Published Findings


Last updated January 2010

Ma Y, Njike VY, Millet J, Dutta S, Doughty K, Treu JA, and Katz DL. Effects of Walnut Consumption on Endothelial Function in Type 2 Diabetics: A Randomized, Controlled, Cross-Over Trial. Diabetes Care 2010 Feb;33(2):227-32. Epub 2009 Oct 30.

Wall H, Ballard J, Troped P, Katz DL. Home-based, Supervised Exercise in Congestive Heart Failure: Results of a Randomized, Controlled Pilot Study. International Journal of Cardiology. 2009 Oct 23. [Epub ahead of print]

Katz DL. Life and Death, Knowledge and Power: Why Knowing What Matters is Not What's the Matter. Archives of Internal Medicine 2009 Aug 10;169(15):1362-3.

Fisher P, Katz D. Motes, Beams and Evidence-based Practice (commentary). Journal of Health Services Research & Policy. 2009; 14(4):224–225.

Katz DL, Njike VY, Faridi Z, Rhee L, Reeves R, Jenkins D, Ayoob K. The Stratification of Foods on the Basis of Overall Nutritional Quality: The Overall Nutritional Quality Index (ONQI). American Journal of Health Promotion. 2009;24(2): 133-43.

Anderson LM, Quinn TA, Glanz K, Ramirez G, Kahwati LC, Johnson DB, Buchanan LR, Archer WR, Chattopadhyay S, Kalra GP, Katz DL; Task Force on Community Preventive Services. The Effectiveness of Worksite Nutrition and Physical Activity Interventions for Controlling Employee Overweight and Obesity: A Systematic Review. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2009; 37(4):340-357.

Katz DL. Dieting: Who Wins? Who Loses? Current Cardiovascular Risk Reports. 2009; 3(2).

Lancaster GI, O'Connell R, Katz DL, Manson JE, Hutchison WR, Landau C, Yonkers KA; Healthcare Professionals for Healthcare Reform. The Expanding Medical and Behavioral Resources with Access to Care for Everyone Health Plan. Annals of Internal Medicine 2009 Apr 7;150(7):490-2 [Epub 2009 Mar 2].

Ali A, Njike VY, Northrup V, Sabina AB, Williams AL, Liberti LS, Perlman AI, Adelson H, Katz DL. Intravenous Micronutrient Therapy (Myers' Cocktail) for Fibromyalgia: a Placebo-controlled Pilot Study. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2009 Mar;15(3):247-57.

Faridi Z, Shuva K, Njike VY, Katz J, Jennings G, Williams M, Katz, DL, The PREDICT Project Working Group. Partners Reducing Effects of Diabetes (PREDICT): A Diabetes Prevention Physical Activity and Dietary Intervention through African-American Churches. Health Education Research 2009; doi: 10.1093/her/cyp005.

Katz DL. Plant Foods in the American Diet? As We Sow...Medscape Journal of Medicine. 2009;11(1):25.

Katz DL, Ali, A. Preventive Medicine, Integrative Medicine & the Health of the Public. Report for IOM Summit on Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public; February, 2009. http://www.iom.edu/Object.File/Master/62/376/Preventive Medicine, Integrative Medicine, and the Health of the Public.pdf

Katz DL. School Based Interventions for Health Promotion & Weight Control: Not Just Waiting on the World to Change. Annual Review of Public Health 2009; 30:11.1–11.20.

Hartwig KA, Dunville RL, Kim MH, Levy B, Zaharek MM, Yanchou Njike V, Katz DL. Promoting Healthy People 2010 through Small Grants. Health Promotion Practice 2009 Jan;10(1):24-33. [Epub 2006 June 30]

Katz DL, O’Connell M, Yanchou Njike V, Yeh M-C, Nawaz H. Strategies for the Prevention & Control of Obesity in the School Setting - Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. International Journal of Obesity (Lond). 2008 Dec;32(12):1780-9.

Bier D, Derelian D, German JB, Katz DL, Pate RR, Thompson KM. Improving Compliance with Dietary Recommendations: Time for New, Inventive Approaches? Nutrition Today 2008;43(5): 180-187.

Faridi Z, Njike V, Dutta S, Ali Ather, Katz DL. Acute Dark Chocolate and Cocoa Ingestion and Endothelial Function: A Randomized, Placebo Controlled, Cross-Over Trial. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2008 Jul;88(1):58-63.

Shuval K, Weisblueth E, Brezis M, Araida A, Faridi Z, Ali A, Katz DL. The Role of Culture, Environment, and Religion in the Promotion of Physical Activity among Arab Israelis. Preventing Chronic Disease 2008 Jul;5(3):A88. Epub 2008 Jun 15.

Faridi Z, Liberti L, Shuval K, Northrup V, Ali A, Katz DL. Evaluating the Impact of Mobile-Telephone Technology on Type 2 Diabetic Patients' Self-Management: The NICHE Pilot Study. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 2008 Jun;14(3):465-9. [Epub 2008 Mar 24.]

Katz D, Nordwell B. Novel Interactive Cell-Phone Technology for Health Enhancement. Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology. 2008; 2(1):148-153.

Katz DL, Shuval K, Comerford BP, Faridi Z, Yanchou Njike V. Impact of an Educational Intervention on Internal Medicine Residents’ Physical Activity Counseling: the Pressure System Model. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 2008 April; 14(2), 294–299

Katz DL. Medicine and Media: State of the Union? American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2008 Jan;34(1):83-4.

Katz DL. Nutrition in Clinical Practice, 2nd Edition. Lippincott-Williams & Wilkins. Philadelphia, PA. 2008

Yeh M, Ickes SB, Lowenstein LM, Shuval K, Ammerman AS, Farris R, and Katz DL. Understanding Barriers and Facilitators of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption among a Diverse Multi-Ethnic Population in the United States. Health Promotion International. 2008 Mar;23(1):42-51. Epub 2008 Jan 8.

Katz DL, Faridi Z. Chapter 17: Public Health Approaches to the Control of Pediatric and Adolescent Obesity (pp. 251-271). In O’Donoghue WT, Moore BA, Scott BJ (Eds.) Handbook of Pediatric and Adolescent Obesity Treatment. Taylor and Francis. New York, NY. 1/08.

Katz, DL, Evans M, Hoxley M, Njike V, Nawaz N, Comerford B, Sarrel P. Raloxifene, Soy Phytoestrogens and Endothelial Function in Postmenopausal Women: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Crossover Trial. Climacteric. Nov 2007; 10:6, 500 – 507.

Katz DL, Faridi Z. Health Care System Approaches to Obesity Prevention and Control. Chapter 14, in Kumanyika S, Brownson RC. (Eds). Handbook of Obesity Prevention. New York: Springer Publishing Co, 2007, pp. 285-316.

Katz, D. Clinical Epidemiology. In S. Boslaugh (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Epidemiology (pp. 192-201). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications; 2007.

Katz DL, O’Connell M, Yanchou Njike V, Yeh M-C, Nawaz H. Strategies for Prevention & Control of Obesity in the School Setting: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. International Journal of Obesity advance online publication 31 July 2007; doi: 10.1038/sj.ijo.0803684 http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/0803684a.html

Faridi Z, Grunbaum JA, Gray BS, Franks A, Simoes E. Community-Based Participatory Research: Necessary Next Steps. Preventing Chronic Disease [serial online] 2007 Jul. Available from http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2007/jul/06_0182 Vol 4 No. 3 July 2007

Jekel JF, Katz DL, Elmore JG, Wild DMG. Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Preventive Medicine. 3rd Edition. Saunders, Elsevier Inc. Philadelphia, PA. 2007.

Katz DL. Low-fat Dietary Pattern and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: The Women’s Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Dietary Modification Trial. Current Cardiovascular Risk Reports. 2007;1(1):5-8.

Lederman J, Ballard J, Njike VY, Margolies L, Katz DL. Information Given to Postmenopausal Women on Coronary Computed Tomography May Influence Cardiac Risk Reduction Efforts. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2007 Apr;60(4):389-96.

Katz DL, Greene L, Ali A, Faridi Z. The Pain of Fibromyalgia Syndrome is Due to Muscle Hypoperfusion Induced by Regional Vasomotor Dysregulation. Medical Hypotheses 2007;69(3):517-25. [Epub 2007 Mar 21.]

Evans M, Njike VY, Hoxley M, Pearson M, Katz DL. Effect of Soy Isoflavone Protein and Soy Lecithin on Endothelial Function in Healthy Postmenopausal Women. Menopause. 2006 Sep 26; 2007 Jan-Feb;14(1):141-9.

Katz DL. Obesity...Be Dammed! What It Will Take to Turn the Tide. Harvard Health Policy Review 2006;7:135-151

Katz DL. Point of View: Fat of the Land. Dartmouth Medicine. 2006 Winter: 26.

O’Connell M, Comerford B, Wall H, Katz DL. Impediment Profiling for Smoking Cessation: Application in the Worksite. American Journal of Health Promotion. 2006 Nov-Dec;21(2):97-100.

Nawaz H, Comerford B, Yanchou Njike V, Dhond A, Plavec M, Katz DL. Stability of the Total Cholesterol: HDL Ratio in the Peri-Hospitalization Period. American Journal of Cardiology. 2006 Nov 15;98(10):1379-82. Epub 2006 Sep 28.

Katz DL. Chewing on the Food Chain. Science. 2006 November; 314: 762-763.

Perlman AI, Sabina A, Williams AL, Njike VY, Katz DL. Massage Therapy for Osteoarthritis of the Knee: a Randomized Controlled Trial. Archives of Internal Medicine 2006 Dec 11-25;166(22):2533-8.

Lucan S, Katz DL. Factors Associated with Smoking Cessation Counseling at Clinical Encounters: the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) 2000. American Journal of Health Promotion 2006 Sep-Oct;21(1):16-23.

Williams AL, Katz D, Ali A, Girard C, Goodman J, Bell I. Do Essential Fatty Acids Have a Role in the Treatment of Depression? Journal of Affective Disorders 2006 Jul;93(1-3):117-23. Epub 2006 May 2.

Goff SL, Foody JM, Inzucchi S, Katz DL, Mayne S, Krumholz H. BRIEF REPORT: Nutrition and Weight Loss Information in a Popular Diet Book: Is It Fact, Fiction, or Something in Between? Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2006 Jul;21(7):769-74.

Hartwig KA, Bobbitt-Cooke M, Zaharek MM, Nappi S, Wykoff RF, Katz DL. The Value of Microgrants for Community-based Health Promotion: Two Models for Practice and Policy. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 2006 January/February;12(1):90-96.

Gordon DL, Katz DL. Stealth Health : How to Sneak Age-Defying, Disease-Fighting Habits into your Life Without Really Trying. Readers Digest. Pleasantville, NY. 2005

Katz DL, Katz CS. Flavor Point Diet. Rodale Publishers. New York, NY. 2005

Katz DL, O'Connell M, Yeh MC, Nawaz H, Njike V, Anderson LM, Cory S, Dietz W; Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Public Health Strategies for Preventing and Controlling Overweight and Obesity in School and Worksite Settings: a Report on Recommendations of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services. MMWR Recommendations and Reports. 2005 Oct 7;54(RR-10):1-12. Review.

Jacobs J, Williams AL, Girard C, Njike VY, Katz D. Homeopathy for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: a Pilot Randomized-Controlled Trial. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. 2005 Oct;11(5):799-806.

Williams A, Selwyn PA, Liberti L, Molde S, Yanchou Njike V, McCorkle R, Zelterman D, Katz DL. A Randomized Controlled Trial of Meditation and Massage Effects on Quality of Life in People with Late-Stage Disease: A Pilot Study. Journal of Palliative Medicine. Oct 2005, 8(5): 939-952.

Jacobson DM, Strohecker L, Compton MT, Katz DL. Physical Activity Counseling in the Adult Primary Care Setting. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2005;29(2): 158-162.

Williams A, Girard C, Jui D, Sabina A, Katz D. S-Adenosylmethionine (SAMe) as Treatment for Depression: a Systematic Review. Clinical and Investigative Medicine. 2005 Jun;28(3):132-9.

Williams A, Cotter A, Sabina A, Girard C, Goodman J, Katz D. The Role for Vitamin B-6 as Treatment for Depression: a Systematic Review. Family Practice 2005. 2005 Oct;22(5):532-7 [Epub 2005 June 17].

Katz DL, Sabina A, Williams AL, Alonzo HK, Bansal S, Chupp G. Yoga Intervention for Adults with Mild-to-Moderate Asthma: a Pilot Study. Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. 2005 May;94(5):543-8.

Greci L, Katz DL, Jekel JJ. Vaccinations in Pneumonia (VIP): Pneumococcal and Influenza Vaccination Patterns among Patients Hospitalized for Pneumonia. Preventive Medicine. 2005 Apr;40(4):384-8.

Webb KE, Horton NJ, Katz DL. Parental IQ and Cognitive Development of Malnourished Indonesian Children. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2005 Apr;59(4):618-20.

Katz DL, Evans M, Nawaz H, Njike V, Chan W, Comerford B, Hoxley M. Egg Consumption & Endothelial Function in Healthy Adults: A Randomized Controlled Crossover Trial. International Journal of Cardiology. 2005 Mar; 99(1): 65-70.

Katz DL, Evans M, Chan W, Nawaz H, Comerford B, Hoxley M, Njike V, Sarrel P. (Q2)Oats, Antioxidants and Endothelial Function in Adults with Features of Insulin Resistance. Journal of the American College of Nutrition. 2004 Oct; 23(5):397-403.

Katz DL. Life Style and Dietary Modification for Prevention of Heart Failure. Medical Clinics of North America. 2004; 88(5): 1295-1320.

Katz DL. Competing Dietary Claims for Weight Loss: Finding the Forest through Truculent Trees. Annual Review of Public Health. August 2004. Available from: URL: http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.publhealth.26.021304.144415.

Martin C, Njike V, Katz DL. Back-up Antibiotic Prescriptions Could Reduce Unnecessary Antibiotic Use in Rhinosinusitis. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. April 2004; 57(4): 429-434.

Katz DL. A Glimpse of Things to Come: Featured Abstracts from the 18th National Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control: Preventing Chronic Disease 2004. Available from: URL: http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2004/apr/04_0002.htm.

Katz DL. Acting in Defense of the Medical Literature. Medscape General Medicine 6(1), 2004. Available from: URL: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/470713.

Katz, DL. Fiddling (with Fats and Carbohydrates) While Rome Burns. Evidence Based Integrative Medicine. 2004; 1(1): 3.

Katz DL. Representing Your Community in Community-Based Participatory Research: Differences Made and Measured. Preventing Chronic Disease [serial online] 2004. Available from: URL: http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2004/jan/03_0024.htm

O’Connell ML, Freeman M, Jennings G, Chan W, Greci LS, Manta I, Katz DL. Smoking Cessation for High School Students: Process Evaluation of a Tailored Program – Amity. Behavior Modification. 2004 Jan; 28(1): 133-46.

Katz DL, Behrman A, Girard C, Adelson H, Schiller-Liberti L, Williams A. Teaching Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine: Description of a Model Programme. Evidence Based Integrative Medicine. 2003; 1(1): 77-82.

Katz DL. The Threat of Childhood Obesity: Time to Stop Fiddling Around! School of the 21st Century Newsletter. Fall, 2003: 1,7.

Yeh MC, Rodriguez E, Nawaz H, Gonzalez M, Nakamoto D, Katz DL. Technical Skills for Weight Loss: Two-Year Follow-up Results of a Randomized Trial. International Journal of Obesity. 2003 Dec; 27(12): 1500-6.

Katz DL. Pandemic Obesity and the Contagion of Nutritional Nonsense. Public Health Reviews.2003; 31:33-44.

Wild D, Nawaz H, Chan W, Katz DL: Effects of Interdisciplinary Rounds on Length of Stay in a Telemetry Unit. J Public Health Management Practice. 2004; 10(1):69-75

Katz DL. Pedagogical Pathways to Competency in Non-Conventional Medical Practices. Fundación Medicina y Humanidades Médicas. 2003; 2:77.

Katz DL, Boukhalil J, Lucan S, Shah D, Chan W, Yeh M.C., Impediment Profiling for Smoking Cessation: Preliminary Experience. Behavior Modification. 2003; 27(4):524-537.

Katz DL, Williams A, Girard C, Goodman J, Comerford B, Behrman A, Bracken M. Evidence Mapping: Introduction of Methods with Application to Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research, Alternative Therapies In Health and Medicine, 2003 July/August, 9 (4): 22-30.

O’Connell M, Lucan SC, Yeh MC, Rodriguez E, Shah D, Chan W, Katz DL. Impediment Profiling for Smoking Cessation: Results of a Pilot Study, American Journal of Health Promotion, 2003 May/June, 17(5): 300-3

Greci LS, Kailasam M, Malkani S, Katz DL, Hulinsky I, Ahmadi R, Nawaz H. Utility of HbA(1c) Levels for Diabetes Case Finding in Hospitalized Patients With Hyperglycemia. Diabetes Care 2003 April;26(4):1064-8

Pagano-Therrien J, Katz DL. The Low-Down on Low-Carbohydrate Diets: Responding to Your Patients’ Enthusiasm. The Nurse Practitioner, 2003; 28(3):5, 14.

Katz DL, Webb K, Yeh M-C. Nutrition, Childhood. In: Gulotta TP, Bloom M, editors. Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion. New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers; 2003. p. 721-29.

Katz DL, Yeh M-C, Webb K. Nutrition, Early Childhood. In: Gulotta TP, Bloom M, editors. Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion. New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers; 2003. 713-20.

Katz DL, Nawaz H, Evans MA, Njike VY, Comerford BP, Hoxley ML. Short-Term Egg Consumption Does Not Adversely Affect Endothelial Function in Healthy Adults. [abstract] JADA 2002;102 (Supplement):A-12.

Katz DL, Evans MA, Chan W, Nawaz H, Comerford, BP, Hoxley ML, Sarrel PM. Oats, Antioxidants and Endothelial Function in Adults with Clinical Features of Insulin Resistance. Diabetes 2002;51(Supplement 2):A401 (abstract).

Katz, DL. Effective Dietary Counseling: Helping Patients Find and Follow “The Way” to Eat. The West Virginia Medical Journal, 2002;98:173-176.

Katz DL, Lane DS. Guidance at the Many Edges of Evidence: Position Statements of the American College of Preventive Medicine (commentary). American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2002 Nov;23(4):312-3.

Sarrel PM, Nawaz H, Chan W, Fuchs M, Katz DL. Raloxifene and endothelial function in healthy postmenopausal women. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecololgy2003;188(2):304-9.

Katz, DL. Effective Dietary Counseling: Helping Patients Find and Follow “The Way” to Eat. The West Virginia Medical Journal, 2002;98:173-176.

Katz DL, Chan W, Gonzalez M, Larson D, Nawaz H, Abdulrahman M, Yeh MC. Technical Skills for Weight Loss: Preliminary Data from a Randomized Trial. Preventive Medicine. 2002;34:608-15.

Katz DL, Nawaz, H, Boukhalil J, Chan W, Ahmadi R, Giannamore V, and Sarrel P. Effects of Oat and Wheat Cereals on Endothelial Responses. Preventive Medicine, 2001; 33(6); 476-484.

Hu K.K., Maung C., and Katz D.L. Clinical Diagnosis of Malaria On The Thai-Myanmar Border. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 74(5):303-308, 2001.

Nawaz H, Rahman M, Graham D, Katz D, Jekel J. Health Risk Behaviors and Health Perceptions in the Peruvian Amazon. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 2001; 65(3); 252-256.

Madi AM, Greci LS, Nawaz H, Katz DL. The Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time in Early Diagnosis of Myocardial Infarction. Blood Coagulation and Fibrinolysis. 2001;12:495-9.

Nawaz H, Katz DL. American College of Preventive Medicine Practice Policy Weight Management Counseling of Overweight Adults. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2001; 21(1); 73-78.

Nawaz H, Chan W, Abdulrahman M, Larson D, Katz DL, Self-Reported Weight And Height: Implications For Obesity Research. American Journal of Preventive Medicine.2001; 20(4): 294-298.

Eliaszadeh P, Yarmohammadi H, Nawaz H, Boukhalil J, Katz DL, Case Management of Congestive Heart Failure at a Community Hospital: Cost- Benefit Analysis (CDMP). Disease Management. 2001; 4(1):25-32

Nawaz H, Adams M, Katz DL. Physician-Patient Interactions Regarding Diet, Exercise and Smoking. Preventive Medicine. 2000;31: 652-657.

Katz DL. Behavior Modification in Primary Care: The Pressure System Model. Preventive Medicine. 2001;32: 66-72.

Katz DL, Nawaz H, Boukhalil J, Giannamore V, Chan W, Ahmadi R, Sarrel P. Acute Effects of Oats and Vitamin E on Endothelial Responses to Ingested Fat. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2001;20(2):124-129.

Katz DL, Nawaz H, Jennings G, Chan W, Ballard J, Comerford B, Spargo K, Walsh J. Community Health Promotion and the Randomized, Controlled Trial: Approaches to Finding Common Ground. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. 2001; 7(2);33-40.

Nawaz H, Smith DS, Mazhari R, Katz DL. Concordance of Clinical Findings and Clinical Judgment in the Diagnosis of Streptococcal Pharyngitis. Academic Emergency Medicine. 2000: 7(10), 1104-1109.

Madi A, Plavec M, Nawaz H, Katz DL, Peri-Operative Aspirin Can Prevent Post-Operative Ischemia And Thrombosis. Medical Hypotheses, 2000;55(2):164-167.

Katz DL, Nawaz H, Ahmadi R, DeLuca V, Cashman S, Fulmer H, Jekel JF. An Integrated Residency in Internal and Preventive Medicine. Academic Medicine. 2000;75(1):41-49.

Katz DL, Mazhari R, Kalus R, Nawaz H. Preventable In-Patient Time: Adequacy of the Electronic Patient Information System. American Journal of Public Health. 1999;89(12):1885-89.

Nawaz H, Katz DL. American College of Preventive Medicine Position Statement on Post-Menopausal Hormone Replacement Therapy. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 1999;17(3):250-4.

Nawaz H, Adams M, Katz DL. Weight Loss Counseling by Health Care Providers. American Journal of Public Health. 1999;89:764-767.