What Eggsactly Are We Asking Here? Unscrambling the Epidemiology of Eggs, Cholesterol, and Mortality.
Tobias DK.
Circulation. 2022 May 17. 145(20):1521-1523. PMID: 35576317
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
The energy balance model of obesity: beyond calories in, calories out.
Hall KD, Farooqi IS, Friedman JM, Klein S, Loos RJF, Mangelsdorf DJ, O'Rahilly S, Ravussin E, Redman LM, Ryan DH, Speakman JR, Tobias DK.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2022 May 01. 115(5):1243-1254. PMID: 35134825
Re: Adjustment for energy intake in nutritional research: a causal inference perspective.
Willett WC, Stampfer M, Tobias DK.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2022 Apr 28. PMID: 35482596
Plasma metabolite profiles related to plant-based diets and the risk of type 2 diabetes.
Wang F, Baden MY, Guasch-Ferré M, Wittenbecher C, Li J, Li Y, Wan Y, Bhupathiraju SN, Tobias DK, Clish CB, Mucci LA, Eliassen AH, Costenbader KH, Karlson EW, Ascherio A, Rimm EB, Manson JE, Liang L, Hu FB.
Diabetologia. 2022 Apr 08. PMID: 35391539
Design and baseline characteristics of participants in the COcoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS).
Rist PM, Sesso HD, Johnson LG, Aragaki AK, Wang L, Rautiainen S, Hazra A, Tobias DK, LeBoff MS, Schroeter H, Friedenberg G, Copeland T, Clar A, Tinker LF, Hunt RP, Bassuk SS, Sarkissian A, Smith DC, Pereira E, Carrick WR, Wion ES, Schoenberg J, Anderson GL, Manson JE.
Contemp Clin Trials. 2022 May. 116:106728. PMID: 35288332
Association of modifiable lifestyle factors with plasma branched chain amino acid metabolites in women.
Hamaya R, Mora S, Lawler PR, Cook NR, Buring JE, Lee IM, Manson JE, Tobias DK.
J Nutr. 2022 Mar 08. PMID: 35259270
Practical, Evidence-Based Approaches to Nutritional Modifications to Reduce Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease: An American Society For Preventive Cardiology Clinical Practice Statement.
Belardo D, Michos ED, Blankstein R, Blumenthal RS, Ferdinand KC, Hall K, Klatt K, Natajaran P, Ostfeld RJ, Reddy K, Rodriguez R, Sriram U, Tobias DK, Gulati M.
Am J Prev Cardiol. 2022 Jun. 10:100323. PMID: 35284849
Reply to Verhoef et al.
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. 2022 02 09. 115(2):598-600. PMID: 35139165
The unique challenges of studying the genetics of diet and nutrition.
Merino J, Tobias DK.
Nat Med. 2022 02. 28(2):221-222. PMID: 34980908
Lifestyle Changes and Long-term Weight Gain in Women With and Without a History of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Prospective Study of 54,062 Women in the Nurses' Health Study II.
Yang J, Zhang C, Chavarro JE, Rich-Edwards JW, Wang M, Fawzi WW, Manson JE, Lee IM, Hu FB, Tobias DK.
Diabetes Care. 2022 02 01. 45(2):348-356. PMID: 34880065
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