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  • 1996 - Silver Medal, Nutrition Society, UK USA."

Overview

Michael I. Goran is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research spans the broad fields of medicine, with particular focus on public health, environmental and occupational health, physiology, epidemiology, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, and nutrition and dietetics.

The researcher has contributed extensively to topics including obesity, physical activity, and diet; diet and metabolism studies; diet, metabolism, and disease; birth, development, and health; infant nutrition and health; breastfeeding practices and influences; and research on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.

Frequent co-authors in their work include Tanya L. Alderete, Paige K. Berger, Jasmine F. Plows, Jesse A. Goodrich, and Elizabeth A. Holzhausen.

Michael I. Goran's publications appear regularly in several academic venues such as Pediatric Obesity, ISEE Conference Abstracts, Nutrients, Current Developments in Nutrition, and the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Human milk oligosaccharide 2'-fucosyllactose links feedings at 1 month to cognitive development at 24 months in infants of normal and overweight mothers (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Longitudinal Changes in Human Milk Oligosaccharefides (HMOs) Over the Course of 24 Months of Lactation (2020, Journal of Nutrition)
  • Metabolic Signatures of Youth Exposure to Mixtures of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances: A Multi-Cohort Study (2023, Environmental Health Perspectives)
  • Early life gut microbiota is associated with rapid infant growth in Hispanics from Southern California (2021, Gut Microbes)
  • Prenatal exposure to ambient air pollution is associated with neurodevelopmental outcomes at 2 years of age (2023, Environmental Health)

Throughout their career, Michael I. Goran has focused on the intersections of nutrition, metabolism, and environmental health, concentrating on early life development, infant nutrition, and exposures to environmental substances and pollutants.

In 1996, they received the Silver Medal from the Nutrition Society, UK.

Best Publications

  • Validity of body mass index compared with other body-composition screening indexes for the assessment of body fatness in children and adolescents

    Zuguo Mei;Laurence M Grummer-Strawn;Angelo Pietrobelli;Ailsa Goulding

  • Obesity and risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease in children and adolescents.

    Michael I. Goran;Geoff D. C. Ball;Martha L. Cruz

  • Longitudinal Study on Pubertal Insulin Resistance

    Michael I. Goran;Barbara A. Gower

  • The metabolic syndrome in overweight Hispanic youth and the role of insulin sensitivity.

    Martha L. Cruz;Marc J. Weigensberg;Terry T.-K. Huang;Geoff Ball

  • Body-composition assessment via air-displacement plethysmography in adults and children: a review.

    David A Fields;Michael I Goran;Megan A McCrory

  • Crossvalidation of anthropometry against magnetic resonance imaging for the assessment of visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissue in children.

    P Brambilla;G Bedogni;LM Moreno;MI Goran

  • Comparison of Multiple-Pass 24-Hour Recall Estimates of Energy Intake With Total Energy Expenditure Determined By the Doubly Labeled Water Method in Young Children

    Rachel K Johnson;Patricia Driscoll;Michael I Goran

  • Role of physical activity in the prevention of obesity in children.

    M I Goran;K D Reynolds;C H Lindquist

  • The etiology of obesity: relative contribution of metabolic factors, diet, and physical activity

    Roland L. Weinsier;Gary R. Hunter;Adrian F. Heini;Michael I. Goran

  • Relation between mothers' child-feeding practices and children's adiposity

    Donna Spruijt-Metz;Christine H Lindquist;Leann L Birch;Jennifer O Fisher

  • Measurement issues related to studies of childhood obesity: assessment of body composition, body fat distribution, physical activity, and food intake.

    Michael I. Goran

  • Statistical considerations regarding the use of ratios to adjust data.

    D B Allison;F Paultre;M I Goran;E T Poehlman

  • The metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents.

    Martha L. Cruz;Michael I. Goran

  • Effects of resistance training on insulin sensitivity in overweight Latino adolescent males.

    Gabriel Q. Shaibi;Martha L. Cruz;Geoff D. C. Ball;Marc J. Weigensberg

  • Cross-calibration of body-composition techniques against dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in young children.

    M I Goran;P Driscoll;R Johnson;T R Nagy

  • Total body fat does not influence maximal aerobic capacity.

    M Goran;D A Fields;G R Hunter;S L Herd

  • Visceral fat, insulin sensitivity, and lipids in prepubertal children.

    Barbara A. Gower;Tim R. Nagy;Michael I. Goran

  • Relation between visceral fat and disease risk in children and adolescents

    Michael I Goran;Barbara A Gower

  • Resting metabolic rate is lower in women than in men

    Paul J. Arciero;Michael I. Goran;Eric T. Poehlman

  • PEDIATRIC HIGHLIGHT Crossvalidation of anthropometry against magnetic resonance imaging for the assessment of visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissue in children

    P Brambilla;G Bedogni;LA Moreno;MI Goran

Frequent Co-Authors

Donna Spruijt-Metz
Donna Spruijt-Metz University of Southern California
Eric T. Poehlman
Eric T. Poehlman University of Vermont
Gary R. Hunter
Gary R. Hunter University of Alabama at Birmingham
Hooman Allayee
Hooman Allayee University of Southern California
Krishna S. Nayak
Krishna S. Nayak University of Southern California
Richard N. Bergman
Richard N. Bergman Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Chih-Ping Chou
Chih-Ping Chou University of Southern California
Frank D. Gilliland
Frank D. Gilliland University of Southern California
Eric Ravussin
Eric Ravussin Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Richard M. Shewchuk
Richard M. Shewchuk University of Alabama at Birmingham

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