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Odilia I. Bermudez, PhD, MPH
| Positions |
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Associate Professor, Public Health and Community Medicine
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| Contact |
Tufts University School of Medicine
136 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111
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| Education |
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PhD, MPH |
| Institution(s) |
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
University of San Carlos at Guatemala |
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| Research
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- Relationships between diet, nutrient intake and chronic conditions
- Food security and development in Central America
- Application of dietary and nutritional assessment methodologies
- Evaluation of socio-cultural and environmental determinants of food intake and health status of population groups
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Publications |
- Bermudez OI, Tother C, Montenegro-Bethancourt G, Mathias P, Doak C and Solomons NW. Dietary intakes and food sources of fatty acids in diets of Guatemalan schoolchildren. Nutr J. 2010 Apr 23;9(1):20.
- Vossenaar M, Bermudez OI, Anderson AS and Solomons NW. Practical limitations to a positive deviance approach to counseling dietary patterns compatible with cancer risk reduction. J Hum Nutr Diet. 2010 Mar 23. [Epub ahead of print]
- Peterman J, Wilde P, Bermudez O and Rogers B. Relationship between Past Food Deprivation and Current Dietary Practices and Weight Status in Cambodian Refugee Women in Lowell, MA Am J Pub Hlth, in press.
- Vossenaar M, Sinak C, Montenegro-Bethancourt G, Bermudez OI, Groeneveld I, Doak CM, and Solomons NW. Concordance with selected population goals recommendations of the 1997 World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research among 3rd and 4th grade schoolchildren in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Food and Nutr Bull, 2010;31(2):181-192.
- Lee, J, Houser RF, Must A, de-Fulladolsa PP and Bermudez OI. Disentangling Nutritional Factors and Household Characteristics Related to Child stunting and Maternal Overweight in Guatemala. J Econ Hum Biol. 2010 May 27 [Epub ahead of print]
- Lee, J, Houser RF, Must A and Bermudez OI. Socioeconomic Disparities and the Familial Coexistence of Child Stunting and Maternal Overweight in Guatemala. J Econ and Human Biology, in review.
- Tovar A, Must A, Bermudez OI, Hyatt RR and Chasan-Taber L. The Impact of Gestational Weight Gain and Diet on Abnormal Glucose Tolerance during Pregnancy in Hispanic Women. Matern Child Health J. 2009 Jul;13(4):520-30. Epub 2008 Jul 3.
- Bermudez OI, Hernandez LM, Mazariegos M, Solomons NS. Secular Trends in Food Patterns of Guatemalan Consumers: New Foods for Old. Food and Nutr Bull, 2008;29(4)278-287
- Castaneda-Sceppa C, Bermudez OI, Wanke C and Forrester JE. Predictors of insulin sensitivity among injection Hispanic adults infected with or at risk of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C virus. J Viral Hepatitis, 2008, 15, 878–887
- Henkin S, Brugge D, Bermudez OI, Gao X. A Case-Control Study of BMI and Asthma in Asian Children. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2008;100:447–451
- Carbone ET, Rosal C, Torres MI, Goins KV and Bermudez OI. Diabetes Self-Management: Perspectives of Latino Patients and their Health Care Providers. Patient Educ Couns. 2007 May;66(2):202-10
- Belahsen R, Bermudez OI , Mohamed M, Fertat F, Newby PK Tucker KL. Obesity and related metabolic disorders are prevalent in Moroccan women of childbearing age. Int J Diabetes & Metabolism. 2005 December;13(3):159-166
- Bermudez OI , Ribaya-Mercado JD, Talegawkar SA and Tucker KL. Hispanic and non-Hispanic white elders from Massachusetts have different patterns of carotenoid intake and plasma concentrations. J Nutr. 2005 Jun;135(6):1496-502
- Bermudez O and Tucker KL. Trends in dietary patterns of Latin American populations. Cadernos de Saúde Pública 2003; 19(Sup. 1):S87-S99.
- Bermudez OI , Velez-Carrasco W, Schaefer EJ and Tucker KL. Dietary and plasma lipids, lipoproteins and apolipoproteins among Hispanic and non-Hispanic white elders and their association with diabetes. J Am Clin Nutr 2002;76(6):1214-21
- Bermudez OI and Tucker KL. Total and Central Obesity among Elderly Hispanics and the Association with Type 2 Diabetes. Obes Res 2001;9: 443-451
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