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Nitin Shivappa is affiliated with the University of South Carolina in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Medicine, with a focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, Epidemiology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Oncology.

Their work spans multiple topics related to nutritional sciences and health, including:

  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Diet and Metabolism Studies
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases
  • Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling

Nitin Shivappa has published extensively, with notable frequent publication venues such as:

  • Nutrients
  • European Journal of Nutrition
  • Clinical Nutrition
  • British Journal of Nutrition
  • Frontiers in Nutrition

Among their recent published papers are:

  • "The dietary inflammatory index, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular risk factors and diseases" (2021), published in Obesity Reviews
  • "The Dietary Inflammatory Index and Human Health: An Umbrella Review of Meta-Analyses of Observational Studies" (2021), published in Advances in Nutrition
  • "Relationship between diet quality scores and the risk of frailty and mortality in adults across a wide age spectrum" (2021), published in BMC Medicine
  • "Dietary inflammatory potential in relation to the gut microbiome: results from a cross-sectional study" (2020), published in British Journal of Nutrition
  • "Dietary inflammatory index (DII®) and the risk of depression symptoms in adults" (2020), published in Clinical Nutrition

The scientist frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • James R. Hébert
  • Michael D. Wirth
  • Catherine M. Phillips
  • Matthew Suderman
  • Caroline L. Relton

Best Publications

  • Designing and developing a literature-derived, population-based dietary inflammatory index

    Nitin Shivappa;Susan E Steck;Thomas G Hurley;James R Hussey

  • A population-based dietary inflammatory index predicts levels of C-reactive protein in the Seasonal Variation of Blood Cholesterol Study (SEASONS)

    Nitin Shivappa;Susan E Steck;Thomas G Hurley;James R Hussey

  • Associations between dietary inflammatory index and inflammatory markers in the Asklepios Study.

    Nitin Shivappa;James R. Hébert;Ernst R. Rietzschel;Marc L. De Buyzere

  • Construct validation of the dietary inflammatory index among postmenopausal women

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

  • Association of a dietary inflammatory index with inflammatory indices and metabolic syndrome among police officers.

    Michael D. Wirth;James Burch;Nitin Shivappa;John M. Violanti

  • Perspective: The Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII)—Lessons Learned, Improvements Made, and Future Directions

    James R Hébert;Nitin Shivappa;Michael D Wirth;James R Hussey

  • Dietary inflammatory index is related to asthma risk, lung function and systemic inflammation in asthma

    Lisa G Wood;Nitin Shivappa;Bronwyn S Berthon;Peter G Gibson;Peter G Gibson

  • Dietary inflammatory index and anthropometric measures of obesity in a population sample at high cardiovascular risk from the PREDIMED (PREvención con DIeta MEDiterránea) trial.

    M. Ruiz-Canela;I. Zazpe;N. Shivappa;J. R. Hébert

  • Dietary Inflammatory Index and Non-Communicable Disease Risk: A Narrative Review

    Catherine M. Phillips;Ling Wei Chen;Barbara Heude;Jonathan Y. Bernard

  • Dietary Inflammatory Index and Cardiovascular Risk and Mortality—A Meta-Analysis

    Nitin Shivappa;Justyna Godos;James R. Hébert;Michael D. Wirth

  • Dietary Inflammatory Index and Incidence of Cardiovascular Disease in the PREDIMED Study

    Ana Garcia-Arellano;Raul Ramallal;Miguel Ruiz-Canela;Jordi Salas-Salvadó

  • The association between dietary inflammatory index and risk of colorectal cancer among postmenopausal women: results from the Women's Health Initiative

    Fred K. Tabung;Susan E. Steck;Yunsheng Ma;Angela D. Liese

  • Design, Development and Construct Validation of the Children’s

    Samira Khan;Michael D. Wirth;Andrew Ortaglia;Christian R. Alvarado

  • Dietary Inflammatory Index and Colorectal Cancer Risk-A Meta-Analysis.

    Nitin Shivappa;Justyna Godos;James R. Hébert;Michael David Wirth

  • Dietary Inflammatory Index and Risk of Colorectal Cancer in the Iowa Women's Health Study

    Nitin Shivappa;Anna E. Prizment;Cindy K. Blair;David R. Jacobs

  • The dietary inflammatory index, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular risk factors and diseases

    Rohit Hariharan;Emmanuel Nene Odjidja;David Scott;David Scott;Nitin Shivappa

  • Association between dietary inflammatory index and prostate cancer among Italian men.

    Nitin Shivappa;Cristina Bosetti;Antonella Zucchetto;Maurizio Montella

  • Diet as a hot topic in psychiatry: a population-scale study of nutritional intake and inflammatory potential in severe mental illness.

    Joseph Firth;Joseph Firth;Brendon Stubbs;Brendon Stubbs;Scott B Teasdale;Philip B Ward

  • Association between the dietary inflammatory index (DII) and telomere length and C-reactive protein from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey-1999-2002.

    Nitin Shivappa;Michael D. Wirth;Thomas G. Hurley;James R. Hébert

  • Anti-inflammatory Dietary Inflammatory Index scores are associated with healthier scores on other dietary indices

    Michael D. Wirth;James R. Hébert;Nitin Shivappa;Gregory A. Hand

Frequent Co-Authors

James R. Hébert
James R. Hébert University of South Carolina
Diego Serraino
Diego Serraino University of Oxford
Carlo La Vecchia
Carlo La Vecchia University of Milan
Cyrus Cooper
Cyrus Cooper University of Southampton
Miguel A. Martínez-González
Miguel A. Martínez-González University of Navarra
Maurizio Montella
Maurizio Montella Regione Campania
Roger L. Milne
Roger L. Milne Cancer Council Victoria
Brendon Stubbs
Brendon Stubbs King's College London
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Matthew Suderman
Matthew Suderman University of Bristol

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