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John A. Shepherd is affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States. Their primary field of research is Medicine, with a considerable number of publications emphasizing Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Oncology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, as well as Artificial Intelligence.

Shepherd's research topics cover a range of areas including:

  • Body Composition Measurement Techniques
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Thermoregulation and physiological responses
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • AI in cancer detection
  • Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several colleagues, including Steven B. Heymsfield, M. C. Wong, Jonathan P. Bennett, Nisa N. Kelly, and Lynne R. Wilkens.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Effects of Time-Restricted Eating on Weight Loss and Other Metabolic Parameters in Women and Men With Overweight and Obesity, 2020, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Myosteatosis in the Context of Skeletal Muscle Function Deficit: An Interdisciplinary Workshop at the National Institute on Aging, 2020, Frontiers in Physiology
  • Associations of plasma trimethylamine N-oxide, choline, carnitine, and betaine with inflammatory and cardiometabolic risk biomarkers and the fecal microbiome in the Multiethnic Cohort Adiposity Phenotype Study, 2020, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Genome-wide association study implicates novel loci and reveals candidate effector genes for longitudinal pediatric bone accrual, 2021, Genome Biology
  • Stiff stroma increases breast cancer risk by inducing the oncogene ZNF217, 2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation

Shepherd's publications frequently appear in scientific venues such as:

  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Cancer Research
  • Journal of Clinical Densitometry

Best Publications

  • Comparisons of percentage body fat, body mass index, waist circumference, and waist-stature ratio in adults

    Katherine M Flegal;John A Shepherd;Anne C Looker;Barry I Graubard

  • Executive summary of the 2013 International Society for Clinical Densitometry Position Development Conference on bone densitometry.

    John T. Schousboe;John A. Shepherd;John P. Bilezikian;Sanford Baim

  • 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

  • Official Positions of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry

    E. Michael Lewiecki;Nelson B. Watts;Michael R. McClung;Steven M. Petak

  • 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

  • The impact of recent technological advances on the trueness and precision of DXA to assess body composition

    Rebecca J. Toombs;Gaele Ducher;John A. Shepherd;Mary Jane De Souza

  • 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

  • Body composition by DXA.

    John A. Shepherd;Bennett K. Ng;Markus J. Sommer;Steven B. Heymsfield

  • Effects of Time-Restricted Eating on Weight Loss and Other Metabolic Parameters in Women and Men With Overweight and Obesity: The TREAT Randomized Clinical Trial

    Dylan A Lowe;Nancy Wu;Linnea Rohdin-Bibby;A Holliston Moore

  • High adiposity and high body mass index–for-age in US children and adolescents overall and by race-ethnic group

    Katherine M Flegal;Cynthia L Ogden;Jack A Yanovski;David S Freedman

  • Prevention of Breast Cancer in Postmenopausal Women: Approaches to Estimating and Reducing Risk

    Steven R. Cummings;Jeffrey A. Tice;Scott Bauer;Scott Bauer;Warren S. Browner

  • Prevalence and trends in low femur bone density among older US adults: NHANES 2005-2006 compared with NHANES III.

    Anne C Looker;L Joseph Melton;Tamara B Harris;Lori G Borrud

  • Fracture Risk Prediction by Non-BMD DXA Measures: the 2015 ISCD Official Positions Part 2: Trabecular Bone Score

    Barbara C. Silva;Susan B. Broy;Stephanie Boutroy;John T. Schousboe

  • Dual-energy and low-kVp CT in the abdomen.

    Benjamin M. Yeh;John A. Shepherd;Zhen J. Wang;Hui Seong Teh

  • Age-Related Hyperkyphosis: Its Causes, Consequences, and Management

    Wendy B. Katzman;Linda Wanek;John A. Shepherd;Deborah E. Sellmeyer

  • QDR 4500A dual-energy X-ray absorptiometer underestimates fat mass in comparison with criterion methods in adults

    Dale A Schoeller;Frances A Tylavsky;David J Baer;William C Chumlea

  • Myosteatosis in the Context of Skeletal Muscle Function Deficit: An Interdisciplinary Workshop at the National Institute on Aging

    Rosaly Correa-de-Araujo;Odessa Addison;Odessa Addison;Iva Miljkovic;Bret H. Goodpaster

  • Executive Summary of the 2015 ISCD Position Development Conference on Advanced Measures From DXA and QCT: Fracture Prediction Beyond BMD

    John A. Shepherd;John T. Schousboe;Susan B. Broy;Klaus Engelke

Frequent Co-Authors

Babette S. Zemel
Babette S. Zemel Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Karla Kerlikowske
Karla Kerlikowske University of California, San Francisco
Vicente Gilsanz
Vicente Gilsanz Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
Steven B. Heymsfield
Steven B. Heymsfield Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Struan F.A. Grant
Struan F.A. Grant University of Pennsylvania
Celine M. Vachon
Celine M. Vachon Mayo Clinic
Loic Le Marchand
Loic Le Marchand University of Hawaii at Manoa
Harry K. Genant
Harry K. Genant University of California, San Francisco
Ying Lu
Ying Lu Stanford University

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