In this episode, Early Career Editor Kevin C. Klatt, PhD, RD speaks with Briana Stephenson, PhD (she/her/hers), an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Biostatistics and the School of Publication about her recent publication, “Racial and ethnic heterogeneity in diets of low-income adult females in the United States: results from National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys from 2011 to 2018” in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Dr Stephenson discusses her research on robust profile clustering as an extension of latent class models to define dietary patterns in population su ..read more

In this episode, Early Career Editor Kevin C. Klatt, PhD, RD speaks with Harry Jarrett, PhD, Helene McNulty, PhD, RD, MRIA and Mary Ward, PhD, RD about their recent publication, “Vitamin B6 and riboflavin, their metabolic interaction and relationship with MTHFR genotype, in adults aged 18-102 years” in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The authors discuss the rationale for looking at Vitamin B2 and B6 status marker interactions, including MTHFR genotype, and provide epidemiological evidence in support of riboflavin functional status (the erythrocyte glutathione reductase activation c ..read more

In this episode, Dennis M. Bier MD Young Career Editor Kevin C. Klatt, PhD, RD speaks with a distinguished team of authors about their recent work published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition titled “Metagenomic profile of the fecal microbiome of preterm infants consuming mother's own milk with bovine milk-based fortifier or infant formula: a cross-sectional study”. In this episode, we dive into the rationale for this newest work examining the relationship between the mode of feeding for preterm infants and the metagenomic potential of their microbiome, as well as discussing emergin ..read more

In this episode, Dennis M. Bier MD Young Career Editor Kevin C. Klatt, PhD, RD speaks with Mark A. Levine, MD, Section Chief of the Molecular and Clinical Nutrition Section of the Digestive Disease Branch at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Levine’s laboratory conducts basic, translational and clinical research to better understand Vitamin C kinetics in health and disease and its potential role in disease prevention and treatment. In this episode, Dr. Levine details his groups’ recently accepted publication titled “Abnormal urinary loss of vitamin C in diabetes: prevalence and clini ..read more

In this episode, Dennis M. Bier MD Young Career Editor Kevin C. Klatt, PhD, RD speaks with first author, Sachelly Julián-Serrano and leader author, Rachael Z Stolzenberg-Solomon, of the recently published AJCN manuscript “Hepcidin-regulating iron metabolism genes and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: a pathway analysis of genome-wide association studies”. In this episode, we dive into genetic epidemiology approaches, iron metabolism, and the risk of PDAC with our 2 guest authors from the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the National Cancer Institute. Be sure to connect with us o ..read more

Happy New Year from everyone at the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition! In this episode, Dennis M. Bier MD Young Career Editor Kevin C. Klatt, PhD, RD sits down (literally, in person!) to talk with AJCN Editor in Chief, Christopher Duggan MD, MPH, and Academic Editor, Deirdre (DeeDee) Tobias, ScD, and reflect on 2021 at AJCN. Find more about Drs. Duggan and Tobias, and all of our editors. Papers discussed in this episode: Insect Protein PURE Red Meat Vegan Diets & Children Vitamin D & Covid Coffee, Genetics and CVD Carbohydrate-Insulin Model Be sure to connect with us on twitter ..read more

In this episode of AJCN In Press, AJCN’s Inaugural Dennis M. Bier Young Career Editor, Kevin C. Klatt, PhD, RD chats with members of the all-star, global team behind the recent November 2021 Issue Supplement of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, focusing on the impact of small quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNS) in global child health. In this conversation, Dr. Klatt and the author team discuss the rationale behind utilizing SQ-LNS, the strengths of individual participant data meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials, and their findings related to SQ-LNS’ impact on ..read more

In this episode of AJCN In Press, AJCN’s Inaugural Dennis M. Bier Young Career Editor, Kevin C. Klatt, PhD, RD chats with Georgia D. Tomova, MSc and PhD candidate, and Peter WG Tennant, PhD, at the Leads Institute for Data Analytics and the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. Ms. Tomova and Dr. Tennant are co-leaders of the Causal Inference Interest Group at the Alan Turing Institute and their interests mutually lie within the field of causal inference and methods and their applications to epidemiology and health sciences, including nutrition. This episode discu ..read more

In this episode of AJCN In Press, AJCN’s Inaugural Dennis M. Bier Young Career Editor, Kevin C. Klatt, PhD, RD chats with YuHan Chiu, MD, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard University. Dr. Chiu is a fellow in the laboratory of Miguel Hernán, MD, DrPH, and the Kolokotrones Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology and focuses on applying causal inference methodologies to dietary data in epidemiological studies. In this episode, Drs. Klatt and Chiu discuss Dr. Chiu’s recent publication in AJCN estimating the effect of a theoretical randomized cont ..read more

In this episode of AJCN In Press, AJCN’s Inaugural Dennis M. Bier Young Career Editor, Kevin C. Klatt, PhD, RD chats with Jessica Fanzo, PhD and Lorraine Brennan, PhD, both Associate Editors at AJCN respectively leading two new research categories: Food Systems and The Environment, and Nutrigenomics and Precision Nutrition. In this episode, Drs Fanzo and Brennan discuss the rationale behind developing these 2 new journal sections, what prospective authors and readers should know about the sections, and their insights on the future of nutrition research. Learn more about the influenti ..read more