Incident Type 2 Diabetes Duration and Cancer Risk: A Prospective Study in Two US Cohorts.
Hu Y, Zhang X, Ma Y, Yuan C, Wang M, Wu K, Tabung FK, Tobias D, Hu FB, Giovannucci E, Song M.
J Natl Cancer Inst. 2021 Apr 06. 113(4):381-389. PMID: 33225344
Assistant Professor
Deirdre Kay Tobias
Other Positions
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Overview
Dr. Deirdre Tobias is an obesity and nutritional epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. She received her doctorate and postdoctoral training at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Dr. Tobias was appointed the Academic Editor for the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2019. Her research focuses on the role of diet and lifestyle for obesity and its major chronic diseases, including gestational diabetes and type 2 diabetes, and has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals including the New England Journal of Medicine and Journal of the American Medical Association. She contributes to the development and analyses of healthful dietary patterns, metabolomics, and nutrition epidemiologic methods, and is co-Instructor of Nutritional Epidemiology at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.
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Dairy consumption, plasma metabolites, and risk of type 2 diabetes.
Drouin-Chartier JP, Hernández-Alonso P, Guasch-Ferré M, Ruiz-Canela M, Li J, Wittenbecher C, Razquin C, Toledo E, Dennis C, Corella D, Estruch R, Fitó M, Eliassen AH, Tobias DK, Ascherio A, Mucci LA, Rexrode KM, Karlson EW, Costenbader KH, Fuchs CS, Liang L, Clish CB, Martínez-González MA, Salas-Salvadó J, Hu FB.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2021 Mar 19. PMID: 33742198
Healthy Lifestyle and Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential: Results From the Women's Health Initiative.
Haring B, Reiner AP, Liu J, Tobias DK, Whitsel E, Berger JS, Desai P, Wassertheil-Smoller S, LaMonte MJ, Hayden KM, Bick AG, Natarajan P, Weinstock JS, Nguyen PK, Stefanick M, Simon MS, Eaton CB, Kooperberg C, Manson JE.
J Am Heart Assoc. 2021 Feb. 10(5):e018789. PMID: 33619969
Effects of Vitamin D3 Supplementation on Body Composition in the VITamin D and OmegA-3 TriaL (VITAL).
Chou SH, Murata EM, Yu C, Danik J, Kotler G, Cook NR, Bubes V, Mora S, Chandler PD, Tobias DK, Copeland T, Buring JE, Manson JE, LeBoff MS.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2021 Jan 28. PMID: 33513226
A prospective study of endometriosis and risk of type 2 diabetes.
Farland LV, Degnan WJ, Harris HR, Tobias DK, Missmer SA.
Diabetologia. 2021 Mar. 64(3):552-560. PMID: 33399910
Dietary intake of branched-chain amino acids and survival after colorectal cancer diagnosis.
Long L, Yang W, Liu L, Tobias DK, Katagiri R, Wu K, Jin L, Zhang FF, Luo X, Liu X, Ogino S, Chan AT, Meyerhardt JA, Giovannucci E, Zhang X.
Int J Cancer. 2020 Dec 19. PMID: 33341092
Fasting status and metabolic health in relation to plasma branched chain amino acid concentrations in women.
Tobias DK, Mora S, Verma S, Billia F, Buring JE, Lawler PR.
Metabolism. 2021 04. 117:154391. PMID: 33069808
Circulating branched-chain amino acids and long-term risk of obesity-related cancers in women.
Tobias DK, Hazra A, Lawler PR, Chandler PD, Chasman DI, Buring JE, Lee IM, Cheng S, Manson JE, Mora S.
Sci Rep. 2020 10 06. 10(1):16534. PMID: 33024201
Assessment of Placebo Response in Objective and Subjective Outcome Measures in Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Trials.
Vollert J, Cook NR, Kaptchuk TJ, Sehra ST, Tobias DK, Hall KT.
JAMA Netw Open. 2020 09 01. 3(9):e2013196. PMID: 32936297
Historical Controls in Randomized Clinical Trials: Opportunities and Challenges.
Hall KT, Vase L, Tobias DK, Dashti HT, Vollert J, Kaptchuk TJ, Cook NR.
Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2021 Feb. 109(2):343-351. PMID: 32602555
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