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Zihang Lu

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Associate ProfessorTranslational MedicineUniversity of Toronto

Zihang Lu

Associate Professor

Translational Medicine

Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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No publications since 2021.
Principal investigator on 1 research grant (1 CIHR), most recently in 2024.

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Research

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Childhood Asthma Infection Microbiome Social Determinants Of Asthma Youth Engagement

Latest papers

Patients With Severe Gastrointestinal Dysmotility Disorders Receiving Home Parenteral Nutrition Have Similar Survival As Those With Short-Bowel Syndrome: A Prospective Cohort Study.
JPEN. Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition · 2021
Olive oil-based lipid emulsion is noninferior to soybean oil-based lipid emulsion in the acute care setting: A double-blind randomized controlled trial.
Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) · 2021
Newly developed multiple-breath washout reference equations from the CHILD Cohort Study: implications of poorly fitting equations
ERJ Open Research · 2021 · first author

All 18 publications

Latest funding

Unpacking the Impact of Ultra-Processed Food on Youth Cardiovascular Health: A Multi-Omic, Translational Approach
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$10,000
Identifying Risk Factors and Informing Preventative Strategies to Reduce the Incidence of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Subsequent Dementia by Analysing the Canadian Longitudinal Study of Aging Using Advanced Statistical Methods and Machine Learning
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$371,025
Understanding the Time-varying Impact of Modifiable Risk Factors on Cognitive Impairment and Brain Aging
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$70,000

All 8 grants and awards

18 publications.

Patients With Severe Gastrointestinal Dysmotility Disorders Receiving Home Parenteral Nutrition Have Similar Survival As Those With Short-Bowel Syndrome: A Prospective Cohort Study.

Salazar E, Clermont-Dejean NM, Schwenger KJP, Noelting J, Lu Z, Lou W, Allard JP

JPEN. Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition2021

DOI: 10.1002/jpen.1866 PMID: 32383772

Olive oil-based lipid emulsion is noninferior to soybean oil-based lipid emulsion in the acute care setting: A double-blind randomized controlled trial.

Salazar E, Alenezi S, Schwenger KJP, Casselman S, Somlaw N, Kim P, Adjemian D, Lu Z, Lou W, Ma D, Allard JP

Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)2021

DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2021.111283 PMID: 34090216

Newly developed multiple-breath washout reference equations from the CHILD Cohort Study: implications of poorly fitting equations

Lu Z, Dai R, Kowalik K, Dubeau A, Lefebvre DL, Balkovec S, Becker AB, Mandhane PJ, Turvey SE, Lou W

ERJ Open Research20215 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00301-2020

Early life exposure to phthalates in the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) study: a multi-city birth cohort

Navaranjan G, Takaro TK, Wheeler AJ, Diamond ML, Shu H, Azad MB, Becker AB, Dai R, Harris SA, Lefebvre DL

Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology202034 citations

DOI: 10.1038/s41370-019-0182-x

Cardiorespiratory Monitoring Data during Sleep in Healthy Canadian Infants.

Vézina K, Mariasine J, Young R, Reyna M, Lu Z, Subbarao P, Moraes TJ, Becker AB, Turvey SE, Sears MR

Annals of the American Thoracic Society202022 citations

DOI: 10.1513/annalsats.201909-703oc

Shape invariant mixture model for clustering non-linear longitudinal growth trajectories.

Lu Z, Lou W

Statistical methods in medical research2019First author

DOI: 10.1177/0962280218815301 PMID: 30526385

Depressive symptoms, sleep patterns, and physical activity in adolescents with narcolepsy.

Parmar A, Yeh EA, Korczak DJ, Weiss SK, Lu Z, Zweerink A, Toulany A, Murray BJ, Narang I

Sleep2019

DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsz111 PMID: 31070768

Risk for Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Perceived Stress by Ethnicities in Canada: From Pregnancy Through the Preschool Years

Dharma C, Lefebvre DL, Lu Z, Lou WYW, Becker AB, Mandhane PJ, Turvey SE, Moraes TJ, Azad MB, Chen E

Canadian Journal of Psychiatry201910 citations

DOI: 10.1177/0706743718792190

Motor and sensory morbidity associated with the anterolateral thigh perforator free flap.

Noel CW, Vosler PS, Hong M, Orsini M, Sultanov F, Lu Z, Busato GM, Enepekides D, Higgins K

The Laryngoscope2018

DOI: 10.1002/lary.26865 PMID: 29105774

Intermittent nocturnal hypoxia and metabolic risk in obese adolescents with obstructive sleep apnea.

Narang I, McCrindle BW, Manlhiot C, Lu Z, Al-Saleh S, Birken CS, Hamilton J

Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung2018

DOI: 10.1007/s11325-018-1631-9 PMID: 29357088

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Zihang Lu

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Patients With Severe Gastrointestinal Dysmotility Disorders Receiving Home Parenteral Nutrition Have Similar Survival As Those With Short-Bowel Syndrome: A Prospective Cohort Study.

Olive oil-based lipid emulsion is noninferior to soybean oil-based lipid emulsion in the acute care setting: A double-blind randomized controlled trial.

Newly developed multiple-breath washout reference equations from the CHILD Cohort Study: implications of poorly fitting equations

Early life exposure to phthalates in the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) study: a multi-city birth cohort

Cardiorespiratory Monitoring Data during Sleep in Healthy Canadian Infants.

Shape invariant mixture model for clustering non-linear longitudinal growth trajectories.

Depressive symptoms, sleep patterns, and physical activity in adolescents with narcolepsy.

Risk for Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Perceived Stress by Ethnicities in Canada: From Pregnancy Through the Preschool Years

Motor and sensory morbidity associated with the anterolateral thigh perforator free flap.

Intermittent nocturnal hypoxia and metabolic risk in obese adolescents with obstructive sleep apnea.

Frequent collaborators

Padmaja Subbarao

Padmaja Subbarao

Malcolm Sears

Wendy Lou

Felix Ratjen

Indra Narang

Michael Mark Cyr

Reshma Amin

Judah Aryeh Denburg

Joseph Macri

Sonia Anand

Cedric Manlhiot

Danny Enepekides

Zihang Lu

Susan Elliott

Carmen Rasmussen

David Ma

Jill Hamilton

Sherri Katz

Allan Becker

Piush Mandhane

Alene Toulany