Publications
Latest Publications
October 2024
Aretz, Benjamin; Doblhammer, Gabriele & Heneka, Michael T. (2024): The role of leukocytes in cognitive impairment due to long‐term exposure to fine particulate matter: A large population‐based mediation analysis. Alzheimer's & Dementia. DOI: 10.1002/alz.14320
September 2024
Reinke, Constantin (2024): The effect of diabetes in the multifaceted relationship between education and cognitive function. BMC Public Health, 24 (1), 2584. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-024-20156-x
August 2024
Georges, Daniela; Kreft, Daniel & Doblhammer, Gabriele (2024): Coronary artery bypass grafting vs. drug-eluting stent implantation: the probabilities of reintervention, transition to severe care-need, nursing home, and death in patients with coronary artery disease within the first three years: evaluations based on health claims data in Germany. Journal of thoracic disease, 16(8), 4863-4874. DOI: 10.21037/jtd-24-251
June 2024
Frentz-Göllnitz, Max; Remund, Adrien; Harmsen, Carel; Stoeldraijer, Lenny; van der Toorn, Janine; Doblhammer, Gabriele & Janssen, Fanny (2024): Contributions of causes of death to differentials in life expectancy by internal migrant status in the Netherlands. A population register based study, 2015-2019. SSM-Population Health, DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2024.101690
May 2024
Doblhammer, Gabriele; Spéder, Zsolt (Editors) (2024): Demographic Developments in Eastern and Western Europe Before and After the Transformation of Socialist Countries. Comparative Population Studies, Special Issues Vol. 49
Doblhammer, Gabriele; Spéder, Zsolt (2024): Editorial on the Special Issue “Demographic Developments in Eastern and Western Europe Before and After the Transformation of Socialist Countries”. Comparative Population Studies, Vol. 49, 117-140. DOI: 10.12765/CPoS-2024-05
April 2024
Holtz, Anna V.; Fink, Anne; Tamgüney, Gültekin; Doblhammer, Gabriele (2024): Colonoscopy and Subsequent Risk of Parkinson’s Disease. Journal of Parkinson's Disease, (Preprint), 1-14. DOI: 10.3233/JPD-240017
Georges, Daniela; Doblhammer, Gabriele (2024): Älter und diverser: Demografische Entwicklungen in Deutschland und ihre Herausforderungen für die Gesundheitsversorgung und Pflege. In: Bauer, J.; Becker, C.; Denkinger, M.; Wirth, R. (Hg.): Geriatrie: Das gesamte Spektrum der Altersmedizin für Klinik und Praxis. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
March 2024
Weißbach, Rafael; Radloff, Lucas; Reinke, Constantin; Doblhammer, Gabriele (2024): A powerful nonparametric test of the effect of dementia duration on mortality. In: Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 1–33. DOI: 10.1080/10485252.2024.2320128
December 2023
Fink, Anne; Reinke, Constantin; Aretz, Benjamin; Doblhammer, Gabriele (2023): Can physical activity moderate the relation between systemic inflammation and cognitive performance in an elderly community dwelling population?. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 19 (Suppl. 23), e076099. DOI: 10.1002/alz.076099
Reinke, Constantin; Aretz, Benjamin; Fink, Anne; Doblhammer, Gabriele (2023): The mediating effect of HbA1c levels on the relationship between education and cognitive function. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 19 (Suppl. 22), e076162. DOI: 10.1002/alz.076162
Fink, Anne; Dodel, Richard; Georges, Daniela; Doblhammer, Gabriele (2023): The impact of gender‐specific survival on the incidence of dementia in Parkinson’s disease‐A cohort analysis of Parkinson’s disease patients in German health claims data for the years 2006 to 2017. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 19 (Suppl. 22), e076065. DOI: 10.1002/alz.076065
Rakusa, Elena; Reinke, Constantin; Doblhammer, Gabriele; Schmid, Matthias; Welchowski, Thomas (2023): Is a dementia diagnosis predictive for palliative care?‐A machine learning approach. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 19 (Suppl. 23), e076133. DOI: 10.1002/alz.076133
October 2023
Georges, Daniela; Doblhammer, Gabriele (2023): Informal care and mental health in Germany: What are the differences between non-migrants and ethnic German immigrants? A longitudinal comparative analysis. In: Aging & Mental Health 28 (3), S. 1-12. DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2023.2271866
September 2023
Georges, Daniela; Rakusa, Elena; Holtz, Anna V.; Fink, Anne; Doblhammer, Gabriele (2023): Demenzerkrankungen in Deutschland: Epidemiologie, Trends und Herausforderungen. Journal of Health Monitoring 8(3). Robert Koch-Institut, 32-52. DOI: 10.25646/11566
Fink, Anne; Dodel, Richard; Georges, Daniela; Doblhammer, Gabriele (2023): The Impact of Sex‐Specific Survival on the Incidence of Dementia in Parkinson's Disease. Movement Disorders. DOI: 10.1002/mds.29596
July 2023
Fink, Anne; Pavlou, Maria; Roomp, Kirsten; Doblhammer, Gabriele; Schneider, Jochen G. (2023): Unraveling the Decline: Search for Factors Behind the Trend in Parkinson’s Disease Incidence Rates – A Cohort Study of German Health Claims Data. medRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.29.23291993
May 2023
Rakuša, Elena; Fink, Anne; Tamgüney, Gültekin; Heneka, Michael; Doblhammer, Gabriele (2023): Sporadic Use of Antibiotics in Older Adults and the Risk of Dementia: A Nested Case-Control Study Based on German Health Claims Data. Journal of Alzheimer's disease 93(4), 1329 – 1339. DOI: 10.3233/JAD-221153
Jahreis, Kathrin; Brüge, Alina; Borsdorf, Saskia; Fink, Anne et al. (2023): Amisulpride as a potential disease-modifying drug in the treatment of tauopathies. Alzheimer’s Dement. 2023, 1-16. DOI: 10.1002/alz.13090
March 2023
Eisemann, N.; Schnoor, M.; Rakusa, E.; Braren-von Stülpnagel, C. C.; Katalinic; Ludwig, M. ; Sonntag, B. ; Ludwig, A. K. ; Elsner, S. A. (2023): Psychosocial health and quality of life in ICSI and naturally conceived adolescents: a cross-sectional comparison. Quality of life research 32(8), 2223-2234. DOI: 10.1007/s11136-023-03382-5
February 2023
Potts, Sophie; Bergherr, Elisabeth; Reinke, Constantin; Griesbach, Colin (2023): Prediction-based Variable Selection for Component-wise Gradient Boosting. arXiv preprint. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2302.13822
Weißbach, Rafael; Dörre, Achim; Wied, Dominik; Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele ; Fink, Anne (2023): Left-truncated health insurance claims data: theoretical review and empirical application. Advances in statistical analysis Advance online publication, 1-38. DOI: 10.1007/s10182-023-00471-1
December 2022
Aretz, Benjamin; Costa, Rafael; Doblhammer, Gabriele; Janssen, Fanny (2022): The association of unhealthy and healthy food store accessibility with obesity prevalence among adults in the Netherlands: A spatial analysis. In: SSM-Population Health, 101332. DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101332
October 2022
Nestler, Sophia; Kreft, Daniel; Donndorf, Peter; Ince, Hüseyin; Doblhammer, Gabriele (2022): Stents versus bypass surgery: 3-year mortality risk of patients with coronary interventions aged 50+ in Germany. In: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 17 (1), S. 1-8. DOI: 10.1186/s13019-022-02014-2
May 2022
Westphal, Christina; Doblhammer, Gabriele (2022): Chancen für gesundes Altern: eine Lebenslaufperspektive auf Demenzen und Sterblichkeit. In: Andrea et al. Teti (Hg.): Wohnen und Gesundheit im Alter: Springer, S. 11–29. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-34386-6_2.
Doblhammer, Gabriele; Fritze, Thomas; Reinke, Constantin; Fink, Anne (2022b): Can dementia become the most prevalent disease at the time of death in Germany? Projections up to the year 2060 for the five most important diseases at the time of death. In: Journal of Population Ageing, S. 1–18. DOI: 10.1007/s12062-022-09365-7.
April 2022
Fink, Anne; Doerre, Achim; Demuth, Ilja; Doblhammer, Gabriele: Potential of prevention strategies for the modifiable risk factor type 2 diabetes with relation to the future number of dementia patients in Germany– a multi-state projection through 2040. BMC Neurol 22, 157 (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12883-022-02682-6
Reinke, Constantin; Doblhammer, Gabriele; Schmid, Matthias; Welchowski, Thomas: Dementia risk predictions from German claims data using methods of machine learning. In: Alzheimer's & Dementia (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.12663
March 2022
Grigoriev, Olga; Doblhammer, Gabriele: Does the Mortality of Individuals with Severe Disabilities Contribute to the Persistent East–West Mortality Gap Among German Men?. European Journal of Population (2022): 1-25. DOI: 10.1007/s10680-022-09609-4.
Kreft, Daniel; Doblhammer, Gabriele: Sex and Gender Differences in Environmental Influences on Dementia Incidence in Germany, 2014–2019: An Observational Cohort Study Based on Health Claims Data. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease Preprint (2022): 1-15. DOI: 10.3233/JAD-215030.
February 2022
Benjamin Aretz: The short- and long-term effects of the Great Recession on late-life depression in Europe: The role of area deprivation, Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 294, 2022, 114697. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114697.
Doblhammer, Gabriele; Reinke, Constantin; Kreft, Daniel: Social disparities in the first wave of COVID-19 incidence rates in Germany: a county-scale explainable machine learning approach BMJ Open 2022;12:e049852. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-049852.
January 2022
Georges, Daniela: The effect of informal caregiving on physical health among non-migrants and Ethnic German Immigrants in Germany: a cohort analysis based on the GSOEP 2000–2018. BMC Public Health 22, 121 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-12550-0.
Fink, Anne; Hermann Andreas, Günster Christian; Doblhammer Gabriele: Influenza vaccination in patients with dementia and Parkinson’s disease—an analysis of routine health insurance data for the years 2014–2019. Dtsch Arztebl Int 2022; 119: 66–7. DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.m2022.0101.
Nestler, Sophia; Kreft, Daniel; Doblhammer, Gabriele, Guthoff, Rudolf: Frech, Stephanie: Progression to severe visual impairment and blindness in POAG patients: pace and risk factors—a cohort study using German health claims data. BMJ Open Ophthalmology 2022;7:e000838. doi:10.1136/ bmjophth-2021-000838.
December 2021
Reinke, Constantin; Buchmann, Nikolaus; Fink, Anne; Tegeler, Christina; Demuth, Ilja; Doblhammer, Gabriele: Diabetes duration and the risk of dementia: a cohort study based on German health claims data. Age and ageing, 2021. DOI:10.1093/ageing/afab231.
October 2021
Doblhammer, Gabriele; Kreft, Daniel; Reinke, Constantin: Regional Characteristics of the Second Wave of SARS-CoV-2 Infections and COVID-19 Deaths in Germany. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 10663. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010663.