ReviewThe American journal of clinical nutrition2020
Race, ethnicity, and racism in the nutrition literature: an update for 2020.
Review in The American journal of clinical nutrition, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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41 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 62 citations in OpenAlex.
- Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Utilization of Race and Ethnicity in Major Epidemiology Journals, 1995-2018: A Systematic Review.American journal of epidemiology · 2023Pooled it
- A systematic review of sociodemographic reporting and representation in eating disorder psychotherapy treatment trials in the United States.The International journal of eating disorders · 2022Pooled it
- Use of WHO Growth Standards Rather Than Locally Specific Linear Growth Curves Promotes Equity in Pediatric Growth Research for Children Younger Than 5 Years.Nutrition reviews · 2026Review
- Are the Australian Dietary Guidelines Fit for Purpose for Culturally Diverse Populations? A Qualitative Study.Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals · 2026Article
- Obesity promotes conserved inflammatory and metabolic transcriptional programs in colon tumors: evidence from mouse models and the ColoCare Study Patient Cohort.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2025Article
- Cross-sectional analysis of visceral adipose tissue associations with obesity-related disease.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2025Article
- Clinical Thresholds for Visceral Adiposity Accumulation: A Comparative Analysis in Sex-, Age-, and BMI-Matched Black and White Adults.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2025Article
- Race-neutral Pediatric Reference Ranges for Bone Mineral Density Predict Prospective Fractures in Childhood.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2025Article
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- Temporal, Age, and Racial and Ethnic Trends in Allergen Consumption from 2-Day 24-Hour Recalls, NHANES 2003-2023.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice · 2025Article
- Associations of ethnicity, skin tone, and genome-wide sequencing with bone mineral density in adolescents.Pediatric research · 2025Article
- Drug Toxicity and My Dad's Ethnicity.Annals of family medicine · 2025Article
- Health Disparities in Obesity Treatment Outcomes, Access, and Utilization.Current obesity reports · 2025Review
- Exploring Public, Practitioner and Policymaker Perspectives of Unhealthy Lifestyle Factors in the Context of Socioeconomic Deprivation: A Qualitative Study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024Article
- Recommendations for the responsible use and communication of race and ethnicity in neuroimaging research.Nature neuroscience · 2024Review
- Plant-based diets and the gut microbiome: findings from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2024Article
- Direct and indirect associations of experience of racial discrimination, dietary patterns and obesity in adults from southern Brazil.Public health nutrition · 2024Article
- Equity in Obesity Review.Endocrinology and metabolism clinics of North America · 2023Review
- Exploring the Anemia Ecology: A New Approach to an Old Problem.The Journal of nutrition · 2023Article
- Challenging Dietary Research Measures, Concepts, and Definitions to Promote Greater Inclusivity of Immigrant Experiences: Considerations and Practical Recommendations.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2023Article
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Abstract
Social disparities in the US and elsewhere have been terribly highlighted by the current COVID-19 pandemic but also an outbreak of state-sponsored violence. The field of nutrition, like other areas of science, has commonly used 'race' to describe research participants and populations, without the recognition that race is a social, not a biologic, construct. We review the limitations of classifying participants by race, and recommend a series of steps for authors, researchers and policymakers to consider when producing and reading the nutrition literature. We recommend that biomedical researchers, especially those in the field of nutrition, abandon the use of racial categories to explain biologic phenomena but instead rely on a more comprehensive framework of ethnicity; that authors consider not just race and ethnicity but many social determinants of health, including experienced racism; that race and ethnicity not be conflated; that dietary pattern descriptions inform ethnicity descriptions; and that depersonalizating language be avoided.
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