Graduated in Physiotherapy from the University of Taubaté (2003).Specialized in Gerontology at the Federal University of São Paulo - Paulista School of Medicine (UNIFESP - EPM / 2004).Completed a Master's in Rehabilitation (UNIFESP - EPM / 2007) and a PhD in Public Health from the Department of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, USP (2013), with a sandwich internship at the Sealy Center on Aging at the University of Texas Medical Branch (USA).Completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London (UK) from 2016 to 2017 and also during the year 2022.Holds a Specialist title in Physiotherapy in Gerontology from the Brazilian Association of Physiotherapy in Gerontology (ABRAFIGE) and in Gerontology from the Brazilian Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology (SBGG), having been a board member of ABRAFIGE since its inception in 2017 and of the São Paulo Section of SBGG from 2012 to 2020.Served as President of the Gerontology Department of SBGG-SP from 2018 to 2020 and as Scientific Director of ABRAFIGE from 2017 to 2021.Was a member of the Technical Chamber of Physiotherapy in Gerontology within CREFITO-3.Served as Multi-Campus Coordinator for Post-Graduate Programs at the Pro-Rectorate of Post-Graduate Studies at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) from 2018 to 2021.Currently is a Faculty Member in the Gerontology Course and Permanent Advisor of the Post-Graduate Programs in Physiotherapy (CAPES Rating 7) and Gerontology (CAPES Rating 4) at UFSCar.Is a Productivity Research Fellow at CNPq - Level 2. Is serving a second term as President of ABRAFIGE (2021/2023 and 2023/2025) as well as a representative of the Latin American Committee on Geriatrics and Gerontology (COMLAT) in the Global Social Initiative on Aging (GSIA) affiliated with the International Association for Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG) since 2018.Leads the Research Group in Epidemiology and Aging - GEPEN - based at the Department of Gerontology at UFSCar, where he coordinates the International Collaboration of Longitudinal Studies of Ageing (InterCoLAgeing), a consortium of longitudinal studies involving the ELSA Study (English Longitudinal Study of Aging), the MHAS Study (Mexican Health and Aging Study), and the ELSI Study (Longitudinal Study of Health and Well-Being of Brazilian Elderly), all of which are multi-cohort longitudinal studies.Has experience in the fields of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Gerontology, and Physiotherapy.Mainly works on topics related to aging, musculoskeletal aging, sarcopenia, dynapenia, muscle strength, mobility, frailty syndrome, functional disability, obesity, cognitive decline, diabetes, vitamin D, mortality, and generalized linear mixed models. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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There is a gap in the understanding of the relationship between abdominal obesity, low vitamin D serum levels and dynapenia later in life. However, there is strong evidence suggesting that these three conditions may be interconnected and part of the same mechanism that affects negatively musculoskeletal health and, consequently, metabolic and functional capacity later in life. Therefore, …
It is known that diet exert an important role in brain health and that systemic inflammation has been associated to neurodegenerative diseases. However, there is a lack of longitudinal studies that have assessed the effect of a greater inflammatory potential of diet on the incidence of cognitive impairment and dementia. The objectives of the present study are: 1) to analyze whether a pro-…
Several studies have established different cutoff points for manual grip strength as an indicator of mobility decline risk. However, we still lack longitudinal studies that have explored how much reduction in manual grip strength, in percentage terms, would be able to predict a decline in walking speed over time, as well as in different age groups. In light of this scenario, the present s…
Dementia, a progressive condition with a higher incidence in the elderly, has become an emerging issue for public health. This is because, in addition to functional and social damage, it is responsible for one of the greatest costs for society as a whole. Hospital episodes, such as frequent trips to the emergency room, transitions to more complex care, as well as recurrent and prolonged h…
Concomitantly with the aging process, changes in sleep patterns occur. Decreased efficiency and total sleep time, increased time to fall asleep, comorbidities and use of drugs increase the chances of developing sleep disorders. Thus, reduced sleep duration and the presence of sleep disorders may be associated with reduced neuromuscular strength and walking speed in elderly people of both …
Mobility, measured by walking speed, is considered the sixth vital sign in the assessment of the elderly. Limiting mobility compromises independence and increases the risk of falls, functional loss, hospitalization and death.The decline in walking speed is a complex process associated with increasing age, low education and income, physical inactivity, smoking, joint disease, diabetes, hyp…
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Despite the diagnosis of dementia providing a longer survival in advanced stages, this condition is associated with an increased prevalence of potentially avoidable hospitalization episodes. As the end-of-life period approaches, such episodes tend to take on more complex characteristics, becoming more frequent and prolonged. However, there are limited longitudinal evidence that have explo…
Obesity and dynapenia are separated factors for the decline in mobility and lower limb function in elderly people. Besides that, those who present a combination of abdominal obesity and dynapenia evolve with worse closures of health than those who only own abdominal obesity or dynapenia. However, few evidences are showing that there is such effect age, period, and cohort of dynapenic abdo…
Dynapenia, decreased muscle strength related to age, and obesity are major risk factors associated with physical functional decline and mortality in older adults. However, there is still little evidence that dynapenia and obesity, defined as dynapenic obesity, has additive effect in the incidence of disability and mortality in older adults. Thus, the aim of this study is to analyse the ad…
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