Research interests:
Epidemiology
Cognition
Depressive Symptoms
Poor Health Outcomes
Disparities

Selected Publications:
1. Mehta KM, Yaffe K, Brenes GA, Newman AB, Shorr RI, Simonsick EM, Ayonayon HN, Rubin SM, Covinsky KE. Anxiety Symptoms and Decline in Physical Function over 5 Years in the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study J Am Geriatr Soc. 2007 Feb;55(2):265-70

2. Rosenblatt A, Mehta KM, Romanoski A, Eaton W, Lyketsos C: Major Depression and Cognitive Decline After 11.5 Years: Findings from the ECA Study. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 191(12): 827-830, 2003.

3. Mehta KM, Yaffe K, Covinsky KE. Cognitive impairment, Depressive Symptoms and Functional Decline in the Elderly. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 50(6): 1045-50, 2002.

4. Zandi PP, Anthony JC, Hayden KM, Mehta KM, Mayer L, Breitner JCS. Reduced incidence of AD with NSAIDs but not H2 receptor antagonists. Neurology 59 (6): 880-6, 2002.

5. Carlson M, Zandi PP, Plassman B, Welsh-Bohmer K, Steffens D, Tschanz J, Bastion L, Mehta KM, Breitner JCS. Hormone Replacement Therapy Predicts Improved Cognitive Trajectory in a Population of Older Women. The Cache County Study. Neurology 57(12): 2210-6, 2001.

6. Singh K, Mehta KM., Shaikh N, Tsai J, Moster M, Budenz D, Greenfield D, Chen P, Cohen J, Baerveldt G, Shaikh S and the primary Trabeculectomy Antimetabolite Study Group. Trabeculectomy with Intraoperative Mitomycin C versus 5-Fluorouracil: Prospective Randomized Clinical Trial. Ophthalmology 107(12): 2305-2309, 2000.