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Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas

Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas

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D-Index
84
Citations
30783
World Ranking
14962
National Ranking
211

Overview

Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas is affiliated with the Instituto de Salud Carlos III in Spain. Their research predominantly focuses on medicine, with specializations in physiology, geriatrics and gerontology, economics and econometrics, psychiatry and mental health, as well as cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The scientist has published extensively on topics related to aging, with a significant emphasis on frailty in older adults and nutrition and health in aging. Other main areas of work include health systems, economic evaluations, quality of life, body composition measurement techniques, health disparities and outcomes, long-term effects of COVID-19, and balance, gait, and falls prevention.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • The journal of nutrition health & aging
  • Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle
  • Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Among their recent published papers are:

  • International Exercise Recommendations in Older Adults (ICFSR): Expert Consensus Guidelines, 2021, The journal of nutrition health & aging
  • Impact of Social Isolation Due to COVID-19 on Health in Older People: Mental and Physical Effects and Recommendations, 2020, The journal of nutrition health & aging
  • Physical activity and exercise: Strategies to manage frailty, 2020, Redox Biology
  • Impact of Social Isolation Due to COVID-19 on Health in Older People: Mental and Physical Effects and Recommendations, 2020, The journal of nutrition health & aging
  • Use of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system inhibitors and risk of COVID-19 requiring admission to hospital: a case-population study, 2020, The Lancet

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Rodríguez-Mañas include:

  • Francisco J. García-García
  • José Antonio Carranza Carnicero
  • Alejandro Álvarez-Bustos
  • Alan J. Sinclair
  • Mariam El Assar

Best Publications

  • Searching for an Operational Definition of Frailty: A Delphi Method Based Consensus Statement. The Frailty Operative Definition-Consensus Conference Project

    Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas;Catherine Féart;Catherine Féart;Giovanni Mann;Jose Viña

  • Effects of different exercise interventions on risk of falls, gait ability and balance in physically frail older adults. A systematic review

    Eduardo Lusa Cadore;Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas;Alan Sinclair;Mikel Izquierdo

  • International Clinical Practice Guidelines for Sarcopenia (ICFSR): Screening, Diagnosis and Management

    E. Dent;J. E. Morley;A. J. Cruz-Jentoft;H. Arai

  • International Exercise Recommendations in Older Adults (ICFSR): Expert Consensus Guidelines

    Mikel Izquierdo;Mikel Izquierdo;Mikel Izquierdo;R. A. Merchant;J. E. Morley;S. D. Anker

  • Physical Frailty: ICFSR International Clinical Practice Guidelines for Identification and Management

    E. Dent;J. E. Morley;A. J. Cruz-Jentoft;L. Woodhouse

  • Oxidative stress and vascular inflammation in aging

    Mariam El Assar;Javier Angulo;Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas

  • Multicomponent exercises including muscle power training enhance muscle mass, power output, and functional outcomes in institutionalized frail nonagenarians

    Eduardo L. Cadore;Alvaro Casas-Herrero;Fabricio Zambom-Ferraresi;Fernando Idoate

  • Impact of Social Isolation Due to COVID-19 on Health in Older People: Mental and Physical Effects and Recommendations

    W. Sepúlveda-Loyola;I. Rodríguez-Sánchez;P. Pérez-Rodríguez;F. Ganz

  • Frailty and multimorbidity: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Davide L Vetrano;Davide L Vetrano;Katie Palmer;Alessandra Marengoni;Emanuele Marzetti

  • A Multicomponent Exercise Intervention that Reverses Frailty and Improves Cognition, Emotion, and Social Networking in the Community-Dwelling Frail Elderly: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Francisco José Tarazona-Santabalbina;Mari Carmen Gómez-Cabrera;Pilar Pérez-Ros;Francisco Miguel Martínez-Arnau

  • The Asia-Pacific Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Frailty

    Elsa Dent;Christopher Lien;Wee Shiong Lim;Wei Chin Wong

  • Diabetes mellitus in older people: position statement on behalf of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG), the European Diabetes Working Party for Older People (EDWPOP), and the International Task Force of Experts in Diabetes

    Alan Sinclair;John E. Morley;Leo Rodriguez-Mañas;Giuseppe Paolisso

  • Skeletal Muscle Regulates Metabolism via Interorgan Crosstalk: Roles in Health and Disease

    Josep M. Argilés;Nefertiti Campos;José M. Lopez-Pedrosa;Ricardo Rueda

  • Physical activity and exercise: Strategies to manage frailty.

    Javier Angulo;Mariam El Assar;Alejandro Álvarez-Bustos;Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas

  • Effectiveness of acute geriatric units on functional decline, living at home, and case fatality among older patients admitted to hospital for acute medical disorders: meta-analysis.

    Juan J Baztán;Francisco M Suárez-García;Jesús López-Arrieta;Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas

  • Use of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system inhibitors and risk of COVID-19 requiring admission to hospital: a case-population study.

    Francisco J de Abajo;Sara Rodríguez-Martín;Victoria Lerma;Gina Mejía-Abril

  • Effect of Exercise Intervention on Functional Decline in Very Elderly Patients During Acute Hospitalization: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    Nicolás Martínez-Velilla;Alvaro Casas-Herrero;Fabricio Zambom-Ferraresi;Fabricio Zambom-Ferraresi;Mikel L. Sáez de Asteasu;Mikel L. Sáez de Asteasu

  • Hypoglycemia in Older People - A Less Well Recognized Risk Factor for Frailty

    Ahmed H Abdelhafiz;Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas;John E. Morley;Alan J Sinclair

  • Frailty, Sarcopenia and Diabetes

    John E. Morley;Theodore K. Malmstrom;Leocadio Rodriguez-Mañas;Alan J. Sinclair

  • The prevalence of frailty syndrome in an older population from Spain. The Toledo study for healthy aging

    Francisco José Garcia-Garcia;G. Gutierrez Avila;Ana Alfaro-Acha;M. S. Amor Andres

Frequent Co-Authors

Mikel Izquierdo
Mikel Izquierdo Universidad Publica De Navarra
Jose Viña
Jose Viña University of Valencia
Bruno Vellas
Bruno Vellas Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Matteo Cesari
Matteo Cesari University of Milan
Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo
Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo Autonomous University of Madrid
John E. Morley
John E. Morley Saint Louis University
Timo E. Strandberg
Timo E. Strandberg University of Helsinki
Emanuele Marzetti
Emanuele Marzetti Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic
Yves Rolland
Yves Rolland Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Pascal Demoly
Pascal Demoly University of Montpellier

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