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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Association of kidney function with NMR-quantified lipids, lipoproteins, and metabolic measures in Mexican adults.
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Aguilar-Ramirez D. et al, (2021), J Clin Endocrinol Metab
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Abdominal and gluteo-femoral markers of adiposity and risk of vascular-metabolic mortality in a prospective study of 150 000 Mexican adults.
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Gnatiuc L. et al, (2021), Eur J Prev Cardiol
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Low-intensity daily smoking and cause-specific mortality in Mexico: prospective study of 150 000 adults.
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Thomson B. et al, (2021), Int J Epidemiol
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Changes in the Diagnosis and Management of Diabetes in Mexico City Between 1998-2004 and 2015-2019.
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Aguilar-Ramirez D. et al, (2021), Diabetes Care
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Decreased kidney function and agricultural work: a cross-sectional study in middle-aged adults from Tierra Blanca, Mexico.
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Aguilar-Ramirez D. et al, (2020), Nephrol Dial Transplant