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Odilia Bermudez, PhD, MPH
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Assistant Professor, Public Health and Community Medicine
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Tufts University School of Medicine
136 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111
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| Education |
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PhD, MPH |
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University of Massachusetts at Amherst
University of San Carlos at Guatemala |
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| Research
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Current research is focused on the health, nutritional and dietary status of population groups and relationships between diet, nutrient intake and chronic conditions, particularly obesity, diabetes and the metabolic syndrome of US ethnically and culturally diverse population groups. Also, global health and nutrition research including dietary and nutrition assessment methodologies related to socio-cultural and environmental determinants of food intake and health status of population groups.
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- Bermudez OI, Hernandez LM, Mazariegos M, Solomons NS. Secular Trends in Food Patterns of Guatemalan Consumers: New Foods for Old. Food and Nutr Bulletin (In press)
- 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 (In press)
- 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
- Seaverson EL, Buell JS, Fleming DJ, Bermudez OI, Potischman N, Wood RJ, Chasan-Taber L, Tucker KL. Poor Iron Status Is More Prevalent in Hispanic than in Non-Hispanic White Older Adults in Massachusetts. J Nutr. 2007 Feb;137(2):414-420.
- 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
- Gao X, Martin A, Lin H, Bermudez OI, Tucker. Alpha-Tocopherol intake and plasma concentration of Hispanic and non-Hispanic white elders is associated with dietary intake pattern. J Nutr. 2006 Oct;136(10):2574-9.
- Gao X, Wilde PE, Lichtenstein AH, Bermudez OI and Tucker KL. The Maximal Amount of Dietary a-Tocopherol Intake in U.S. Adults (NHANES 2001–2002). J. Nutr. 2006;136: 1021–1026
- 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
- 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): 159-16
- Solomons NW, Kaufer-Horwitz M, Bermudez OI. Harmonization for Mesoamerican nutrient-based recommendations: regional unification or national specification? Arch Latinoam Nutr. 2004 Dec;54(4):363-73. (Spanish)
- Gao X, Wilde PE, Maras JE, Bermudez OI and Tucker KL. The Maximal Amount of {alpha}-Tocopherol Intake from Foods Alone in U.S. Adults (1994-1996 CSFII): An Analysis by Linear Programming. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2004 Dec;1031:385-6.
- Lin H, Bermudez O and Tucker KL. Dietary patterns of Hispanic elders are associated with acculturation and obesity. J Nutr. 2003 Nov;133(11):3651-7.
- Bermudez O and Tucker KL. Trends in dietary patterns of Latin American populations. Cadernos de Saúde Pública 2003; 19(Sup. 1):S87-S99.
- Bermúdez 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
- Bermúdez OI and Tucker KL. Total and Central Obesity among Elderly Hispanics and the Association with Type 2 Diabetes. Obes Res 2001;9: 443-451
- Tucker KL, Bermúdez OI and Castaneda C. Type 2 diabetes is prevalent and poorly controlled among Caribbean Hispanic elders. Am J Public Health 2000;90:1288-1293.
- Bermúdez OI , Falcon LM, and Tucker KL. Intake and food sources of macronutrients among Hispanic elders: Association with ethnicity, acculturation and length of residence in the United States. J Am Diet Assoc 2000;100:665-673.
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