Educational Attainment and Dementia: Mediation by Mid-Life Vascular Risk Factors.
Liu C, Ma Y, Hofman A, Waziry R, Koton S, Pike JR, Windham BG, Power MC, Sharrett AR, Gottesman RF.
Ann Neurol. 2023 07. 94(1):13-26. PMID: 36966451
Primary Faculty
Albert Hofman
Stephen B. Kay Family Professor of Public Health and Clinical Epidemiology
Epidemiology
Other Positions
Chair, Department of Epidemiology
Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Overview
Albert Hofman, MD, PhD is the Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and the Stephen B. Kay Family Professor of Public Health and Clinical Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts (USA). Dr. Hofman was the chairman of the department of Epidemiology of the Erasmus Medical Center/Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, from 1988 until 2016. He has been science director of the graduate school Netherlands Institute for Health sciences (Nihes) since its start in 1990 until 2015.
Bibliography
Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease and Cognitive Decline with Diet and Lifestyle: Proceedings of the A. G. Leventis Foundation Conference.
Hershey MS, Sotos-Prieto M, Andrieu S, Hofman A, Magiatis P, Martinez-Gonzalez MA, Yannakoulia M, Kales S, Scarmeas N.
J Prev Alzheimers Dis. 2023. 10(1):137-143. PMID: 36641619
On my critical understandings about 'modern epidemiology'.
Miettinen OS.
Eur J Epidemiol. 2022 Dec 10. PMID: 36495357
Miettinen revisited: Causal and preventive interdependence. Elementary principles. Scan J Work Environ Health 1982;8:168.
Smith GD, Hofman A.
Eur J Epidemiol. 2022 Dec 07. PMID: 36477575
Dementia Risk Following Ischemic Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Factors Collected at Time of Stroke Diagnosis.
Waziry R, Claus JJ, Hofman A.
J Alzheimers Dis. 2022 Oct 20. PMID: 36278345
Association of Long-Term Body Weight Variability With Dementia: A Prospective Study.
Chen H, Zhou T, Guo J, Ji JS, Huang L, Xu W, Zuo G, Lv X, Zheng Y, Hofman A, Ma Y, Yuan C.
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2022 10 06. 77(10):2116-2122. PMID: 34908120
Whole-exome sequencing of 14?389 individuals from the ESP and CHARGE consortia identifies novel rare variation associated with hemostatic factors.
Pankratz N, Wei P, Brody JA, Chen MH, de Vries PS, Huffman JE, Stimson MR, Auer PL, Boerwinkle E, Cushman M, de Maat MPM, Folsom AR, Franco OH, Gibbs RA, Haagenson KK, Hofman A, Johnsen JM, Kovar CL, Kraaij R, McKnight B, Metcalf GA, Muzny D, Psaty BM, Tang W, Uitterlinden AG, van Rooij JGJ, Dehghan A, O'Donnell CJ, Reiner AP, Morrison AC, Smith NL.
Hum Mol Genet. 2022 09 10. 31(18):3120-3132. PMID: 35552711
Biological Aging for Risk Prediction of First-Ever Intracerebral Hemorrhage and Cerebral Infarction in Advanced Age.
Waziry R, Hofman A, Ghanbari M, Tiemeier H, Ikram MA, Viswanathan A, Klap J, Ikram MK, Goudsmit J.
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2022 Aug. 31(8):106568. PMID: 35749936
APOE e4 and late-life cognition: mediation by structural brain imaging markers.
Ma Y, Sajeev G, VanderWeele TJ, Viswanathan A, Sigurdsson S, Eiriksdottir G, Aspelund T, Betensky RA, Grodstein F, Hofman A, Gudnason V, Launer L, Blacker D.
Eur J Epidemiol. 2022 Jun. 37(6):591-601. PMID: 35471691
Associations of carotid intima media thickness with gene expression in whole blood and genetically predicted gene expression across 48 tissues.
Castaneda AB, Petty LE, Scholz M, Jansen R, Weiss S, Zhang X, Schramm K, Beutner F, Kirsten H, Schminke U, Hwang SJ, Marzi C, Dhana K, Seldenrijk A, Krohn K, Homuth G, Wolf P, Peters MJ, Dörr M, Peters A, van Meurs JBJ, Uitterlinden AG, Kavousi M, Levy D, Herder C, van Grootheest G, Waldenberger M, Meisinger C, Rathmann W, Thiery J, Polak J, Koenig W, Seissler J, Bis JC, Franceshini N, Giambartolomei C, Hofman A, Franco OH, Penninx BWJH, Prokisch H, Völzke H, Loeffler M, O'Donnell CJ, Below JE, Dehghan A, de Vries PS.
Hum Mol Genet. 2022 03 31. 31(7):1171-1182. PMID: 34788810
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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine announce collaborative program in clinical research
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Epidemiologist Albert Hofman knighted by the Netherlands
Albert Hofman, chair of Harvard Chan School's Department of Epidemiology, has been named a Knight of the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands for exceptional service to the community.
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