Sarah Pirikahu

2026

Journal - Research Article

Marriott, R., Pirikahu, S., Porter, G., Lee, E., Wylie, E., & Stone, J. (2026). Are breast screening recall rates associated with body mass index? Analysis of data from a population-based screening program. Obesity Research & Clinical Practice. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.orcp.2026.02.003

2025

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Ford, K., Dawes, T., Kaiwai, H., Taiapa, N., Allison, T., & Pirikahu, S. (2025). Developing a Kaupapa Māori framework for infectious disease surveillance. Proceedings of the Infectious Diseases & Pandemic Preparedness Summit. (pp. 35). Retrieved from https://www.teniwha.com

Rentta, N. N., Hume, C., Pirikahu, S., Kvalsvig, A., & Baker, M. (2025). A total system review of infectious disease surveillance in Aotearoa New Zealand. Proceedings of the Infectious Diseases & Pandemic Preparedness Summit. (pp. 28). Retrieved from https://www.teniwha.com

Rentta, N. N., Hume, C., Kvalsvig, A., Pirikahu, S., & Baker, M. G. (2025). A total system review of infectious disease surveillance in Aotearoa New Zealand. Proceedings of the Communicable Diseases and Immunisation Conference (CDIC). 114. Retrieved from https://www.cdic2025.com/

2024

Journal - Research Article

Perera, D., Pirikahu, S., Walter, J., Cadby, G., Darcey, E., Lloyd, R., … Stone, J. (2024). The distribution of breast density in women aged 18 years and older. Breast Cancer Research & Treatment, 205, 521-531. doi: 10.1007/s10549-024-07269-y

Lloyd, R., Pirikahu, S., Walter, J., Cadby, G., Warrington, N., Perera, D., … Stone, J. (2024). The prospective association between early life growth and breast density in young adult women. Cancers, 16, 2418. doi: 10.3390/cancers16132418

Pirikahu, S., Darcey, E., Lund, H., Wylie, E., & Stone, J. (2024). The impact of height and weight on rescreening rates within a population-based breast screening program. Cancer Medicine, 13, e6883. doi: 10.1002/cam4.6883

Kramer, S. C., Pirikahu, S., Casalegno, J.-S., & Domenech de Cellès, M. (2024). Characterizing the interactions between influenza and respiratory syncytial viruses and their implications for epidemic control. Nature Communications, 15, 10066. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-53872-4

2023

Journal - Research Article

Lloyd, R., Pirikahu, S., Walter, J., Cadby, G., Darcey, E., Perera, D., … Stone, J. (2023). Alternative methods to measure breast density in younger women. British Journal of Cancer, 128, 1701-1709. doi: 10.1038/s41416-023-02201-5

Lee, S. C., Pirikahu, S., Fritschi, L., Boyle, T., Schultz, C., Wylie, E., & Stone, J. (2023). The association between breast arterial calcification and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in an Australian population-based breast cancer case–control study. La Radiologia Medica, 128(4), 426-433. doi: 10.1007/s11547-023-01611-y

2022

Journal - Research Article

Lee, S. C., Pirikahu, S., Phillips, M., Bellinge, J., Stone, J., Wylie, E., … Schultz, C. (2022). Reproductive factors and breast arterial calcification: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Climacteric, 25(2), 147-154. doi: 10.1080/13697137.2021.1985991

Pirikahu, S., Lund, H., Cadby, G., Wylie, E., & Stone, J. (2022). The impact of breast density notification on rescreening rates within a population-based mammographic screening program. Breast Cancer Research, 24, 5. doi: 10.1186/s13058-021-01499-4

Lloyd, R., Walter, J., Pirikahu, S., Cadby, G., Hickey, M., Sampson, D. D., … Stone, J. (2022). Assessment of repeated reference measurements to inform the validity of optical breast spectroscopy. Review of Scientific Instruments, 93, 044101. doi: 10.1063/5.0072223

2021

Journal - Research Article

King, N., Pirikahu, S., Fletcher, G. C., Pattis, I., Roughan, B., & Perchec Merien, A.-M. (2021). Correlations between environmental conditions and Vibrio parahaemolyticus or Vibrio vulnificus in Pacific oysters from New Zealand coastal waters. New Zealand Journal of Marine & Freshwater Research, 55(3), 393-410. doi: 10.1080/00288330.2020.1796718

Pirikahu, S., Jones, G., & Hazelton, M. L. (2021). Bayesian credible intervals for population attributable risk from case–control, cohort and cross-sectional studies. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 63(4), 639-657. doi: 10.1111/anzs.12352

Lake, R. J., Campbell, D. M., Hathaway, S. C., Ashmore, E., Cressey, P. J., Horn, B. J., Pirikahu, S., … Baker, M. G., … French, N. P. (2021). Source attributed case-control study of campylobacteriosis in New Zealand. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 103, 268-277. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.11.167

2020

Journal - Research Article

Dench, E. K., Darcey, E. C., Keogh, L. A., McLean, K., Pirikahu, S., Saunders, C., … Stone, J. (2020). Confusion and anxiety following breast density notification: Fact or fiction? Journal of Clinical Medicine, 9, 955. doi: 10.3390/jcm9040955

2017

Journal - Research Article

Lai, C.-D., Lin, G. D., Govindaraju, K., & Pirikahu, S. (2017). A simulation study on the correlation structure of Marshall–Olkin bivariate Weibull distribution. Journal of Statistical Computation & Simulation, 87, 156-170. doi: 10.1080/00949655.2016.1195832

2016

Journal - Research Article

Pirikahu, S., Jones, G., Hazelton, M. L., & Heuer, C. (2016). Bayesian methods of confidence interval construction for the population attributable risk from cross-sectional studies. Statistics in Medicine, 35(18), 3117-3130. doi: 10.1002/sim.6870