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Margiotta C, Seminara E, Pesek RD, Jefferson AA, Doan D, Price A, Kennedy JL, Hiegel A, Boone M, Brown AW, Scurlock AM, Perry TT, Jones SM. Implementation of early peanut introduction among providers in a southern US state. J Allergy Clin Immunol Glob. 2026 May;5(3):100658. doi: 10.1016/j.jacig.2026.100658. eCollection 2026 May. PubMed PMID: 41783448; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12954295.
Spitz RW, Thapa DK, Mokalla TR, Najam W, Brown AW, Allison DB. Conclusions Are Not Supported by the Published Statistical Analysis. Comment on López-Toledo et al. Flaxseed Improves Glucose and Lipid Metabolism in Mexican Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes: A Parallel Randomized Clinical Trial. Nutrients 2025, 17, 709. Nutrients. 2026 Jan 5;18(1). doi: 10.3390/nu18010170. PubMed PMID: 41515286; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12787444.
Gletsu-Miller N, Wilcox ML, Spence LA, Wright AJ, Guarneiri LL, Nadeem MM, Hutter MJ, Sprague KL, Brown AW, Friedman AN, Kirkpatrick CF, Maki KC. Effects of replacing solid fats and added sugars with avocado in adults with elevated cardiometabolic risk: a randomized, double-blind, controlled feeding, crossover trial. Am J Clin Nutr. 2026 Feb;123(2):101137. doi: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2025.101137. Epub 2025 Dec 13. PubMed PMID: 41397527.
Caldwell AR, Allison DB, Brown AW, Gadbury GL, Mokalla TR, Sayer RD, Vigotsky AD. Concerns regarding the standard deviation of individual responses for assessing treatment response heterogeneity. J Appl Physiol (1985). 2025 Nov 1;139(5):1220-1227. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00485.2025. Epub 2025 Sep 30. Review. PubMed PMID: 41026878; NIHMSID:NIHMS2142374.
Sharma M, Diamond SE, Chancellor J, Chung S, Brown AW, Hester DM, James LP, Schootman M, Mourani PM, Courtney SE. Partial waiver of consent to overcome translational science barriers in neonatal clinical research. J Clin Transl Sci. 2025;9(1):e202. doi: 10.1017/cts.2025.10122. eCollection 2025. PubMed PMID: 40994669; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12454670.
Perry TT, Turner JH, Berlinski A, Simmons LA, Brown RH, Neal K, Marshall SA, He X, Chung S, Brown A, Spencer Rd HJ, Bian J. Comparing a Guideline-Based Mobile Health Intervention Versus Usual Care for High-Risk Adolescents With Asthma: Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2025 Jul 25;14:e69903. doi: 10.2196/69903. PubMed PMID: 40712131; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12334894.
Vorland CJ, O'Connor LE, Henschel B, Huo C, Shikany JM, Serrano CA, Henschel R, Dickinson SL, Ejima K, Bidulescu A, Allison DB, Brown AW. "Shaking the ladder" reveals how analytic choices can influence associations in nutrition epidemiology: beef intake and coronary heart disease as a case study. Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr. 2026;66(3):463-478. doi: 10.1080/10408398.2025.2525459. Epub 2025 Jul 11. Review. PubMed PMID: 40641286; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12313195.
Sharma M, Brown AW, Chung S, Sexton KW, Schootman M, Mourani PM. Race Is an Incomplete Surrogate for Skin Pigmentation in Neonates, with Potential Relevance for Pulse Oximetry. J Pediatr. 2025 Nov;286:114720. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2025.114720. Epub 2025 Jul 10. PubMed PMID: 40651554; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12313227.
Nissen TE, Chung S, Brown A, Sanders E, Parashar N, Knecht KR, Rajab TK, Qasim A. Semilunar Valves in Pediatric Orthotopic Heart Transplants Grow at a Slower Rate than Controls. Pediatr Cardiol. 2026 Mar;47(3):1128-1134. doi: 10.1007/s00246-025-03884-8. Epub 2025 May 12. PubMed PMID: 40355667.
Mahmood L, Sarkar KR, Neal K, Brown RC, Brown AW, Stewart S, Pesek RD, Jefferson AA, Perry TT. Video directly observed therapy to improve inhaler technique among pediatric patients with persistent asthma. J Asthma. 2025 Sep;62(9):1591-1598. doi: 10.1080/02770903.2025.2499829. Epub 2025 May 5. PubMed PMID: 40298296; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12353540.
Review of Evidence on Alcohol and Health. 2025 Apr 23;. doi: 10.17226/28582. Review. PubMed PMID: 40393408.
Brown AW, Chung S, Koscik T, Vorland CJ, Maney DL. No compelling evidence of sex differences in brain maturation during COVID-19 lockdowns when the sexes are compared statistically. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 Apr 8;122(14):e2421462122. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2421462122. Epub 2025 Apr 1. PubMed PMID: 40168116; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12002345.
Jiang L, Vorland CJ, Ying X, Brown AW, Menke JD, Hong G, Lan M, Mayo-Wilson E, Kilicoglu H. SPIRIT-CONSORT-TM: a corpus for assessing transparency of clinical trial protocol and results publications. Sci Data. 2025 Feb 28;12(1):355. doi: 10.1038/s41597-025-04629-1. PubMed PMID: 40021657; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11871027.
Jiang L, Vorland CJ, Ying X, Brown AW, Menke JD, Hong G, Lan M, Mayo-Wilson E, Kilicoglu H. SPIRIT-CONSORT-TM: a corpus for assessing transparency of clinical trial protocol and results publications. medRxiv. 2025 Jan 15;. doi: 10.1101/2025.01.14.25320543. PubMed PMID: 39867389; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11759256.
Wijayatunga NN, Chang Y, Brown AW, Webster AD, Sollid K, Ahn JJ, Bailey D. Perceptions and preferences for environmentally sustainable food and associated factors: a cross-sectional analysis of a nationally representative survey of United States consumers. Am J Clin Nutr. 2024 Oct;120(4):804-813. doi: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2024.07.026. Epub 2024 Jul 30. PubMed PMID: 39084341.
Jamshidi-Naeini Y, Henschel B, Shikany JM, Allison DB, Brown AW. Guilt by association: Plant-based foods can be incorporated into both healthy and unhealthy plant-based diet indices associated with coronary heart disease. medRxiv. 2024 Jun 30;. doi: 10.1101/2024.06.29.24309713. PubMed PMID: 38978676; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11230322.
Smith DL Jr, Mitchell SE, Johnson MS, Gibbs VK, Dickinson S, Henschel B, Li R, Kaiser KA, Chusyd DE, Brown AW, Allison DB, Speakman JR, Nagy TR. Benefits of calorie restriction in mice are mediated via energy imbalance, not absolute energy or protein intake. Geroscience. 2024 Oct;46(5):4809-4826. doi: 10.1007/s11357-024-01166-4. Epub 2024 Jun 8. PubMed PMID: 38850387; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11336014.
Davis JJ 4th, Meardon SA, Brown AW, Raglin JS, Harezlak J, Gruber AH. Are Gait Patterns during In-Lab Running Representative of Gait Patterns during Real-World Training? An Experimental Study. Sensors (Basel). 2024 May 1;24(9). doi: 10.3390/s24092892. PubMed PMID: 38732998; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11086149.
Jamshidi-Naeini Y, Golzarri-Arroyo L, Thapa DK, Brown AW, Kpormegbey DE, Allison DB. Ambiguity in Statistical Analysis Methods and Nonconformity With Prespecified Commitment to Data Sharing in a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. J Med Internet Res. 2024 Apr 3;26:e54090. doi: 10.2196/54090. PubMed PMID: 38568721; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11024742.
Johnson AF, Lamontagne N, Bhupathiraju SN, Brown AG, Eicher-Miller HA, Fulgoni VL 3rd, Rehm CD, Tucker KL, Woteki CE, Ohlhorst SD. Workshop summary: building an NHANES for the future. Am J Clin Nutr. 2024 Apr;119(4):1075-1081. doi: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2024.02.001. Epub 2024 Feb 6. PubMed PMID: 38331096; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11181347.
Sharma M, Brown AW, Powell NM, Rajaram N, Tong L, Mourani PM, Schootman M. Racial and skin color mediated disparities in pulse oximetry in infants and young children. Paediatr Respir Rev. 2024 Jun;50:62-72. doi: 10.1016/j.prrv.2023.12.006. Epub 2024 Jan 5. Review. PubMed PMID: 38233229; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11139570.
Vorland CJ, Brown AW, Kilicoglu H, Ying X, Mayo-Wilson E. Publication of Results of Registered Trials With Published Study Protocols, 2011-2022. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Jan 2;7(1):e2350688. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.50688. PubMed PMID: 38190185; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10774993.
Ansu Baidoo VY, Cara KC, Dickinson SL, Brown AW, Wallace TC, Chung M, Gletsu-Miller N. Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis to Estimate a Reference Range for Circulating Ionized Magnesium Concentrations in Adult Populations. J Nutr. 2023 Dec;153(12):3458-3471. doi: 10.1016/j.tjnut.2023.10.006. Epub 2023 Oct 14. PubMed PMID: 37844840.
Ginell K, Henschel B, Golzarri-Arroyo L, Jamshidi-Naeini Y, Brown AW, Allison DB. Unreliable Findings Due to Miscalculations and Errors. Comment on Nally et al. The Effectiveness of School-Based Interventions on Obesity-Related Behaviours in Primary School Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials. Children 2021, 8, 489. Children (Basel). 2023 Oct 7;10(10). doi: 10.3390/children10101660. PubMed PMID: 37892323; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10605774.
Siddique AB, Brown AW, Golzarri-Arroyo L, Allison DB. Commentary: Effect evaluation of Sahtak bi Sahnak, a Lebanese secondary school-based nutrition intervention: a cluster randomised trial. Front Nutr. 2023;10:1241165. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2023.1241165. eCollection 2023. PubMed PMID: 37829727; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10565801.
O'Connor LE, Higgins KA, Smiljanec K, Bergia R, Brown AW, Baer D, Davis C, Ferruzzi MG, Miller K, Rowe S, Rueda JMW, Andres A, Cash SB, Coupland J, Crimmins M, Fiecke C, Forde CG, Fukagawa NK, Hall KD, Hamaker B, Herrick KA, Hess JM, Heuven LA, Juul F, Malcomson FC, Martinez-Steele E, Mattes RD, Messina M, Mitchell A, Zhang FF. Perspective: A Research Roadmap about Ultra-Processed Foods and Human Health for the United States Food System: Proceedings from an Interdisciplinary, Multi-Stakeholder Workshop. Adv Nutr. 2023 Nov;14(6):1255-1269. doi: 10.1016/j.advnut.2023.09.005. Epub 2023 Sep 16. PubMed PMID: 37722488; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10721509.
Zoh RS, Esteves BH, Yu X, Fairchild AJ, Vazquez AI, Chapple AG, Brown AW, George B, Gordon D, Landsittel D, Gadbury GL, Pavela G, de Los Campos G, Mestre LM, Allison DB. Design, analysis, and interpretation of treatment response heterogeneity in personalized nutrition and obesity treatment research. Obes Rev. 2023 Dec;24(12):e13635. doi: 10.1111/obr.13635. Epub 2023 Sep 4. Review. PubMed PMID: 37667550; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10825777.
Jamshidi-Naeini Y, Pena A, Siddique AB, Brown AW, Allison DB. One Cluster per Condition Is Not a Valid Design in Cluster-Randomized Trials. Comment on Wang et al. The Effect of Different Physical Exercise Programs on Physical Fitness among Preschool Children: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20, 4254. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Aug 29;20(17). doi: 10.3390/ijerph20176673. PubMed PMID: 37681813; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10488029.
Peña A, Gibney M, Hall K, Kyle TK, Brown AW, Allison DB. Undisclosed outcome switching, undisclosed analysis switching, inappropriate rounding, and selective reporting render paper "Effectiveness of a minimally processed food‑based nutritional counselling intervention on weight gain in overweight pregnant women: a randomized controlled trial" unreliable. Eur J Nutr. 2023 Aug;62(5):2333-2335. doi: 10.1007/s00394-023-03146-4. Epub 2023 May 3. PubMed PMID: 37133531; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10594987.
Yamamoto N, Ejima K, Zoh RS, Brown AW. Bias in nutrition-health associations is not eliminated by excluding extreme reporters in empirical or simulation studies. Elife. 2023 Apr 5;12. doi: 10.7554/eLife.83616. PubMed PMID: 37017635; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10076015.
Henschel B, Chen X, Dickinson SL, Brown AW, Allison DB. Comment on Qiu et al. Effect of Protein-Rich Breakfast on Subsequent Energy Intake and Subjective Appetite in Children and Adolescents: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Nutrients 2021, 13, 2840. Nutrients. 2023 Mar 29;15(7). doi: 10.3390/nu15071653. PubMed PMID: 37049496; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10096717.
Hagedorn E, Bunnell D, Henschel B, Smith DL, Dickinson S, Brown AW, De Luca M, Turner AN, Chtarbanova S. RNA virus-mediated changes in organismal oxygen consumption rate in young and old Drosophila melanogaster males. Aging (Albany NY). 2023 Mar 22;15(6):1748-1767. doi: 10.18632/aging.204593. Epub 2023 Mar 22. PubMed PMID: 36947702; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10085608.
Kaiser KA, Kadish I, van Groen T, Smith DL Jr, Dickinson S, Henschel B, Parker ES, Brown AW, Allison DB. The effect of a pharmaceutical ghrelin agonist on lifespan in C57BL/6J male mice: A controlled experiment. Aging Cell. 2023 Apr;22(4):e13787. doi: 10.1111/acel.13787. Epub 2023 Feb 3. PubMed PMID: 36734122; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10086516.
Vorland CJ, Golzarri-Arroyo L, Maney DL, Brown AW. Determination of sex differences requires formal test for differences: Comment on "lipoprotein-subclass particle numbers in children with abdominal obesity". Pediatr Int. 2023 Jan;65(1):e15489. doi: 10.1111/ped.15489. PubMed PMID: 36722143; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10033381.
Thomas DM, Kleinberg S, Brown AW, Crow M, Bastian ND, Reisweber N, Lasater R, Kendall T, Shafto P, Blaine R, Smith S, Ruiz D, Morrell C, Clark N. Machine learning modeling practices to support the principles of AI and ethics in nutrition research. Nutr Diabetes. 2022 Dec 2;12(1):48. doi: 10.1038/s41387-022-00226-y. PubMed PMID: 36456550; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9715415.
Chusyd DE, Austad SN, Brown AW, Chen X, Dickinson SL, Ejima K, Fluharty D, Golzarri-Arroyo L, Holden R, Jamshidi-Naeini Y, Landsittel D, Lartey S, Mannix E, Vorland CJ, Allison DB. From Model Organisms to Humans, the Opportunity for More Rigor in Methodologic and Statistical Analysis, Design, and Interpretation of Aging and Senescence Research. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2022 Nov 21;77(11):2155-2164. doi: 10.1093/gerona/glab382. Review. PubMed PMID: 34950945; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9678201.
Jamshidi-Naeini Y, Golzarri-Arroyo L, Vorland CJ, Brown AW, Dickinson S, Allison DB. Accounting for the clustering and nesting effects verifies most conclusions. Corrected analysis of: "Randomized nutrient bar supplementation improves exercise-associated changes in plasma metabolome in adolescents and adult family members at cardiometabolic risk". PLoS One. 2022;17(10):e0275242. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0275242. eCollection 2022. PubMed PMID: 36301862; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9612448.
Jamshidi-Naeini Y, Golzarri-Arroyo L, Vorland CJ, Brown AW, Allison DB. Re-analysis of data from a cluster RCT entitled "health literacy and exercise-focused interventions on clinical measurements in Chinese diabetes patients". EClinicalMedicine. 2022 Nov;53:101686. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101686. eCollection 2022 Nov. PubMed PMID: 36238693; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9551113.
Vorland CJ, Chen X, Chusyd DE, Mestre LM, Dickinson SL, Allison DB, Brown AW. Re-Analysis and Additional Information Needed to Inform Conclusions. Comment on Halenova et al. Deuterium-Depleted Water as Adjuvant Therapeutic Agent for Treatment of Diet-Induced Obesity in Rats. Molecules 2020, 25, 23. Molecules. 2022 Aug 15;27(16). doi: 10.3390/molecules27165186. PubMed PMID: 36014426; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9414091.
Mattes RD, Rowe SB, Ohlhorst SD, Brown AW, Hoffman DJ, Liska DJ, Feskens EJM, Dhillon J, Tucker KL, Epstein LH, Neufeld LM, Kelley M, Fukagawa NK, Sunde RA, Zeisel SH, Basile AJ, Borth LE, Jackson E. Valuing the Diversity of Research Methods to Advance Nutrition Science. Adv Nutr. 2022 Aug 1;13(4):1324-1393. doi: 10.1093/advances/nmac043. PubMed PMID: 35802522; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9340992.
Aly M, Jamshidi-Naeini Y, Brown AW. Use of Pre-Post Treatment Values in Place of Between Group Comparisons Invalidates Meta-Analysis Findings. Commentary: Can Millet Consumption Help Manage Hyperlipidemia and Obesity?: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Front Nutr. 2022;9:921352. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2022.921352. eCollection 2022. PubMed PMID: 35938111; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9355156.
Cardel MI, Loop MS, Brown AW, Bohan Brown MM, Newsome F, Scott L, Lemas DJ, Krukowski RA. Implementation of a Family Support Grant to Subsidize Caregiving Needs and Support Attendance at American Society for Nutrition's Annual Professional Scientific Conference. Curr Dev Nutr. 2022 Jun;6(6):nzac076. doi: 10.1093/cdn/nzac076. eCollection 2022 Jun. PubMed PMID: 35769451; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9225269.
Katzmarzyk PT, Denstel KD, Martin CK, Newton RL Jr, Apolzan JW, Mire EF, Horswell R, Johnson WD, Brown AW, Zhang D. Intraclass correlation coefficients for weight loss cluster randomized trials in primary care: The PROPEL trial. Clin Obes. 2022 Aug;12(4):e12524. doi: 10.1111/cob.12524. Epub 2022 Apr 12. PubMed PMID: 35412010; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9283264.
Jamshidi-Naeini Y, Brown AW, Mehta T, Glueck DH, Golzarri-Arroyo L, Muller KE, Tekwe CD, Allison DB. A practical decision tree to support editorial adjudication of submitted parallel cluster randomized controlled trials. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2022 Mar;30(3):565-570. doi: 10.1002/oby.23373. PubMed PMID: 35195364; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9203170.
Jamshidi-Naeini Y, Li R, Dickinson S, Vorland CJ, Brown AW. Errors in Analyses and Undisclosed Methods Render Meta-Analysis Irreproducible: A Second Comment on "Effects of Flaxseed Interventions on Circulating Inflammatory Biomarkers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials". Adv Nutr. 2022 Feb 1;13(1):352-354. doi: 10.1093/advances/nmab146. PubMed PMID: 35100618; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8803486.
Golzarri-Arroyo L, Dickinson SL, Jamshidi-Naeini Y, Zoh RS, Brown AW, Owora AH, Li P, Oakes JM, Allison DB. Evaluation of the type I error rate when using parametric bootstrap analysis of a cluster randomized controlled trial with binary outcomes and a small number of clusters. Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2022 Mar;215:106654. doi: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2022.106654. Epub 2022 Jan 21. PubMed PMID: 35093646; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8847311.
Vorland CJ, Bohan Brown MM, Cardel MI, Brown AW. Traffic Light Diets for Childhood Obesity: Disambiguation of Terms and Critical Review of Application, Food Categorization, and Strength of Evidence. Curr Dev Nutr. 2022 Mar;6(3):nzac006. doi: 10.1093/cdn/nzac006. eCollection 2022 Mar. Review. PubMed PMID: 35317412; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8929981.
Brown AW, Aslibekyan S, Bier D, Ferreira da Silva R, Hoover A, Klurfeld DM, Loken E, Mayo-Wilson E, Menachemi N, Pavela G, Quinn PD, Schoeller D, Tekwe C, Valdez D, Vorland CJ, Whigham LD, Allison DB. Toward more rigorous and informative nutritional epidemiology: The rational space between dismissal and defense of the status quo. Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr. 2023;63(18):3150-3167. doi: 10.1080/10408398.2021.1985427. Epub 2021 Oct 22. PubMed PMID: 34678079; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9023609.
Vorland CJ, Brown AW. Spin in the abstracts of systematic reviews and meta-analyses: How big is the problem in obesity?. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2021 Aug;29(8):1244-1245. doi: 10.1002/oby.23230. PubMed PMID: 34314109; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8765550.
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