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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2016 - Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease

Overview

Miia Kivipelto is affiliated with the University of Eastern Finland in Finland and has a research focus primarily in the field of Medicine. Their work spans several important subfields including Psychiatry and Mental Health, Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Geriatrics and Gerontology, as well as Economics and Econometrics.

Their research topics include:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Frailty in Older Adults
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Health Disparities and Outcomes
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging

Significant recent papers authored by Kivipelto or their close collaborators cover a diverse range of issues related to aging, cognitive decline, and the impact of COVID-19. Notable examples include:

  • The potential long-term impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on patients with non-communicable diseases in Europe: consequences for healthy ageing, 2020, Aging Clinical and Experimental Research
  • Changes in cognitive functioning after COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2022, Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Multidomain Interventions to Prevent Cognitive Impairment, Alzheimer's Disease, and Dementia: From FINGER to World-Wide FINGERS, 2020, The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease
  • Age, Frailty, and Comorbidity as Prognostic Factors for Short-Term Outcomes in Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Geriatric Care, 2020, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
  • Tackling challenges in care of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias amid the COVID-19 pandemic, now and in the future, 2020, Alzheimer's & Dementia

Kivipelto frequently collaborates with a consistent group of co-authors, including:

  • Alina Solomon
  • Tiia Ngandu
  • Hilkka Soininen
  • Francesca Mangialasche
  • Jenni Lehtisalo

Their work appears regularly in several specialized publication venues, with the highest concentrations of publications in these journals:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease
  • Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Kivipelto's research has been recognized by awards such as the Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease, received in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H Ross Anderson;Victoria F Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Theo Vos;Ryan M. Barber;Brad Bell;Amelia Bertozzi-Villa

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohsen Naghavi;Haidong Wang;Rafael Lozano;Adrian Davis

  • 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

  • A 2 year multidomain intervention of diet, exercise, cognitive training, and vascular risk monitoring versus control to prevent cognitive decline in at-risk elderly people (FINGER): a randomised controlled trial

    Tiia Ngandu;Tiia Ngandu;Jenni Lehtisalo;Alina Solomon;Alina Solomon;Esko Levälahti

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H. Ross Anderson;Victoria F. Bachman

  • Midlife vascular risk factors and Alzheimer's disease in later life: longitudinal, population based study.

    Miia Kivipelto;Eeva-Liisa Helkala;Mikko P Laakso;Tuomo Hänninen

  • Preclinical Alzheimer's disease: Definition, natural history, and diagnostic criteria.

    Bruno Dubois;Harald Hampel;Harald Hampel;Howard H. Feldman;Philip Scheltens

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 315 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE), 1990-2015 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Nicholas J. Kassebaum;Megha Arora;Ryan M. Barber;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta

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

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

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013 : quantifying the epidemiological transition

    Christopher J. L. Murray;Ryan M. Barber;Kyle J. Foreman;Ayse Abbasoglu Ozgoren

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

    Miia Kivipelto;Tiia Ngandu;Laura Fratiglioni;Matti Viitanen

  • Alzheimer's disease: clinical trials and drug development

    Francesca Mangialasche;Francesca Mangialasche;Alina Solomon;Alina Solomon;Bengt Winblad;Patrizia Mecocci

  • Leisure-time physical activity at midlife and the risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease

    Suvi Rovio;Ingemar Kåreholt;Eeva-Liisa Helkala;Matti Viitanen

  • Epidemiology of Alzheimer's disease: occurrence, determinants, and strategies toward intervention

    Chengxuan Qiu;Miia Kivipelto;Eva von Strauss

  • Global, regional, and national levels of maternal mortality, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Nicholas J. Kassebaum;Ryan M. Barber;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta;Lalit Dandona;Lalit Dandona

  • Nonpharmacological therapies in Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review of efficacy

    Javier Olazarán;Barry Reisberg;Linda Clare;Isabel Cruz

  • Risk score for the prediction of dementia risk in 20 years among middle aged people: a longitudinal, population-based study.

    Miia Kivipelto;Miia Kivipelto;Miia Kivipelto;Tiia Ngandu;Tiia Ngandu;Tiina Laatikainen;Bengt Winblad;Bengt Winblad

  • Midlife vascular risk factors and late-life mild cognitive impairment: A population-based study

    M. Kivipelto;E.-L. Helkala;T. Hänninen;M. P. Laakso

  • Lifestyle interventions to prevent cognitive impairment, dementia and Alzheimer disease.

    Miia Kivipelto;Francesca Mangialasche;Tiia Ngandu;Tiia Ngandu

Frequent Co-Authors

Hilkka Soininen
Hilkka Soininen University of Eastern Finland
Tiina Laatikainen
Tiina Laatikainen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Jaakko Tuomilehto
Jaakko Tuomilehto University of Helsinki
Timo E. Strandberg
Timo E. Strandberg University of Helsinki
Ingemar Kåreholt
Ingemar Kåreholt Karolinska Institute
Bengt Winblad
Bengt Winblad Karolinska Institute
Aulikki Nissinen
Aulikki Nissinen National Institutes of Health
Markku Peltonen
Markku Peltonen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Laura Fratiglioni
Laura Fratiglioni Karolinska Institute
Sandrine Andrieu
Sandrine Andrieu Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

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