About
Summary
Dr. Gloria Aguayo's research focuses on the aging process and related chronic conditions. In recent years, she has conducted a comprehensive analysis of frailty scores, their reliability and their predictive ability. She has also worked on frailty trajectories and biomarkers of diabetes. A major interest is to use advanced methodologies in longitudinal cohort studies such as mixed models, time-dependent variables, and multiple imputation to deal with missing data.
Another area of interest is the objective measurement of physical activity and sleep patterns of the general population.
She is also working on digital health and diabetes as a scientific manager of a new project on an international digital cohort (CoLIVE Diabetes). Research on the prediction of Parkinson's disease and neurodegenerative diseases using learning techniques is also of interest.
She analyses mainly the English longitudinal study of aging (ELSA) and the observation of risks and cardiovascular health in Luxembourg (ORISCAV).
In the past, she has been a researcher in the emotional disorders lab participating in innovative virtual reality projects on agoraphobia and body image disruption in patients with severe obesity.
Dr. Aguayo is a doctor of medicine (Catholic University of Chile), MSc in Nutrition (University of Chile). Master in Clinical Epidemiology (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Doctorate in Public Health (University of Liège).
Positions
Group leader Oct 2004 -
Epidemiology and Public Health Research Unit, Luxembourg Institute of Health
Group leader of "Chronic-ageing related diseases" custom group.
Team member (scientific manager) of CoLIVE DIABETES project
Epidemiologist NCER-PD project