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James M. Shikany is a researcher affiliated with the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the United States. Their work primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a notable focus on public health, environmental and occupational health, physiology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, nutrition and dietetics, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Epigenetic Age Acceleration Reflects Long-Term Cardiovascular Health, 2021, Circulation Research
  • The Coronary Artery Risk Development In Young Adults (CARDIA) Study, 2021, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Association of the Gut Microbiota With Cognitive Function in Midlife, 2022, JAMA Network Open
  • Association of Major Dietary Protein Sources With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality: Prospective Cohort Study, 2021, Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Magnesium intake is inversely associated with risk of obesity in a 30-year prospective follow-up study among American young adults, 2020, European Journal of Nutrition

Frequent co-authors in James M. Shikany's work include:

  • David R. Jacobs
  • Cora E. Lewis (36 publications)
  • Pamela J. Schreiner (29 publications)
  • Lyn M. Steffen (24 publications)
  • Donald M. Lloyd-Jones (21 publications)

Publications are often featured in the following venues:

  • UNC Libraries (16 publications)
  • Circulation (15 publications)
  • Current Developments in Nutrition (12 publications)
  • Journal of Nutrition (7 publications)
  • Journal of the American Heart Association (5 publications)

Their research topics cover a range of areas connected with nutrition, diet, and health, including:

  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Diet and Metabolism Studies
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies

Best Publications

  • Low-Fat dietary pattern and risk of invasive breast cancer: The women's health initiative randomized controlled dietary modification trial

    Ross L. Prentice;Bette Caan;Rowan T. Chlebowski;Ruth Patterson

  • Calcium Plus Vitamin D Supplementation and the Risk of Breast Cancer

    Rowan T Chlebowski;Karen C Johnson;Charles Kooperberg;Mary Pettinger

  • Fast food restaurants and food stores: longitudinal associations with diet in young to middle-aged adults: the CARDIA study.

    Janne Boone-Heinonen;Penny Gordon-Larsen;Catarina I. Kiefe;James M. Shikany

  • Construct validation of the dietary inflammatory index among postmenopausal women

    Fred K. Tabung;Susan E. Steck;Jiajia Zhang;Yunsheng Ma

  • Obesity and Thyroid Cancer Risk among U.S. Men and Women: A Pooled Analysis of Five Prospective Studies

    Cari M. Kitahara;Cari M. Kitahara;Elizabeth A. Platz;Laura E. Beane Freeman;Ann W. Hsing

  • Serum vitamin D concentration and prostate cancer risk: a nested case-control study.

    Jiyoung Ahn;Ulrike Peters;Ulrike Peters;Demetrius Albanes;Mark P. Purdue

  • Association of race and sex with risk of incident acute coronary heart disease events.

    Monika M. Safford;Todd M. Brown;Paul M. Muntner;Raegan W. Durant

  • Comparing Indices of Diet Quality With Chronic Disease Mortality Risk in Postmenopausal Women in the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study: Evidence to Inform National Dietary Guidance

    Stephanie M. George;Rachel Ballard-Barbash;JoAnn E. Manson;Jill Reedy

  • Gut Microbiota Composition and Blood Pressure

    Shan Sun;Anju Lulla;Michael Sioda;Kathryn Winglee

  • Association of Coronary Artery Calcium in Adults Aged 32 to 46 Years With Incident Coronary Heart Disease and Death.

    John Jeffrey Carr;David R. Jacobs;James G. Terry;Christina M. Shay

  • Study design of ASPirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly (ASPREE): A randomized, controlled trial

    R. Grimm;J. J. McNeil;W. Applegate;L. Beilin

  • Oxidative Stress and Insulin Resistance: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults study

    Kyong Park;Myron D Gross;Duk Hee Lee;Paul Holvoet

  • 25-Hydroxyvitamin D levels and cognitive performance and decline in elderly men

    Y. Slinin;M. L. Paudel;B. C. Taylor;H. A. Fink

  • Multivitamin Use and Risk of Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease in the Women's Health Initiative Cohorts

    Marian L. Neuhouser;Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller;Cynthia Thomson;Aaron Aragaki

  • Low-Fat Dietary Pattern and Cancer Incidence in the Women’s Health Initiative Dietary Modification Randomized Controlled Trial

    Ross L. Prentice;Cynthia A. Thomson;Bette Caan;F. Allan Hubbell

  • Food Price and Diet and Health Outcomes: 20 Years of the CARDIA Study

    Kiyah J. Duffey;Penny G Gordon-Larsen;James M. Shikany;David K Guilkey

  • Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Risk of Breast Cancer by Hormone Receptor Status

    Seungyoun Jung;Donna Spiegelman;Laura Baglietto;Laura Baglietto;Leslie Bernstein

  • Nutritively Sweetened Beverage Consumption and Body Weight: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Experiments

    Richard D Mattes;James M Shikany;Kathryn A Kaiser;David B Allison

  • Strong Relation Between Muscle Mass Determined by D3-creatine Dilution, Physical Performance, and Incidence of Falls and Mobility Limitations in a Prospective Cohort of Older Men

    Peggy M Cawthon;Peggy M Cawthon;Eric S Orwoll;Katherine E Peters;Kristine E Ensrud

  • The Role of Dietary Protein Intake in the Prevention of Sarcopenia of Aging

    Jeannette M. Beasley;James M. Shikany;Cynthia A. Thomson

Frequent Co-Authors

David R. Jacobs
David R. Jacobs University of Minnesota
Cora E. Lewis
Cora E. Lewis University of Alabama at Birmingham
Marian L. Neuhouser
Marian L. Neuhouser Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
JoAnn E. Manson
JoAnn E. Manson Harvard Medical School
Stephen Sidney
Stephen Sidney Kaiser Permanente
Kristine E. Ensrud
Kristine E. Ensrud University of Minnesota
Lyn M. Steffen
Lyn M. Steffen University of Minnesota
Pamela J. Schreiner
Pamela J. Schreiner University of Minnesota
Monika M. Safford
Monika M. Safford Cornell University
Linda Van Horn
Linda Van Horn Northwestern University

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