Mary E. Penny

Instituto de Investigación Nutricional — PE

Nursing · Health Sciences

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Research Topics

Child Nutrition and Water Access(79), Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare(30), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet(28), Birth, Development, and Health(18), Cervical Cancer and HPV Research(15)

Publications187 total

Interaction between genetic risk score and dietary carbohydrate intake on high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels: Findings from the study of obesity, nutrition, genes and social factors (SONGS)
Clinical Nutrition ESPEN·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Biofortified Yellow-Fleshed Potatoes Provide More Absorbable Zinc than a Commonly Consumed Variety: A Randomized Trial Using Stable Isotopes in Women in the Peruvian Highlands
Journal of Nutrition·2023· 8 citedOpen Access
Feeding Homemade Sugar Sweetened Beverages in Addition to Breastfeeding: Survey Results from Caregivers of Infants and Young Children in Peri-Urban Lima, Peru
Maternal and Child Health Journal·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Total Iron Absorbed from Iron-Biofortified Potatoes Is Higher than that from Nonbiofortified Potatoes: A Randomized Trial Using Stable Iron Isotopes in Women from the Peruvian Highlands
Journal of Nutrition·2023· 10 citedOpen Access
Interactions between genetic and lifestyle factors on cardiometabolic disease-related outcomes in Latin American and Caribbean populations: A systematic review
Frontiers in Nutrition·2023· 11 citedOpen Access
Referee report. For: A prospective cohort study of economic and nutritional changes during the COVID-19 pandemic in urban Callao, Lima, Peru [version 1; peer review: 1 approved]
Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd·2023Open Access
School environments and obesity: a systematic review of interventions and policies among school-age students in Latin America and the Caribbean
International Journal of Obesity·2022· 20 citedOpen Access
Development of an online food frequency questionnaire and estimation of misreporting of energy intake during the COVID-19 pandemic among young adults in Peru
Frontiers in Nutrition·2022· 5 citedOpen Access
Peru – Progress in health and sciences in 200 years of independence
The Lancet Regional Health - Americas·2021· 106 citedOpen Access
Role of Government Financial Support and Vulnerability Characteristics Associated with Food Insecurity during the COVID-19 Pandemic among Young Peruvians
Nutrients·2021· 23 citedOpen Access
Responsive Feeding Is Associated With Minimum Dietary Diversity in Rural Areas of Peru, Nicaragua and Indonesia
Current Developments in Nutrition·2021· 4 citedOpen Access
Cohort Profile Update: The Young Lives study
International Journal of Epidemiology·2021· 23 citedOpen Access
Adiposity and pathogen exposure: An investigation of response to iron supplementation and hypothesized predictors in anemic pre‐school‐aged children living in a dual burden environment
American Journal of Physical Anthropology·2021· 5 citedOpen Access
Social predictors of food insecurity during the stay-at-home order due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru. Results from a cross-sectional web-based survey
2021· 20 citedOpen Access
A Cluster-Randomized Trial to Test Sharing Histories as a Training Method for Community Health Workers in Peru
Global Health Science and Practice·2020· 10 citedOpen Access
A stable isotope study in Peruvian women demonstrates higher iron bioavailability in a yellow fleshed potato variety compared to a high iron purple fleshed potato
CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research)·2020Open Access
Iron Absorption from Iron-Biofortified Sweetpotato Is Higher Than Regular Sweetpotato in Malawian Women while Iron Absorption from Regular and Iron-Biofortified Potatoes Is High in Peruvian Women
Journal of Nutrition·2020· 41 citedOpen Access
Are Household Expenditures on Food Groups Associated with Children’s Future Heights in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam?
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·2020· 2 citedOpen Access
Impact of Housing and Infrastructure on handwashing in Peru
International Health·2020· 5 citedOpen Access
Time use and sexual maturity−related indicators differentially predict youth body mass indices, Peruvian girls versus boys
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences·2019· 2 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Kenneth H. Brown(8), Robert E. Black(7), Benjamin T. Crookston(7), Kirk A. Dearden(7), Claudio F. Lanata(7), Rosario Bartolini(6), Hilary Creed‐Kanashiro(5), Jere R. Behrman(5), Jennifer L. Winkler(5), D. Scott LaMontagne(4), Emmanuel Mugisha(4), Edward Kumakech(4), N. Rocio Mosqueira(4), Proma Paul(4), Raquel Marín(4), Janet M Peerson(4), Anna R. Giuliano(3), Amynah Janmohamed(3), Aisha O. Jumaan(3), Andreas Georgiadis(3)