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Richard D. Semba is affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the United States. Their research spans the field of medicine, with a focus on physiology, ecology, plant science, rheumatology, and biochemistry as significant subfields of study.

The main topics covered in their work include agriculture sustainability and environmental impact, antioxidant activity and oxidative stress, GDF15 and related biomarkers, nutritional studies and diet, nutrition and health in aging, advanced glycation end products research, and food waste reduction and sustainability.

Their frequent publication venues include The Journals of Gerontology Series A, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Advances in Nutrition, Aging Cell, and Maternal and Child Nutrition. These journals reflect the range of their research interests and their engagement with journals focused on nutrition, aging, and broader clinical investigations.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Legumes as a sustainable source of protein in human diets, 2021, Global Food Security
  • Adoption of the 'planetary health diet' has different impacts on countries' greenhouse gas emissions, 2020, Nature Food
  • Motoric cognitive risk syndrome: Integration of two early harbingers of dementia in older adults, 2020, Ageing Research Reviews
  • The Potential Impact of Climate Change on the Micronutrient-Rich Food Supply, 2021, Advances in Nutrition

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Richard D. Semba include Luigi Ferrucci, Toshiko Tanaka, Rebecca Ramsing, Martin W. Bloem, and Ruin Moaddel.

Best Publications

  • Low Nutrient Intake Is an Essential Component of Frailty in Older Persons

    Benedetta Bartali;Edward A. Frongillo;Stefania Bandinelli;Fulvio Lauretani

  • Red Cell Distribution Width and Mortality in Older Adults: A Meta-analysis

    Kusha ng V. Patel;Richard D. Semba;Luigi Ferrucci;Anne B. Newman

  • Nonlinear Multisystem Physiological Dysregulation Associated With Frailty in Older Women: Implications for Etiology and Treatment

    Linda P. Fried;Qian Li Xue;Anne R. Cappola;Luigi Ferrucci

  • Does Accumulation of Advanced Glycation End Products Contribute to the Aging Phenotype

    Richard D. Semba;Emily J. Nicklett;Luigi Ferrucci

  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus Load in Breast Milk, Mastitis, and Mother-to-Child Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1

    Richard D. Semba;Newton Kumwenda;Donald R. Hoover;Taha E. Taha

  • The anemia of vitamin A deficiency: epidemiology and pathogenesis

    RD Semba;MW Bloem

  • The Role of Vitamin a and Related Retinoids in Immune Function

    Richard D. Semba

  • Plasma proteomic signature of age in healthy humans.

    Toshiko Tanaka;Angelique Biancotto;Ruin Moaddel;Ann Zenobia Moore

  • Serum antioxidants and inflammation predict red cell distribution width in older women: The Women's Health and Aging Study I

    Richard D. Semba;Kushang V. Patel;Luigi Ferrucci;Kai Sun

  • Household Dietary Diversity and Food Expenditures Are Closely Linked in Rural Bangladesh, Increasing the Risk of Malnutrition Due to the Financial Crisis

    Andrew L. Thorne-Lyman;Natalie Valpiani;Kai Sun;Richard D. Semba

  • Impact of Anemia and Cardiovascular Disease on Frailty Status of Community-Dwelling Older Women: The Women's Health and Aging Studies I and II

    Paulo H M Chaves;Richard D Semba;Sean X Leng;Richard C Woodman

  • Effect of vitamin A supplementation on morbidity due to Plasmodium falciparum in young children in Papua New Guinea: a randomised trial.

    Anuraj H Shankar;Blaise Genton;Richard D Semba;Moses Baisor

  • Child Stunting is Associated with Low Circulating Essential Amino Acids

    Richard D. Semba;Michelle Shardell;Fayrouz A. Sakr Ashour;Ruin Moaddel

  • A Higher Adherence to a Mediterranean-Style Diet Is Inversely Associated with the Development of Frailty in Community-Dwelling Elderly Men and Women

    Sameera A. Talegawkar;Stefania Bandinelli;Karen Bandeen-Roche;Ping Chen

  • Low Serum Micronutrient Concentrations Predict Frailty Among Older Women Living in the Community

    Richard D. Semba;Benedetta Bartali;Jing Zhou;Caroline Blaum

  • The Efficacy and Safety of Multivitamin and Mineral Supplement Use To Prevent Cancer and Chronic Disease in Adults: A Systematic Review for a National Institutes of Health State-of-the-Science Conference

    Han Yao Huang;Benjamin Caballero;Stephanie Chang;Anthony J. Alberg

  • Increased mortality associated with vitamin A deficiency during human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection.

    Richard D. Semba;Neil M. H. Graham;Waleska T. Caiaffa;Joseph B. Margolick

  • Proinflammatory state, hepcidin, and anemia in older persons

    Luigi Ferrucci;Richard D. Semba;Jack M. Guralnik;William B. Ershler

  • Plasma Klotho and Cardiovascular Disease in Adults

    Richard D. Semba;Anne R. Cappola;Kai Sun;Stefania Bandinelli

  • Relationship of 25-hydroxyvitamin D with all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality in older community-dwelling adults.

    Richard D. Semba;Denise K. Houston;Stefania Bandinelli;Kai Sun

Frequent Co-Authors

Luigi Ferrucci
Luigi Ferrucci National Institutes of Health
Jack M. Guralnik
Jack M. Guralnik University of Maryland, Baltimore
Linda P. Fried
Linda P. Fried Columbia University
Stefania Bandinelli
Stefania Bandinelli University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ruin Moaddel
Ruin Moaddel National Institutes of Health
Jeremy D. Walston
Jeremy D. Walston Kyung Hee University
David Vlahov
David Vlahov Yale University
Taha E. Taha
Taha E. Taha Johns Hopkins University
Debra A. Schaumberg
Debra A. Schaumberg University of Utah
Toshiko Tanaka
Toshiko Tanaka National Institutes of Health

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