Erica C Jansen

About

Erica C Jansen, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences and a Research Assistant Professor in Neurology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She is a nutritional epidemiologist whose research focuses on diet and sleep in relation to health across the lifespan, with particular emphasis on adolescence. Her work explores how early nutritional environments influence childhood obesity and the timing of puberty, as well as how various aspects of sleep—including duration, timing, and quality—affect the development of cardiometabolic risk. Dr. Jansen investigates the bidirectional relationships between sleep and diet, the role of toxicants in sleep and cardiometabolic outcomes, and the epigenetic markers that underlie these relationships. She conducts her research primarily within the ELEMENT cohort, a Mexican birth cohort followed for over 25 years, and her work is supported by multiple grants including a K01 award. Her research aims to elucidate the complex interactions between sleep, nutrition, toxicants, and epigenetics to better understand their impact on health during critical developmental periods.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Psychiatry
• Internal medicine
• Gerontology
• Demography
• Statistics
• Machine Learning
• Artificial Intelligence
• Mathematics
• Computer Science

Selected publications

• Associations between sleep duration and dietary quality: Results from a nationally-representative survey of US adults

  Appetite · 2020 · 54 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
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• 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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• Healthier dietary patterns are associated with better sleep quality among midlife Mexican women

  Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine · 2020 · 35 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
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• Dietary Patterns in Relation to Prospective Sleep Duration and Timing among Mexico City Adolescents

  Nutrients · 2020 · 32 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  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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• An Efficient Segmentation Algorithm to Estimate Sleep Duration from Actigraphy Data

  Statistics in Biosciences · 2021 · 15 citations

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Recent grants

• Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Adolescence: Epigenetic Pathways of Cardiometabolic Risk

  NIH · $759k · 2020–2025

Frequent coauthors

• Alejandra Cantoral

  Ibero American University

  79 shared

• Karen E. Peterson

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  78 shared

• Martha María Téllez‐Rojo

  Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública

  69 shared

• Galit Levi Dunietz

  Michigan Medicine

  51 shared

• Astrid N. Zamora

  Stanford University

  29 shared

• Peter X.‐K. Song

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  27 shared

• Louise M. O’Brien

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  27 shared

• Arturo Arrona‐Palacios

  Brigham and Women's Hospital

  24 shared

Labs

• Jansen LaboratoryPI

Education

• PhD, Epidemiology

  University of Michigan School of Public Health

  2016

• MPH, Epidemiology

  University of Michigan School of Public Health

  2014

• Bachelor of Science, Biology

  Hope College

  2012

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