Kales: DHS-Harvard Firefighters' Studies

Feeding America’s Bravest: Survival Mediterranean Style – Firefighters’ Mediterranean Diet Intervention

Supported by a grant from the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA, Washington D.C., USA) Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) program’s award EMW-2014-FP-00612

Publications

  1. Kales SN, Smith DL. Firefighting and the Heart: Implications for Prevention. Circulation. 2017 Apr 4;135(14):1296-1299. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.027018. PMID: 28373524.
  2. Sotos-Prieto M, Cash SB, Christophi CA, Folta S, Moffatt S, Muegge C, Korre M, Mozaffarian D, Kales SN. Rationale and design of feeding America’s bravest: Mediterranean diet-based intervention to change firefighters’ eating habits and improve cardiovascular risk profiles. Contemp Clin Trials. 2017 Oct;61:101-107. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2017.07.010. Epub 2017 Jul 11. PMID: 28710052.
  3. Korre M, Sotos-Prieto M, Kales SN. Survival Mediterranean Style: Lifestyle Changes to Improve the Health of the US Fire Service. Front Public Health. 2017 Dec 18;5:331. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2017.00331. PMID: 29326915; PMCID: PMC5741604.
  4. Sotos-Prieto M, Christophi C, Black A, Furtado JD, Song Y, Magiatis P, Papakonstantinou A, Melliou E, Moffatt S, Kales SN. Assessing Validity of Self-Reported Dietary Intake within a Mediterranean Diet Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial among US Firefighters. Nutrients. 2019 Sep 19;11(9):2250. doi: 10.3390/nu11092250. PMID: 31546768; PMCID: PMC6769698.
  5. Jin Q, Black A, Kales SN, Vattem D, Ruiz-Canela M, Sotos-Prieto M. Metabolomics and Microbiome as potential tools to evaluate the effects of Mediterranean Diet. Nutrients 2019, 11, 207; doi:10.3390/nu11010207.
  6. Hershey MS, Sotos-Prieto M, Ruiz-Canela M, Martinez-Gonzalez MA, Cassidy A, Moffatt S, Kales SN. Anthocyanin Intake and Physical Activity: Associations with the Lipid Profile of a US Working Population. Molecules. 2020 Sep 24;25(19):4398. doi: 10.3390/molecules25194398. PMID: 32987892; PMCID: PMC7582364.
  7. Sotos-Prieto M, Ruiz-Canela M, Song Y, Christophi C, Mofatt S, Rodriguez-Artalejo F, Kales SN. The Effects of a Mediterranean Diet Intervention on Targeted Plasma Metabolic Biomarkers among US Firefighters: A Pilot Cluster-Randomized Trial. Nutrients. 2020 Nov 24;12(12):3610. doi: 10.3390/nu12123610. PMID: 33255353; PMCID: PMC7761450.
  8. Romanidou M, Tripsianis G, Hershey MS, Sotos-Prieto M, Christophi C, Moffatt S, Constantinidis TC, Kales SN. Association of the Modified Mediterranean Diet Score (mMDS) with Anthropometric and Biochemical Indices in US Career Firefighters. Nutrients. 2020 Nov 30;12(12):3693. doi: 10.3390/nu12123693. PMID: 33265967; PMCID: PMC7759922.
  9. Hershey MS, Sotos-Prieto M, Ruiz-Canela M, Christophi CA, Moffatt S, Martínez-González MÁ, Kales SN. The Mediterranean lifestyle (MEDLIFE) index and metabolic syndrome in a non-Mediterranean working population. Clin Nutr. 2021 May;40(5):2494-2503. doi: 10.1016/j.clnu.2021.03.026. Epub 2021 Mar 31. PMID: 33932793.
  10. Romero Cabrera JL, Sotos-Prieto M, García Ríos A, Moffatt S, Christophi CA, Pérez-Martínez P, Kales SN. Sleep and Association With Cardiovascular Risk Among Midwestern US Firefighters. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2021 Nov 11;12:772848. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2021.772848. PMID: 34858343; PMCID: PMC8632221.
  11. Christodoulou A, Christophi CA, Sotos-Prieto M, Moffatt S, Kales SN. Eating Habits among US Firefighters and Association with Cardiometabolic Outcomes. Nutrients. 2022 Jul 4;14(13):2762. doi: 10.3390/nu14132762. PMID: 35807942; PMCID: PMC9268786.