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Jeffrey B. Schwimmer is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant emphasis on epidemiology, hepatology, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, physiology, and surgery. Their body of work includes 151 publications within the field of medicine, reflecting a broad engagement with clinical and biological sciences.

Their research topics cover a range of areas including:

  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
  • Liver Disease and Transplantation
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Liver Diseases and Immunity
  • Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment
  • Diabetes and associated disorders

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Schwimmer include:

  • A multiancestry genome-wide association study of unexplained chronic ALT elevation as a proxy for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease with histological and radiological validation, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Incidence of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Children: 2009-2018, 2020, PEDIATRICS
  • Progression of Fatty Liver Disease in Children Receiving Standard of Care Lifestyle Advice, 2020, Gastroenterology
  • Epidemiology of Pediatric Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, 2021, Clinical Liver Disease
  • Dietary sugar restriction reduces hepatic de novo lipogenesis in adolescent boys with fatty liver disease, 2021, Journal of Clinical Investigation

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Kimberly P. Newton
  • Miriam B. Vos
  • Stavra A. Xanthakos
  • Jean P. Molleston
  • Mark Fishbein

The scientist's work appears regularly in the following publication venues:

  • Hepatology
  • Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
  • JPGN Reports
  • Gastroenterology
  • Hepatology Communications

Best Publications

  • Health-related quality of life of severely obese children and adolescents.

    Jeffrey B. Schwimmer;Tasha M. Burwinkle;James W. Varni

  • Prevalence of Fatty Liver in Children and Adolescents

    Jeffrey B. Schwimmer;Reena Deutsch;Tanaz Kahen;Joel E. Lavine

  • Effect of Vitamin E or Metformin for Treatment of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Children and Adolescents: The TONIC Randomized Controlled Trial

    Joel E. Lavine;Jeffrey B. Schwimmer;Mark L. Van Natta;Jean P. Molleston;Jean P. Molleston

  • NASPGHAN Clinical Practice Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Children: Recommendations from the Expert Committee on NAFLD (ECON) and the North American Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN)

    Miriam Benedicta Vos;Miriam Benedicta Vos;Stephanie H. Abrams;Sarah E. Barlow;Sonia Caprio

  • Histopathology of pediatric nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

    Jeffrey B. Schwimmer;Jeffrey B. Schwimmer;Cynthia Behling;Robert Newbury;Reena Deutsch

  • Influence of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture on Childhood Obesity: Implications for Prevention and Treatment: A consensus statement of Shaping America's Health and the Obesity Society

    Sonia Caprio;Stephen R. Daniels;Adam Drewnowski;Francine R. Kaufman

  • Obesity, insulin resistance, and other clinicopathological correlates of pediatric nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

    Jeffrey B Schwimmer;Reena Deutsch;Jeffrey B Rauch;Cynthia Behling

  • Heritability of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

    Jeffrey B. Schwimmer;Jeffrey B. Schwimmer;Manuel A. Celedon;Joel E. Lavine;Joel E. Lavine;Rany Salem

  • Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: MR Imaging of Liver Proton Density Fat Fraction to Assess Hepatic Steatosis

    An Tang;Justin Tan;Mark Sun;Gavin Hamilton

  • Physical activity recommendations, exercise intensity, and histological severity of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

    Kristin D Kistler;Kristin D Kistler;Elizabeth M Brunt;Jeanne M Clark;Anna Mae Diehl

  • SAFETY study: Alanine aminotransferase cutoff values are set too high for reliable detection of pediatric chronic liver disease

    Jeffrey B. Schwimmer;Jeffrey B. Schwimmer;Winston Dunn;Gregory J. Norman;Perrie E. Pardee

  • Influence of Gender, Race, and Ethnicity on Suspected Fatty Liver in Obese Adolescents

    Jeffrey B. Schwimmer;Nancy McGreal;Reena Deutsch;Milton J. Finegold

  • Portal chronic inflammation in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD): a histologic marker of advanced NAFLD-Clinicopathologic correlations from the nonalcoholic steatohepatitis clinical research network

    Elizabeth M. Brunt;David E. Kleiner;Laura A. Wilson;Aynur Unalp

  • Cardiovascular Risk Factors and the Metabolic Syndrome in Pediatric Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

    Jeffrey B. Schwimmer;Perrie E. Pardee;Joel E. Lavine;Aaron K. Blumkin

  • Relaxation Effects in the Quantification of Fat using Gradient Echo Imaging

    Mark Bydder;Takeshi Yokoo;Gavin Hamilton;Michael S. Middleton

  • Suspected Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Mortality Risk in a Population-based Cohort Study

    Winston Dunn;Ronghui Xu;Deborah L. Wingard;Christopher Rogers

  • Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Diagnostic and Fat-Grading Accuracy of Low-Flip-Angle Multiecho Gradient-Recalled-Echo MR Imaging at 1.5 T

    Takeshi Yokoo;Mark Bydder;Gavin Hamilton;Michael S. Middleton

  • Advances in pediatric nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

    Rohit Loomba;Claude B. Sirlin;Jeffrey B. Schwimmer;Joel E. Lavine

  • Pediatric nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: a critical appraisal of current data and implications for future research.

    Heather M Patton;Claude Sirlin;Cynthia Behling;Michael Middleton

  • A phase 2 clinical trial of metformin as a treatment for non-diabetic paediatric non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.

    J. B. Schwimmer;M. S. Middleton;R. Deutsch;J. E. Lavine

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel E. Lavine
Joel E. Lavine Columbia University
Claude B. Sirlin
Claude B. Sirlin University of California, San Diego
Anthony Gamst
Anthony Gamst University of California, San Diego
Elizabeth M. Brunt
Elizabeth M. Brunt Washington University in St. Louis
James Tonascia
James Tonascia Johns Hopkins University
Rohit Loomba
Rohit Loomba University of California, San Diego
Philip J. Rosenthal
Philip J. Rosenthal University of California, San Francisco
Naga Chalasani
Naga Chalasani Indiana University
Arun J. Sanyal
Arun J. Sanyal Virginia Commonwealth University
David E. Kleiner
David E. Kleiner National Institutes of Health

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