Eileen Crimmins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3811041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eileen Crimmins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eileen |
| FAMILY NAME | Crimmins |
| SIGNATURE | CRIMMINS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 322 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Prevalence and causes of anemia among older adults in India: Findings from wave 2 of the Harmonized Diagnostic Assessment of Dementia for the Longitudinal Aging Study in India (Lasi-DAD)
Anemia among older adults aged ≥ 60 years is a well-described risk factor that increases the risk of falls, cardiovascular diseases, and mortality. In India, objectively measured national estimates of anemia prevalence and the causes of anemia among older adults are lacking. The Harmonized Diagnostic Assessment of Dementia for the Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI-DAD) collected venous blood samples from a nationally representative sample o…
Does the southern health disadvantage extend to accelerated biological aging: Evidence from the health and retirement study
Objectives Recent studies have shown worse health across various conditions (i.e., morbidity, disability, and mortality) among residents in the U.S. South compared to other regions. Accelerated aging may be a pathway underlying part of this disadvantage; however, few studies have examined this. To address this gap in the literature, this study examines whether accelerated aging measures are associated with residence in the U.S. South in childhood…
Aging on the Job? The Association Between Occupational Characteristics and Accelerated Biological Aging
Adverse occupational characteristics held at midlife, particularly service work, low job control, heavy lifting, and long work hours, are associated with accelerated biological aging. These findings suggest that work may be important for the overall aging process beyond its associations with specific diseases or risk factors
Methodological considerations in designing and implementing the harmonized diagnostic assessment of dementia for longitudinal aging study in India (Lasi-DAD)
The Harmonized Diagnostic Assessment of Dementia for Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI-DAD) is a population-representative, prospective cohort study of late-life cognition and dementia. It is part of an ongoing international research collaboration that aims to measure and understand cognitive impairment and dementia risk by collecting a set of cognitive and neuropsychological assessments and informant reports, referred to as the Harmonized …
Cohort Trends in the Gender Distribution of Household Tasks in the United States and the Implications for Understanding Disability
Objectives: Measures of disability depend on health and social roles in a given environment. Yet, social roles can change over time as they have by gender. We document how engagement in Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs) is shifting by gender and birth cohort among older adults, and the challenges these shifts can create for population-level estimates of disability. Method: We used the Health and Retirement Study ( N = 25,047) and mu…
HPLC-based Measurement of Glycated Hemoglobin using Dried Blood Spots Collected under Adverse Field Conditions
Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) measured using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) assays with venous blood and dried blood spots (DBS) are compared for 143 paired samples collected in Aceh, Indonesia. Relative to gold-standard venous-blood values, DBS-based values reported by the HPLC are systematically upward biased for HbA1c<8% and the fraction diabetic (HbA1c ≥ 6.5%) is overstated almost five-fold. Inspection of chromatograms from DBS a…
Perceived neighborhood social cohesion and cardiometabolic risk: A Gene × Environment Study
6,615; mean age 69.7), we conducted a gene × environment interaction study hypothesizing that perceived neighborhood cohesion would attenuate the link between polygenic scores for waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and body mass index and a measure of multisystem cardiometabolic risk (systolic blood pressure [SBP] and diastolic blood pressure [DBP], heart rate, A1c, C-reactive protein, and total and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol). In support of the …
Introduction to Issue on Gender Dynamics and Disparities in Health and Mortality
Trends in American mortality over the past few decades find American women doing worse than men in the United States and worse than women in other countries. For example, since 1980, U.S. women hav
Validation and modification of dried blood spot‐based glycosylated hemoglobin assay for the longitudinal aging study in I ndia
OBJECTIVES: This study aims to validate a modified dried blood spot (DBS)-based glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) assay protocol, after a pretest in India showed poor correlation between the original DBS-based protocol and venous results. METHODS: The original protocol was tested on different chemistry analyzers and then simplified at the University of Washington (UW). A second pretest was conducted in India to validate the modified assay protocol,…
Disease Incidence and Mortality Among Older Americans and Europeans
Recent research has shown a widening gap in life expectancy at age 50 between the United States and Europe as well as large differences in the prevalence of diseases at older ages. Little is known about the processes determining international differences in the prevalence of chronic diseases. Higher prevalence of disease could result from either higher incidence or longer disease-specific survival. This article uses comparable longitudinal data f…
Validation of Blood-Based Assays Using Dried Blood Spots for Use in Large Population Studies
Assessment of health in large population studies has increasingly incorporated measures of blood-based biomarkers based on the use of dried blood spots (DBS). The validity of DBS assessments made by labs used by large studies is addressed by comparing assay values from DBS collected using conditions similar to those used in the field with values from whole blood samples. The DBS approach generates values that are strongly related to whole blood l…
Do biological measures mediate the relationship between education and health: A comparative study
Biodemography: New approaches to understanding trends and differences in population health and mortality
The incorporation of biological information in large population surveys has expanded demographic analysis to clarify the meaning of observed trends and differences in population health and mortality. Levels of measured biological risk in the population were reduced in recent years largely because of the expanded use of prescription drugs. The increased use of antihypertensives and, to a lesser extent, lipid-lowering drugs was a likely cause of si…
Estimation of multi-state life table functions and their variability from complex survey data using the SPACE Program
The multistate life table (MSLT) model is an important demographic method to document life cycle processes. In this paper, we present the SPACE (Stochastic Population Analysis for Complex Events) program to estimate MSLT functions and their sampling variability. It has several advantages over other programs, including the use of micro-simulation and the bootstrap method to estimate the variance of MSLT functions. Simulation enables researchers to…
Education, income and ethnic differences in cumulative biological risk profiles in a national sample of US adults: Nhanes Iii (1988-1994)
Education and Cognitive Decline in Older Americans: Results From the Ahead Sample
Although education is consistently related to better cognitive performance, findings on the relationship between education and age-associated cognitive change have been conflicting. Using measures of multiple cognitive domains from four waves of the Asset and Health Dynamics of the Oldest Old study, a representative sample of Americans aged 70 years and older, the authors performed growth curve modeling to examine the relationships between educat…
Resolving inconsistencies in trends in old-age disability: Report from a technical working group
In September 2002, a technical working group met to resolve previously published inconsistencies across national surveys in trends in activity limitations among the older population. The 12-person panel prepared estimates from five national data sets and investigated methodological sources of the inconsistencies among the population aged 70 and older from the early 1980s to 2001. Although the evidence was mixed for the 1980s and it is difficult t…
Cumulative biological risk and socio-economic differences in mortality: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging
Social Environment Effects on Health and Aging: Integrating Epidemiologic and Demographic Approaches and Perspectives
A bstract : This paper provides an overview of epidemiological and demographic research linking social characteristics of both individuals and communities to differences in both morbidity and mortality risks. Evidence is presented linking three broad aspects of the social environment to health—the network of personal social relationships within which most of us live our lives, individual socioeconomic status (SES), and community‐level social char…
Change in the Prevalence of Diseases Among Older Americans: 1984-1994
The prevalence of diseases increased among older Americans in recent years. The largest increases have been in the proportion of the population with heart disease and cancer. There has also been a decrease in the number of older persons with no disea
Mortality differentials between rural and urban areas of states in the northeastern United States 1890–1900
An Analysis of the Relationship between Husband's Income, Family Size and Wife's Employment in the Early Stages of Marriage
Phyllis A. Ewer, Eileen Crimmins, Richard Oliver, An Analysis of the Relationship between Husband's Income, Family Size and Wife's Employment in the Early Stages of Marriage, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Nov., 1979), pp. 727-738
Cumulative biological risk and socio-economic differences in mortality: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging
Education, income and ethnic differences in cumulative biological risk profiles in a national sample of US adults: Nhanes Iii (1988-1994)
Resolving inconsistencies in trends in old-age disability: Report from a technical working group
In September 2002, a technical working group met to resolve previously published inconsistencies across national surveys in trends in activity limitations among the older population. The 12-person panel prepared estimates from five national data sets and investigated methodological sources of the inconsistencies among the population aged 70 and older from the early 1980s to 2001. Although the evidence was mixed for the 1980s and it is difficult t…
Biodemography: New approaches to understanding trends and differences in population health and mortality
The incorporation of biological information in large population surveys has expanded demographic analysis to clarify the meaning of observed trends and differences in population health and mortality. Levels of measured biological risk in the population were reduced in recent years largely because of the expanded use of prescription drugs. The increased use of antihypertensives and, to a lesser extent, lipid-lowering drugs was a likely cause of si…
Estimation of multi-state life table functions and their variability from complex survey data using the SPACE Program
The multistate life table (MSLT) model is an important demographic method to document life cycle processes. In this paper, we present the SPACE (Stochastic Population Analysis for Complex Events) program to estimate MSLT functions and their sampling variability. It has several advantages over other programs, including the use of micro-simulation and the bootstrap method to estimate the variance of MSLT functions. Simulation enables researchers to…
Mortality differentials between rural and urban areas of states in the northeastern United States 1890–1900
Validation of Blood-Based Assays Using Dried Blood Spots for Use in Large Population Studies
Assessment of health in large population studies has increasingly incorporated measures of blood-based biomarkers based on the use of dried blood spots (DBS). The validity of DBS assessments made by labs used by large studies is addressed by comparing assay values from DBS collected using conditions similar to those used in the field with values from whole blood samples. The DBS approach generates values that are strongly related to whole blood l…
Do biological measures mediate the relationship between education and health: A comparative study
An Analysis of the Relationship between Husband's Income, Family Size and Wife's Employment in the Early Stages of Marriage
Phyllis A. Ewer, Eileen Crimmins, Richard Oliver, An Analysis of the Relationship between Husband's Income, Family Size and Wife's Employment in the Early Stages of Marriage, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Nov., 1979), pp. 727-738
Cohort Trends in the Gender Distribution of Household Tasks in the United States and the Implications for Understanding Disability
Objectives: Measures of disability depend on health and social roles in a given environment. Yet, social roles can change over time as they have by gender. We document how engagement in Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs) is shifting by gender and birth cohort among older adults, and the challenges these shifts can create for population-level estimates of disability. Method: We used the Health and Retirement Study ( N = 25,047) and mu…
Disease Incidence and Mortality Among Older Americans and Europeans
Recent research has shown a widening gap in life expectancy at age 50 between the United States and Europe as well as large differences in the prevalence of diseases at older ages. Little is known about the processes determining international differences in the prevalence of chronic diseases. Higher prevalence of disease could result from either higher incidence or longer disease-specific survival. This article uses comparable longitudinal data f…
Change in the Prevalence of Diseases Among Older Americans: 1984-1994
The prevalence of diseases increased among older Americans in recent years. The largest increases have been in the proportion of the population with heart disease and cancer. There has also been a decrease in the number of older persons with no disea
HPLC-based Measurement of Glycated Hemoglobin using Dried Blood Spots Collected under Adverse Field Conditions
Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) measured using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) assays with venous blood and dried blood spots (DBS) are compared for 143 paired samples collected in Aceh, Indonesia. Relative to gold-standard venous-blood values, DBS-based values reported by the HPLC are systematically upward biased for HbA1c<8% and the fraction diabetic (HbA1c ≥ 6.5%) is overstated almost five-fold. Inspection of chromatograms from DBS a…
Perceived neighborhood social cohesion and cardiometabolic risk: A Gene × Environment Study
6,615; mean age 69.7), we conducted a gene × environment interaction study hypothesizing that perceived neighborhood cohesion would attenuate the link between polygenic scores for waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and body mass index and a measure of multisystem cardiometabolic risk (systolic blood pressure [SBP] and diastolic blood pressure [DBP], heart rate, A1c, C-reactive protein, and total and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol). In support of the …
An Analysis of the Relationship between Husband's Income, Family Size and Wife's Employment in the Early Stages of Marriage
Phyllis A. Ewer, Eileen Crimmins, Richard Oliver, An Analysis of the Relationship between Husband's Income, Family Size and Wife's Employment in the Early Stages of Marriage, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Nov., 1979), pp. 727-738
Mortality differentials between rural and urban areas of states in the northeastern United States 1890–1900
Change in the Prevalence of Diseases Among Older Americans: 1984-1994
The prevalence of diseases increased among older Americans in recent years. The largest increases have been in the proportion of the population with heart disease and cancer. There has also been a decrease in the number of older persons with no disea
Social Environment Effects on Health and Aging: Integrating Epidemiologic and Demographic Approaches and Perspectives
A bstract : This paper provides an overview of epidemiological and demographic research linking social characteristics of both individuals and communities to differences in both morbidity and mortality risks. Evidence is presented linking three broad aspects of the social environment to health—the network of personal social relationships within which most of us live our lives, individual socioeconomic status (SES), and community‐level social char…
Resolving inconsistencies in trends in old-age disability: Report from a technical working group
In September 2002, a technical working group met to resolve previously published inconsistencies across national surveys in trends in activity limitations among the older population. The 12-person panel prepared estimates from five national data sets and investigated methodological sources of the inconsistencies among the population aged 70 and older from the early 1980s to 2001. Although the evidence was mixed for the 1980s and it is difficult t…
Cumulative biological risk and socio-economic differences in mortality: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging
Education and Cognitive Decline in Older Americans: Results From the Ahead Sample
Although education is consistently related to better cognitive performance, findings on the relationship between education and age-associated cognitive change have been conflicting. Using measures of multiple cognitive domains from four waves of the Asset and Health Dynamics of the Oldest Old study, a representative sample of Americans aged 70 years and older, the authors performed growth curve modeling to examine the relationships between educat…
Education, income and ethnic differences in cumulative biological risk profiles in a national sample of US adults: Nhanes Iii (1988-1994)
Biodemography: New approaches to understanding trends and differences in population health and mortality
The incorporation of biological information in large population surveys has expanded demographic analysis to clarify the meaning of observed trends and differences in population health and mortality. Levels of measured biological risk in the population were reduced in recent years largely because of the expanded use of prescription drugs. The increased use of antihypertensives and, to a lesser extent, lipid-lowering drugs was a likely cause of si…
Estimation of multi-state life table functions and their variability from complex survey data using the SPACE Program
The multistate life table (MSLT) model is an important demographic method to document life cycle processes. In this paper, we present the SPACE (Stochastic Population Analysis for Complex Events) program to estimate MSLT functions and their sampling variability. It has several advantages over other programs, including the use of micro-simulation and the bootstrap method to estimate the variance of MSLT functions. Simulation enables researchers to…
Do biological measures mediate the relationship between education and health: A comparative study
Validation of Blood-Based Assays Using Dried Blood Spots for Use in Large Population Studies
Assessment of health in large population studies has increasingly incorporated measures of blood-based biomarkers based on the use of dried blood spots (DBS). The validity of DBS assessments made by labs used by large studies is addressed by comparing assay values from DBS collected using conditions similar to those used in the field with values from whole blood samples. The DBS approach generates values that are strongly related to whole blood l…
Validation and modification of dried blood spot‐based glycosylated hemoglobin assay for the longitudinal aging study in I ndia
OBJECTIVES: This study aims to validate a modified dried blood spot (DBS)-based glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) assay protocol, after a pretest in India showed poor correlation between the original DBS-based protocol and venous results. METHODS: The original protocol was tested on different chemistry analyzers and then simplified at the University of Washington (UW). A second pretest was conducted in India to validate the modified assay protocol,…
Disease Incidence and Mortality Among Older Americans and Europeans
Recent research has shown a widening gap in life expectancy at age 50 between the United States and Europe as well as large differences in the prevalence of diseases at older ages. Little is known about the processes determining international differences in the prevalence of chronic diseases. Higher prevalence of disease could result from either higher incidence or longer disease-specific survival. This article uses comparable longitudinal data f…
Introduction to Issue on Gender Dynamics and Disparities in Health and Mortality
Trends in American mortality over the past few decades find American women doing worse than men in the United States and worse than women in other countries. For example, since 1980, U.S. women hav
Cohort Trends in the Gender Distribution of Household Tasks in the United States and the Implications for Understanding Disability
Objectives: Measures of disability depend on health and social roles in a given environment. Yet, social roles can change over time as they have by gender. We document how engagement in Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs) is shifting by gender and birth cohort among older adults, and the challenges these shifts can create for population-level estimates of disability. Method: We used the Health and Retirement Study ( N = 25,047) and mu…
HPLC-based Measurement of Glycated Hemoglobin using Dried Blood Spots Collected under Adverse Field Conditions
Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) measured using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) assays with venous blood and dried blood spots (DBS) are compared for 143 paired samples collected in Aceh, Indonesia. Relative to gold-standard venous-blood values, DBS-based values reported by the HPLC are systematically upward biased for HbA1c<8% and the fraction diabetic (HbA1c ≥ 6.5%) is overstated almost five-fold. Inspection of chromatograms from DBS a…
Perceived neighborhood social cohesion and cardiometabolic risk: A Gene × Environment Study
6,615; mean age 69.7), we conducted a gene × environment interaction study hypothesizing that perceived neighborhood cohesion would attenuate the link between polygenic scores for waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and body mass index and a measure of multisystem cardiometabolic risk (systolic blood pressure [SBP] and diastolic blood pressure [DBP], heart rate, A1c, C-reactive protein, and total and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol). In support of the …
Methodological considerations in designing and implementing the harmonized diagnostic assessment of dementia for longitudinal aging study in India (Lasi-DAD)
The Harmonized Diagnostic Assessment of Dementia for Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI-DAD) is a population-representative, prospective cohort study of late-life cognition and dementia. It is part of an ongoing international research collaboration that aims to measure and understand cognitive impairment and dementia risk by collecting a set of cognitive and neuropsychological assessments and informant reports, referred to as the Harmonized …
Aging on the Job? The Association Between Occupational Characteristics and Accelerated Biological Aging
Adverse occupational characteristics held at midlife, particularly service work, low job control, heavy lifting, and long work hours, are associated with accelerated biological aging. These findings suggest that work may be important for the overall aging process beyond its associations with specific diseases or risk factors
Prevalence and causes of anemia among older adults in India: Findings from wave 2 of the Harmonized Diagnostic Assessment of Dementia for the Longitudinal Aging Study in India (Lasi-DAD)
Anemia among older adults aged ≥ 60 years is a well-described risk factor that increases the risk of falls, cardiovascular diseases, and mortality. In India, objectively measured national estimates of anemia prevalence and the causes of anemia among older adults are lacking. The Harmonized Diagnostic Assessment of Dementia for the Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI-DAD) collected venous blood samples from a nationally representative sample o…
Does the southern health disadvantage extend to accelerated biological aging: Evidence from the health and retirement study
Objectives Recent studies have shown worse health across various conditions (i.e., morbidity, disability, and mortality) among residents in the U.S. South compared to other regions. Accelerated aging may be a pathway underlying part of this disadvantage; however, few studies have examined this. To address this gap in the literature, this study examines whether accelerated aging measures are associated with residence in the U.S. South in childhood…
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