Ana Baylin

About

Ana Baylin, MD, DrPH, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences and Global Public Health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the nutritional determinants of cardiometabolic risk in both low- and high-income countries. She investigates how dietary patterns influence the risk of cardiovascular disease, obesity, and metabolic syndrome, with particular interest in dietary components such as organic food consumption and ultraprocessed foods. Dr. Baylin collaborates on global health studies, including the ELEMENT and Costa Rican Heart Study, to evaluate nutritional factors affecting cardiometabolic health. Domestically, she works with SWAN investigators to examine the impact of dietary patterns and ultraprocessed foods, and she is evaluating the effects of organic food consumption on cardiometabolic risk using data from the Health and Retirement Study. Her work includes developing interventions to prevent cardiometabolic risk at the work site level, utilizing tools such as dynamic standing desks and skylight simulators. She holds degrees from Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Alcala de Henares in Madrid, Spain, and her research interests encompass nutrition, built environment, and chronic disease.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Internal medicine
• Endocrinology
• Gerontology
• Food science
• Physiology
• Psychiatry
• Chemistry
• Demography

Selected publications

• Exposure to Phenols, Phthalates, and Parabens and Development of Metabolic Syndrome Among Mexican Women in Midlife

  Frontiers in Public Health · 2021 · 47 citations

  We found EDCs measured in 2008 were marginally predictive of hypertriglyceridemia and hypertension 9 years later. Results suggest that lower exposure to certain toxicants was related to lower markers of metabolic risk among midlife women.

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• Diet Quality Scores and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Mexican Children and Adolescents: A Longitudinal Analysis

  Nutrients · 2022 · 33 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  = 0.0034] compared to the reference quartile. Higher diet quality was associated with a better cardiometabolic profile among Mexican youth.

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• Dietary Patterns in Relation to Prospective Sleep Duration and Timing among Mexico City Adolescents

  Nutrients · 2020 · 32 citations

  Adult studies show that healthy diet patterns relate to better sleep. However, evidence during adolescence, when sleep may change dramatically, is lacking. Within a cohort of 458 Mexican adolescents, we examined whether consumption of three dietary patterns was associated with sleep duration and timing measured 2 years later, as well as changes in sleep timing and duration. Dietary patterns (identified a posteriori in a prior analysis) were assessed with a baseline food frequency questionnaire,…

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• Gender-Specific Malnutrition and Muscle Depletion in Gastric and Colorectal Cancer: Role of Dietary Intake in a Jordanian Cohort

  Nutrients · 2024-11-22 · 10 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding

  Objectives: This study aimed to assess malnutrition and muscle mass depletion risk in gastrointestinal cancer patients, exploring the differences between gastric and colorectal cancer, with a focus on gender0specific variations and dietary intake. It also examined whether muscle depletion mediates the relationship between dietary intake and malnutrition risk. Methods: A sample of 100 Jordanian pre-operative gastrointestinal cancer patients (60 male, 40 female) with gastric or colorectal cancer w…

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• Plant-Based Diets and Risk of Multimorbidity: The Health and Retirement Study

  Journal of Nutrition · 2024-05-03 · 9 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding
  PublisherOA PDFDOI

Recent grants

• NIH Grant R01HL081549

  NIH · $1.9M · 2012

Frequent coauthors

• Hannia Campos

  Universidad Hispanoamerica

  301 shared

• Edmond K. Kabagambe

  Ochsner Health System

  106 shared

• Xinia Siles

  Instituto Centroamericano de Administración Pública

  83 shared

• Eduardo Villamor

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  80 shared

• Sonia Hernández–Dı́az

  Harvard University

  76 shared

• Mercedes Mora‐Plazas

  Universidad Nacional de Colombia

  46 shared

• Stephen T. McGarvey

  Providence College

  45 shared

• Jian Gong

  Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

  38 shared

Education

• DrPH, Nutrition

  Harvard School of Public Health

  2002

• MSc, Epidemiology

  Harvard School of Public Health

  1999

• Residency in Preventive Medicine, Preventive Medicine

  Hospital Universitario La Paz

  1996

• MPH

  Escuela Nacional de Sanidad

  1994

• MD

  Universidad de Alcalá de Henares Facultad de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud

  1993

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