Eliminate or reformulate ultra-processed foods? Biological mechanisms matter.
Tobias DK, Hall KD.
Cell Metab. 2021 Oct 19. PMID: 34699743
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.
BA, 2005, Premed, psychology
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
MSc, 2009, Epidemiology
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
ScD, 2011, Nutritional Epidemiology; Epidemiology
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Bibliography
Changes of Plasma Phospholipid Fatty Acids Profiles in Pregnancy in Relation to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.
Li L, Zhu Y, Wu J, Hinkle SN, Tobias DK, Ma RCW, Weir NL, Tsai MY, Zhang C.
Clin Chem. 2021 Oct 11. PMID: 34632496
A guide for authors and readers of the American Society for Nutrition Journals on the proper use of P values and strategies that promote transparency and improve research reproducibility.
Sorkin JD, Manary M, Smeets PAM, MacFarlane AJ, Astrup A, Prigeon RL, Hogans BB, Odle J, Davis TA, Tucker KL, Duggan CP, Tobias DK.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2021 10 04. 114(4):1280-1285. PMID: 34258613
Prepregnancy plant-based diets and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: a prospective cohort study of 14,926 women.
Chen Z, Qian F, Liu G, Li M, Voortman T, Tobias DK, Ley SH, Bhupathiraju SN, Li LJ, Chavarro JE, Sun Q, Hu FB, Zhang C.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2021 Sep 12. PMID: 34510175
Association of Habitual Alcohol Consumption With Long-term Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Among Women With a History of Gestational Diabetes.
Hinkle SN, Bao W, Wu J, Sun Y, Ley SH, Tobias DK, Qian F, Rawal S, Zhu Y, Chavarro JE, Hu FB, Zhang C.
JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Sep 01. 4(9):e2124669. PMID: 34499132
Gestational diabetes and risk of breast cancer before age 55 years.
Bertrand KA, O'Brien KM, Wright LB, Palmer JR, Blot WJ, Eliassen AH, Rosenberg L, Sandin S, Tobias D, Weiderpass E, Zheng W, Swerdlow AJ, Schoemaker MJ, Nichols HB, Sandler DP.
Int J Epidemiol. 2021 Aug 29. PMID: 34458915
Association of Walnut Consumption with Total and Cause-Specific Mortality and Life Expectancy in U.S. Adults.
Liu X, Guasch-Ferré M, Tobias DK, Li Y.
Nutrients. 2021 Aug 04. 13(8). PMID: 34444859
What would the trial be? Emulating randomized dietary intervention trials to estimate causal effects with observational data.
Tobias DK, Lajous M.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2021 08 02. 114(2):416-417. PMID: 34041528
Association of Plasma Branched-Chain Amino Acid With Biomarkers of Inflammation and Lipid Metabolism in Women.
Hamaya R, Mora S, Lawler PR, Cook NR, Ridker PM, Buring JE, Lee IM, Manson JE, Tobias DK.
Circ Genom Precis Med. 2021 08. 14(4):e003330. PMID: 34264743
Branched-Chain Amino Acids and Risk of Breast Cancer.
Zeleznik OA, Balasubramanian R, Ren Y, Tobias DK, Rosner BA, Peng C, Bever AM, Frueh L, Jeanfavre S, Avila-Pacheco J, Clish CB, Mora S, Hu FB, Eliassen AH.
JNCI Cancer Spectr. 2021 Oct. 5(5):pkab059. PMID: 34585062
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