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Leilei Zeng
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Research
Latest papers
Exploring the Connection Between Functional Social Support, Marital Status, and Memory from the Perspective of Community-Dwelling Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A Qualitative Study.
Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement · 2026
The association of pre-COVID-19 social isolation and functional social support with loneliness during COVID-19: a longitudinal analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.
Aging & mental health · 2025 · senior author
The association between functional social support, marital status and memory in middle-aged and older adults: An analysis of the canadian longitudinal study on aging.
Archives of gerontology and geriatrics · 2025
Latest funding
- $69,778
Exploring the Dynamic Nature between Cognitive Function and Depressive Symptoms
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $81,000
Statistical Methods for Modeling and Design of Life History Studies
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $108,000
Methodological Issues in Event Histories Analysis
NSERC · 2016 · Principal investigator
14 publications.
Exploring the Connection Between Functional Social Support, Marital Status, and Memory from the Perspective of Community-Dwelling Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A Qualitative Study.
Haghighi P, Meyer SB, Tyas SL, Zeng L, Oremus M
The association of pre-COVID-19 social isolation and functional social support with loneliness during COVID-19: a longitudinal analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.
Oremus M, Tyas SL, Newall NEG, Maxwell CJ, O'Connell ME, Zeng L
The association between functional social support, marital status and memory in middle-aged and older adults: An analysis of the canadian longitudinal study on aging.
Haghighi P, Zeng L, Tyas SL, Meyer SB, Oremus M
The association between memory, COVID-19 testing, and COVID-19 incidence in middle-aged and older adults: a prospective analysis of the CLSA.
Oremus M, Tyas SL, Zeng L, Newall N, Maxwell CJ
Cognitive Reserve and Mild Cognitive Impairment: Predictors and Rates of Reversion to Intact Cognition vs Progression to Dementia.
Iraniparast M, Shi Y, Wu Y, Zeng L, Maxwell CJ, Kryscio RJ, St John PD, SantaCruz KS, Tyas SL
Augmented likelihood for incorporating auxiliary information into left-truncated data.
Shi Y, Zeng L, Thompson ME, Tyas SL
Multistate analysis from cross-sectional and auxiliary samples.
Zeng L, Cook RJ, Lee J
Tracing studies in cohorts with attrition: Selection models for efficient sampling.
Moon NC, Zeng L, Cook RJ
Design of cancer trials based on progression-free survival with intermittent assessment.
Zeng L, Cook RJ, Lee KA
The Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) birth cohort study: assessment of environmental exposures
Takaro TK, Scott JA, Allen RW, Anand SS, Becker AB, Befus AD, Brauer M, Duncan J, Lefebvre DL, Lou W
Exploring the Dynamic Nature between Cognitive Function and Depressive Symptoms
Principal investigators: Oremus, Mark
Keywords: Biological Sex; Cognitive Function; Depressive Symptoms; Epidemiology; Executive Function; Functional Social Support; Memory; Social Determinants Of Health; Social Isolation
Statistical Methods for Modeling and Design of Life History Studies
Principal investigators: Zeng, Leilei
Keywords: life history analysis; longitudinal studies; time to event data; markov models; multistate models; correlated processes; heterogeneity; intermittent observation; adaptive designs; cohort studies
Methodological Issues in Event Histories Analysis
Principal investigators: Zeng, Leilei
Novel non-invasive imaging of amyloid in the retina of the eye as a predictor of amyloid in the brain in Alzheimer's disease
Principal investigators: Campbell, Melanie Crombie W; Hsiung, Ging-Yuek R
Keywords: Alzheimer'S Disease; Amyloid Biomarker; Asssessment And Diagnosis; Biomedical Engineering; Biomedical Technology; Medical Equipment And Apparatus; Neuroimaging; Optical Imaging Of The Retina; Photonics; Polarization Imaging
Early-life factors and later-life cognitive resilience: Linking evidence across a lifetime
Principal investigators: Tyas, Suzanne L
Keywords: Cognition; Early-Life Factors; Epidemiology; Life Course; Longitudinal Study; Multi-State Models
New methodology for the analysis of correlated data arising from longitudinal studies
Principal investigators: Zeng, Leilei
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Padmaja Subbarao and Malcolm Sears: 196 shared papers
- Sonia Anand and Padmaja Subbarao: 48 shared papers
- Sonia Anand and Malcolm Sears: 34 shared papers
- Padmaja Subbarao and Wendy Lou: 20 shared papers
- Michael Brauer and Hind Sbihi: 18 shared papers
- Padmaja Subbarao and Hind Sbihi: 16 shared papers
- Malcolm Sears and Hind Sbihi: 14 shared papers
- Malcolm Sears and Wendy Lou: 12 shared papers
- Padmaja Subbarao and Michael Brauer: 6 shared papers
- Sonia Anand and Michael Brauer: 5 shared papers
- Mark Oremus and Leilei Zeng: 4 shared papers
- Sonia Anand and Wendy Lou: 2 shared papers
- Sonia Anand and Leilei Zeng: 1 shared paper
- Padmaja Subbarao and Leilei Zeng: 1 shared paper
- Malcolm Sears and Leilei Zeng: 1 shared paper
- Michael Brauer and Leilei Zeng: 1 shared paper
- Mark Oremus and Nancy Newall: 1 shared paper
- Hind Sbihi and Leilei Zeng: 1 shared paper
- Wendy Lou and Leilei Zeng: 1 shared paper
- Leilei Zeng and Lan Wen: 1 shared paper
- Leilei Zeng and Nancy Newall: 1 shared paper
- Medicine
- Statistics and Actuarial Science
- School of Public Health Sciences
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- Biostatistics Division
- Other
Co-authors at University of Waterloo, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Mark Oremus
School of Public Health Sciences
4 shared papers, latest 2026
Lan Wen
Statistics and Actuarial Science
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Nancy Newall
Interdisciplinary Studies
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Padmaja Subbarao
Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Malcolm Sears
Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Sonia Anand
Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Hind Sbihi
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Wendy Lou
Biostatistics Division
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Michael Brauer
Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2015
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