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. 

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. 

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.

Tan NS, Pike JR, Bainbridge KE, McKee MM, Kobayashi LC, Clarke PJ. Hearing Difficulty, Health Literacy, and Poorer Health Among Adults in the United States: 2016 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Study. Ear Hear. 2026 Jul 2. Online ahead of print.

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. 

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;21(11):e70923. 

Guo M, Wu Y, Gross AL, Karvonen-Gutierrez C, Kobayashi LC. Age at menopause and cognitive function and decline among middle-aged and older women in the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, 2011–2018. Alzheimers Dement. 2025;21:e14580. 

Cho TC, Yu X, Adar SD, Choi H, Langa KM, Kobayashi LC. Changes in marital and health status as risk factors for a subsequent negative wealth shock: A population-based longitudinal study in the United States, 1995-2020. Soc Sci Med. 2025;371:117905.

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;36(8):833-844. 

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;80(8):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;79(7):484-490.

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;194(3):811-819.

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;178:111623.

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.

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.

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;5(9):100613. 

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;79(8):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;33(7):953-960. 

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;20(3):2273-2281. 

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. 

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;53(2):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;8(4):igae010.