A prospective study of endometriosis and risk of type 2 diabetes.
Farland LV, Degnan WJ, Harris HR, Tobias DK, Missmer SA.
Diabetologia. 2021 Jan 05. PMID: 33399910
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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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. 2020 Oct 15. 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
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. 2020 Sep 16. PMID: 33225344
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
Metabolic signatures associated with Western and Prudent dietary patterns in women.
Chandler PD, Balasubramanian R, Paynter N, Giulianini F, Fung T, Tinker LF, Snetselaar L, Liu S, Eaton C, Tobias DK, Tabung FK, Manson JE, Giovannucci EL, Clish C, Rexrode KM.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2020 08 01. 112(2):268-283. PMID: 32520313
The Mediterranean diet, plasma metabolome, and cardiovascular disease risk.
Li J, Guasch-Ferré M, Chung W, Ruiz-Canela M, Toledo E, Corella D, Bhupathiraju SN, Tobias DK, Tabung FK, Hu J, Zhao T, Turman C, Feng YA, Clish CB, Mucci L, Eliassen AH, Costenbader KH, Karlson EW, Wolpin BM, Ascherio A, Rimm EB, Manson JE, Qi L, Martínez-González MÁ, Salas-Salvadó J, Hu FB, Liang L.
Eur Heart J. 2020 Jul 21. 41(28):2645-2656. PMID: 32406924
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. 2020 Jun 30. PMID: 32602555
Eating Vegetables First at Start of Meal and Food Intake among Preschool Children in Japan.
Yang J, Tani Y, Tobias DK, Ochi M, Fujiwara T.
Nutrients. 2020 Jun 12. 12(6). PMID: 32545520
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