Ongoing projects

All NEAR projects are based on at least two or more databases within NEAR. Below is a list of the ongoing projects.

1. Physical function before death – Linda Enroth, University of Tampere, Finland
2. Medications’ effects on trajectories of biological age – Sara Hägg, Karolinska Institutet 
3. Simul-Age – Björn Slaug, Lund University
4. The effect of exclusion from social relations  – Andreas Motel-Klingebiel and George Pavlidis, Linköping University
5. A metric for global brain integrity  – Lars Nyberg, Umeå University
6. Cohort differences in dementia risk factors – Scott Hofer, VA Pacific Islands Health Care System and Pacific Health Research and Education Institute.
7. Sleep disturbances and MRI – Shireen Sindi, Karolinska Institutet
8. Birth cohort differences in the body mass index (BMI)-mortality association – Anna Dahl Aslan, University of Skövde
9. Stress and cognitive and physical function – Ingemar Kåreholt, Jönköping University
10. Aging frailty and cardiovascular risk – Francesca Leva, University of Milan
11. Green brain: Investigating the role of green-blue space for neurocognitive status – Cecilia Stenfors
12. Sex-specific differences, inflammation, late-life depression – Ingmar Skoog, University of Gothenburg
13. Role of physical health conditions for terminal decline in well-being – Denis Gerstorf, Humboldt University of Berlin 
14. Sleep, cognition and pain – Anders Behrens, Blekinge Institute of Technology
15. Care in people with dementia – Weili Xu, Karolinska Institutet
16. Trajectories of care needs – Davide Vetrano, Karolinska Institutet
17. Smell and depression – Ingrid Ekström, Karolinska Institutet
18. Personality traits and biomarkers of cognitive disorders – Robert Sigström, University of Gothenburg
19. BMI and frailty index – Alessandra Marengoni, Brescia University
20. Herpes and cognitive decline – Pascal Geldsetzer, Stanford University
21. Intergenerational differences in cognitive trajectories: role of cardiovascular health and cognitive reserve – Giulia Grande, Karolinska Institutet  
22. Nutritional status among very old adults in urban and rural areas in Sweden – Birgitta Olofsson, Umeå University
23. Dietary patterns and malnutrition in older adults: a multicohort study – Adrián Carballo Casla, Karolinska Institutet
24. Validation of the Health Assessment Tool (HAT) in the Swedish National Study on Aging (SNAC), Part II, Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga, Karolinska Institutet
25. Old-age depression: Temporal and regional differences and their implications for treatment and healthcare utilization patterns in old age – Serhiy Dekhtyar, Karolinska Institutet
26. Low and Declining Risk-factors preceding Dementia (LODERID) study – Jan Willem van Dalen, Radboud University Medical Center
27. Validation of dementia diagnosis – Debora Rizzuto, Karolinska Institute
28. Identifying Falls Risk Factors in Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment: Toward Targeted Prevention Strategies – Anna-Karin Welmer, Karolinska Institutet
29. An investigation into the use of Swedish snus and its association with cognition and dementia – Manasa Shanta Näsholm, Karolinska Institutet
30. Female-specific factors, biological and neuroimaging correlates, and the risk of dementia – Jessica Gong, University College London
31. Development of Predictive Models for Dementia and COPD Using AI and Longitudinal Data – Ana Luiza Dallora Moraes, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola
32. Transforming Care for Older Adults with Cardiometabolic and Cognitive Multimorbidity: Person-Centred, Integrated, and Action-Oriented Approaches for Real-World Complexity – Weili Xu, Karolinska Institutet
33. Sex disparities in social health, resilience, and cognition across the life course: the interplay between biological and sociocultural aspects – Anna Marseglia, Karolinska Institutet
34. Artificial intelligence (AI) and dementia – Ashir Javeed, Blekinge Institute of Technology
35. Diabetes and cognitive trajectories – Francesca Remelli, Università degli studi di Ferrara
36. Sleep Health of Older Adults in Home Care – Sandra Öberg, Jönköping University
37. Evaluating Missing data imputation methods with application to disease risk prediction – Rani Basna, Lund University
38. Appetite Loss and Its Association with Dietary Intake, Nutrient Status, and Functional Outcomes in Older Adults – Annelie Turesson, Uppsala University
39. Transportability of missing data models across study sites for research synthesis – Robert Thiesmeier, Karolinska Institutet
40. Statistical approaches for systematically missing covariates in individual participant data meta-analysis using 5 large cardiovascular trials – Nicola Orsini, Karolinska Institutet
41. Robust Imputation of Missing Lactate Measurements in Cardiogenic Shock Research – Robert Thiesmeier, Karolinska Institutet
42. Intermittent Observation and Time‑to‑Event Analyses in Aging and Epidemiological Research – Caterina Gregorio, Karolinska Institutet
43. Hidden multistate models to study multimorbidity trajectories – Caterina Gregorio, Karolinska Institutet
44. STREAMS: Semi-supervised Trajectory Reconstruction Across Interval Censored Multi-State Models – Caterina Gregorio, Karolinska Institutet
45. Methods for Single and Multilayer Network Analysis for Biomedical Research: The MixMashNet R package – Caterina Gregorio, Karolinska Institutet
46. Quality of Life Among Older Adults Participating in Organized Exercise – Mattias Forsblad, Linköping University
47. Error pattern analysis to enhance the predictive power of olfactory and cognitive tests – Jonas Olofsson, Stockholm University
48. Interplay between allostatic load and sleep in brain aging: separate and interactive associations – Jasper Holleman, Karolinska Institutet