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David S. Ludwig is affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a focus on several subfields including Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Genetics, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics predominantly related to diet, metabolism, and disease. The main topics of Ludwig's research include:

  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Regulation of Appetite and Obesity
  • Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment

Ludwig has published extensively in various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Journal of Nutrition
  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • New England Journal of Medicine

Notable recent papers authored by Ludwig or involving their contributions are:

  • The carbohydrate-insulin model: a physiological perspective on the obesity pandemic, 2021, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Obesity and impaired metabolic health in patients with COVID-19, 2020, Nature Reviews Endocrinology (Author Norbert Stefan)
  • Milk and Health, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine (Author Walter C. Willett)
  • A standard calculation methodology for human doubly labeled water studies, 2021, Cell Reports Medicine (Author John R. Speakman)
  • Effects of a low-carbohydrate diet on insulin-resistant dyslipoproteinemia-a randomized controlled feeding trial, 2021, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (Author Cara B. Ebbeling)

Ludwig collaborates frequently with other researchers, sharing a significant number of publications. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Cara B. Ebbeling
  • Walter C. Willett
  • Adrian Soto-Mota
  • Steven B. Heymsfield
  • Julia MW Wong

Best Publications

  • Childhood obesity: public-health crisis, common sense cure

    Cara B Ebbeling;Dorota B Pawlak;David S Ludwig

  • A Potential Decline in Life Expectancy in the United States in the 21st Century

    S. Jay Olshansky;Douglas J. Passaro;Ronald C. Hershow;Jennifer Layden

  • Relation between consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks and childhood obesity: a prospective, observational analysis

    David S Ludwig;Karen E Peterson;Steven L Gortmaker

  • The Glycemic Index: Physiological Mechanisms Relating to Obesity, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Disease

    David S. Ludwig

  • Sugar-sweetened beverages, weight gain, and incidence of type 2 diabetes in young and middle-aged women.

    Matthias B. Schulze;Jo Ann E. Manson;David S. Ludwig;Graham A. Colditz

  • A role for melanin-concentrating hormone in the central regulation of feeding behaviour

    Daqing Qu;David S. Ludwig;Steen Gammeltoft;Megan Piper

  • Fast-food habits, weight gain, and insulin resistance (the CARDIA study): 15-year prospective analysis

    Mark A Pereira;Alex I Kartashov;Cara B Ebbeling;Linda Van Horn

  • Effects of Fast-Food Consumption on Energy Intake and Diet Quality Among Children in a National Household Survey

    Shanthy A. Bowman;Steven L. Gortmaker;Cara B. Ebbeling;Mark A. Pereira

  • Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in American adolescents: findings from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

    Sarah D. de Ferranti;Kimberlee Gauvreau;David S. Ludwig;Ellis J. Neufeld

  • Dairy consumption, obesity, and the insulin resistance syndrome in young adults: The CARDIA study

    Mark A. Pereira;David R. Jacobs;David R. Jacobs;Linda Van Horn;Martha L. Slattery

  • Recommendations for Treatment of Child and Adolescent Overweight and Obesity

    Bonnie A. Spear;Sarah E. Barlow;Chris Ervin;David S. Ludwig

  • Mindfulness in Medicine

    David S. Ludwig;Jon Kabat-Zinn

  • Dietary Fiber, Weight Gain, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Young Adults

    David S. Ludwig;Mark A. Pereira;Mark A. Pereira;Candyce H. Kroenke;Joan E. Hilner

  • The public health and economic benefits of taxing sugar-sweetened beverages.

    Kelly D. Brownell;Thomas Farley;Walter C. Willett;Barry M. Popkin

  • High glycemic index foods, overeating, and obesity.

    David S. Ludwig;Joseph A. Majzoub;Ahmad Al-Zahrani;Gerard E. Dallal

  • A Randomized Trial of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Adolescent Body Weight

    Cara B. Ebbeling;Henry A. Feldman;Virginia R. Chomitz;Tracy A. Antonelli

  • Effects of Decreasing Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption on Body Weight in Adolescents: A Randomized, Controlled Pilot Study

    Cara B. Ebbeling;Henry A. Feldman;Stavroula K. Osganian;Virginia R. Chomitz

  • Melanin-concentrating hormone overexpression in transgenic mice leads to obesity and insulin resistance

    David S. Ludwig;Nicholas A. Tritos;Jason W. Mastaitis;Rohit Kulkarni

  • Dietary Glycemic Index and Obesity

    David S. Ludwig

  • Sugar-sweetened beverages, weight gain, and incidence of type 2 diabetes in young and middle-aged women

    M.B. Schulze;J.E. Manson;D.S. Ludwig

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry A. Feldman
Henry A. Feldman Boston Children's Hospital
Walter C. Willett
Walter C. Willett Harvard University
Steven L. Gortmaker
Steven L. Gortmaker Harvard University
Frank B. Hu
Frank B. Hu Harvard University
Dariush Mozaffarian
Dariush Mozaffarian Tufts University
Gary K. Schoolnik
Gary K. Schoolnik Stanford University
Lori M.B. Laffel
Lori M.B. Laffel Harvard Medical School
David B. Allison
David B. Allison Indiana University
David R. Jacobs
David R. Jacobs University of Minnesota
Steven B. Heymsfield
Steven B. Heymsfield Pennington Biomedical Research Center

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