Lisa M. Troy

Assistant Professor

Dr. Troy studies the impact of overall diet quality and components of a healthful diet on under-nutrition, obesity, body composition, and risk factors for chronic diseases. She also is interested in how government programs and policies affect diet quality and public health outcomes. Toward accomplishing these goals, Dr. Troy and her colleagues at Tufts University developed an index to measure adherence to the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. This index has been used in epidemiologic studies to examine how a diet consistent with federal guidelines relates to bone mineral density and the prevention of chronic diseases of aging including hip fracture, insulin resistance, and metabolic syndrome. Dr. Troy updated the DGAI to reflect the 2010 and 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Current Research
Dr. Troy applies diet quality indices and novel pattern analysis to chronic disease research to examine the role of diet and physical activity in relation to predictors of diabetes and heart disease. Her recent research investigates diet and physical activity patterns across the menopausal transition.

Learn more at www.umass.edu/nal/

Academic Background

Ph.D. Tufts University
Postdoctoral Research, Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Boston, MA
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Columbia University

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Publications

Wang H, Fox CS, Meigs JB, Troy LM, McKeown NM, Jacques PF. Longitudinal association of dairy consumption with the changes in blood pressure and the risk of incident hypertension: The Framingham Heart Study. Br J Nutr 2015 September; 23:1-13

Jiang J, Liu M, Troy LM, Bangalore S, Hayes RB, Parekh N. Concordance with DASH Diet and Blood Pressure Change: Results from the Framingham Offspring Study (1991-2008). J Hypertens 2015 Aug 7. [Epub ahead of print]

Sauder KA, Proctor DN, Chow M, Jacques PF, Troy LM, Wang N, Hamburg NM, West SG. Endothelial function, arterial stiffness, and adherence to the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans: a cross-sectional analysis. Br J Nutr 2015 April; 113:1771-83

Wang H, Troy LM, Rogers GT, Fox CS, McKeown NM, Meigs JB, Jacques PF. Longitudinal association between dairy consumption and changes of weight and waist circumference: the Framingham Heart Study. Int J Obes (Lond) 2014 Feb; 38(2):299-305. (Epub 2013 May 20)

McKeown NM, Troy LM, Jacques PF, Hoffmann U, O’Donnell CJ, Fox CS. Whole- and refined-grain intakes are differentially associated with abdominal visceral and subcutaneous adiposity in healthy adults: the Framingham Heart Study. Am J Clin Nutr 2010; 92(5):1165-71 (Epub 2010 Sep)

Fogli-Cawley JJ, Dwyer JT, Saltzman E, McCullough ML, Troy LM, Meigs JB, Jacques PF. The 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and risk of metabolic syndrome. Am J Clin Nutr 2007; 86(4):1193-201

Troy LM, Jacques PF, Hannan MT, Kiel DP, Lichtenstein AH, Kennedy ET, Booth SL. Dihydrophylloquinone intake is associated with low bone mineral density in men and women. Am J Clin Nutr 2007; 86(2):504-8

Fogli-Cawley JJ, Dwyer JT, Saltzman E, McCullough ML, Troy LM, Meigs JB, Jacques PF. The 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and insulin resistance in the Framingham Offspring Cohort. Diabetes Care 2007; 30(4):817-22 (Epub 2007 Jan 26)

Fogli-Cawley JJ, Dwyer JT, Saltzman E, McCullough ML, Troy LM, Jacques PF. The 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans Adherence Index: Development and application. J Nutr 2006; 136(11):2908-15

Bhat D, Karim R, Troy L, Levinson FJ. Determinants of food consumption during pregnancy in rural Bangladesh: Examination of evaluative data from the Bangladesh Integrated Nutrition Project. The Bangladesh Development Studies 2002; 28(4):95-104

Hunter DJ, Manson JE, Colditz GA, Chasan-Taber L, Troy L, Stampfer MJ, Speizer FE, Willett WC. Reproducibility of oral contraceptive histories and validity of hormone composition reported in a cohort of US women. Contraception 1997; 56(6):373-8

Grodstein F, Levine R, Troy L, Spencer T, Colditz GA, Stampfer MJ. Three-year follow-up of participants in a commercial weight loss program. Can you keep it off? Arch Intern Med. 1996; 156(12):1302-6

Troy LM, Michels KB, Hunter DJ, Speigelman D, Manson JE, Colditz GA, Stampfer MJ, Willett WC. Self-reported birthweight and history of having been breastfed among younger women: An assessment of validity. Int J Epidemiol 1996; 25(1):122-7

Troy LM, Hunter DJ, Manson JE, Colditz GA, Stampfer MJ, Willett WC. The validity of recalled weight among younger women. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 1995; 19(8):570-2

Lisa M. Troy

Institute for Applied Life Sciences