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Thomas Wolever
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Latest papers
The Antioxidant Capacity of Breast Milk and Plasma of Women with or without Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.
Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
Traditional foods and 25(OH)D concentrations in a subarctic First Nations community.
International journal of circumpolar health · 2016
Latest funding
- $100,000
Relation of different food sources of sugars with incident cardiometabolic disease: A series of systematic reviews and meta-analyses to inform guidelines, public health policy, and future research design
CIHR · 2015 · Co-investigator
- $444,989
The effect of a low glycemic index (GI) diet on maternal glycemic control and maternal and neonatal markers of postpartum diabetes risk in women with gestational hyperglycemia.
CIHR · 2011 · Nominated PI
- $14,080
Meeting to Develop a RCT on the Role Cereal Fiber in the Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes
CIHR · 2011 · Nominated PI
2 publications.
The Antioxidant Capacity of Breast Milk and Plasma of Women with or without Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.
Churchill M, Zawawi H, Elisia I, Seider M, Noseworthy R, Thompson A, Glenn AJ, Ramdath DD, O'Connor D, Darling P, Wolever T, Barre DE, Feig DS, Kitts DD, Grant SM
Traditional foods and 25(OH)D concentrations in a subarctic First Nations community.
Mansuri S, Badawi A, Kayaniyil S, Cole DE, Harris SB, Mamakeesick M, Wolever T, Gittelsohn J, Maguire JL, Connelly PW, Zinman B, Hanley AJ
Relation of different food sources of sugars with incident cardiometabolic disease: A series of systematic reviews and meta-analyses to inform guidelines, public health policy, and future research design
Principal investigators: Leiter, Lawrence A; Sievenpiper, John L
Keywords: Chd; Diabetes; Guidelines; Hypertension; Metabolic Syndrome; Obesity; Prospective Cohort Studies; Stroke; Sugars; Systematic Review And Meta-Analyses
The effect of a low glycemic index (GI) diet on maternal glycemic control and maternal and neonatal markers of postpartum diabetes risk in women with gestational hyperglycemia.
Principal investigators: Wolever, Thomas M
Keywords: Clinical Trial; Dietary Carbohydrates; Gestational Diabetes; Glycemic Control; Glycemic Index; Humans
Meeting to Develop a RCT on the Role Cereal Fiber in the Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes
Principal investigators: Wolever, Thomas M
Keywords: Dietary Fibre; Type 2 Diabetes
Effect of fructose on metabolic control in humans: A systematic review and meta-analysis to provide evidence-based guidance for nutrition guidelines development
Principal investigators: Jenkins, David J
Keywords: Blood Glucose; Diabetes; Fructose And Sugars; Meta-Analysis; Overweight And Obesity; Serum Triglycerides And Cholesterol
Low Glycemic index diet to improve glycemic control and cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetes
Principal investigators: Jenkins, David J
Keywords: Blood Glucose And Lipid Control; Dietary Intervention; Intima Media Thickness (Imt); Intra Plaque Hemorrhage (Iph); Low Glycemic Index (Gi); Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Mri); Type 2 Diabetes
Role of colonic short chain fatty acids in obesity and insulin resistance
Principal investigators: Wolever, Thomas M
Keywords: Colonic Fermentation; Gut Hormones; Humans; Insulin Sensitivity; Obesity; Whole Body Metabolism
Role of colonic short chain fatty acids in obesity and insulin resistance
Principal investigators: Wolever, Thomas M
Keywords: Colonic Fermentation; Gut Hormones; Humans; Insulin Sensitivity; Obesity; Whole Body Metabolism
Advanced Foods and Materials Network/Réseau des aliments et des matériaux d'avant-garde
Principal investigators: Yada, Rickey
Investigation of some factors related to the validity and utility of the glycaemic index and insulinaemic index of foods
Principal investigators: Wolever, Thomas
Effects of lactulose and rhamnose on cholesterol synthesis and short chain fatty acids in humans
Principal investigators: Wolever, Thomas
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Deborah O'Connor and Jonathon Maguire: 33 shared papers
- Anthony Hanley and Jonathon Maguire: 15 shared papers
- Anthony Hanley and Deborah O'Connor: 12 shared papers
- Anthony Hanley and Denice Feig: 2 shared papers
- Deborah O'Connor and David Kitts: 2 shared papers
- Anthony Hanley and Thomas Wolever: 1 shared paper
- Denice Feig and Deborah O'Connor: 1 shared paper
- Denice Feig and David Kitts: 1 shared paper
- Denice Feig and Thomas Wolever: 1 shared paper
- Deborah O'Connor and Thomas Wolever: 1 shared paper
- Jonathon Maguire and Thomas Wolever: 1 shared paper
- David Kitts and Thomas Wolever: 1 shared paper
- Department of Nutritional Sciences
- Epidemiology Division
- Food Science
- Department of Medicine
- Department of Paediatrics
Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Philip Connelly
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Anthony Hanley
Epidemiology Division
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Bernard Zinman
Endocrinology and Metabolism
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Denice Feig
Department of Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Deborah O'Connor
Department of Nutritional Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Jonathon Maguire
Department of Paediatrics
1 shared papers, latest 2016
David Kitts
Food Science
1 shared papers, latest 2023
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