SUBSTANTIVE AREAS OF INTEREST: Cardio-metabolic diseases, Alzheimer's diseases and other dementias
1) Cardio-metabolic diseases: Cardiovascular diseases, Obesity and Type 2 diabetes
2) Neurodegenerative diseases: Alzheimer's diseases and other dementias
3) Policy Evaluations Using Quasi-Experiments
4) Policy Evaluations and Hypothetical Interventions Using Virtual Experiments (i.e. simulation modeling)
METHODOLOGICAL AREAS OF INTEREST: Causal Inference, Quasi-experimental Methods, Simulation Modeling
1) Cardio-metabolic diseases: Cardiovascular diseases, Obesity and Type 2 diabetes
- Nianogo RA, Arah OA. Forecasting Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Incidence and Burden: The ViLA-Obesity Simulation Model. Front Public Health. 2022 Apr 5;10:818816. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.818816
- Goto R, Nianogo RA, Okubo Y, Inoue K. Evaluation of Obesity Trends Among U Adolescents by Socio-economic Status, 1999-2018. JAMA Pediatrics June 2022
- Nianogo RA, Mueller MP, Keeler B, Kreuger K, Nhan LA, Nobari TZ, Crespi CM, Osgood N, Kuo T, Prelip M, Wang MC. Evaluating the impact of community interventions on childhood obesity in populations living in low-income households in Los Angeles: A simulation study. Pediatr Obes. 2022
- Xia T, Zhao F, Nianogo RA. Interventions in hypertension: systematic review and meta-analysis of natural and quasi-experiments. Clin Hypertens. 2022 May 1;28(1):13. doi: 10.1186/s40885-022-00198-2.
- Inoue K, Nianogo RA, Telesca D, Goto A, Khachadourian V, Tsugawa Y, Sugiyama T, Mayeda ER, Ritz B. Low HbA1c levels and all-cause or cardiovascular mortality among people without diabetes: the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2015. Int J Epidemiol. 2020 Dec 30.
- Nianogo RA & Arah OA. The Role of Childhood Adiposity in the Development of Adult Type 2 Diabetes in a 64-Year follow-Up Cohort: An application of the parametric G-formula within an Agent-Based Simulation Study. Epidemiology. 2019 Nov; 30 Suppl 2:S101-S109. DOI: 10.1097
2) Neurodegenerative diseases: Alzheimer's diseases and other dementias
- Nianogo RA, Rosenwohl-Mack A, Yaffe K, Carrasco A, Hoffmann CM, Barnes DE. Risk Factors Associated With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias by Sex and Race and Ethnicity in the US. JAMA Neurol. 2022 May 9:e220976. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2022.0976.
- Hoffmann, CM*, Nianogo RA*, Rosenwohl-Mack A, Yaffe K, Carrasco A, Barnes, DE. Importance of accounting for regional, sex and racial/ethnic differences in evaluating modifiable risk factors’ potential contribution to Alzheimer’s Disease Risk: The case for tailored interventions in California. Accepted July 2022. In Press. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia
3) Policy Evaluations Using Quasi-Experiments
- Zhao F, Nianogo RA. Medicaid Expansion's Impact on Emergency Department Use by State and Payer. Value Health. 2022 Apr;25(4):630-637. doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2021.09.014.
4) Policy Evaluations and Hypothetical Interventions Using Virtual Experiments (i.e. simulation modeling)
- Gebremariam MK, Nianogo RA, Lien N, Bjelland M, Klepp K, Bergh IH, Ommundsen Y, Arah, OA. The impact of hypothetical interventions on adiposity in adolescence: A g-computation analysis. Scientific Reports 2021. Sci Rep. 2021 May 27;11(1):11216. doi: 10.1038
- Nianogo RA, Wang MC, Ricardo Basurto-Davila, Nobari TZ, Arah OA, Prelip M, Whaley SE. Title: Economic Evaluation of California Prenatal Participation in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) to Prevent Preterm Birth. Prev Med. 2019 Jul; 124 :42-49.
- Nianogo RA & Arah OA. Impact of Public Health Interventions for Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Prevention: A Simulation Study. Am J Prev Med. 2018 Dec;55(6):795-802.
- Nianogo RA, Wang MC, Wang A, Nobari TZ, Crespi CM, Whaley SE, Arah OA. Projecting the impact of hypothetical early life interventions on childhood adiposity in children living in low-income households. Pediatric Obesity. 2016. DOI: 10.1111/ijpo.12157
METHODOLOGICAL AREAS OF INTEREST: Causal Inference, Quasi-experimental Methods, Simulation Modeling
- Fox MP, Nianogo RA, Rudolph JE, Howe CJ. Illustrating How to Simulate Data from DAGs to Understand Epidemiologic Concepts. Am J Epidemiol. 2022 Mar 8:kwac041. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwac041.
- Wang A, Nianogo RA, Arah OA. G-Computation of Average Treatment Effects on the Treated and the Untreated. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2016; 17(3). DOI: 10.1186/s12874-016-0282-4
- Nianogo RA, Arah OA. Agent-Based Modeling of Non-Communicable Diseases: A Systematic Review. Am J Public Health. 2015;105(3):e20–31. Doi:10.2105/ajph.2014.302426