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Bryndís Eva Birgisdóttir - Professor
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School of Health Sciences
Bryndís Eva Birgisdóttir
Íslenska
Professor
Professor
Location
LSH - Hringbraut
Phone
5438407
Email
beb [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition
Website
http://www.rin.hi.is
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5788-4551
Courses 2020 - 2021
NÆR601G - Special Topic in nutrition
HVS202G - Introduction to multidisciplinary health sciences - The health science day
NÆR611M - Public Health Nutrition
NÆR612M - Determinants of nutrition
NÆR404G - Human nutrition
for Nutrition Research
,
Collaboration
The Unit for Nutrition Research has a broad cooperation with both domestic and foreign research units and institutes
,
The Unit for
Education
2002
,
Ph.D.
,
NOVA University Network
,
1997
,
M.Sc.
,
,
Professional Experience
2013 -
2013,
Associate professor, Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition,
University of Iceland
2009 -
2013,
Researcher,
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health
2002 -
2009,
,
2002 -
2002,
Researcher, Unit for Nutrition Research Landspitali University Hospital,
University of Iceland PhD studies in Nutrition at the University of Iceland
Published works
2021
Old Question Revisited: Are High-Protein Diets Safe in Pregnancy?
Nutrients
2020
Insufficient iodine status in pregnant women as a consequence of dietary changes.
Food & nutrition research
Nutrition is key to global pandemic resilience
BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health
Zonulin-Dependent Intestinal Permeability in Children Diagnosed with Mental Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Nutrients
Childhood overweight and obesity and the risk of depression across the lifespan.
BMC pediatrics
2019
Infant Feeding, Vitamin D and IgE Sensitization to Food Allergens at 6 Years in a Longitudinal Icelandic Cohort.
Nutrients
Effect of two different nutritional supplements on postprandial glucose response and energy- and protein intake in hospitalised patients with COPD: A randomised cross-over study.
Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Dietary patterns and the risk of pregnancy-associated hypertension in the Danish National Birth Cohort: a prospective longitudinal study.
BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Environmental Sustainability Perspectives of the Nordic Diet
Nutrients
Can a Simple Dietary Screening in Early Pregnancy Identify Dietary Habits Associated with Gestational Diabetes?
Nutrients
2018
Development of a dietary screening questionnaire to predict excessive weight gain in pregnancy.
Maternal & child nutrition
A Case of Complete Scotoma Following Intake of Conjugated Linoleic Acid Supplement.
Headache
Dietary habits in adolescence and midlife and risk of breast cancer in older women.
PloS one
Towards an Individualized Nutrition Treatment: Role of the Gastrointestinal Microbiome in the Interplay Between Diet and Obesity.
Current obesity reports
Correction: Dietary habits in adolescence and midlife and risk of breast cancer in older women.
PloS one
2017
Meal frequency patterns and glycemic properties of maternal diet in relation to preterm delivery: Results from a large prospective cohort study.
PloS one
Erratum to: Maternal intake of seafood and supplementary long chain n-3 poly-unsaturated fatty acids and preterm delivery.
BMC pregnancy and childbirth
Maternal intake of seafood and supplementary long chain n-3 poly-unsaturated fatty acids and preterm delivery.
BMC pregnancy and childbirth
Dietary guidelines in type 2 diabetes: the Nordic diet or the ketogenic diet?
Current opinion in endocrinology, diabetes, and obesity
Maternal Macronutrient Intake and Offspring Blood Pressure 20 Years Later.
Journal of the American Heart Association
2016
[Diet and nutrient intake of pregnant women in the capital area in Iceland].
Laeknabladid
Maternal diet, gestational weight gain, and inflammatory markers during pregnancy.
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.)
Vitamin D Intake and Status in 6-Year-Old Icelandic Children Followed up from Infancy.
Nutrients
2015
Association between healthy maternal dietary pattern and risk for gestational diabetes mellitus.
European journal of clinical nutrition
2014
Maternal dietary patterns and preterm delivery: results from large prospective cohort study.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
Possibilities and considerations when merging dietary data from the world's two largest pregnancy cohorts: the Danish National Birth Cohort and the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study.
Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica
Faster increase in body mass index between ages 8 and 13 is associated with risk factors for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.
Nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases : NMCD
2013
Early peak height velocity and cardiovascular disease mortality among Icelandic women.
Annals of medicine
Consumption of lead-shot cervid meat and blood lead concentrations in a group of adult Norwegians.
Environmental research
Essential and toxic element concentrations in blood and urine and their associations with diet: results from a Norwegian population study including high-consumers of seafood and game.
The Science of the total environment
Dietary fiber and the glycemic index: a background paper for the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2012.
Food & nutrition research
2012
Persistence of the effect of birth size on dysglycaemia and type 2 diabetes in old age: AGES-Reykjavik Study.
Age (Dordrecht, Netherlands)
Does high sugar consumption exacerbate cardiometabolic risk factors and increase the risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease?
Food & nutrition research
Fish liver and seagull eggs, vitamin D-rich foods with a shadow: results from the Norwegian Fish and Game Study.
Molecular nutrition & food research
Dietary mercury exposure in a population with a wide range of fish consumption--self-capture of fish and regional differences are important determinants of mercury in blood.
The Science of the total environment
Effect of birth year on birth weight and obesity in adulthood: comparison between subjects born prior to and during the great depression in Iceland.
PloS one
2011
Maternal seafood consumption and infant birth weight, length and head circumference in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study.
The British journal of nutrition
Childhood growth and adult hypertension in a population of high birth weight.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979)
2008
Fish consumption among young overweight European adults and compliance to varying seafood content in four weight loss intervention diets.
Public health nutrition
Birth weight and risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review.
JAMA
2007
Infant feeding patterns and midlife erythrocyte sedimentation rate.
Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992)
2006
Lower consumption of cow milk protein A1 beta-casein at 2 years of age, rather than consumption among 11- to 14-year-old adolescents, may explain the lower incidence of type 1 diabetes in Iceland than in Scandinavia.
Annals of nutrition & metabolism
2004
Association between size at birth, truncal fat and obesity in adult life and its contribution to blood pressure and coronary heart disease; study in a high birth weight population.
European journal of clinical nutrition
Association of fish and fish liver oil intake in pregnancy with infant size at birth among women of normal weight before pregnancy in a fishing community.
American journal of epidemiology
2002
Size at birth and glucose intolerance in a relatively genetically homogeneous, high-birth weight population.
The American journal of clinical nutrition
Relationship between size at birth and hypertension in a genetically homogeneous population of high birth weight.
Journal of hypertension
Weight gain in women of normal weight before pregnancy: complications in pregnancy or delivery and birth outcome.
Obstetrics and gynecology
Size at birth and coronary artery disease in a population with high birth weight.
The American journal of clinical nutrition
Variation in consumption of cow milk proteins and lower incidence of Type 1 diabetes in Iceland vs the other 4 Nordic countries.
Diabetes, nutrition & metabolism
2000
Different beta-casein fractions in Icelandic versus Scandinavian cow's milk may influence diabetogenicity of cow's milk in infancy and explain low incidence of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in Iceland.
Pediatrics
1998
Different weight gain in women of normal weight before pregnancy: postpartum weight and birth weight.
Obstetrics and gynecology
Keywords for Specialisation:
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Disease prevention through healthy diet
With an emphasis on diet during pregnancy and children's diet
Research methods for the assessment of diet and calculating consumption of various substances
Food systems and public health nutrition
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