Christopher Gardner

About

Christopher Gardner is a professor at Stanford University within the Stanford Prevention Research Center, part of the School of Humanities and Sciences' Human Biology program. His research focuses on health and nutrition, contributing to the understanding of dietary impacts on health outcomes. Gardner's work is recognized for its emphasis on preventive health strategies and nutritional science, aiming to improve public health through evidence-based dietary interventions.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Environmental health
• Biology
• Internal medicine
• Economics
• Gerontology
• Social Science
• Economic growth
• Public economics
• Psychiatry

Selected publications

• Risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers and the general community: a prospective cohort study

  The Lancet Public Health · 2020 · 2291 citations

  BACKGROUND: Data for front-line health-care workers and risk of COVID-19 are limited. We sought to assess risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers compared with the general community and the effect of personal protective equipment (PPE) on risk. METHODS: We did a prospective, observational cohort study in the UK and the USA of the general community, including front-line health-care workers, using self-reported data from the COVID Symptom Study smartphone application (app) from March…

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• Gut-microbiota-targeted diets modulate human immune status

  Cell · 2021 · 1251 citations

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Microbiome connections with host metabolism and habitual diet from 1,098 deeply phenotyped individuals

  Nature Medicine · 2021 · 969 citations

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• Ultra-processed Foods, Weight Gain, and Co-morbidity Risk

  Current Obesity Reports · 2021 · 146 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The purpose of this review is to provide an update on the available data regarding the associations of Ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption with food intake and possible underlying mechanisms relating UPF consumption to weight gain and co-morbidities. RECENT FINDINGS: In primarily observational studies, UPF consumption is consistently associated with an increased risk for weight gain among adults and children and increased risk for adiposity-related co-morbidities in adults.…

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• Effect of a ketogenic diet versus Mediterranean diet on glycated hemoglobin in individuals with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes mellitus: The interventional Keto-Med randomized crossover trial

  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition · 2022 · 139 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R21AT003245

  NIH · $615k · 2009

• Do Genotype Patterns Predict Weight Loss Success for Low Carb vs. Low Fat Diets?

  NIH · $3.1M · 2012–2018

• NIH Grant R01AT000486

  NIH · $1.5M · 2006

Frequent coauthors

• Jennifer J. Otten

  University of Washington

  41 shared

• Eric B. Hekler

  University of California, San Diego

  40 shared

• Matthew P. Buman

  Arizona State University

  38 shared

• Kelly C. Allison

  University of Pennsylvania

  36 shared

• Amanda Buddak

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  36 shared

• Takeshi Yoneshiro

  The University of Tokyo

  36 shared

• Karl Byrne

  Glasgow Science Centre

  36 shared

• Charles E. Kahn

  University of Pennsylvania

  36 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Human Biology

  Stanford University

  1990

• M.S., Human Biology

  Stanford University

  1986

• B.A., Human Biology

  University of California, Berkeley

  1983

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