanen
Matti Viitanen University of Turku
Caroline Graff
Caroline Graff Karolinska University Hospital
Miia Kivipelto
Miia Kivipelto University of Eastern Finland
Margaret Gatz
Margaret Gatz University of Southern California
Ming-Yi Tsai
Ming-Yi Tsai University of Washington
Brent J. Small
Brent J. Small University of South Florida
Martin Lövdén
Martin Lövdén University of Gothenburg

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