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Dr. Bradley Johnston

Dr. Bradley Johnston is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Nutrition (primary appointment), Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Texas A&M University. Dr. Johnston obtained his Ph.D. in Experimental Medicine from University of Alberta, and he completed post-doctoral training at Oxford University in Evidence-Based Health Care and McMaster University in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

His work involves health status measurement, and the application of randomized trial, systematic review, meta-analysis and clinical and public health guideline recommendation methods to a wide range of areas, with a particular interest in Evidence-Based Nutrition and Evidence-Based Practice and Policy (www.evidencebasednutrition.org).

As the director and co-founder of NutriRECS research and education program (www.nutrirecs.com), he leads an international consortium of researchers and research trainees developing high quality, value-added nutritional guideline recommendations on major public health nutrition questions. As a leading advocate of optimizing evidence-based nutrition practice, he has published first and senior authored nutrition research in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), British Medical Journal (BMJ), Annals of Internal Medicine and American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. He has a Google H-Index of 59, and the work he has collaboratively contributed to has been cited over 15,000 times.

1. Johnston BC, Guyatt GH. Causal inference, interpreting and communicating results on red and processed meat. Am J Clin Nutri 2020 May 1;111(5):1107-1108. Impact factor: 6.7
2. Ge L, Sadeghirad B, … Johnston BC. Comparison of dietary macronutrient patterns of 14 popular named dietary programmes for weight and cardiovascular risk factor reduction in adults: systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised trials. BMJ 2020 Apr1;369:m696. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m696. Impact Factor: 27.6
3. Johnston BC, Zeraatkar D, ….. Guyatt GH. Unprocessed Red Meat and Processed Meat Consumption: Dietary Guideline Recommendations From the Nutritional Recommendations (NutriRECS) Consortium. Ann Intern Med. 2019 Oct 1. doi: 10.7326/M19-1621. Impact Factor 19.3
4. Vernooij RWM, Zeraatkar D, … Johnston BC. Patterns of Red and Processed Meat Consumption and Risk for Cardiometabolic and Cancer Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Cohort Studies. Ann Intern Med. 2019 Oct 1. doi: 10.7326/M19-1583. Impact Factor 19.3
5. Zeraatkar D, Han MA, … Johnston BC. Red and Processed Meat Consumption and Risk for All-Cause Mortality and Cardiometabolic Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Cohort Studies. Ann Intern Med. 2019 Oct 1. doi: 10.7326/M19-0655. Impact Factor 19.3
6. Zeraatkar D, Johnston BC, Guyatt G. Evidence Collection and Evaluation for the Development of Dietary Guidelines and Public Policy on Nutrition. Annu Rev Nutr. 2019 Aug 21;39:227-247. Impact Factor 8.1
7. Johnston BC, Seivenpiper JL, … Guyatt GH. The Philosophy of Evidence-Based Principles and Practice in Nutrition. Mayo Clin Proc Innov Qual Outcomes. 2019 May 27;3(2):189-199. Impact Factor: None (newly indexed)
8. Johnston BC, Guyatt GH. Measurement of Treatment Effects Requires Instruments Responsive to Change Based on the Minimal Important Difference. Clin Chem. 2019 May;65(5):708-709. Impact Factor 7.1
9. Johnston BC, Patrick DL, ……Guyatt GH. Chapter 18: Patient Reported Outcomes. Editors: Higgins JPT, Thomas J, Chandler J, Cumpston M, Li T, Page MJ, Welch VA. Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. London, Cochrane. Impact: NA
10. Johnston BC, Alonso-Coello P, …Guyatt GH. Methods for trustworthy nutritional recommendations NutriRECS (Nutritional Recommendations and accessible Evidence summaries Composed of Systematic reviews): a protocol. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2018 Dec 5;18(1):162. Impact Factor 2.5
11. Goldenberg JZ, Mertz D, Johnston BC. Probiotics to Prevent Clostridium difficile Infection in Patients Receiving Antibiotics. JAMA. 2018 Aug 7;320(5):499-500. Impact Factor 51.2
12. Johnston BC, Lytvyn L, ….. Mertz D. Microbial Preparations (Probiotics) for the Prevention of Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults and Children: An Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis of 6,851 Participants. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2018 Jul;39(7):771-781. Impact Factor 2.1