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Session Type: Oral Session

Obesity, Precision Nutrition, and Body Composition (Oral Session 7)

Sunday, June 1, 2025
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET
Location:S220 E-G

    Chair(s)

  • Swati Zaveri, PhD (she/her/hers)

    Associate Academic Research Scientist
    Emory University School of Medicine
    Atlanta, Georgia, United States

    Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

  • Swati Zaveri, PhD (she/her/hers)

    Associate Academic Research Scientist
    Emory University School of Medicine
    Atlanta, Georgia, United States

    Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

    • Co-Chair(s)

  • Katelyn Senkus, PhD (she/her/hers)

    Postdoctoral Associate
    Pediatrics-Nutrition
    Baylor College of Medicine
    Houston, Texas, United States

    Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

  • Katelyn Senkus, PhD (she/her/hers)

    Postdoctoral Associate
    Pediatrics-Nutrition
    Baylor College of Medicine
    Houston, Texas, United States

    Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

    • Presenting Author(s)

  • Connie Bales, PhD

    Associate Director for Education and Evaluation
    Durham VA Medical Center
    Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States

    Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

  • Connie Bales, PhD

    Associate Director for Education and Evaluation
    Durham VA Medical Center
    Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States

    Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

  • Yunhee Chang, Ph. D.

    Professor
    Nutrition and Hospitality Management
    University of Mississippi
    University, Mississippi, United States

    Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

  • Yunhee Chang, Ph. D.

    Professor
    Nutrition and Hospitality Management
    University of Mississippi
    University, Mississippi, United States

    Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

  • Yun Chen, PhD (she/her/hers)

    Postdoctoral Associate
    Yale School of Nursing
    New Haven, Connecticut, United States

    Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

  • Yun Chen, PhD (she/her/hers)

    Postdoctoral Associate
    Yale School of Nursing
    New Haven, Connecticut, United States

    Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

  • JK

    Judy Kim, MSc

    PhD Candidate
    Nutrition
    University of Massachusetts Amherst
    Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

    Disclosure information not submitted.

  • JK

    Judy Kim, MSc

    PhD Candidate
    Nutrition
    University of Massachusetts Amherst
    Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

    Disclosure information not submitted.

  • Longgang Zhao, PhD

    Postdoctoral Associate
    Yale School of Nursing
    Orange, Connecticut, United States

    Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

  • Longgang Zhao, PhD

    Postdoctoral Associate
    Yale School of Nursing
    Orange, Connecticut, United States

    Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

  • FZ

    Fang Zhou

    PhD candidate, RA
    Arizona State University
    Phoenix, Arizona, United States

    Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

  • FZ

    Fang Zhou

    PhD candidate, RA
    Arizona State University
    Phoenix, Arizona, United States

    Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

NUTRITION 2025 oral sessions feature the presentation of multiple abstracts organized around a common theme and highlight outstanding research representing the abstract topical areas. Complete abstract text for each abstract which will be presented at NUTRITION 2025 will be available on May 30, 2025.

Presentations:

  • 10:00 AM – 10:12 AM ET
    Adiposity, Metabolomic and Proteomic Signatures, and Liver Health: A Prospective Cohort Study in the UK Biobank

    Presenting Author: Longgang Zhao, PhD – Yale School of Nursing

    Co-Author: Yun Chen, PhD (she/her/hers) – Yale School of Nursing

    Co-Author: Jun Li – Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

    Co-Author: Tamar Taddei – Yale School of Medicine

    Co-Author: Xiaomei Ma – Yale School of Public Health

    Co-Author: Shuangge Ma – Yale School of Public Health

    Co-Author: Deirdre K. Tobias, ScD (she/her/hers) – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

    Co-Author: Edward L. Giovannucci, PhD – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

    Co-Author: Howard D. Sesso, ScD, MPH – Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

    Co-Author: JoAnn E. Manson – Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

    Co-Author: Frank B. Hu, MD, MPH, PhD – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

    Co-Author: Xuehong Zhang – Yale School of Nursing

  • 10:12 AM – 10:24 AM ET
    Obesity Intervention in Older Men with Prediabetes Has Differential Effects on Body Composition and Function Depending on Race (Black/White): A Pilot Study

    Presenting Author: Connie Bales, PhD – Durham VA Medical Center

    Co-Author: Shelley R. McDonald, DO, PhD – Duke University School of Medicine; Durham VA Health Care System

    Co-Author: Marshall G. Miller, PhD – Duke University School of Medicine

    Co-Author: Kathryn Porter Starr, PhD, RD (she/her/hers) – Duke University School of Medicine; Durham VA Health Care System

    Co-Author: Richard Sloane – Durham VA Medical Center

    Co-Author: Ryan M. Swagert – Durham VA Medical Center

    Co-Author: Jessica T. Wallis, MPH, RD – Duke University School of Medicine

    Co-Author: Leigh Ann Yeager – Durham VA Medical Center

  • 10:24 AM – 10:36 AM ET
    Local and Targeted Delivery of Adipose Stromal Stem Cell-Targeted Trans-Resveratrol-Nanoparticles for Combating Obesity

    Presenting Author: Fang Zhou – Arizona State University

    Co-Author: Shu Wang, MD, PhD – Arizona State University

  • 10:36 AM – 10:48 AM ET
    Impact of Weight Cycling on Metabolic Adaptation, GLP-1 Regulation and Epigenetic Modifications

    Presenting Author: Judy Kim, MSc – University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Co-Author: Rong Fan, MS (she/her/hers) – University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Co-Author: Soonkyu Chung, PhD – University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Co-Author: Young-Cheul Kim, Ph.D. – University of Massachusetts Amherst, School of Public Health & Health Sciences, Department of Nutrition

  • 10:48 AM – 11:00 AM ET
    Central Obesity as a Strong Predictor of Elevated High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein Levels, Independent of BMI-Based Obesity: Insights From All of Us Data

    Presenting Author: Yunhee Chang, Ph. D. – University of Mississippi

    Co-Author: Nadeeja N. Wijayatunga, MBBS, MPhil, PhD, RDN (she/her/hers) – University of Mississippi

  • 11:12 AM – 11:24 AM ET
    Cumulative Lipids Exposure Through Young Adulthood and Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease in Midlife

    Presenting Author: Yun Chen, PhD (she/her/hers) – Yale School of Nursing

    Co-Author: Yinan Zheng – Northwestern University

    Co-Author: Longgang Zhao, PhD – Yale School of Nursing

    Co-Author: Tao Gao – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

    Co-Author: Yishu Qu – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

    Co-Author: John Jeffrey Carr – Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

    Co-Author: James G. Terry – Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

    Co-Author: Hongyan Ning – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

    Co-Author: Kyeezu Kim – Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine

    Co-Author: Michelle T. Long, MD, MSc – Clinical Drug Development, Medicine and Science, NASH, Novo Nordisk, Bagsværd, Denmark & Department of Medicine, Section of Gastroenterology, Boston University School of Medicine

    Co-Author: Xinyuan Zhang, PhD – Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

    Co-Author: John T. Wilkins – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

    Co-Author: Aimin Chen – University of Pennsylvania

    Co-Author: Kai Zhang – University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth

    Co-Author: Norrina Allen – Northwestern University

    Co-Author: Donald M. Lloyd-Jones – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

    Co-Author: Lifang Hou – Northwestern University

    Co-Author: Xuehong Zhang – Yale School of Nursing