Harvard School of Public Health

Leah Cahill

Dietary and genetic origins of cardio-metabolic disease, including diet-gene interactions
Eating habits including the timing and frequency of eating, cooking methods and beverage consumption
Dietary antioxidants, especially vitamin C
Dietetics
Cardiovascular disease and diabetes
Inflammation and oxidative stress
Epidemiology and biostatistics

Mekary RA, Giovannucci E, Cahill LE, Willett WC, van Dam RM, and Hu FB. Eating patterns and type 2 diabetes risk in older women: Breakfast consumption and eating frequency. Am J Clin Nutr 2013 (In press).

Wu JHY, Cahill LE and Mozaffarian D. Effect of Fish Oil on Circulating Adiponectin: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2013; 98:2451-2459.
Pai JK, Cahill LE, Hu FB, Rexrode KM, Manson JE, and Rimm EB. Hemoglobin a1c is associated with increased risk of incident coronary heart disease among apparently healthy, nondiabetic men and women. J Am Heart Assoc 2013 (epub ahead of print).
Cahill LE, Levy AP, Chiuve SE, Jensen MK, Wang H, Shara NM, Blum S, Howard BV, Pai JK, Mukamal KJ, Rexrode KM, and Rimm EB. Haptoglobin genotype is a consistent marker of coronary heart disease risk among individuals with elevated HbA1c. J Amer Coll Cardiol 2013; 61(7):728-737.
Fenech M, El-Sohemy A, Cahill L, Lynette Ferguson L, French T-AC, Shyong Tai E, Milner J, Koh W-P, Yuan J-M, Sun C-L, Lee H-P, Yu MC, Xie L, Zucker M, Buckley M, Cosgrove L, Lockett T, Fung KYC and Head R. Nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics: viewpoints on current status and applications in nutrition research and practice. J Nutrigenet Nutrigenom 2011;4:69-89.

Cahill LE and El-SohemyA. Haptoglobin genotype modifies the association between dietary vitamin C and serum ascorbic acid deficiency. Am J Clin Nutr 2010; 92:1494-1500.

Cahill LE and El-SohemyA. Vitamin C transporter gene polymorphisms, dietary vitamin C and fasting serum ascorbic acid. J Nutrigenet Nutrigenom, 2010; 2(6):292-301.

Brenner DR, Tepylo K, Eny KM, Cahill LE and El-Sohemy A. Comparison of body mass index and waist circumference as predictors of cardiometabolic health in a population of young Canadian adults. Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome 2010; 2:28.

Cahill LE, Fontaine-BissonB and El-SohemyA. Functional genetic variants of glutathione S-transferase protect against serum ascorbic acid deficiency. Am J Clin Nutr 2009; 90:1411-1417.

Cahill L, Corey PN and El-Sohemy A. Vitamin C deficiency in a population of young Canadian adults. Am J Epidemiol 2009; 170:464-471.

Cahill LE, Peng C, Bankovic-Calic N, Sankaran D, Ogborn M and Aukema H. Dietary soy protein during pregnancy and lactation in rats with hereditary kidney disease attenuates disease progression in offspring. Br J Nutr 2007; 97:77-84.

Sankaran D, Bankovic-Calic N, Cahill L, Peng C, Ogborn M and Aukema H.Late dietary intervention limits benefits of soy protein or flax oil in experimental polycystic kidney disease. Nephron Exp Nephrol 2007 106:122-128.

Cahill LE and El-Sohemy A (2012). Genetic Variation and Nutrient Metabolism. In: John W. Erdman Jr. (ed.), Ian A. MacDonald (ed.), Steven H. Zeisel (ed.), Present Knowledge in Nutrition, 10^th Edition, pp. 70-88. Wiley-Blackwell.

Cahill LE and El-Sohemy A (2011). Integration of Biotechnologies | Nutrigenomics: A Possible Road to Personalized Nutrition. In: Murray Moo-Young (ed.), Comprehensive Biotechnology, Second Edition, volume 4, pp. 703–712. Elsevier.