Jessica Gong

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Journal article: BRAIN COMMUNICATIONS. 2025;7(2):fcaf097
Unraveling the role of proteins in dementia: insights from two UK cohorts with causal evidence
Gong J; Williams DM; Scholes S; Assaad S; Bu F; Hayat S; Zaninotto P; Steptoe A
Journal article: JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES. 2025;80(3):gbaf004
Prosocial Intentions and Subsequent Cognitive Health: A Prospective Cohort Study
Farmer JG; Macchia L; Bu F; Gong J; Steptoe A; Demakakos P; Kubzansky LD
Journal article: BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND IMMUNITY. 2025;124:85-94
Protein signatures associated with loneliness and social isolation: Plasma proteome analyses in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, with causal evidence from Mendelian randomization
Gong J; Preminger Z; Steptoe A; Fancourt D
Journal article: CEREBRAL CIRCULATION - COGNITION AND BEHAVIOR. 2025;8:100372
Effect of randomised blood pressure lowering treatment and intensive glucose control on dementia and cognitive decline according to baseline cognitive function and other subpopulations of individuals with type 2 diabetes: Results from the ADVANCE trial.
Harris K; Gong J; MacMahon S; Xu Y; Shajahan S; Harrap S; Poulter N; Marre M; Hamet P; Mancia G; Anderson C; Woodward M; Chalmers J
Journal article: ALZHEIMER'S AND DEMENTIA: TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH AND CLINICAL INTERVENTIONS. 2025;11(1):e70037
Data-driven discovery of associations between prescribed drugs and dementia risk: A systematic review
Underwood BR; Lourida I; Gong J; Tamburin S; Tang EYH; Sidhom E; Tai XY; Betts MJ; Ranson JM; Zachariou M; Olaleye OE; Das S; Oxtoby NP; Chen S; Llewellyn DJ; Deep DPDEMON
Journal article: LANCET REGIONAL HEALTH-WESTERN PACIFIC. 2024;50:101202
Understanding dementia in the Western Pacific: a region-specific approach to prevention
Gong J
Journal article: BMJ OPEN. 2024;14(2):e074575
Trends of mean systolic and diastolic blood pressure among adults in Shenzhen, China, 1997-2018: findings from three rounds of the population-based survey
Peng K; Cai W; Liu X; Liu Y; Ouyang M; Gong J; Wang Z; Wang Y; Hao J; Wang W; Zhao H; Lin K; Han G; Shi Y; Xie Y; Xie Y; Lei L; Si L
Journal article: THE JOURNAL OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH. 2023;13:100258
Climate change and its implications for developing brains - In utero to youth: A scoping review
Kidd SA; Gong J; Massazza A; Bezgrebelna M; Zhang Y; Hajat S
Article: ALZHEIMERS & DEMENTIA. 2023;19(8):3365-3378
Sex differences in dementia risk and risk factors: Individual-participant data analysis using 21 cohorts across six continents from the COSMIC consortium
Gong J; Harris K; Lipnicki DM; Castro-Costa E; Lima-Costa MF; Diniz BS; Xiao S; Lipton RB; Katz MJ; Wang C; Preux P-M; Guerchet M; Gbessemehlan A; Ritchie K; Ancelin M-L; Skoog I; Najar J; Sterner TR; Scarmeas N; Yannakoulia M; Kosmidis MH; Guaita A; Rolandi E; Davin A; Gureje O; Trompet S; Gussekloo J; Riedel-Heller S; Pabst A; Rohr S; Shahar S; Singh DKA; Rivan NFM; van Boxtel M; Kohler S; Ganguli M; Chang C-C; Jacobsen E; Haan M; Ding D; Zhao Q; Xiao Z; Narazaki K; Chen T; Chen S; Ng TP; Gwee X; Numbers K; Mather KA; Scazufca M; Lobo A; De-la-Camara C; Lobo E; Sachdev PS; Brodaty H; Hackett ML; Peters SAE; Woodward M
Journal article: JAMA NEUROLOGY. 2023;80(8):769
A Call to Action to Address Sex Differences in Alzheimer Disease Clinical Trials
Buckley RF; Gong J; Woodward M
Journal article: JOURNAL OF HUMAN HYPERTENSION. 2023;37(3):181-188
Clinical outcomes by atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk score and blood pressure level in high risk individuals with type 2 diabetes
Harris K; Muntner P; Woodward M; Jun M; Oshima M; Gong J; Harrap S; Menard J; Chalmers J
Journal article: EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL. 2022;43(48):4980-4990
Blood pressure lowering and prevention of dementia: an individual patient data meta-analysis
Peters R; Xu Y; Fitzgerald O; Aung HL; Beckett N; Bulpitt C; Chalmers J; Forette F; Gong J; Harris K; Humburg P; Matthews FE; Staessen JA; Thijs L; Tzourio C; Warwick J; Woodward M; Anderson CS
Journal article: ECLINICALMEDICINE. 2022;54:101695
Serum lipid traits and the risk of dementia: A cohort study of 254,575 women and 214,891 men in the UK Biobank
Gong J; Harris K; Peters SAE; Woodward M
Journal article: PLOS MEDICINE. 2022;19(4):e1003955
Reproductive factors and the risk of incident dementia: A cohort study of UK Biobank participants
Gong J; Harris K; Peters SAE; Woodward M
Journal article: BMJ NEUROLOGY OPEN. 2022;4(2):e000261
Dementia clinical trials over the past decade: are women fairly represented?
Pinho-Gomes A-C; Gong J; Harris K; Woodward M; Carcel C
Journal article: FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH. 2022;10:887065
Trends of Hypercholesterolemia Change in Shenzhen, China During 1997-2018
Peng K; Cai W; Liu X; Liu Y; Shi Y; Gong J; Lei L; Peng J; Xie Y; Zhao H; Si L; Ouyang M
Journal article: FRONTIERS IN GLOBAL WOMEN'S HEALTH. 2022;3:942876
Contextualising sex and gender research to improve women's health: An early- and mid-career researcher perspective
Hallam L; McKenzie BL; Gong J; Carcel C; Hockham C
Journal article: ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL. 2022;159:107027
Current and future burdens of heat-related dementia hospital admissions in England
Gong J; Part C; Hajat S
Journal article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STROKE. 2021;17(8):863-872
Sex differences in predictors for cognitive decline and dementia in people with stroke or transient ischemic attack in the PROGRESS trial
Gong J; Harris K; Tzourio C; Harrap S; Naismith S; Anderson CS; Chalmers J; Woodward M
Journal article: DIABETES OBESITY & METABOLISM. 2021;23(8)
Cover Image, Volume 23, Issue 8
Gong J; Harris K; Hackett M; Peters SAE; Brodaty H; Cooper M; Hamet P; Harrap S; Mancia G; MacMahon S; Chalmers J; Woodward M
Journal article: DIABETES OBESITY & METABOLISM. 2021;23(8):1775-1785
Sex differences in risk factors for cognitive decline and dementia, including death as a competing risk, in individuals with diabetes: Results from the ADVANCE trial
Gong J; Harris K; Hackett M; Peters SAE; Brodaty H; Cooper M; Hamet P; Harrap S; Mancia G; MacMahon S; Chalmers J; Woodward M
Journal article: BMC PSYCHIATRY. 2021;21(1):270
Who is the main caregiver of the mother during the doing-the-month: is there an association with postpartum depression?
Peng K; Zhou L; Liu X; Ouyang M; Gong J; Wang Y; Shi Y; Chen J; Li Y; Sun M; Wang Y; Lin W; Yuan S; Wu B; Si L
Journal article: BMC MEDICINE. 2021;19(1):110
Sex differences in the association between major cardiovascular risk factors in midlife and dementia: a cohort study using data from the UK Biobank
Gong J; Harris K; Peters SAE; Woodward M
Journal article: JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS. 2020;273:493-499
Association between arthritis and depression risk: a prospective study and meta -analysis
Xue Q; Pan A; Gong J; Wen Y; Peng X; Pan J; Pan X-F
Journal article: JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS. 2020;263:692-697
Prospective associations between depressive symptoms and cognitive functions in middle-aged and elderly Chinese adults
Yang X; Pan A; Gong J; Wen Y; Ye Y; Wu JH; Pan X-F; Yang C-X
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Preprint: MEDRXIV. 2024
Protein signatures associated with loneliness and social isolation: plasma proteome analyses in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, with causal evidence from Mendelian randomization
Gong J; Preminger Z; Steptoe A; Fancourt D
Preprint: MEDRXIV. 2024
Unraveling the role of plasma proteins in dementia: insights from two cohort studies in the UK, with causal evidence from Mendelian randomization
Gong J; Williams DM; Scholes S; Assaad S; Bu F; Hayat S; Zaninotto P; Steptoe A
Preprint: RESEARCH SQUARE. 2021
Reproductive Factors and the Risk of Incident Dementia: Results From the UK Biobank
Gong J; Harris K; Peters S; Woodward M
Book chapter: HANDBOOK OF THE BEHAVIOR AND PSYCHOLOGY OF DISEASE. p.
Aspects of Sex and Gender in Disease
Gong J

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Honorary Senior Fellow, George Institute for Global Health, Imperial College London, 2025-
Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 2023-
Affiliated to Research, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, 2025-2028

Degrees and Education

Doctor of Philosophy in Epidemiology, George Institute for Global Health, 2023
Master of Science in Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 2017
Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, 2015

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