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M. Maria Glymour

M. Maria Glymour

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
85
Citations
28838
World Ranking
270
National Ranking
123

Overview

M. Maria Glymour is affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields related to medicine and social sciences, with a strong emphasis on health and epidemiology.

Their research output includes frequent publications in venues such as:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • American Journal of Epidemiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Innovation in Aging
  • Epidemiology

M. Maria Glymour has contributed extensively to topics in health disparities and outcomes, dementia and cognitive impairment research, and aging and gerontology research. Other focal areas of their work include advanced causal inference techniques, COVID-19 and healthcare impacts, as well as broader themes involving health systems, economic evaluations, quality of life, and the intersection of health, environment, and cognitive aging.

Their primary fields of study cover Medicine and Social Sciences, with subfields including health, psychiatry and mental health, general health professions, sociology and political science, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

Frequent co-authors with whom M. Maria Glymour has collaborated are:

  • Rachel A. Whitmer
  • Elizabeth Rose Mayeda
  • Paola Gilsanz
  • Dan Mungas
  • Sarah F. Ackley

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Mendelian randomization," 2022, published in Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • "Guidelines for performing Mendelian randomization investigations," 2020, published in Wellcome Open Research
  • "Education and Cognitive Functioning Across the Life Span," 2020, published in Gothic.net
  • "Guidelines for performing Mendelian randomization investigations: update for summer 2023," 2023, published in Wellcome Open Research
  • "Tutorial on directed acyclic graphs," 2021, published in Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for performing Mendelian randomization investigations.

    Stephen Burgess;George Davey Smith;Neil M Davies;Frank Dudbridge

  • Education and Cognitive Functioning Across the Life Span.

    Martin Lövdén;Martin Lövdén;Laura Fratiglioni;M Maria Glymour;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Inequalities in dementia incidence between six racial and ethnic groups over 14 years

    Elizabeth Rose Mayeda;M.Maria Glymour;Charles P. Quesenberry;Rachel A. Whitmer;Rachel A. Whitmer

  • When Is Baseline Adjustment Useful in Analyses of Change? An Example with Education and Cognitive Change

    M. Maria Glymour;Jennifer Weuve;Lisa F. Berkman;Ichiro Kawachi

  • Addressing Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequalities.

    Nancy E. Adler;M. Maria Glymour;Jonathan Fielding

  • Effects of Social Integration on Preserving Memory Function in a Nationally Representative US Elderly Population

    Karen A. Ertel;M. Maria Glymour;Lisa F. Berkman

  • 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

  • Lifecourse Social Conditions and Racial and Ethnic Patterns of Cognitive Aging

    M. Maria Glymour;M. Maria Glymour;Jennifer J. Manly

  • Loneliness, depression and cognitive function in older U.S. adults

    Nancy J. Donovan;Qiong Wu;Dorene M. Rentz;Dorene M. Rentz;Reisa A. Sperling;Reisa A. Sperling

  • Conceptual and Measurement Challenges in Research on Cognitive Reserve

    Richard N. Jones;Jennifer Manly;M. Maria Glymour;Dorene M. Rentz

  • Association Between Persistent Pain and Memory Decline and Dementia in a Longitudinal Cohort of Elders.

    Elizabeth L. Whitlock;L. Grisell Diaz-Ramirez;M. Maria Glymour;W. John Boscardin

  • Contribution of vascular risk factors to the progression in Alzheimer disease.

    Elizabeth P. Helzner;José A. Luchsinger;Nikolaos Scarmeas;Stephanie Cosentino

  • Education Does Not Slow Cognitive Decline with Aging: 12-Year Evidence from the Victoria Longitudinal Study

    Laura B. Zahodne;M. Maria Glymour;Catharine Sparks;Daniel Bontempo

  • Addressing Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities: A Vital Direction for Health and Health Care

    Nancy E. Adler;David M. Cutler;Jonathan E. Fielding

  • Credible Mendelian Randomization Studies: Approaches for Evaluating the Instrumental Variable Assumptions

    M. Maria Glymour;Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen;James M. Robins

  • Health Disadvantage in US Adults Aged 50 to 74 Years: A Comparison of the Health of Rich and Poor Americans With That of Europeans

    Mauricio Avendano;M. Maria Glymour;James Banks;Johann P. Mackenbach

  • Tutorial on directed acyclic graphs.

    Jean C. Digitale;Jeffrey N. Martin;Medellena Maria Glymour

  • Socioeconomic Outcomes of Women Who Receive and Women Who Are Denied Wanted Abortions in the United States.

    Diana Greene Foster;M. Antonia Biggs;Lauren Ralph;Caitlin Gerdts

  • The Role of Early-Life Educational Quality and Literacy in Explaining Racial Disparities in Cognition in Late Life

    Shannon Sisco;Alden L. Gross;Regina A. Shih;Bonnie C. Sachs

  • Association among socioeconomic status, health behaviors, and all-cause mortality in the United States.

    Arijit Nandi;M. Maria Glymour;S. V. Subramanian

  • APOE ε4 allele predicts faster cognitive decline in mild Alzheimer disease

    Stephanie Cosentino;Nikolaos Scarmeas;Elizabeth P. Helzner;M. Maria Glymour

Frequent Co-Authors

Lisa F. Berkman
Lisa F. Berkman Harvard University
Dan M Mungas
Dan M Mungas University of California, Davis
Mauricio Avendano
Mauricio Avendano King's College London
Jennifer J. Manly
Jennifer J. Manly Columbia University
Charles DeCarli
Charles DeCarli University of California, Davis
Laura D. Kubzansky
Laura D. Kubzansky Harvard University
Kristine Yaffe
Kristine Yaffe University of California, San Francisco
Karestan C. Koenen
Karestan C. Koenen Harvard University
Theresa L. Osypuk
Theresa L. Osypuk University of Minnesota
David H. Rehkopf
David H. Rehkopf Stanford University

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