Invited commentary: five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred calories, how do you measure diet in a year?
Tobias DK.
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Jul 20. PMID: 39030713
Secondary Faculty
Deirdre Kay Tobias
Other Positions
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medicine-Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
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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
Reporting guidelines for precision medicine research of clinical relevance: the BePRECISE checklist.
Lim SS, Semnani-Azad Z, Morieri ML, Ng AH, Ahmad A, Fitipaldi H, Boyle J, Collin C, Dennis JM, Langenberg C, Loos RJF, Morrison M, Ramsay M, Sanyal AJ, Sattar N, Hivert MF, Gomez MF, Merino J, Tobias DK, Trenell MI, Rich SS, Sargent JL, Franks PW.
Nat Med. 2024 Jul. 30(7):1874-1881. PMID: 39030405
Improving nutrition science begins with asking better questions.
Stern D, Ibsen DB, MacDonald CJ, Chiu YH, Lajous M, Tobias DK.
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Jul 11. PMID: 38992167
Prediction of 24-Hour Urinary Sodium Excretion Using Machine-Learning Algorithms.
Hamaya R, Wang M, Juraschek SP, Mukamal KJ, Manson JE, Tobias DK, Sun Q, Curhan GC, Willett WC, Rimm EB, Cook NR.
J Am Heart Assoc. 2024 May 21. 13(10):e034310. PMID: 38726910
Associations Between Food Insecurity and Diet Quality Among Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Trainees in the Health Sciences at a Private University in Boston: A Cross-Sectional Study.
Hammad NM, Zimmer M, Chen JT, Tobias DK, Willett WC, Leung CW.
Curr Dev Nutr. 2024 Jun. 8(6):102157. PMID: 39035701
Lifetime Duration of Breastfeeding and Cardiovascular Risk in Women With Type 2 Diabetes or a History of Gestational Diabetes: Findings From Two Large Prospective Cohorts.
Birukov A, Guasch-Ferré M, Ley SH, Tobias DK, Wang F, Wittenbecher C, Yang J, Manson JE, Chavarro JE, Hu FB, Zhang C.
Diabetes Care. 2024 Apr 01. 47(4):720-728. PMID: 38377484
Corrigendum to 'Sugar-sweetened or artificially-sweetened beverage consumption, physical activity, and risk of cardiovascular disease in adults: a prospective cohort study'The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition volume 119 issue 3 (2024) 669-681.
Pacheco LS, Tobias DK, Li Y, Bhupathiraju SN, Willett WC, Ludwig DS, Ebbeling CB, Haslam DE, Drouin-Chartier JP, Hu FB, Guasch-Ferré M.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2024 May. 119(5):1376. PMID: 38522480
Consumption of 100% Fruit Juice and Body Weight in Children and Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Nguyen M, Jarvis SE, Chiavaroli L, Mejia SB, Zurbau A, Khan TA, Tobias DK, Willett WC, Hu FB, Hanley AJ, Birken CS, Sievenpiper JL, Malik VS.
JAMA Pediatr. 2024 Mar 01. 178(3):237-246. PMID: 38227336
Plasma metabolites of a healthy lifestyle in relation to mortality and longevity: Four prospective US cohort studies.
Tessier AJ, Wang F, Liang L, Wittenbecher C, Haslam DE, Eliassen AH, Tobias DK, Li J, Zeleznik OA, Ascherio A, Sun Q, Stampfer MJ, Grodstein F, Rexrode KM, Manson JE, Balasubramanian R, Clish CB, Martínez-González MA, Chavarro JE, Hu FB, Guasch-Ferré M.
Med. 2024 Mar 08. 5(3):224-238.e5. PMID: 38366602
Precision prognostics for cardiovascular disease in Type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Ahmad A, Lim LL, Morieri ML, Tam CH, Cheng F, Chikowore T, Dudenhöffer-Pfeifer M, Fitipaldi H, Huang C, Kanbour S, Sarkar S, Koivula RW, Motala AA, Tye SC, Yu G, Zhang Y, Provenzano M, Sherifali D, de Souza RJ, Tobias DK, Gomez MF, Ma RCW, Mathioudakis N.
Commun Med (Lond). 2024 Jan 22. 4(1):11. PMID: 38253823
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