Publications

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Selected Recent Publications

2026

Guo M, Mani SS, Gross AL, Karvonen-Gutierrez CA, Reeves A, Langa KM, Kobayashi LC. Age at natural menopause and cognitive aging in U.S. women: Educational attainment as a modifiable resilience factor. Maturitas. 2026 Apr;207:108884. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2026.108884

Cho TC, Westrick AC, Adar SD, Choi H, Langa KM, Kobayashi LC. Memory trajectories before and after a negative wealth shock, the United States Health and Retirement Study, 1998-2020. Am J Epidemiol. 2026 Mar 5;195(3):728-735. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwaf272

Gross AL, Mani SS, Weir D, Briceño EM, Arce Rentería M, Nichols E, Jones RN, Manly JM, Langa KM, Ikanga J, Lee J, Kobayashi LC. Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol: What makes an HCAP an HCAP? An adaptive architecture for measuring cognitive aging around the world. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2026 Feb 1;81(Supplement_1):S31-S43. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaf202

Westrick AC, Wallner LP, Gross AL, Langa KM, Kobayashi LC. Cross national comparison of memory function before and after a cancer diagnosis in the United States and England. J Cancer Surviv. 2026 Jan 17. Online ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11764-026-01969-8

2025

Mani SS, Kezios KL, Delaporte M, Cho TC, Rojas-Saunero LP, Weuve J, Avila-Rieger J, Kobayashi LC. Later-life cognitive function at the intersection of gender and occupation across Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocols (HCAPs) in the United States, Chile, Mexico, India, and South Africa. Alzheimers Dement. 2025 Nov;21(11):e70923. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70923

Zhu P, Kobayashi LC, Westrick AC. Comparison of middle aged and older cancer survivors in the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER). Cancer Causes Control. 2025 Aug;36(8):833-844. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-025-01986-5

Yu X, Zeki Al Hazzouri A, Cho TC, Zahodne LB, Gross AL, Needham BL, Langa KM, Kobayashi LC. Cumulative loneliness and memory function among U.S. older adults: the role of depressive symptoms. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2025 Jul 24;80(8):glaf143. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glaf143

Westrick AC, Yu X, O’Shea B, Kobayashi LC. Effect of social support on memory ageing of middle-aged and older cancer survivors: a marginal structural modelling approach. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2025 Jun 11;79(7):484-490. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2024-222962

Yu X, Zahodne LB, Gross AL, Needham BL, Langa KM, Cho TC, Kobayashi LC. Could differential underreporting of loneliness between men and women bias the gender-specific association between loneliness duration and rate of memory decline? A probabilistic bias analysis of effect modification. Am J Epidemiol. 2025 Mar 4;194(3):811-819. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwae186

Yu X, Jones RN, Kobayashi LC, Gross AL. Cross-national statistical harmonization of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) scale among older adults in China, England, India, Mexico, South Africa, and the United States. J Clin Epidemiol. 2025 Feb;178:111623. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2024.111623

Yu X, Gill A, Chakraborty R, Kabudula CW, Wagner RG, Bassil DT, Farrell MT, Tollman SM, Kahn K, Rosenberg MS, Kobayashi LC. Mid-Life Household Food Insecurity and Subsequent Memory Function and Rate of Decline in Rural South Africa, 2004-2022. Neuroepidemiology. 2025;59(2):110-119. https://doi.org/10.1159/000539578

2024

Rosenberg M, Beidelman ET, Chen X, Whiteson Kabudula C, Pettifor A, Bassil DT, Berkman L, Kahn K, Tollman S, Kobayashi LC. Effect of a cash transfer intervention on memory decline and dementia probability in older adults in rural South Africa. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 Oct;121(40):e2321078121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2321078121

Kobayashi LC, Peterson RL, Yu X, Avila-Rieger J, Amofa-Ho PA, Vila-Castelar C, Meza E, Shaaban CE, Whitmer RA, Gilsanz P, Mayeda ER. Life course financial mobility and later-life memory function and decline by gender, and race and ethnicity: an intersectional analysis of the US KHANDLE and STAR cohort studies. Lancet Healthy Longev. 2024 Sep;5(9):100613. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2666-7568(24)00129-6

Kobayashi LC. Adverse Childhood Experiences and Later-Life Cognitive Aging: Persistent Methodological Challenges Limit the Evidence Base. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2024 Aug 1;79(8):glae138. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glae138

Westrick AC, Ospina-Romero M, Clarke P, Langa KM, Kobayashi LC. Does Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status Alter Memory Change Associated with a Cancer Diagnosis? Preliminary Evidence from the US Health and Retirement Study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2024 Jul 1;33(7):953-960. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.epi-23-1554

Kobayashi LC, Jones RN, Briceño EM, Rentería MA, Zhang Y, Meijer E, Langa KM, Lee J, Gross AL. Cross-national comparisons of later-life cognitive function using data from the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP): Considerations and recommended best practices. Alzheimers Dement. 2024 Mar;20(3):2273-2281. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.13694

Kobayashi LC, O’Shea BQ, Wixom C, Jones RN, Langa KM, Weir D, Lee J, Wong R, Gross AL. Lifetime occupational skill and later-life cognitive function among older adults in the United States, Mexico, India, and South Africa. Alzheimers Dement. 2024 Mar;20(3):1933-1943. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.13665

Yu X, Kabudula CW, Wagner RG, Bassil DT, Farrell MT, Tollman SM, Kahn K, Berkman LF, Rosenberg MS, Kobayashi LC. Mid-life employment trajectories and subsequent memory function and rate of decline in rural South Africa, 2000-22. Int J Epidemiol. 2024 Feb 14;53(2):dyae022. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyae022

Chang H, Jock J, Rosenberg MS, Li C, Cho TC, Gaziano TA, Lisabeth L, Kobayashi LC. The Impact of the Older Person’s Grant Expansion on Hypertension Among Older Men in Rural South Africa: Findings From the HAALSI Cohort. Innov Aging. 2024 Feb 8;8(4):igae010. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igae010

2023

Yu X, Cho TC, Westrick AC, Chen C, Langa KM, Kobayashi LC. Association of cumulative loneliness with all-cause mortality among middle-aged and older adults in the United States, 1996 to 2019. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Dec 19;120(51):e2306819120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2306819120

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