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Impact Factor
6.766

Editor-in-Chief

Christopher Duggan, MD, MPH

Editorial Board

Meet the AJCN Associate Editor:
Diana Thomas, PhD

This month’s featured AJCN Associate Editor is Diana Thomas, PhD. Dr. Thomas is a professor of mathematical sciences at the United States Military Academy. Her work has involved modeling problems in nutrition and obesity using various mathematical methods.

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Featured Articles

Relation of body fat mass and fat-free mass to total mortality: results from 7 prospective cohort studies

Fat mass and fat-free mass may play independent roles in mortality risk but available studies on body composition have yielded inconsistent results...

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Nutrigenomics: lessons learned and future perspectives

Many definitions of nutrigenomics exist in the literature, with the broadest viewing it as a branch of science investigating the interactions between nutrition and the host (genome) through omics technologies. In this definition, nutritional genetics is a branch of nutrigenomics which focuses on the interactions between genomic variants and diet...

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The impact of diets rich in low-fat or full-fat dairy on glucose tolerance and its determinants: a randomized controlled trial

Dairy foods, particularly yogurt, and plasma biomarkers of dairy fat intake are consistently inversely associated with incident type 2 diabetes. Yet, few trials assessing the impact of dairy on glucose homeostasis include fermented or full-fat dairy foods...

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Introducing the AJCN In Press Podcast

AJCN In Press is a monthly podcast from AJCN, the leading primary research journal in nutrition and dietetics, hosted by AJCN’s Dennis M. Bier Young Career Editor, Kevin C. Klatt, PhD, RD. Discover freely available podcast episodes from experts in the field, keeping you up to date with the latest research on all areas of clinical nutrition.

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Great Debates in Nutrition

AJCN’s newest section, Great Debates in Nutrition, will provide a venue for vigorous, timely, scholarly, and collegial discourse on hot topics in nutrition.

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Interview with 2020 Dennis Bier, MD Young Career Editor Recipient

AJCN's Academic Editor, Deirdre Tobias, PhD, interviews the Inaugural Dennis Bier, MD Young Career Editor, Kevin C. Klatt, PhD, RD about his priorities for this new position.

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Increased Impact Factor

The latest Impact Factor for The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has risen to 6.766. To celebrate, we have curated a selection of highly cited articles from the four ASN Journals, and invite you to explore this collection while it is freely available.

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