Loneliness and its predictors among older adults prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic: cross-sectional and longitudinal survey findings from participants of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study cohort in the USA

• Kunihiro Matsushita,
• Yejin Mok,
• Pamela L Lutsey,
• Elizabeth C Oelsner,
• Anna Kucharska-Newton,
• Melissa Minotti,
• Kim Ring,
• Lynne Wagenknecht,
• Timothy M Hughes,
• Thomas Mosley,
• Priya Palta,
• Joe Coresh

Affiliations

Kunihiro Matsushita

Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Yejin Mok

Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, and Institute for Health Promotion, Graduate School of Public Health, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Pamela L Lutsey

4 Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Elizabeth C Oelsner

Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

Anna Kucharska-Newton

Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Melissa Minotti

Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Kim Ring

Department of Biostatistics, The Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Lynne Wagenknecht

Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

Timothy M Hughes

Department of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

Thomas Mosley

Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA

Priya Palta

Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA

Joe Coresh

Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA