Publications

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2023

Yu X, Westrick AC, Kobayashi LC. Cumulative loneliness and subsequent memory function and rate of decline among adults aged ≥50 in the United States, 1996 to 2016: Cumulative loneliness and memory aging in the US: Cumulative loneliness and memory aging in the US. Alzheimers Dement. 2023 Feb;19(2):578-588. doi: 10.1002/alz.12734. Epub 2022 Aug 3. PMID: 35920364; PMCID: PMC9895124.

Joseph CA, Kobayashi LC, Frain LN, Finlay JM. “I Can’t Take Any Chances”: A Mixed Methods Study of Frailty, Isolation, Worry, and Loneliness Among Aging Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic. J Appl Gerontol. 2023 Jan 9:7334648221147918. doi: 10.1177/07334648221147918. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36621930; PMCID: PMC9850116.

2022

Westrick AC, Langa KM, Kobayashi LC. The association of health behaviors prior to cancer diagnosis and functional aging trajectories after diagnosis: Longitudinal cohort study of middle-aged and older US cancer survivors. Prev Med Rep. 2022 Dec 1;31:102083. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.102083. PMID: 36505272; PMCID: PMC9732401.

Kobayashi LC, Kabudula CW, Kabeto MU, Yu X, Tollman SM, Kahn K, Berkman LF, Rosenberg MS. Long-term household material socioeconomic resources and cognitive health in a population-based cohort of older adults in rural northeast South Africa, 2001-2015. SSM Popul Health. 2022 Oct 10;20:101263. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101263. PMID: 36281246; PMCID: PMC9587313.

Cheng GJ, Wagner AL, O’Shea BQ, Joseph CA, Finlay JM, Kobayashi LC. Multimorbidity and Mental Health Trajectories Among Middle-Aged and Older U.S. Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Longitudinal Findings From the COVID-19 Coping Study. Innov Aging. 2022 Jul 30;6(5):igac047. doi: 10.1093/geroni/igac047. PMID: 36035631; PMCID: PMC9403728.

Joseph CA, O’Shea BQ, Eastman MR, Finlay JM, Kobayashi LC. Physical isolation and mental health among older US adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: longitudinal findings from the COVID-19 Coping Study. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2022 Jun;57(6):1273-1282. doi: 10.1007/s00127-022-02248-4. Epub 2022 Mar 4. PMID: 35244741; PMCID: PMC8895362.

Bustamante G, Guzman V, Kobayashi LC, Finlay J. Mental health and well-being in times of COVID-19: A mixed-methods study of the role of neighborhood parks, outdoor spaces, and nature among US older adults. Health Place. 2022 May 24;76:102813. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102813. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35623164; PMCID: PMC9127349.

Ford KJ, Kobayashi LC, Leist AK. Childhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Pathways to Memory Performance in Mid to Late Adulthood: What Matters Most? J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2022 May 18:gbac075. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbac075. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35583218.

Kobayashi LC, Westrick AC, Doshi A, Ellis KR, Jones CR, LaPensee E, Mondul AM, Mullins MA, Wallner LP. Reply to “Noncancer comparators in cancer survivorship studies”. Cancer. 2022 May 3. doi: 10.1002/cncr.34254. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35503812.

Kobayashi LC, Westrick AC, Doshi A, Ellis KR, Jones CR, LaPensee E, Mondul AM, Mullins MA, Wallner LP. New directions in cancer and aging: State of the science and recommendations to improve the quality of evidence on the intersection of aging with cancer control. Cancer. 2022 May 1;128(9):1730-1737. doi: 10.1002/cncr.34143. Epub 2022 Feb 23. PMID: 35195912; PMCID: PMC9007869.

Kobayashi LC, O’Shea BQ, Joseph C, Finlay JM. Acute relationships between mental health and cognitive function during the COVID-19 pandemic: Longitudinal evidence from middle-aged and older US adults. SSM Ment Health. 2022 Apr 8;2:100097. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmmh.2022.100097. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35434675; PMCID: PMC8993427.

Yu X, Langa KM, Cho T, Kobayashi LC. Association of Perceived Job Insecurity With Subsequent Memory Function and Decline Among Adults 55 Years or Older in England and the US, 2006 to 2016. JAMA Netw Open. 2022;5(4):e227060. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.7060.

Henning-Smith C, Meltzer G, Kobayashi LC, Finlay JM. Rural/urban differences in mental health and social well-being among older US adults in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Aging Ment Health. 2022 Apr 4:1-7. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2022.2060184. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35369828.

Westrick AC, Langa KM, Eastman M, Ospina-Romero M, Mullins MA, Kobayashi LC. Functional aging trajectories of older cancer survivors: a latent growth analysis of the US Health and Retirement Study. J Cancer Surviv. 2022 Feb 26. doi: 10.1007/s11764-022-01185-0. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35218520.

Vonk JMJ, Gross AL, Zammit AR, Bertola L, Avila JF, Jutten RJ, Gaynor LS, Suemoto CK, Kobayashi LC, O’Connell ME, Elugbadebo O, Amofa PA, Staffaroni AM, Arce Rentería M, Turney IC, Jones RN, Manly JJ, Lee J, Zahodne LB. Cross-national harmonization of cognitive measures across HRS HCAP (USA) and LASI-DAD (India). PLoS One. 2022 Feb 25;17(2):e0264166. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264166. PMID: 35213581; PMCID: PMC8880818.

Kobayashi LC, Westrick AC, Doshi A, Ellis KR, Jones CR, LaPensee E, Mondul AM, Mullins MA, Wallner LP. New directions in cancer and aging: State of the science and recommendations to improve the quality of evidence on the intersection of aging with cancer control. Cancer. 2022 Feb 23. doi: 10.1002/cncr.34143. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35195912.

Eastman MR, Ospina-Romero M, Westrick AC, Kler JS, Glymour MM, Abdiwahab E, Kobayashi LC. Does a Cancer Diagnosis in Mid-to-Later Life Modify Racial Disparities in Memory Aging? Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord. 2022 Feb 4. doi: 10.1097/WAD.0000000000000493. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35125398.

Wagner AL, Porth JM, Wu Z, Boulton ML, Finlay JM, Kobayashi LC. Vaccine Hesitancy During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Latent Class Analysis of Middle-Aged and Older US Adults. J Community Health. 2022 Jan 25:1–8. doi: 10.1007/s10900-022-01064-w. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35079933.

Truskinovsky Y, Finlay JM, Kobayashi LC. Caregiving in a Pandemic: COVID-19 and the Well-Being of Family Caregivers 55+ in the United States. Med Care Res Rev. 2022 Jan 10:10775587211062405. doi: 10.1177/10775587211062405. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35001714.

2021

Gallo HB, Kobayashi LC, Finlay JM. Older Americans’ Perceptions of the Federal Government’s Pandemic Response: Voices From the COVID-19 Coping Study. Res Aging. 2021 Dec 30:1640275211062111. doi: 10.1177/01640275211062111. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34967234.

Hayes-Larson E, Shaw C, Ackley SF, Zimmerman SC, Glymour MM, Graff RE, Witte JS, Kobayashi L, Mayeda ER. The role of dementia diagnostic delay in the inverse cancer-dementia association. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2021 Nov 12:glab341. doi: 10.1093/gerona/glab341. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34788817.

Finlay JM, Meltzer G, Cannon M, Kobayashi LC. Aging in Place During a Pandemic: Neighborhood Engagement and Environments Since the COVID-19 Pandemic Onset. The Gerontologist. 2021 Nov 12:gnab169. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnab169. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34788816.

Booth MJ, Kobayashi LC, Janevic MR, Clauw D, Piette JD. No increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease among people with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases: findings from a longitudinal cohort study of U.S. older adults. BMC Rheumatol. 2021 Nov 12;5(1):48. doi: 10.1186/s41927-021-00219-x. PMID: 34763722; PMCID: PMC8588609.

Mullins MA, Kler JS, Eastman MR, Kabeto M, Wallner LP, Kobayashi LC. Validation of Self-reported Cancer Diagnoses Using Medicare Diagnostic Claims in the US Health and Retirement Study, 2000-2016. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2021 Nov 4. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-21-0835. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34737206.

Payne CF, Kobayashi LC. Changes in life expectancy and disability-free life expectancy in successive birth cohorts of older cancer survivors: a longitudinal modeling analysis of the US Health and Retirement Study. Am J Epidemiol. 2021 Oct 6:kwab241. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwab241. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34613389.

Kobayashi LC, Morris EP, Harling G, Farrell MT, Kabeto MU, Wagner RG, Berkman LF. Subjective social position and cognitive function in a longitudinal cohort of older, rural South African adults, 2014-2019. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2021 Sep 23:jech-2021-217059. doi: 10.1136/jech-2021-217059. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34556542.

Booth MJ, Janevic MR, Kobayashi LC, Clauw DJ, Piette JD. No association between rheumatoid arthritis and cognitive impairment in a cross-sectional national sample of older U.S. adults. BMC Rheumatol. 2021 Aug 18;5(1):24. doi: 10.1186/s41927-021-00198-z. PMID: 34404491; PMCID: PMC8371766.

Finlay J, Esposito M, Li M, Kobayashi LC, Khan AM, Gomez-Lopez I, Melendez R, Colabianchi N, Judd S, Clarke PJ. Can Neighborhood Social Infrastructure Modify Cognitive Function? A Mixed-Methods Study of Urban-Dwelling Aging Americans. J Aging Health. 2021 Oct;33(9):772-785. doi: 10.1177/08982643211008673. Epub 2021 Jul 23. PMID: 34301156.

O’Shea BQ, Finlay JM, Kler J, Joseph CA, Kobayashi LC. Loneliness Among US Adults Aged ≥55 Early in the COVID-19 Pandemic : Findings From the COVID-19 Coping Study. Public Health Rep. 2021 Jul 20:333549211029965. doi: 10.1177/00333549211029965. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34283657.

Yu X, Zhang W, Kobayashi LC. Duration of subjective poverty in relation to subsequent cognitive performance and decline among adults aged ≥64 in China, 2005-2018. Soc Sci Med. 2021 Aug;283:114188. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114188. Epub 2021 Jun 30. PMID: 34225036; PMCID: PMC8325638.

Yu X, Zhang W, Kobayashi LC. Duration of Poverty and Subsequent Cognitive Function and Decline Among Older Adults in China, 2005-2018. Neurology. 2021 Aug 17;97(7):e739-e746. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000012343. Epub 2021 Jun 7. PMID: 34099525; PMCID: PMC8377873.

Eastman MR, Finlay JM, Kobayashi LC. Alcohol Use and Mental Health among Older American Adults during the Early Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Apr 16;18(8):4222. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18084222. PMID: 33923483; PMCID: PMC8073103.

Finlay JM, Kler JS, O’Shea BQ, Eastman MR, Vinson YR, Kobayashi LC. Coping During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study of Older Adults Across the United States. Front Public Health. 2021 Apr 7;9:643807. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.643807. PMID: 33898379; PMCID: PMC8058195.

Abrams LR, Finlay JM, Kobayashi LC. Job transitions and mental health outcomes among US adults aged 55 and older during the COVID-19 pandemic. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2021 Apr 10:gbab060. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbab060. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33837416; PMCID: PMC8083363.

Jennings EA, Farrell MT, Kobayashi LC. Grandchild Caregiving and Cognitive Health Among Grandparents in Rural South Africa. J Aging Health. 2021 Mar 31:8982643211006592. doi: 10.1177/08982643211006592. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33788664.

Reppas-Rindlisbacher C, Finlay JM, Mahar AL, Siddhpuria S, Hallet J, Rochon PA, Kobayashi LC. Worries, attitudes, and mental health of older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: Canadian and U.S. perspectives. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2021 May;69(5):1147-1154. doi: 10.1111/jgs.17105. Epub 2021 Mar 18. PMID: 33738789.

Shaw C, Hayes-Larson E, Glymour MM, Dufouil C, Hohman TJ, Whitmer RA, Kobayashi LC, Brookmeyer R, Mayeda ER. Evaluation of Selective Survival and Sex/Gender Differences in Dementia Incidence Using a Simulation Model. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Mar 1;4(3):e211001. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.1001. PMID: 33687445; PMCID: PMC7944377.

Kobayashi LC, Farrell MT, Langa KM, Mahlalela N, Wagner RG, Berkman LF. Incidence of Cognitive Impairment during Aging in Rural South Africa: Evidence from HAALSI, 2014 to 2019. Neuroepidemiology. 2021;55(2):100-108. doi: 10.1159/000513276. Epub 2021 Mar 3. PMID: 33657567; PMCID: PMC8058235.

Booth MJ, Clauw D, Janevic MR, Kobayashi LC, Piette JD. Validation of Self-Reported Rheumatoid Arthritis Using Medicare Claims: A Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study of Older Adults. ACR Open Rheumatol. 2021 Apr;3(4):239-249. doi: 10.1002/acr2.11229. Epub 2021 Feb 23. PMID: 33621434; PMCID: PMC8063145.

Kobayashi LC, O’Shea BQ, Kler JS, Nishimura R, Palavicino-Maggio CB, Eastman MR, Vinson YR, Finlay JM. Cohort profile: the COVID-19 Coping Study, a longitudinal mixed-methods study of middle-aged and older adults’ mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA. BMJ Open. 2021 Feb 10;11(2):e044965. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-044965. PMID: 33568377; PMCID: PMC7878052.

O’Shea BQ, Demakakos P, Cadar D, Kobayashi LC. Adverse Childhood Experiences and Rate of Memory Decline From Mid to Later-Life: Evidence From the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Am J Epidemiol. 2021 Feb 4:kwab019. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwab019. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33534903.

Banack HR, Lesko CR, Whitcomb BC, Kobayashi LC. Teaching Epidemiology Online (Pandemic Edition). Am J Epidemiol. 2020 Dec 23:kwaa285. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwaa285. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33354713; PMCID: PMC7799241.

Kobayashi LC, Gross AL, Gibbons LE, Tommet D, Sanders RE, Choi SE, Mukherjee S, Glymour MM, Manly JJ, Berkman LF, Crane PK, Mungas DM, Jones RN. You say tomato, I say radish: can brief cognitive assessments in the US Health Retirement Study be harmonized with its International Partner Studies? J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2020 Nov 29:gbaa205. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbaa205. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33249448.

Ospina-Romero M, Brenowitz WD, Glymour MM, Mayeda ER, Graff RE, Witte JS, Ackley SF, Lu KP, Kobayashi LC. The Association Between Cancer and Spousal Rate of Memory Decline: A Negative Control Study to Evaluate (Unmeasured) Social Confounding of the Cancer-memory Relationship. Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord. 2021 Jul-Sep 01;35(3):271-274. doi: 10.1097/WAD.0000000000000398. PMID: 32568784; PMCID: PMC7749066.

2020

Ospina-Romero M, Glymour MM, Hayes-Larson E, Mayeda ER, Graff RE, Brenowitz WD, Ackley SF, Witte JS, Kobayashi LC. Association Between Alzheimer Disease and Cancer With Evaluation of Study Biases: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Nov 2;3(11):e2025515. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.25515. PMID: 33185677; PMCID: PMC7666424.

Asiimwe SB, Farrell M, Kobayashi LC, Manne-Goehler J, Kahn K, Tollman SM, Kabudula CW, Gómez-Olivé FX, Wagner RG, Montana L, Berkman LF, Glymour MM, Bärnighausen T. Cognitive differences associated with HIV serostatus and antiretroviral therapy use in a population-based sample of older adults in South Africa. Sci Rep. 2020 Oct 6;10(1):16625. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-73689-7. PMID: 33024208; PMCID: PMC7539005.

Masters NB, Shih SF, Bukoff A, Akel KB, Kobayashi LC, Miller AL, Harapan H, Lu Y, Wagner AL. Social distancing in response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the United States. PLoS One. 2020 Sep 11;15(9):e0239025. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239025. PMID: 32915884; PMCID: PMC7485770.

Hayes-Larson E, Ackley SF, Zimmerman SC, Ospina-Romero M, Glymour MM, Graff RE, Witte JS, Kobayashi LC, Mayeda ER. The competing risk of death and selective survival cannot fully explain the inverse cancer-dementia association. Alzheimers Dement. 2020 Sep 3. doi: 10.1002/alz.12168. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32881307.

Kobayashi LC, Farrell MT, Payne CF, Mall S, Montana L, Wagner RG, Kahn K, Tollman SM, Berkman LF. Adverse childhood experiences and domain-specific cognitive function in a population-based study of older adults in rural South Africa. Psychol Aging 2020 35(6):818-30.

Kobayashi LC, Cohen HJ, Zhai W, Zhou X, Small BJ, Luta G, Hurria A, Carroll J, Tometich D, McDonald B, Graham D, Jim HSL, Root JC, Saykin AJ, Ahles TA, Mandelblatt J. Cognitive function prior to systemic therapy and subsequent well-being in older breast cancer survivors: longitudinal findings from the Thinking and Living with Cancer study. Psycho-oncology 2020;29(6):1051-9. doi: 10.1002/pon.5376

Ospina-Romero M, Glymour MM, Hayes-Larson E, Mayeda ER, Graff RE, Brenowitz WD, Ackley SF, Witte J, Kobayashi LC. Association between cancer and Alzheimer’s disease with evaluation of study biases: systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA Network Open 2020;3(11):e2025515. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.25515

Finn BM, Kobayashi LC. Structural inequality in the time of COVID-19: segregation, urbanization, and pandemic control in sub-Saharan Africa. Dialogues Hum Geogr 2020;10(2):217-220.

Rosenberg M, Gómez-Olivé FX, Wagner R, Rohr J, Payne C, Berkman L, Kahn K, Tollman S, Bärnighausen T, Kobayashi LC. The relationships between cognitive function, literacy, and HIV status knowledge among older adults in rural South Africa. J Int Aids Soc 2020;23(3):e25457.

Harling G, Kobayashi LC, Farrell MT, Wagner RG, Berkman LF. Social contact, social support, and cognitive health in a population-based study of middle-aged and older men and women in rural South Africa. Soc Sci Med 2020;260:113167.

Farrell MT, Kobayashi LC, Montana L, Wagner RG, Demeyere N, Berkman L. Education disparity only partially explains cognitive gender differences in older rural South Africans. J Gerontol B Soc Sci Psychol Sci 2020;75(7):e161-e173. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbaa035

Hayes-Larson E, Ackley SF, Zimmerman SC, Ospina-Romero M, Glymour MM, Graff RE, Witte FS, Kobayashi LC, Mayeda ER. The competing risk of death and selective survival cannot fully explain the inverse cancer-dementia association. Alzheimer Dement 2020 [Epub ahead of print] doi: 10.1002/alz.12168

Payne CF, Mall S, Kobayashi LC, Kahn K, Berkman LF. Life-course trauma and later-life health in a post-apartheid South African population. J Aging Health 2020 doi: 10.1177/0898264320913450 [Epub ahead of print]

2019

Kobayashi LC, Altindag OA, Truskinovsky Y, Berkman LF. Effects of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on subjective well-being in the US adult population, 2010-2016. Am J Public Health 2019; 109(9): 1236-42. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305164

Kobayashi LC, Mateen FJ, Montana L, Wagner RG, Kahn K, Tollman SM, Berkman LF. Cognitive function and impairment in older, rural South African adults: Evidence from “Health and Aging in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in Rural South Africa” (HAALSI). Neuroepidemiol 2019; 52(1-2):32-40. doi: 10.1159/000493483

Kobayashi LC, Berkman LF, Wagner RG, Kahn K, Tollman SM, Subramanian SV. Education modifies the relationship between height and cognitive function in a cross-sectional, population-based study of older adults in rural South Africa. Eur J Epidemiol 2019;34(2): doi: 1007/s10654-018-0453-1131-9

Kobayashi LC, Feldman JM. Employment trajectories in midlife and cognitive performance in later life: longitudinal study of older American men and women. J Epidemiol Community Health 2019;73(3):232-238. doi: 10.1136/jech-2018-211153

Kobayashi LC, Frank S, Ruimallo-Herl C, Canning D, Berkman LF. Socioeconomic gradients in chronic disease risk behaviors in a population-based study of older adults in rural South Africa. Int J Public Health 2019;64(1):135-145. doi: 10.1007/s00038-018-1173-8.

Ospina-Romero M, Abdhiwahab E, Kobayashi L, Filshtein T, Brenowitz WD, Mayeda ER, Glymour MM. Rate of memory change before and after cancer diagnosis. JAMA Netw Open. 2019;2(6):e196160.

Houle B, Gaziano T, Farrell M, Gomez-Olive FX, Kobayashi LC, Crowther NJ, Wade AN, Montana L, Wagner RG, Berkman L, Tollman SM. Cognitive function and cardiometabolic disease risk factors in rural South Africa: baseline evidence from the HAALSI study. BMC Public Health 2019;19(1):1579.

Dodd RH, Kobayashi LC, von Wagner C. Perceived life expectancy and colorectal cancer screening intentions and behaviour: a population-based UK study. Prev Med Rep 2019;16:101002. doi:10.1016/j.pmedr.2019.101002

Tometich D, Small BJ, Carroll JE, Zhai W, Luta G, Zhou X, Kobayashi LC, Ahles T, Saykin AJ, Clapp JD, Jim HSL, Jacobsen PB, Hurria A, Graham D, McDonald BC, Denduluri N, Extermann M, Isaacs C, Dilawari A, Root J, Rini C, Mandelblatt JS; Thinking and Living with Cancer (TLC) Study. Pre-treatment neuropsychological symptoms and their association with longitudinal cognitive function and quality of life in older breast cancer survivors. J Pain Symp Manage 2019;57(3):596-606. doi: 10.1200/JCO.18.00140

Schuetz JM, Grundy A, Lee DG, Lai AS, Kobayashi LC, Richardson H, Long J, Zheng W, Aronson KJ, Spinelli JJ, Brooks-Wilson AR. Genetic variants in genes related to inflammation, apoptosis and autophagy in breast cancer risk. PLOS One 2019;14(1):e0209010. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209010

2018

Kobayashi LC, Steptoe A. Social isolation, loneliness, and health behaviors at older ages: longitudinal cohort study. Ann Behav Med 2018;52:582-593.

Finlay JM, Kobayashi LC. Social isolation and loneliness in later-life: a parallel convergent mixed-methods case study of older adults and their residential contexts in the Minneapolis metropolitan area, USA. Soc Sci Med 2018;208:25-33.

Mandelblatt JS, Small BJ, Luta G, Hurria A, Jim H, McDonald BC, Graham D, Zhou X, Clapp J, Zhai W, Breen E, Carroll JE, Denduluri N, Dilawari A, Extermann M, Isaacs C, Jacobsen PB, Kobayashi LC, Holohan Nudelman K, Root J, Stern RA, Tometich D, Turner R, VanMeter JW, Saykin AJ, Ahles T. Cancer-related cognitive outcomes among older breast cancer survivors in the Thinking and Living with Cancer Study. J Clin Oncol 2018; doi: 10.1200/JCO.18.00140 [Epub ahead of print].

Payne CF, Davies JI, Gomez-Olive FX, Hands KJ, Kahn K, Kobayashi LC, Tipping B, Tollman SM, Wade A, Witham MD. Cross-sectional relationship between haemoglobin concentration and measures of physical and cognitive function in an older rural South African population. J Epidemiol Community Health 2018;72(9):796-802.

Smith SG, Jackson SE, Kobayashi LC, Steptoe A. Social isolation, health literacy, and mortality risk: findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Health Psychol 2018;37(2):160-169.

Vrinten C, Boniface D, Lo SH, Kobayashi LC, von Wagner C, Waller J. Does psychosocial stress exacerbate avoidant responses to cancer information in those who are afraid of cancer? A population-based survey among older adults in the UK. Psychol Health 2018;33(1):117-129.

2017

Kobayashi LC, Glymour MM, Kahn K, Payne CF, Wagner RG, Montana L, Mateen FJ, Tollman SM, Berkman LF. Childhood deprivation and later-life cognitive function in a population-based study of older, rural South Africans. Soc Sci Med 2017;190:20-28.

Kobayashi LC, Jackson SE, Lee SJ, Wardle J, Steptoe A. The development and validation of a 10-year mortality risk index in a longitudinal cohort of older English adults. Age Ageing 2017;46(3):427-432.

Kobayashi LC, von Wagner C, Wardle J. Perceived life expectancy is associated with colorectal cancer screening uptake in England. Ann Behav Med 2017;51:327-336.

Shi J*, Kobayashi LC*, Grundy A, Richardson H, SenGupta S, Lohrisch C, Spinelli JJ, Aronson KJ. Lifetime moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and ER/PR/HER2-defined post-menopausal breast cancer risk. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2017;165(1):201-213. *co-first authors

Hirst Y, Skrobanksi H, Kerrison R, Kobayashi LC, Counsell N, Djedovic N, Ruwende J, Stewart M, von Wagner C. Text-message reminders in colorectal cancer screening (TRICCS): a randomised controlled trial. Br J Cancer 2017;116:1408-1414.

Smith SG, Foy R, McGowan J, Kobayashi LC, Burn J, Brown K, Side L, Cuzick J. General practitioner attitudes towards prescribing aspirin to carriers of Lynch Syndrome: findings from a national survey. Fam Cancer 2017;16(4):509-516.

Smith SG, Foy R, McGowan JA, Kobayashi LC, Brown K, de Censi A, Side L, Cuzick J. Prescribing tamoxifen in primary care for the prevention of breast cancer: a national online survey of GPs’ attitudes. Br J Gen Pract 2017;67:e414-e427.

2016

Kobayashi LC, Wardle J, Wolf MS, von Wagner C. Aging and functional health literacy: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 2016;71(3):445-457.

Kobayashi LC, Wardle J, Wolf MS, von Wagner C. Health literacy and moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity during ageing, 2004-13. Am J Prev Med 2016;51(4):463-472.

Kobayashi LC, Waller J, von Wagner C, Wardle J. A lack of information engagement among non-participants in colorectal cancer screening: cross-sectional survey. BMC Public Health 2016;6:659.

Kobayashi LC, Smith SG. Cancer fatalism, literacy, and cancer information seeking in the American public. Health Educ Behav 2016;43(4):461-470.

Smith SG, Kobayashi LC, Wolf MS, Raine R, Wardle J, von Wagner C. The associations between objective numeracy and colorectal cancer screening knowledge, attitudes and defensive processing in a deprived community sample. J Health Psychol 2016;21(8):1665-1675.

Boyle T, Fritschi L, Kobayashi LC, Heyworth JS, Lee DG, Si S, Aronson KJ, Spinelli JJ. Sedentary work and the risk of breast cancer in pre- and post-menopausal women: a pooled analysis of two case-control studies. Occ Environ Med 2016;73:735-741.

Shi J, Aronson KJ, Grundy A, Kobayashi LC, Burstyn I, Scheutz JM, Lohrisch CA, SenGupta SK, Lai AS, Brooks-Wilson A, Spinelli J, Richardson H. Polymorphisms of insulin-like growth factor 1 pathway genes and breast cancer risk. Front Oncol 2016;6:136.

Hirst Y, Kerrison R, Kobayashi LC, Djedovic N, Ruwende J, Stewart M, Wardle J, von Wagner C. Primary care-based text reminders in colorectal cancer screening (TRICCS): protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMC Public Health 2016;16(1):74.

2015

Kobayashi LC, von Wagner C. Health literacy during aging. J Gen Intern Med 2015; 30(12):1732.

Kobayashi LC, Wardle J, Wolf MS, von Wagner C. Cognitive function and health literacy decline in a cohort of older English adults. J Gen Intern Med 2015;30(7):958-964.

Kobayashi LC, Smith SG, O’Conor R, Curtis LM, Park D, von Wagner C, Deary IJ, Wolf MS. The role of cognitive function in the relationship between age and health literacy: a cross-sectional analysis of older adults in Chicago, USA. BMJ Open 2015;5(4):e007222.

Kobayashi LC, Wardle J, von Wagner C. Internet use, social engagement, and health literacy decline during ageing in a longitudinal cohort of older English adults. J Epidemiol Community Health 2015;69:278-283.

Lo SH, Waller J, Vrinten C, Kobayashi LC, von Wagner C. Social cognitive mediators of sociodemographic differences in colorectal cancer screening uptake. Biomed Res Int 2015; 2015:165074.

Smith SG, Forster A, Kobayashi LC. Predictors of human papillomavirus awareness and knowledge in 2013: the importance of health literacy. Am J Prev Med 2015;49(1):e5-e7.

Solmi F, von Wagner C, Kobayashi LC, Wardle J, Raine R, Morris S. Decomposing socio-economic inequality in colorectal cancer screening uptake in England. Soc Sci Med 2015;134:76-86.

2014

Kobayashi LC, Wardle J, von Wagner C. Limited health literacy is a barrier to colorectal cancer screening in England: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Prev Med 2014;61:100-105.

Kobayashi LC, Janssen I, Richardson H, Lai AS, Spinelli JJ, Aronson KJ. A case-control study of lifetime light intensity physical activity and breast cancer risk. Cancer Causes Control 2014;25(1):133-140.

Wallingford S, Jones G, Kobayashi LC, Grundy A, Miao Q, Tranmer J, Aronson KJ. UV and dietary predictors of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations among young working nurses and implications for bone density and skin cancer. Public Health Nutr 2014;17(4):772-779.

2011-2013

Kobayashi LC, Janssen I, Richardson H, Lai AS, Spinelli JJ, Aronson KJ. Moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity across the life course and risk of pre- and post-menopausal breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2013;139:851-861.

Kobayashi LC, Limburg H, Miao Q, Bedard L, Woolcott C, Massey TE, Aronson KJ. Folate intake, alcohol consumption, and the methylenetetrahydrofolate (MTHFR) C677T gene polymorphism: influence on prostate cancer risk and interactions. Front Oncol 2012;2:100.

Kobayashi LC. The future of primary cancer prevention in Canada: Reaching for every ounce of prevention means reaching for equity. Health Science Inquiry 2011;2:52-3.
(Winner: Top Cancer Prevention Submission, 2011)