Dr. Esther Lopez-Garcia is Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health. School of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Spain. Dr. Lopez-Garcia’s major research interests include epidemiology and prevention of unhealthy aging through diet and lifestyle. In particular, she has characterized dietary exposures related to the development of physical impairment, hearing loss, risk of recurrent falling, and risk of frailty and multimorbidity. She has also examined the biological mechanisms that explain these associations, with a focus on the metabolomic profiles. This work is done with cohort studies from Spain, the USA, and United Kingdom.
Currently, she is Director of the Observatory for the Study of Obesity of the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition, in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs. She previously served on the Scientific Committee of this Agency, where she leaded the working group who developed the 2022 National Spanish Dietary Guidelines. She is a member of the Nutrition Group from the Spanish Society of Epidemiology.
Dr. Lopez-Garcia received a MPharm from Complutense University in Madrid, and her MPH and PhD in Epidemiology from the UAM. She completed a Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship in Nutritional Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Dr Lopez-Garcia research interests include:
-Epidemiology and prevention of obesity and cardiovascular disease through diet and lifestyle.
-Diet and the risk of physical function impairment, frailty and disability in the older population.
-Metabolomics in frailty and disability.
Dr Lopez-Garcia has assessed in detail the effect of the Mediterranean dietary patterns, coffee, meat and dairy consumption, in the risk of CVD and disability, using data from large population studies in the USA, UK and Spain. She has also examined the biological mechanisms that may explain these associations, including inflammation and endothelial dysfunction, markers of glucose metabolism and leptin, and more recently metabolomics profiles of physical impairment and functional disability.
Dr Lopez-Garcia is also an Associate Researcher at IMDEA Food.
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