Diego Aguilar Ramirez
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Diego Aguilar Ramirez
MD, MSc, DPhil
Early Career Research Fellow
Diego is an Early Career Research Fellow at the Mexico City Prospective Study group, within the Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU). His research focuses on investigating the metabolic profiles of obesity, diabetes, kidney disease, and heart disease in the Mexican population, using observational and genetic epidemiology methods.
Diego holds a medical degree from Universidad Panamericana (2015) and a PGCert in Public Policy Evaluation from Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo Económico (2016) both in Mexico City. He obtained an MSc in Global Health Science in 2018 and completed his DPhil in Population Health in 2021, both at the University of Oxford.
Besides research, Diego has teaching experience with medical and research students both in Mexico and in the UK.
Recent publications
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Metabolic profiling of MRI-measured liver fat in the UK Biobank.
Journal article
Gnatiuc Friedrichs L. et al, (2023), Obesity (Silver Spring)
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Diabetes and infectious disease mortality in Mexico City.
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Bragg F. et al, (2023), BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care, 11
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Adiposity and NMR-measured lipid and metabolic biomarkers among 30,000 Mexican adults.
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Aguilar-Ramirez D. et al, (2022), Commun Med (Lond), 2
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In CKD, the Kidney Failure Risk Equation predicted 2-y risk for ESKD better than eGFR alone.
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Aguilar-Ramirez D. and Herrington WG., (2022), Ann Intern Med
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Predictive value of circulating NMR metabolic biomarkers for type 2 diabetes risk in the UK Biobank study.
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Bragg F. et al, (2022), BMC Med, 20