Laila Al‐Shaar

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Laila Al‐Shaar is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Laila Al‐Shaar has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 22 papers in Physiology and 18 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Laila Al‐Shaar's work include Nutritional Studies and Diet (21 papers), Vitamin D Research Studies (11 papers) and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (10 papers). Laila Al‐Shaar is often cited by papers focused on Nutritional Studies and Diet (21 papers), Vitamin D Research Studies (11 papers) and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (10 papers). Laila Al‐Shaar collaborates with scholars based in United States, Lebanon and China. Laila Al‐Shaar's co-authors include Eric B. Rimm, Walter C. Willett, Meir J. Stampfer, Dong D. Wang, Ghada El‐Hajj Fuleihan, Robert Habib, Vernon M. Chinchilli, Yanping Li, Mingyang Song and Qi Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

In The Last Decade

Laila Al‐Shaar

66 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Healthy lifestyle and life expectancy free of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort study

2020 397 citations Laila Al‐Shaar, Eric B. Rimm et al. profile →

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Cristina Pellegrino Baena Brazil

Tao Zhou China

Romaina Iqbal Pakistan

Muhammad Yazid Jalaludin Malaysia

Jia-Yi Dong China

Juan Carlos López-Alvarenga Mexico

Louise Hartley United Kingdom

Edgar Denova‐Gutiérrez Mexico

Zeinab Nikniaz Iran

Jae Hyun Kim South Korea

Cristina Pellegrino Baena Brazil

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301 ×1.1

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466 ×1.9

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Countries citing papers authored by Laila Al‐Shaar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Laila Al‐Shaar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laila Al‐Shaar

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Laila Al‐Shaar. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Laila Al‐Shaar based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Laila Al‐Shaar. Laila Al‐Shaar is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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He, Fan, Erika F.H. Saunders, Daniel A. Waschbusch, et al.. (2025). Moderate-to-severe depression symptoms are associated with poorly controlled glucose levels in a real-world sample of individuals with mental illness and type 2 diabetes mellitus. 5(2). 100208–100208.

Muscat, Joshua, et al.. (2024). Consumption of Berries and Flavonoids in Relation to Mortality in NHANES, 1999–2014. Journal of Nutrition. 154(2). 734–743. 4 indexed citations

He, Fan, Erika F.H. Saunders, Daniel A. Waschbusch, et al.. (2024). Cardiovascular Disease Burden in Persons with Mental Illness: Comparison between a U.S. Psychiatry Outpatient Sample and a U.S. General Population Sample. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2024(1). 1 indexed citations

Muscat, Joshua, et al.. (2024). Berry Consumption in Relation to Allostatic Load in US Adults: The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2003–2010. Nutrients. 16(3). 403–403. 3 indexed citations

Rahme, Maya, et al.. (2024). Development and validity of the ‘Modified Mediterranean Prime Screen’ to assess dietary intake among women of reproductive age in Lebanon. British Journal Of Nutrition. 132(2). 200–208. 1 indexed citations

Muscat, Joshua, et al.. (2024). The Epidemiology of Berry Consumption and Association of Berry Consumption with Diet Quality and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in United States Adults: The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2003–2018. Journal of Nutrition. 154(3). 1014–1026. 4 indexed citations

Muscat, Joshua, Penny M. Kris‐Etherton, Vernon M. Chinchilli, et al.. (2023). Berry Consumption and Sleep in the Adult US General Population: Results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2005–2018. Nutrients. 15(24). 5115–5115. 5 indexed citations

Ba, Djibril M., Chan Shen, Douglas Leslie, et al.. (2023). Trends and predictors of nutritional deficiencies after bariatric surgeries: analysis of real-world data. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 19(9). 935–943. 2 indexed citations

He, Fan, Erika F.H. Saunders, Daniel A. Waschbusch, et al.. (2023). A real-world study of the association between cardiovascular risk factors and depression symptom trajectory in individuals with mental illness. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(3). 100139–100139. 2 indexed citations

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Pernar, Claire H., Andrea K. Chomistek, Junaidah B. Barnett, et al.. (2022). Validity and Relative Validity of Alternative Methods of Assessing Physical Activity in Epidemiologic Studies: Findings From the Men’s Lifestyle Validation Study. American Journal of Epidemiology. 191(7). 1307–1322. 14 indexed citations

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Ba, Djibril M., Xiang Gao, Laila Al‐Shaar, et al.. (2021). Mushroom intake and depression: A population-based study using data from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 2005–2016. Journal of Affective Disorders. 294. 686–692. 46 indexed citations

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Kim, Jung In, et al.. (2021). Prospective Study of Plant-Based Dietary Patterns and Diabetes in Puerto Rican Adults. Journal of Nutrition. 151(12). 3795–3800. 12 indexed citations

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Ba, Djibril M., Xiang Gao, Laila Al‐Shaar, et al.. (2021). Prospective study of dietary mushroom intake and risk of mortality: results from continuous National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2003-2014 and a meta-analysis. Nutrition Journal. 20(1). 80–80. 19 indexed citations

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Ali, Adham N. Abou, et al.. (2019). Role of nutritional indices in predicting outcomes of vascular surgery. Journal of Vascular Surgery. 70(2). 569–579.e4. 12 indexed citations

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Al‐Shaar, Laila, Kelsey A. Vercammen, Chang Lu, et al.. (2017). Health Effects and Public Health Concerns of Energy Drink Consumption in the United States: A Mini-Review. Frontiers in Public Health. 5. 225–225. 87 indexed citations

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Arabi, Asma, Nathalie K. Zgheib, Rami Mahfouz, et al.. (2016). CYP2R1 polymorphisms are important modulators of circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in elderly females with vitamin insufficiency, but not of the response to vitamin D supplementation. Osteoporosis International. 28(1). 279–290. 32 indexed citations

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Al‐Shaar, Laila, Joyce Maalouf, Mona Nabulsi, et al.. (2016). The Relationship Between Calciotropic Hormones, IGF-1, and Bone Mass Across Pubertal Stages. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 101(12). 4860–4870. 15 indexed citations

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Al‐Shaar, Laila, Thomas A. Schwann, Ameer Kabour, & Robert Habib. (2014). Increased late mortality after coronary artery bypass surgery complicated by isolated new-onset atrial fibrillation: A comprehensive propensity-matched analysis. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 148(5). 1860–1868.e2. 20 indexed citations

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Schwann, Thomas A., Laila Al‐Shaar, Milo Engoren, & Robert Habib. (2013). Late effects of radial artery vs saphenous vein grafting for multivessel coronary bypass surgery in diabetics: a propensity-matched analysis†. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 44(4). 701–710. 23 indexed citations

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Nabulsi, Mona, Ziyad Mahfoud, Rola El Rassi, et al.. (2012). Gender Differences in the Heritability of Musculoskeletal and Body Composition Parameters in Mother-Daughter and Mother-Son Pairs. Journal of Clinical Densitometry. 16(2). 223–230. 7 indexed citations

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