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Susan B. Roberts

Susan B. Roberts

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
101
Citations
38535
World Ranking
7963
National Ranking
4141

Overview

Susan B. Roberts is affiliated with Tufts University in the United States. Their research spans multiple aspects of medicine, with a focus on public health, physiology, nutrition, and clinical psychology. The body of work includes extensive studies on obesity, diet, physical activity, and nutritional health.

The main fields of study covered by their research include:

  • Medicine

Within this broad field, the subfields of study are:

  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Physiology
  • Nutrition and Dietetics
  • General Health Professions
  • Clinical Psychology

Their primary research topics include:

  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Diet and Metabolism Studies
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Obesity and Health Practices
  • Dietary Effects on Health
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging

Frequent publication venues where the scientist has contributed multiple papers are:

  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • International Journal of Obesity
  • Nutrients
  • Obesity

Some of their notable recent papers include:

  • Healthy Aging-Nutrition Matters: Start Early and Screen Often, 2021, Advances in Nutrition
  • Daily Energy Expenditure Through the Human Life Course, 2021, Science
  • A Standard Calculation Methodology for Human Doubly Labeled Water Studies, 2021, Cell Reports Medicine
  • Energy Compensation and Adiposity in Humans, 2021, Current Biology
  • Effects of Caloric Restriction on Human Physiological, Psychological, and Behavioral Outcomes: Highlights from CALERIE Phase 2, 2020, Nutrition Reviews

Collaborations have been established with several co-authors, including:

  • Sai Krupa Das
  • Catherine Hambly
  • Susan B. Racette
  • John R. Speakman
  • Rachel Silver

Best Publications

  • Exercise training and nutritional supplementation for physical frailty in very elderly people

    Maria A. Fiatarone;Evelyn F. O'Neill;Nancy Doyle Ryan;Karen M. Clements

  • Dietary Fiber and Weight Regulation

    Nancy C. Howarth;Edward Saltzman;Susan B. Roberts

  • Training in flexible, intensive insulin management to enable dietary freedom in people with type 1 diabetes : dose adjustment for normal eating (DAFNE) randomised controlled trial

    Stephanie Amiel;Sue Beveridge;Clare Bradley;Carla Gianfrancesco

  • High glycemic index foods, overeating, and obesity.

    David S. Ludwig;Joseph A. Majzoub;Ahmad Al-Zahrani;Gerard E. Dallal

  • Peer, parent, and media influences on the development of weight concerns and frequent dieting among preadolescent and adolescent girls and boys.

    Alison E. Field;Carlos A. Camargo;Carlos A. Camargo;C. Barr Taylor;Catherine S. Berkey;Catherine S. Berkey

  • P2X7 Mediates Superoxide Production in Primary Microglia and Is Up-regulated in a Transgenic Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease

    Lav K. Parvathenani;Svetlana Tertyshnikova;Corinne R. Greco;Susan B. Roberts

  • Nonsurgical factors that influence the outcome of bariatric surgery: a review.

    L. K. G. Hsu;P. N. Benotti;P. N. Benotti;J. Dwyer;S. B. Roberts

  • Zinc and carbon co-limitation of marine phytoplankton

    François M M Morel;J. R. Reinfelder;S. B. Roberts;C. P. Chamberlain

  • Dietary variety within food groups: association with energy intake and body fatness in men and women

    Megan A McCrory;Paul J Fuss;Joy E McCallum;Manjiang Yao

  • Why are nutritionally stunted children at increased risk of obesity? Studies of metabolic rate and fat oxidation in shantytown children from São Paulo, Brazil

    Daniel J Hoffman;Ana L Sawaya;Ieda Verreschi;Katherine L Tucker

  • Daily energy expenditure through the human life course

    Herman Pontzer;Yosuke Yamada;Hiroyuki Sagayama;Philip N. Ainslie

  • A 2-Year Randomized Controlled Trial of Human Caloric Restriction: Feasibility and Effects on Predictors of Health Span and Longevity

    Eric Ravussin;Leanne M. Redman;James Rochon;Sai Krupa Das

  • Energy Expenditure and Intake in Infants Born to Lean and Overweight Mothers

    Susan B. Roberts;Judith Savage;W.A. Coward;B. Chew

  • Control of Food Intake in Older Men

    Susan B. Roberts;Paul Fuss;Melvin B. Heyman;William J. Evans

  • Overeating in America: Association between Restaurant Food Consumption and Body Fatness in Healthy Adult Men and Women Ages 19 to 80

    Megan A. McCrory;Paul J. Fuss;Nicholas P. Hays;Angela G. Vinken

  • High–glycemic Index Foods, Hunger, and Obesity: Is There a Connection?

    Susan B. Roberts

  • Eating behavior correlates of adult weight gain and obesity in healthy women aged 55–65 y

    Nicholas P Hays;Gaston P Bathalon;Megan A McCrory;Ronenn Roubenoff

  • Nutrition and aging: changes in the regulation of energy metabolism with aging.

    Susan B. Roberts;Irwin Rosenberg

  • High-protein Weight-loss Diets: Are They Safe and Do They Work? a Review of the Experimental and Epidemiologic Data

    Julie Eisenstein;Susan B. Roberts;Gerard Dallal;Edward Saltzman

  • Long-term effects of 2 energy-restricted diets differing in glycemic load on dietary adherence, body composition, and metabolism in CALERIE: a 1-y randomized controlled trial.

    Sai Krupa Das;Cheryl H Gilhooly;Julie K Golden;Anastassios G Pittas

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerard E. Dallal
Gerard E. Dallal Tufts University
Andrew S. Greenberg
Andrew S. Greenberg Tufts University
Leanne M. Redman
Leanne M. Redman Pennington Biomedical Research Center
William E. Kraus
William E. Kraus Duke University
Simin Nikbin Meydani
Simin Nikbin Meydani Tufts University
Nicholas A. Meanwell
Nicholas A. Meanwell Bristol-Myers Squibb (Germany)
Alice H. Lichtenstein
Alice H. Lichtenstein Tufts University
Luigi Fontana
Luigi Fontana University of Sydney
Eric Ravussin
Eric Ravussin Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Katherine L. Tucker
Katherine L. Tucker University of Massachusetts Lowell

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