Mika Kivimäki

Alcohol consumption and cause-specific mortality in older men: Whitehall-1 study of London civil servants

Abstract The relationship between alcohol consumption and cause-specific mortality in adults aged ≥ 70 years remain unclear. This study assessed the associations between alcohol consumption with risks of cause-specific mortality in older men. This study included 4,582 London Civi...

Data-driven risk algorithms from primary care for early dementia detection and prevention trial enrichment

Background: Early identification of individuals at risk of dementia is essential for effective prevention and timely intervention. Existing risk scores rely heavily on age, which limits their discriminative power at clinically relevant thresholds such as 65 years, when preventive...

Bidirectional associations between loneliness and physical multimorbidity and the mediating role of social inactivity

Physical multimorbidity and loneliness are increasingly recognised as public health concerns, but the nature of their potential relationships remains unclear. Here we report bidirectional associations between physical multimorbidity and loneliness in middle-aged and older adults...