Member Profile
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Mónica Mazariegos
Country of origin: Guatemala Currently in: Guatemala, Guatemala General field of specialization: Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences-
Degrees
2018 Doctorate Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences -
Current Research Activities
Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences
My research interests focus on nutrition-related chronic diseases particularly obesity and diabetes; maternal-child public health nutrition; early childhood nutrition; determinants of women’s reproductive health across the life-course; pregnancy, and lactation.
Publications resulting from Research:
1. Mazariegos M, Ortiz-Panozo E, González de Cosío T, Lajous M, López-Ridaura R. Parity, lactation and long-
term weight change. Matern Child Nutr. 2020;e12988. https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12988
2. Bhupathi V, Mazariegos M, Cruz Rodriguez JB, Deoker A. Dairy intake and risk of cardiovascular disease. Curr Cardiol Rep 22, 11 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11886-020-1263-0
3. Mazariegos M, Kroker-Lobos MF, Ramírez-Zea M. Socioeconomic and ethnic disparities of malnutrition in all its forms in Guatemala. Public Health Nutr. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2019, pp. 1-9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980019002738
4. Mazariegos M, Ortiz-Panozo E, Stern D, González de Cosío T, Lajous M, López-Ridaura R. Lactation and maternal risk of diabetes: Evidence form the Mexican Teachers’ Cohort. Matern Child Nutr. 2019;e12880
https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12880
5. Stern D, Mazariegos M, Ortiz-Panozo E, Campos H, Malik V, Lajous M, López-Ridaura R. Sugar-sweetened soda consumption increases diabetes risk among Mexican women. J Nutr. Volume 149, Issue 5, May 2019, Pages 795–803, https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/nxy298
6. González de Cosio T, Ferré I, Mazariegos M, Pérez-Escamilla R. Scaling up Breastfeeding Program in Mexico: Lessons learned from the Becoming Breastfeeding Friendly Initiative. Curr Dev Nutr. nzy018, https://doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzy018
7. Barreto P, Batis C, Bortolini G, Canella D, Cediel G, Mazariegos M. et.al. Proposal and Actions to Decrease Malnutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean. Food Nutr Bull. 2018 Jan 1:379572118769265
8. Mazariegos M, Barnoya J. Nutrition label use in a Latin America middle income country: Guatemala. Food Nutr Bull. 2017;38(1):128 – 132.
9. González de Cosío T, Hernández-Cordero S, Rivera JA, Hernández Ávila M, Experts Committee, Mazariegos M. [Recommendations for a multisectoral national policy to promote breastfeeding in Mexico: position of the National Academy of Medicine]. Salud Publica Mex. 2017;59(1):106-113.
10. Mazariegos M, Slater C, Ramirez-Zea M. Validity of Guatemalan mothers self-reported breastfeeding practices of 3-month-old infants. Food Nutr Bull. 2016;37(4):494-503.
11. Mazariegos M, Ramirez-Zea M. [Breastfeeding and chronic diseases later in life]. Arch Latinoam Nutr. 2015 Sep;65(3):143-51.
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Other Awards
Oct 2017Early Career Travel GrantInternational Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS). Award: Early Career Travel Grant for attending 21st IUNS-ICN, Buenos Aires, Argentina.Sep 2014Scholarship for Doctoral Program in Population Nutrition SciencesScholarship for Doctoral Program in Population Nutrition Sciences. National Institute of Public Health. (2014-2018).Jan 2014FOGARTY-NIH. Visiting scholarFogarty scholar at the University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology (2013 and 2014). Award Number D43 TW009315.
