Ongoing projects

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. Health Assessment Tool (HAT) validation – Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga, Karolinska Institutet
  2. Physical function before death – Linda Enroth, University of Tampere, Finland
  3. Life-course determinants of health status in the elderly – Debora Rizzuto, Karolinska Institutet
  4. Medications effects on trajectories of biological age – Sara Hägg, Karolinska Institutet 
  5. Simul-Age – Björn Slaug, Lund University
  6. The effect of exclusion from social relations  – Andreas Motel-Klingebiel and George Pavlidis, Linköping University
  7. Sleep disturbances, physical and cognitive frailty, and physical function Shireen Sindi and Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga, Karolinska Institutet, and Laura Monica Perez, Vall d’Hebrón Institut de Recerca (VHIR), Barcelona
  8. A metric for global brain integrity  – Lars Nyberg, Umeå University
  9. Cohort differences in dementia risk factors in Sweden – Scott Hofer and Giulia Grande, Karolinska Institutet
  10. Sleep disturbances and MRI – Shireen Sindi, Karolinska Institutet
  11. Birth cohort differences in the body mass index (BMI)-mortality association – Anna Dahl Aslan, University of Skövde
  12. Stress and cognitive and physical function – Ingemar Kåreholt, Jönköping University
  13. Long-term prediction of dementia – Johan Sanmartin Berglund, Blekinge Institute of Technology
  14. Aging frailty and cardiovascular risk – Francesca Leva, University of Milan
  15. Sex-specific differences, inflammation, late-life depression – Ingmar Skoog, University of Gothenburg
  16. Trends in prevalence of dementia – Chengxuan Qiu, Karolinska Institutet
  17. Noise and mental health – Debora Rizzuto, Karolinska Institutet
  18. Trajectories of care needs – Davide Vetrano, Karolinska Institutet
  19. Trends in dementia incidence and MCI – Giulia Grande, Karolinska Institutet
  20. Care in people with dementia – Weili Xu, Karolinska Institutet
  21. Systematic missing data – Nicola Orsini, Karolinska Institutet
  22. Sleep, cognition and pain – Anders Behrens, Blekinge Institute of Technology
  23. The role of physical health conditions for terminal decline in well-being – Denis Gerstorf, Humboldt University of Berlin 
  24. Artificial intelligence (AI) and sleep apnea – Ashir Javeed, Blekinge Institute of Technology
  25. Artificial intelligence (AI) and cancer – Ashir Javeed, Blekinge Institute of Technology
  26. Smell and depression – Ingrid Ekström, Karolinska Institutet
  27. Personality traits and biomarkers of cognitive disorders – Robert Sigström, University of Gothenburg
  28. BMI and frailty index – Alessandra Marengoni, Brescia University
  29. Herpes and cognitive decline – Pascal Geldsetzer, Stanford University
  30. Intergenerational differences in cognitive trajectories: role of cardiovascular health and cognitive reserve – Giulia Grande, Karolinska Institutet