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Aviva Must, Ph.D.
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Professor of Public Health and Family Medicine
Director, MS-Nutrition/MPH Dual Degree Program
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| Contact |
Tufts University School of Medicine
136 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111
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| Education |
| Degree(s) |
Ph.D, Nutrition |
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Tufts University |
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| Research
Focus |
My research focuses on the epidemiology of obesity
across the lifespan with a particular interest in
physical and psychosocial health consequences during
adolescence. Current projects explore bidirectional
associations of child mental health with obesity,
and effects of early obesity on tooth eruption.
Additional research foci include the development
of valid survey measures and surveillance systems
for pediatric obesity and proximal modifiable behaviors
(nutrition, physical activity, sedentary behavior).
Recent efforts have been directed towards developing
the descriptive epidemiology and health promotion
for children with special health care needs, a population
of youth who have been underserved by preventive
health efforts, (ironically) due to their complex
medical needs.
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Publications |
- Anderson SE, Cohen P, Naumova EN, Must A. Association
of depression and anxiety disorders with weight
change in a prospective community-based study
of children followed into adulthood. Arch Ped
Adol Med 2006,160:285-91.
- Must A, Naumova EN, Phillips SM, Blum M, Dawson-Hughes
B, Rand WM. Childhood overweight and maturational
timing in the development of adult overweight
and fatness: The Newton Girls Study and its follow-up.
Pediatrics 2005;116:620-7.
- Must A, Metallinos-Katsaras, L. ECPANSE: Enumeration
of Child State-level Physical Activity & Nutrition
Surveillance Efforts (http://go.tufts.edu/ecpanse).
- Anderson SE, Must A. Interpreting the continued
decline in the average age at menarche: results
from two nationally representative surveys of
US girls studied 10 years apart. J Pediatrics
2005; 147:153-60.
- Must A, Tybor DJ. Physical activity and sedentary
behavior: A review of longitudinal studies of
weight and adiposity in youth. Int J Obesity 2005;29:S84-96.
- Must, A, McKeown NM. The disease burden associated
with overweight and obesity. In: Obesity. J.F.
Caro, ed., 2002, with updates, http://www.endotext.org/obesity.
- Phillips SM, Bandini LG, Naumova EN, Cyr H,
Colclough S, Dietz WH, Must A. Energy-Dense Snack
Food Intake in Adolescence. Obesity Research 2004;12:461-72.
- Must A, Spadano J, Coakley EH, Field AE, Colditz
G, Dietz WH. The disease burden associated with
overweight and obesity in the United States, 1988-1994.
JAMA 1999;282:1523-9.
- Must A, Jacques PF, Dallal GE, Bajema CJ, Dietz
WH. Long-term morbidity and mortality of overweight
adolescents: a follow-up of the Harvard Growth
Study 1922 to 1935. New Engl J Med 1992;327:1350-5.
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