Elaine Capps, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Laboratory Medicine
School of Medicine

Key questions of interest are centered around three themes: 1) metabolic health and homeostasis; 2) novel biomarkers of nutrition-related diseases; and 3) diverse clinical manifestations of nutrition-related diseases. Her epidemiologic approach is centered around blood biomarkers, including high-resolution metabolomic data, in translational and precision health studies. Previous and future study populations of interest include people considered higher risk, particularly those residing in resource-limited environments or with medical conditions requiring blood transfusions, and blood donors.

• Measuring Postprandial Metabolic Flexibility to Assess Metabolic Health and Disease.
  The Journal of nutrition 2021 Yu EA, Le NA, Stein AD
• Nutrition, Inflammation, and the Gut Microbiota among Outpatients with Active Tuberculosis Disease in India.
  The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 2021 Huey SL, Yu EA, Finkelstein JL, Glesby MJ, Bonam W, Russell DG, Mehta S
• Metabolomic Profiling Demonstrates Postprandial Changes in Fatty Acids and Glycerophospholipids Are Associated with Fasting Inflammation in Guatemalan Adults.
  The Journal of nutrition 2021 Yu EA, He S, Jones DP, Sun YV, Ramirez-Zea M, Stein AD
• Effects of oral vitamin D supplementation on linear growth and other health outcomes among children under five years of age.
  The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2020 Huey SL, Acharya N, Silver A, Sheni R, Yu EA, Peña-Rosas JP, Mehta S
• Metabolomic Profiling After a Meal Shows Greater Changes and Lower Metabolic Flexibility in Cardiometabolic Diseases.
  Journal of the Endocrine Society 2020 Yu EA, Yu T, Jones DP, Ramirez-Zea M, Stein AD
• Macronutrient, Energy, and Bile Acid Metabolism Pathways Altered Following a Physiological Meal Challenge, Relative to Fasting, among Guatemalan Adults.
  The Journal of nutrition 2020 Yu EA, Yu T, Jones DP, Martorell R, Ramirez-Zea M, Stein AD
• Nutritional assessment among adult patients with suspected or confirmed active tuberculosis disease in rural India.
  PloS one 2020 Yu EA, Finkelstein JL, Brannon PM, Bonam W, Russell DG, Glesby MJ, Mehta S
• Plasma fatty acids in de novo lipogenesis pathway are associated with diabetogenic indicators among adults: NHANES 2003-2004.
  The American journal of clinical nutrition 2018 Yu EA, Hu PJ, Mehta S
• Vitamin D and HIV
  Nutrition and HIV: Epidemiological Evidence to Public Health 2018 Yu EA, Mehta S
• Host transcriptional responses following ex vivo re-challenge with Mycobacterium tuberculosis vary with disease status.
  PloS one 2017 Yu EA, John SH, Tablante EC, King CA, Kenneth J, Russell DG, Mehta S
• The Human Microbiome in the Fight Against Tuberculosis.
  The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 2017 Wood MR, Yu EA, Mehta S
• Suboptimal Plasma Long Chain n-3 Concentrations are Common among Adults in the United States, NHANES 2003-2004.
  Nutrients 2015 Murphy RA, Yu EA, Ciappio ED, Mehta S, McBurney MI
• Rifampin resistance and diabetes mellitus in a cross-sectional study of adult patients in rural South India.
  BMC infectious diseases 2015 Mehta S, Yu EA, Ahamed SF, Bonam W, Kenneth J
• Suboptimal Serum α-Tocopherol Concentrations Observed among Younger Adults and Those Depending Exclusively upon Food Sources, NHANES 2003-20061-3.
  PloS one 2015 McBurney MI, Yu EA, Ciappio ED, Bird JK, Eggersdorfer M, Mehta S
• Maternal knowledge, attitudes and self-efficacy in relation to intention to exclusively breastfeed among pregnant women in rural Bangladesh.
  Maternal and child health journal 2015 Thomas JS, Yu EA, Tirmizi N, Owais A, Das SK, Rahman S, Faruque AS, Schwartz B, Stein AD
• Maternal prenatal attitudes and postnatal breast-feeding behaviours in rural Bangladesh.
  Public health nutrition 2014 Yu EA, Thomas JS, Owais A, Tirmizi N, Faruque A, Das SK, Rahman S, Schwartz B, Stein AD