Jennifer Weuve

epidemiologist of aging, environmental health, and Prince

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No clear secular trend in dementia incidence in a population of older black and white adults.

Rajan KB, Weuve J, Barnes LL, Wilson RS, Evans DA. Prevalence and incidence of clinically diagnosed Alzheimer's disease dementia from 1994 to 2012 in a population study. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2019 Jan;15(1):1-7.

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Measuring success of IVF: what happens when we adjust for drop-out?

Modest AM, Wise LA, Fox MP, Weuve J, Penzias A, Hacker MR. IVF success corrected for drop-out: use of inverse probability weighting. Human Reproduction 2018 Dec 1;33(12):2295-2301.

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Perceived stress and fecundibility

Wesselink AK, Hatch EE, Rothman KJ, Weuve J, Aschengrau A, Song RJ, Wise LA. Perceived stress and fecundability: a preconception cohort study of North American couples. American Journal of Epidemiology 2018 Dec;187(12):2662–2671.

AJE Editor’s Choice

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Validation of XRF measurements of Pb and Mn in toenail clippings against ICP-MS

Specht A, Kponee K, Nkpaa K, Balcom P, Weuve J, Nie L, Weisskopf M. Validation of x-ray fluorescence measurements of metals in toenail clippings against inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry in a Nigerian population. Physiological Measurement 2018 Aug 31;39(8):085007.

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State of the science on air pollution’s role in cognitive decline and dementia risk.

Power MC, Adar SD, Yanosky JD, Weuve J.   Exposure to air pollution as a potential contributor to cognitive function, cognitive decline, brain imaging, and dementia: A systematic review of epidemiologic research. NeuroToxicology. 2016 Sep;56:235-253.

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How much variety is in your social network, and does that affect how you age?

Ali T, Nilsson CJ, Weuve J, Rajan KB, Mendes de Leon CF. Effects of social network diversity on mortality, cognition and physical function in the elderly: a longitudinal analysis of the Chicago Health and Aging Project (CHAP). J Epidemiol Community Health 2018 Nov;72(11):990-996.

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Checks for non-random bias in the high-precision world of collaborative science

Weuve J, Sagiv SK, Fox MP. Quantitative bias analysis for collaborative science. Epidemiology 2018 Sep;29(5):627-630.

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Taking measure of cognitive activity and dementia risk: balancing skepticism and joy

Blacker D, Weuve J. Brain exercise and brain outcomes. JAMA Psychiatry  2018 Jul 1;75(7):703-704.

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Blood pressure’s association with dementia risk: depends on APOE4 and hypertension treatment and APOE4

Rajan KB, Barnes LL, Wilson RS, Weuve J, McAninch EA, Evans DA. Blood pressure and risk of incident Alzheimer's disease dementia by antihypertensive medications and APOE ε4 allele. Ann Neurol. 2018 May;83(5):935-944.

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Racial disparities in cognitive aging

Weuve J, Barnes LL, Mendes de Leon CF, Rajan KB, Beck T, Aggarwal NT, Hebert LE, Bennett DA, Wilson RS, Evans DA. Cognitive aging in black and white Americans: Cognition, cognitive decline, and Alzheimer disease incidence in a population-based study. Epidemiology 2018 Jan;29(1):151-159.

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Education Can Narrow Racial Disparities in Alzheimer’s (Boston University School of Public Health )

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Selenium’s association with MCI conversion to dementia is species-specific.

Vinceti M, Chiari A, Eichmüller M, Rothman KJ, Filippini T, Malagoli C, Weuve J, Tondelli M, Zamboni G, Nichelli PF, Michalke B. A selenium species in cerebrospinal fluid predicts conversion to Alzheimer’s disease in persons with mild cognitive impairment. Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2017 Dec 19;9(1):100.

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Cognitive performance in older adults has not clearly improved over time.

Weuve J, Rajan KB, Barnes LL, Wilson RS, Evans DA. Secular trends in cognitive performance in older black and white US adults, 1993-2012: Findings from the Chicago Health and Aging Project. The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 2018 Apr 16;73(suppl_1):S73-S81.

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How aware are we of our memory deficits when we have dementia?

Wilson RS, Barnes LL, Rajan KB, Boyle P, Sytsma J, Weuve J, Evans DA. Antecedents and consequences of unawareness of memory impairment in dementia. Neuropsychology 2018 Nov;32(8):931-940.

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A new method for measuring manganese and mercury in toenail -- without clippings.

Zhang X, Specht AJ, Weisskopf MG, Weuve J, Nie LH. Quantification of manganese and mercury in toenail in vivo using portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF). Biomarkers. 2018 Mar;23(2):154-160.

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In a convenience sample of football players, most had evidence of CTE in their brains.

Mez J*, Daneshvar DH*, Kiernan PT*, Abdolmohammadi B, Alvarez VE, Huber BR, Alosco ML, Solomon TM, Nowinski CJ, McHale L, Cormier KA, Kubilus CA, Martin BM, Murphy L, Baugh CM, Montenigro PH, Chaisson CE, Tripodis Y, Kowall NW, Weuve J, McClean MD, Cantu RC, Goldstein LE, Katz DI, Stern RA, Stein TD, McKee AC. *Co-first authors. Clinicopathological evaluation of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in players of American football. JAMA. 2017;318(4):360-370.

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Evidence of CTE Found in Brains of Deceased Football Players (Boston University School of Public Health)

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Environmental epidemiology: into the future

Tonne C, Basagaña X, Chaix B, Huynen M, Hystad P, Nawrot TS, Slama R, Vermeulen R, Weuve J, Nieuwenhuijsen M. New frontiers for environmental epidemiology in a changing world. Environment International. 2017 Jul;104:155-162.