Sean C. Lucan, M.D., M.P.H.

SELECT PEER-REVIEWED PRIMARY RESEARCH:

Lucan SC, Barg FK, Long JA. Promoters and barriers to fruit, vegetable, and fast-food consumption among urban, low-income African Americans--a qualitative approach. Am J Public Health. Apr 2010;100(4):631-635,  PMID 20167885

Lucan SC, Karpyn A, Sherman S. Storing empty calories and chronic disease risk: snack-food products, nutritive content, and manufacturers in Philadelphia corner stores. J Urban Health. May 2010;87(3):394-409, PMCID: 2871092

Lucan SC, Maroko A, Shanker R, Jordan WB. Green Carts (Mobile Produce Vendors) in the Bronx-Optimally Positioned to Meet Neighborhood Fruit-and-Vegetable Needs? J Urban Health. Oct 2011;88(5):977-981,  PMID 21691925

Lucan SC, Mitra N. Perceptions of the food environment are associated with fast-food (not fruit-and-vegetable) consumption: findings from multi-level models. Int J Public Health. Jul 20 2011,  PMID 21773839

Lucan SC, Barg FK, Karasz A, Palmer C, Long J. Lucan SC, Barg FK, Karasz A, Palmer CS, Long JA. Concepts of Healthy Diet Among Urban, Low-Income, African Americans. J Community Health. Nov 19 2011,  PMID 22101636

Lucan SC, Mitra N. The food environment and dietary intake: demonstrating a method for GIS-mapping and policy-relevant research. Journal of Public Health 2011 (DOI: 10.1007/s10389-011-0470-y)

Lucan SC, Barg FK, Karasz A, Palmer C, Long J. Perceived influences on diet among urban, low-income, African Americans. Am J Health Behav. Sep 2012;36(5):700-710,  PMID 22584097

Lucan SC, Varona M, Maroko AR, Bumol J, Torrens L, Wylie-Rosett J. Assessing mobile food vendors (a.k.a. street food vendors)—methods, challenges, and lessons learned for future food-environment research. Public Health (In Press)

Lucan SC, Maroko AR, Bumol J, Torrens L, Varona M, Berke EM. Business list vs. ground observation for measuring a food environment: saving time or waste of time (or worse)?  Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (In Press)

DiNicolantonio JJ, Niazi AK, Sadaf R, O’Keefe JH, Lucan SC ,Lavie CJ.  Dietary Sodium Restriction: Take it with a Grain of Salt, American Journal of Medicine. (In Press)

(Under Review) O’Keefe JH, Bhatti SK, Patil HR, DiNicolantonio JJ, Lavie CJ, Lucan SC. Effects of habitual coffee consumption on cardiometabolic disease, cardiovascular health, and all-cause mortality.  Journal of the American College of Cardiology (In Press)

(Under Review) Lucan SC, Maroko AR, Bumol J, Varona M, Torrens L, Schecter CB.  The contribution of mobile vendors to urban food environments—variation by weather, season, and neighborhood characteristics. [Revise & Resubmit - American Journal of Preventive Medicine]

(Under Review) Lucan SC, DiNicolantonio JJ.  A calorie is not a calorie - how calorie-focused thinking about obesity and related diseases may harm public health. [American Journal of Public Health]

 

SELECT EDITOR-REVIEWED COMMENTS, LETTERS, EDITORIALS:

Lucan SC. Coronary artery disease prevention: as easy as 1, 2, 3? Am Fam Physician. Nov 15 2010;82(10):1167,  PMID 21121526

Lucan SC. Patients eat food, not food categories or constituents. Am Fam Physician. Jan 15 2011;83(2):107-108, PMID 21243984

Lucan SC. Which "placebo effect"? (and why it matters). Fam Med. Feb 2011;43(2):125,  PMID 21305431

Lucan SC. Lower CVD mortality and alcohol: Is it what’s in the drinks? Or something else? BMJ, May 28, 2011 (http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d671.full/reply#bmj_el_261251)

Lucan SC. Fruit-and-vegetable consumption may not be “inadequate”. Am J Pub Health, Aug 16, 2012, PMID 22897535

Lucan SC. That it’s red? Or what it’s fed/how it’s bred? The risk of meat, Am J Clin Nutr. 2012 Aug;96(2):446, PMID 22821371

Lucan SC, Gustafson A, Jilcott Pitts SB. The concept of "rural food deserts" is still meaningful. Child Obes. Oct 2012;8(5):484-485; author reply 486-487,  PMID 23061503

Lucan SC. Egg on their faces (probably not in their necks); The yolk of the tenuous cholesterol-to-plaque conclusion. Atherosclerosis. Nov 12 2012,  PMID 23182841

Lucan SC. Attempting to reduce sodium intake might do harm and distract from a greater enemy. Am J Pub health. (epub Dec 3 2012) doi:10.2105/AJPH.2012.301105

Lucan SC, Chambers EC. Better measurement needed to move food-environment research forward. Obesity (Silver Spring). Jan 2013;21(1):2-3,  PMID 23401317

Lesser LI, Lucan SC. The ethics of hospital cafeteria food. The virtual mentor : VM. 2013;15(4):299-305,  PMID 23566778 

TEXTBOOK:

Katz DL, Elmore JG, Wild DMG, Lucan SC. Epidemiology, biostatistics, preventive medicine, and public health. Philadelphia, PA, Saunders/Elsevier. 4th edition.  Publication Date: February 25, 2013 | ISBN-10: 1455706582 | ISBN-13: 978-1455706587

PUBMED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:

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