He focuses his research on age-related arterial changes and their clinical manifestations, and, more specifically, on the role of telomere dynamics on arterial aging, on the contribution of vascular aging on physical and cognitive frailty, as well as on the management of hypertension in the very elderly.
Since 2015, Pr. Athanase Benetos is the Director of the Federation Hospital/University on Cardiac and Arterial Aging (FHU-CARTAGE).
He has authored 430, papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals (Google Scholar H index 102). In 2010 he published the book “ABCDaire du futur centenaire” (Robert Laffont, Paris). In 2019 he co-edited “The Cambridge Handbook of Successful Aging” (Cambridge University Press).