Research Topics
| Susan B RacetteSummaryAffiliation: Washington University School of Medicine Country: USA Publications
| Collaborators
|
Detail Information
Publications
Approaches for quantifying energy intake and %calorie restriction during calorie restriction interventions in humans: the multicenter CALERIE studySusan B Racette
Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63108, USA
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 302:E441-8. 2012..In summary, optimal quantification of energy intake and %CR during weight loss necessitates a TEE measurement within the first month of CR to capture the rapid reduction in TEE...
Abdominal adiposity is a stronger predictor of insulin resistance than fitness among 50-95 year oldsSusan B Racette
Washington University School of Medicine, Campus Box 8502, 4444 Forest Park Avenue, St Louis, MO 63108 2212, USA
Diabetes Care 29:673-8. 2006..The aim of this study was to determine whether cardiovascular fitness, whole-body adiposity, or abdominal adiposity is the strongest predictor of insulin resistance into old age...- One year of caloric restriction in humans: feasibility and effects on body composition and abdominal adipose tissueSusan B Racette
Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63108 2212, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 61:943-50. 2006..The objectives of this study were to determine the feasibility of prolonged CR in nonobese adults and to compare the effects of CR- and exercise-induced weight loss on body composition and abdominal adiposity... 
Changes in weight and health behaviors from freshman through senior year of collegeSusan B Racette
Program in Physical Therapy, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63108 2212, USA
J Nutr Educ Behav 40:39-42. 2008..To assess weight changes, exercise and diet behaviors among college students from the beginning of freshman year until the end of senior year...- Influence of weekend lifestyle patterns on body weightSusan B Racette
Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 16:1826-30. 2008..To determine whether alterations in diet and/or activity patterns during weekends contribute to weight gain or hinder weight loss... - Worksite Opportunities for Wellness (WOW): effects on cardiovascular disease risk factors after 1 yearSusan B Racette
Washington University School of Medicine, Campus Box 8502, 4444 Forest Park Avenue, St Louis, MO 63108 2212, USA
Prev Med 49:108-14. 2009..To evaluate the effectiveness of a worksite health promotion program on improving cardiovascular disease risk factors... - Dose effects of dietary phytosterols on cholesterol metabolism: a controlled feeding studySusan B Racette
Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA 63108, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 91:32-8. 2010..Phytosterol supplementation of 2 g/d is recommended by the National Cholesterol Education Program to reduce LDL cholesterol. However, the effects of different intakes of phytosterol on cholesterol metabolism are uncertain... - Phytosterol-deficient and high-phytosterol diets developed for controlled feeding studiesSusan B Racette
Department of Medicine and Program in Physical Therapy, Washington University School of Medicine, Campus Box 8502, 4444 Forest Park Ave, St Louis, MO 63108, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 109:2043-51. 2009..9%+/-5.9% of total phytosterols. In summary, phytosterol-deficient and high-phytosterol diets that conform to recommended macronutrient guidelines and are palatable can now be used in controlled feeding studies... - Lower extremity muscle size and strength and aerobic capacity decrease with caloric restriction but not with exercise-induced weight lossEdward P Weiss
Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Sciences, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA
J Appl Physiol 102:634-40. 2007..These findings suggest that, during EX, the body adapts to maintain or even enhance physical performance capacity... - Improvements in glucose tolerance and insulin action induced by increasing energy expenditure or decreasing energy intake: a randomized controlled trialEdward P Weiss
Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Sciences, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 84:1033-42. 2006..However, it does not appear that exercise training-induced weight loss results in greater improvements than those that result from calorie restriction alone... - The effects of caloric restriction- and exercise-induced weight loss on left ventricular diastolic functionMatt M Riordan
Cardiovascular Biophysics Laboratory, Cardiovascular Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 294:H1174-82. 2008..13) tended to increase. We conclude that weight loss, whether induced by CR or Ex, has salutary effects on diastolic function... - Calorie restriction or exercise: effects on coronary heart disease risk factors. A randomized, controlled trialLuigi Fontana
Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 293:E197-202. 2007..Data from the present study provide evidence that CR- and EX-induced negative energy balance result in substantial and similar improvements in the major risk factors for CHD in normal-weight and overweight middle-aged adults... - Effect of calorie restriction on the free-living physical activity levels of nonobese humans: results of three randomized trialsCorby K Martin
Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
J Appl Physiol 110:956-63. 2011..Inaccuracy of accelerometry and recall also likely negatively affected sensitivity... - Bone mineral density response to caloric restriction-induced weight loss or exercise-induced weight loss: a randomized controlled trialDennis T Villareal
Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Sciences, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Arch Intern Med 166:2502-10. 2006..We tested the hypothesis that EX-induced weight loss is associated with less bone loss compared with CR-induced weight loss... - Effect of obesity and insulin resistance on myocardial substrate metabolism and efficiency in young womenLinda R Peterson
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Campus Box 8086, 660 S Euclid Ave, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Circulation 109:2191-6. 2004..In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that myocardial fatty acid metabolism and efficiency are abnormal in obese women... - Aerobic power and insulin action improve in response to endurance exercise training in healthy 77-87 yr oldsEllen M Evans
Section of Applied Physiology, Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Sciences, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
J Appl Physiol 98:40-5. 2005.... - Caloric restriction but not exercise-induced reductions in fat mass decrease plasma triiodothyronine concentrations: a randomized controlled trialEdward P Weiss
Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Sciences, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
Rejuvenation Res 11:605-9. 2008..This effect does not appear to be attributable to changes in body fat mass because a comparable decrease in T(3) concentration was not observed in response to an exercise-induced fat mass reduction... - Combined effects of ezetimibe and phytosterols on cholesterol metabolism: a randomized, controlled feeding study in humansXiaobo Lin
Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipid Research, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Circulation 124:596-601. 2011..Both ezetimibe and phytosterols inhibit cholesterol absorption. We tested the hypothesis that the combination of ezetimibe and phytosterols is more effective than ezetimibe alone in altering cholesterol metabolism... - Modest weight loss improves insulin action in obese African AmericansSusan B Racette
Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110-2212, USA
Metabolism 54:960-5. 2005..7 +/- 2.4 kg/m 2 ), long-term benefits can be achieved with relatively small weight loss in obese African Americans... - Effects of soy protein isolate and moderate exercise on bone turnover and bone mineral density in postmenopausal womenEllen M Evans
Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Sciences, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
Menopause 14:481-8. 2007..The aim of this study was to assess the independent and additive effects of soy protein isolate (SPI) and moderate-intensity exercise (EX) on bone turnover and bone mineral density (BMD)... - Inhibition of cholesterol absorption by phytosterol-replete wheat germ compared with phytosterol-depleted wheat germRichard E Ostlund
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 77:1385-9. 2003..Low-fat vegetable foods contain phytosterols, but it is not known whether they are in biologically active forms or whether their concentrations are high enough to reduce cholesterol absorption and favorably affect lipid metabolism... - Obesity: overview of prevalence, etiology, and treatmentSusan B Racette
Program in Physical Therapy and Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
Phys Ther 83:276-88. 2003 - Comparison of methods for assessing abdominal adipose tissue from magnetic resonance imagesHassan Arif
Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, St Louis University, 3437 Caroline Street, Room 3076, St Louis, MO 63104, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:2240-4. 2007..To compare the inter-rater and intra-rater reliability and analysis time of two methods for quantifying visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) volumes from magnetic resonance (MR) images... - Phytosterol glycosides reduce cholesterol absorption in humansXiaobo Lin
Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipid Research, Department of Medicine, Program in Physical Therapy, Center for Applied Research Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Ave, Campus Box 8127, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 296:G931-5. 2009..6+/-3.9% (P=0.0001). These results suggest that natural phytosterol glycosides purified from lecithin are bioactive in humans and should be included in methods of phytosterol analysis and tables of food phytosterol content... - The emerging link between alcoholism risk and obesity in the United StatesRichard A Grucza
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 67:1301-8. 2010..The prevalence of obesity has risen sharply in the United States in the past few decades. Etiologic links between obesity and substance use disorders have been hypothesized... - Phytosterols that are naturally present in commercial corn oil significantly reduce cholesterol absorption in humansRichard E Ostlund
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 75:1000-4. 2002..Vegetable oils are the richest dietary source of phytosterols; corn oil contains 0.77% phytosterols by weight... - Effects of trace components of dietary fat on cholesterol metabolism: phytosterols, oxysterols, and squaleneRichard E Ostlund
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Nutr Rev 60:349-59. 2002.... - Creatine supplementation and athletic performanceSusan B Racette
Washington University School of Medicine, Program in Physical Therapy, Department of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63108 2212, USA
J Orthop Sports Phys Ther 33:615-21. 2003..This is an active area of clinical investigation and the results of ongoing and future research should guide the appropriate use of creatine to enhance athletic performance among athletes of all ages... - Thiazolidinediones enhance insulin-mediated suppression of fatty acid flux in type 2 diabetes mellitusSusan B Racette
Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110-1093, USA
Metabolism 51:169-74. 2002..However, TZD therapy did not affect whole-body glycerol R(a), possibly because of upregulation of lipoprotein lipase action on plasma triglycerides... - Fat-free foods supplemented with soy stanol-lecithin powder reduce cholesterol absorption and LDL cholesterolCurtis A Spilburg
Lifeline Technologies, Chesterfield, MO 63017, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 103:577-81. 2003..The objective of this work was to show that fat-free, lecithin-formulated soy stanols lower cholesterol absorption and serum LDL cholesterol... - Weight changes, exercise, and dietary patterns during freshman and sophomore years of collegeSusan B Racette
Washington University in St Louis, Missouri 63108, USA
J Am Coll Health 53:245-51. 2005..Future research is needed to assess the contributions of fat, muscle, and bone mass to observed weight gain and to determine the health implications of these findings... - Menopause and risk for obesity: how important is physical activity?Ellen M Evans
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 15:211-3. 2006