Debora Rizzuto

Aging Research Center (ARC)
Karolinska Institutet/Stockholm University
Gävlegatan 16
S-113 30 Stockholm

Telephone: + 46 8 690 53 68
Fax: + 46 8 690 6889

E-mail: debora.rizzuto@ki.se
 
Debora Rizzuto, is a PhD student at the Aging Research Center (ARC), Karolinska Institutet. She is a statistician with a strong interest in biostatistics and epidemiological methods. She defended her thesis "Logistic regression model for the evaluation of health service" at the Department of Statistics and Mathematical Economics, University of Pisa, Italy. She previously worked as a research associate at the Department of Physiopathology Experimental Medicine, Public Health, University of Siena, Italy. She has been working at the Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet since 2005 and started her PhD in June 2007. In her project, Debora is studying predictors and risk factors of human longevity; her main supervisor is Professor Laura Fratiglioni.
 

Selected publications

Rosvall L, Rizzuto D, Wang HX, Winblad B, Graff C, Fratiglioni L. “APOE-related mortality: Effect of dementia, cardiovascular disease and gender.”, Neurobiol Aging. 2009 Oct; 30(10):1545-51.

Marengoni A, Rizzuto D, Wang HX, Winblad B, Fratiglioni L. “Patterns of chronic multimorbidity in the elderly population.” J Am Geriatr Soc. 2009 Feb;57(2):225-30.

Marengoni A, von Strauss E, Rizzuto D, Winblad B, Fratiglioni L. “The impact of chronic multimorbidity and disability on functional decline and survival in elderly persons. A community-based, longitudinal study.” J Intern Med. 2009 Feb;265(2):288-95.

 
updated 2009-09-14
 
 
 
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