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Panagiotakos Demosthenes

Professor - Biostatistics Epidemiology

Expert

His research focuses on the epidemiology of chronic diseases and in particular cardiovascular and cancer. At the same time, he deals with medical research methodology and specifically the design of epidemiological studies and clinical trials, and the creation of complex indices (scores) for measuring behavior and emotions.

 

Education

  • Post-doc in cardiovascular epidemiology, Georgetown University Medical Center/VAMC, Washington DC, USA, 2004
  • PhD (Medicine/ Epidemiology), School of Medicine, University of Athens, 2002
  • MSc in Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Department of Mathematics, University of Athens, 2000
  • Certificate Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK, 1999
  • PhD/MSc program in Applied Mathematics (Statistics), Department of Mathematics, University of Athens, 1993
  • BSc in Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of Patras, 1989

Research Interests

  • Epidemiology
  • Cardiovascular diseases - risk factors
  • Nutrition / Nutritional patterns
  • Healthy aging
  • Public health
  • Biostatistics - Multivariate Analysis

Publications

  • Gkotzamanis V, Koliopanos G, Sanchez-Niubo A, Olaya B, Caballero FF, Ayuso- Mateos JL, Chatterji S, Haro JM, Panagiotakos DB. Determinants of verbal fluency trajectories among older adults from the English Longitudinal Study of Aging. Appl Neuropsychol Adult. 2021 May 8:1-10. doi: 10.1080/23279095.2021.1913739.Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33969762.
  • Tyrovolas S, Tyrovola D, Giné-Vázquez I, Koyanagi A, Bernabe-Ortiz A, Rodriguez-Artalejo F, Haro JM, Pan WK, Miranda JJ, Panagiotakos D. Global, regional, and national burden of aortic aneurysm, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Eur J Prev Cardiol. 2021 Mar 30:zwab015. doi: 10.1093/eurjpc/zwab015. Epub ahead of print. PMID:33783496.
  • Kanellopoulou A, Notara V, Antonogeorgos G, Chrissini M, Rojas-Gil AP, Kornilaki EN, Lagiou A, Panagiotakos DB. Inverse Association Between Health Literacy and Obesity Among Children in Greece: A School-Based, Cross-Sectional Epidemiological Study. Health Educ Behav. 2021 Jan 15:1090198120982944. doi: 10.1177/1090198120982944. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33451250.
  • Yannakoulia M, Panagiotakos D. Weight loss through lifestyle changes: impact in the primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases. Heart. 2020 Nov 20:heartjnl-2019-316376. doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2019-316376. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33219107.
  • Panagiotakos DB, Kouvari M, Souliotis K. Towards a Better Primary Healthcare in Europe: Shifts in Public Health Nutrition Policies. Nutrients. 2020 Oct 29;12(11):3308. doi: 10.3390/nu12113308. PMID: 33137959; PMCID: PMC7693260.