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Overview

Babette S. Zemel is affiliated with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in the United States and has an extensive body of work primarily in the field of Medicine. Their research spans multiple subfields including Physiology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Genetics.

The scientist's research topics cover areas such as Birth, Development, and Health; Bone health and osteoporosis research; Obesity, Physical Activity, and Diet; Body Composition Measurement Techniques; Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues; Genetic Associations and Epidemiology; and Sleep and related disorders.

Babette S. Zemel has published in several prominent scientific venues, frequently contributing to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SLEEP
  • The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • UNC Libraries
  • Annals of Human Biology

Among their recent papers are:

  • The stepwise assembly of the neonatal virome is modulated by breastfeeding, 2020, Nature
  • Bile salt hydrolase catalyses formation of amine-conjugated bile acids, 2024, Nature
  • Genome-wide association study implicates novel loci and reveals candidate effector genes for longitudinal pediatric bone accrual, 2021, Genome biology
  • Bacterial colonization reprograms the neonatal gut metabolome, 2020, Nature Microbiology
  • Stress gets into the belly: Early life stress and the gut microbiome, 2021, Behavioural Brain Research

The scientist has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Andrea Kelly
  • Struan F.A. Grant
  • Jonathan A. Mitchell
  • Alessandra Chesi
  • Heidi J. Kalkwarf

Best Publications

  • The National Osteoporosis Foundation’s position statement on peak bone mass development and lifestyle factors: a systematic review and implementation recommendations

    C. M. Weaver;C. M. Gordon;C. M. Gordon;K. F. Janz;H. J. Kalkwarf

  • Infant Weight Gain and Childhood Overweight Status in a Multicenter, Cohort Study

    Nicolas Stettler;Nicolas Stettler;Babette S. Zemel;Shiriki Kumanyika;Virginia A. Stallings

  • New Intrauterine Growth Curves Based on United States Data

    Irene E. Olsen;Irene E. Olsen;Sue A. Groveman;M. Louise Lawson;Reese H. Clark

  • Effects of lifestyle activity vs structured aerobic exercise in obese women: a randomized trial.

    Ross E. Andersen;Thomas A. Wadden;Susan J. Bartlett;Babette Zemel

  • Weight and metabolic outcomes after 2 years on a low-carbohydrate versus low-fat diet: a randomized trial.

    Gary D. Foster;Holly R. Wyatt;James O. Hill;Angela P. Makris

  • International Society for Clinical Densitometry 2007 Adult and Pediatric Official Positions

    E. Michael Lewiecki;Catherine M. Gordon;Sanford Baim;Mary B. Leonard

  • Revised Reference Curves for Bone Mineral Content and Areal Bone Mineral Density According to Age and Sex for Black and Non-Black Children: Results of the Bone Mineral Density in Childhood Study

    Babette S. Zemel;Heidi J. Kalkwarf;Vicente Gilsanz;Joan M. Lappe

  • Rapid weight gain during infancy and obesity in young adulthood in a cohort of African Americans.

    Nicolas Stettler;Shiriki K Kumanyika;Solomon H Katz;Babette S Zemel

  • Longitudinal relationship among growth, nutritional status, and pulmonary function in children with cystic fibrosis: analysis of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation National CF Patient Registry.

    Babette S. Zemel;Abbas F. Jawad;Stacey FitzSimmons;Virginia A. Stallings

  • Obesity during childhood and adolescence augments bone mass and bone dimensions

    Mary B Leonard;Justine Shults;Brenda A Wilson;Andrew M Tershakovec

  • The Bone Mineral Density in Childhood Study: Bone Mineral Content and Density According to Age, Sex, and Race

    Heidi J. Kalkwarf;Babette S. Zemel;Vicente Gilsanz;Joan M. Lappe

  • Height adjustment in assessing dual energy x-ray absorptiometry measurements of bone mass and density in children

    Babette S. Zemel;Mary B. Leonard;Andrea Kelly;Joan M. Lappe

  • Genome-wide association analysis identifies three new susceptibility loci for childhood body mass index.

    Janine F. Felix;Jonathan P. Bradfield;Claire Monnereau;Ralf J P Van Der Valk

  • Executive Summary of the 2019 ISCD Position Development Conference on Monitoring Treatment, DXA Cross-calibration and Least Significant Change, Spinal Cord Injury, Peri-prosthetic and Orthopedic Bone Health, Transgender Medicine, and Pediatrics

    Christopher R. Shuhart;Swan Sim Yeap;Paul A. Anderson;Lawrence G. Jankowski

  • Risk factors for low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations in otherwise healthy children and adolescents

    Francis L Weng;Justine Shults;Mary B Leonard;Virginia A Stallings

  • Life-Course Genome-wide Association Study Meta-analysis of Total Body BMD and Assessment of Age-Specific Effects

    Carolina Medina-Gomez;John P. Kemp;John P. Kemp;Katerina Trajanoska;Jian'an Luan

  • Energy expenditure of children and adolescents with severe disabilities: a cerebral palsy model

    V A Stallings;B S Zemel;J C Davies;C E Cronk

  • Proximal femur bone geometry is appropriately adapted to lean mass in overweight children and adolescents

    Moira A. Petit;Thomas J. Beck;Justine Shults;Babette S. Zemel

  • 2013 Pediatric Position Development Conference: Executive Summary and Reflections

    Catherine M. Gordon;Mary B. Leonard;Babette S. Zemel

  • Effects of Lifestyle Activity vs Structured Aerobic Exercise in Obese Women

    Ross E. Andersen;Thomas A. Wadden;Susan J. Bartlett;Babette Zemel

Frequent Co-Authors

Mary B. Leonard
Mary B. Leonard Stanford University
Virginia A. Stallings
Virginia A. Stallings Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Justine Shults
Justine Shults University of Pennsylvania
John A. Shepherd
John A. Shepherd University of Hawaii at Manoa
Struan F.A. Grant
Struan F.A. Grant University of Pennsylvania
Vicente Gilsanz
Vicente Gilsanz Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
Hakon Hakonarson
Hakon Hakonarson Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Fernando Rivadeneira
Fernando Rivadeneira Erasmus University Rotterdam
Jonathan P. Bradfield
Jonathan P. Bradfield Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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