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Lara R. Dugas

Western Cape Department of Health · ZA
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Area of research
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health · Physiology
Research interest
Research interests include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Diet and metabolism studies, Physical Activity and Health, and Gut microbiota and health.
h-index
45
citations
7,489
works
203
NIH funding
primary concept
Medicine
email

Recent publications

Cadence Patterns and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in African-Origin Young Adults: The Modeling the Epidemiologic Transition Study​
2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Clinical translation of microbiome research
Nature Medicine 2025cited by 50position: middledoi
Predictive equation derived from 6,497 doubly labelled water measurements enables the detection of erroneous self-reported energy intake
Nature Food 2025cited by 42position: middledoi
Clinical translation of microbiome research.
2025cited by 34position: contributordoi
Predictive equation derived from 6,497 doubly labelled water measurements enables the detection of erroneous self-reported energy intake.
2025cited by 31position: contributordoi
Energy expenditure and obesity across the economic spectrum
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2025cited by 22position: middledoi
Energy expenditure and obesity across the economic spectrum.
2025cited by 13position: contributordoi
Author Correction: Predictive equation derived from 6,497 doubly labelled water measurements enables the detection of erroneous self-reported energy intake
Nature Food 2025cited by 4position: middledoi
The relationship between leptin-to-adiponectin ratio and HOMA-IR and metabolic syndrome in five African-origin populations.
2025cited by 2position: contributordoi
Author Correction: Predictive equation derived from 6,497 doubly labelled water measurements enables the detection of erroneous self-reported energy intake.
2025cited by 2position: contributordoi
Maternal Sociodemographic Factors, Adiposity, and Pregnancy Outcomes Among Preterm Deliveries Admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Brief communication: targeted serum proteomics in postpartum South African women living with and without HIV, correlations with anthropometry and adiposity.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Gluteal Adipose Tissue Mitochondrial Respiration and Insulin Sensitivity in Pregnant South African Women Living With HIV on Tenofovir-Lamivudine-Dolutegravir.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Colliding crises: The global diabetes pandemic meets climate change-A scoping review.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Maternal Anthropometry, Body Composition, and Fat Distribution by HIV Status and Antiretroviral Therapy Class in South African Women.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Objectively measured moderate-to-vigorous physical activity does not attenuate prospective weight gain among african-origin adults spanning the epidemiological transition.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Effects of Baobab fruit powder on gut and cardiometabolic health in obesity-Protocol for a randomised placebo-controlled trial.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Heat Adaptation Benefits for Vulnerable groups In Africa (HABVIA): a study protocol for a controlled clinical heat adaptation trial.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
An ecological analysis of sleep health across five African-origin populations spanning the epidemiologic transition
Sleep Health 2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Toxic metals impact gut microbiota and metabolic risk in five African-origin populations.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Associations between fears related to safety during sleep and self-reported sleep in men and women living in a low-socioeconomic status setting.
2024cited by 6position: contributordoi
Measurement of body composition in postpartum South African women living with and without HIV infection.
2024cited by 3position: contributordoi
Sex-specific associations between self-reported sleep characteristics and 10-year cardiovascular disease risk in men and women of African descent living in a low socioeconomic status environment.
2024cited by 2position: contributordoi
Silhouette showcards confirm altered obesity-associated body image perception in international cohort study of African-origin populations.
2024cited by 2position: contributordoi
Toxic Metals Impact Gut Microbiota and Metabolic Risk in Five African-Origin Populations
2024cited by 2position: contributordoi
Women’s access to health care for non-communicable diseases in South Africa: A scoping review.
2024cited by 0position: contributordoi
Signalling cognition: the gut microbiota and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
Frontiers in Endocrinology 2023cited by 334position: lastdoi
Signalling cognition: the gut microbiota and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis.
2023cited by 197position: contributordoi
Gut microbiota and fecal short chain fatty acids differ with adiposity and country of origin: the METS-microbiome study
Nature Communications 2023cited by 110position: lastdoi
Gut microbiota and fecal short chain fatty acids differ with adiposity and country of origin: the METS-microbiome study.
2023cited by 90position: contributordoi

Grants

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Frequent collaborators

· 25 papers (2019–2026)Estelle V. Lambert · Department of Physiological Sciences20 papers (2015–2025)Pascal Bovet · Ministry of Health13 papers (2019–2025)Amy Luke · Chicago Department of Public Health12 papers (2014–2025)Brian T. Layden · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign12 papers (2018–2025)Candice Choo-Kang · Chicago Department of Public Health8 papers (2022–2025)Jacob Plange‐Rhule · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology7 papers (2014–2023)Jack A. Gilbert · BTG International (United Kingdom)7 papers (2022–2025)Jack A. Gilbert · Scripps Institution of Oceanography6 papers (2018–2025)Peter T. Katzmarzyk · Louisiana State University System6 papers (2021–2023)Terrence Forrester · University of Cape Town6 papers (2015–2023)Éric Ravussin · Vanderbilt University Medical Center6 papers (2021–2023)Anders Sjödin · Copenhagen Business School6 papers (2021–2023)S. B. Racette · Health Solutions (Sweden)6 papers (2021–2023)Sonja Entringer · Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München6 papers (2021–2023)Susan B. Roberts · Tufts University6 papers (2021–2023)Carlijn V. C. Bouten · Eindhoven University of Technology5 papers (2021–2023)Tsukasa Yoshida · Tohoku University5 papers (2021–2023)Albertine J. Schuit · Wageningen University & Research5 papers (2021–2022)Pascal Bovet · Ministry of Health5 papers (2015–2023)
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