Marta P Silvestre

Professor Professor Auxiliar Convidado

3696N (Assistant Professor, Nutritionist specializing in Clinical Nutrition)

Marta is a Guest Assistant Professor at NMS, where she teaches within the Nutritional Sciences Degree, within the Integrated Masters in Medicine, within the Masters programme in Human Nutrition and Metabolism, within the Masters in Biomedical Research and within the doctoral programme in Health Sciences. Besides teaching activity, Marta works as a researcher; she supervises postgraduate students in their scientific projects and she tutors working groups in postgraduate programmes. Her main research interest (and teaching field) is nutrition and metabolism, with a special focus in randomised controlled trials for treatment and prevention of diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Marta also works as a registered dietitian/nutritionist in specific clinical areas such as diabetes, metabolism and obstetrics.

Gut Microbiota Diversity and C-Reactive Protein Are Predictors of Disease Severity in COVID-19 Patients. Moreira-Rosário A, Marques C, Pinheiro H, Araújo JR, Ribeiro P, Rocha R, Mota I, Pestana D, Ribeiro R, Pereira A, de Sousa MJ, Pereira-Leal J, de Sousa J, Morais J, Teixeira D, Rocha JC, Silvestre M, Príncipe N, Gatta N, Amado J, Santos L, Maltez F, Boquinhas A, de Sousa G, Germano N, Sarmento G, Granja C, Póvoa P, Faria A, Calhau C. Front Microbiol. 2021 Jul 19;12:705020. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.705020. Zhu R, Larsen TM, Fogelholm M, Poppitt SD, Vestentoft PS, Silvestre MP, Jalo E, Navas-Carretero S, Huttunen-Lenz M, Taylor MA, Stratton G, Swindell N, Drummen M, Adam TC, Ritz C, Sundvall J, Valsta LM, Muirhead R, Brodie S, Handjieva-Darlenska T, Handjiev S, Martinez JA, Macdonald IA, Westerterp-Plantenga MS, Brand-Miller J, Raben A. Dose-Dependent Associations of Dietary Glycemic Index, Glycemic Load, and Fiber With 3-Year Weight Loss Maintenance and Glycemic Status in a High-Risk Population: A Secondary Analysis of the Diabetes Prevention Study PREVIEW. Diabetes Care. 2021 May 27;44(7):1672-81. doi: 10.2337/dc20-3092. Tanja C. Adam, Mathijs Drummen, Ian Macdonald, Elli Jalo, Pia Siig-Vestentoft, J. Alfredo Martinez, Teodora Handjiev-Darlenska, Jennie Brand-Miller, Sally Poppitt, Gareth Stratton, Mikael Fogelholm, Kirsi H. Pietiläinen, Moira Taylor, Santiago Navas-Carretero, Bjorn Winkens, Svetoslav Handjiev, Roslyn Muirhead, Marta Silvestre, Nils Swindell, Maija Huttunen-Lenz, Wolfgang Schlicht, Tony Lam, Jouko Sundvall, Laura Råman, Edith Feskens, Thomas-Meinert Larssen, Angelo Tremblay, Anne Raben, Margriet Westerterp-Plantenga. Association of Psychobehavioral Variables With HOMA-IR and BMI Differs for Men and Women With Prediabetes in the PREVIEW Lifestyle Intervention. Diabetes Care 2021 Jun; dc210059 Zhu R, Fogelholm M, Larsen TM, Poppitt SD, Silvestre MP, Vestentoft PS, Jalo E, Navas-Carretero S, Huttunen-Lenz M, Taylor MA, Stratton G, Swindell N, Kaartinen NE, Lam T, Handjieva-Darlenska T, Handjiev S, Schlicht W, Martinez JA, Seimon RV, Sainsbury A, Macdonald IA, Westerterp-Plantenga MS, Brand-Miller J, Raben A. A High-Protein, Low Glycemic Index Diet Suppresses Hunger but Not Weight Regain After Weight Loss: Results From a Large, 3-Years Randomized Trial (PREVIEW). Front Nutr. 2021 Jun 1;8:685648. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2021.685648. Zhu R, Larsen TM, Fogelholm M, Poppitt SD, Vestentoft PS, Silvestre MP, Jalo E, Navas-Carretero S, Huttunen-Lenz M, Taylor MA, Stratton G, Swindell N, Drummen M, Adam TC, Ritz C, Sundvall J, Valsta LM, Muirhead R, Brodie S, Handjieva-Darlenska T, Handjiev S, Martinez JA, Macdonald IA, Westerterp-Plantenga MS, Brand-Miller J, Raben A. Dose-Dependent Associations of Dietary Glycemic Index, Glycemic Load, and Fiber With 3-Year Weight Loss Maintenance and Glycemic Status in a High-Risk Population: A Secondary Analysis of the Diabetes Prevention Study PREVIEW. Diabetes Care. 2021 May 27:dc203092. doi: 10.2337/dc20-3092. Online ahead of print. Ismael S, Silvestre MP, Vasques M, Araújo JR, Morais J, Duarte MI, Pestana D, Faria A, Pereira-Leal JB, Vaz J, Ribeiro P, Teixeira D, Marques C, Calhau C. A Pilot Study on the Metabolic Impact of Mediterranean Diet in Type 2 Diabetes: Is Gut Microbiota the Key? Nutrients. 2021 Apr 8;13(4):1228. doi: 10.3390/nu13041228. Silvestre MP, Rodrigues AM, Canhão H, Marques C, Teixeira D, Calhau C, Branco J. Cross-Talk between Diet-Associated Dysbiosis and Hand Osteoarthritis. Nutrients. 2020 Nov 12;12(11):3469. doi: 10.3390/nu12113469. Silvestre MP, McMahon C, Goode JP, Vlaskovsky P, Tay A, Poppitt SD. The role of glucagon in weight loss-mediated metabolic improvement: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Obes Rev. 2018 Feb;19(2):233-253. doi: 10.1111/obr.12631
2017 – Best communication: “Weight loss and its maintenance for type 2 diabetes prevention – the PREVIEW study” – XVI Portuguese Congress of Food and Nutrition 4-5th may 2017 2017 - Travel grant funded by Auckland Medical Research Foundation - $3000 (PI) 2015 – Travel grant funded by Maurice and Phyllis Paykel Trust - $1,000 (PI) 2014 –Best communication: "PREVIEW: PREvention of diabetes through lifestyle Internventions in Europe and around the World - The New Zealand Perspective". Early Career Researchers Meeting University of Otago, 26 agosto 2014
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