Kontogianni Meropi

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Staff Offices, Part 2,Office 4

Associate Professor- Clinical Nutrition

Expert

Clinical nutrition is the discipline that deals with the prevention, diagnosis and management of nutritional and metabolic changes related to acute and chronic diseases and conditions caused by a lack or excess of energy and nutrients. Clinical Nutrition includes the nutrition care process, namely the nutritional assessment, nutrition diagnosis and the planning of nutrition interventions for people suffering from diseases, the outcome of which can be substantially affected by nutrition. Under this perspective her research interests focus on a) the contribution of dietary and lifestyle patterns in the prevention and treatment of chronic non communicable diseases, b) the involvement of adipokines and inflammatory markers in the in physiological and pathophysiological pathways and their intercorrelations with dietary factors and c) disease related malnutrition.

Education

PhD in Applied Nutrition and Dietetics. Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University, 2004.
BsC in Nutrition and Dietetics. Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University, 1998.

Research Interests

Study of the contribution of dietary and lifestyle patterns in the prevention and treatment of non-communicable chronic diseases, with a special interest on metabolic syndrome and its components.
Exploring the involvement of adipokines and inflammatory markers in physiologic and pathophysiologic pathways, and their intercorrelations with dietary factors.
Implementation of nutrition risk screening and nutritional assessment methods aiming at a prompt and reliable diagnosis of disease related malnutrition and sarcopenia.

Selected Publications

Georgoulis M, Yiannakouris N, Tenta R, Fragopoulou E, Kechribari I, Lamprou K, Perraki E, Vagiakis E, Kontogianni MD. A weight-loss Mediterranean diet/lifestyle intervention ameliorates inflammation and oxidative stress in patients with obstructive sleep apnea: results of the "MIMOSA" randomized clinical trial. Eur J Nutr 2021 Apr 10. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33839919/
Georgiou A, Papatheodoridis GV, Alexopoulou A, Deutsch M, Vlachogiannakos I, Ioannidou P, Papageorgiou MV, Papadopoulos N, Yannakoulia M, Kontogianni MD. Validation of skeletal muscle mass index cutoffs based on computed tomography analysis against dual energy x-ray absorptiometry in patients with cirrhosis- THE KIRRHOS STUDY. Ann Gastroenterol 2020;33(1):80-86. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31892802/
Georgiou A, Papatheodoridis GV, Alexopoulou A, Deutsch M, Vlahogiannakos I, Ioannidou P, Papageorgiou MV, Papadopoulos N, Tsibouris T, Prapa A, Yannakoulia M, Kontogianni MD. Evaluation of the effectiveness of eight screening tools in detecting risk of malnutrition in cirrhotic patients – THE KIRRHOS STUDY. Br J Nutr. 2019;122(12):1368–1376. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31735186/
Katsagoni CN, Papatheodoridis GV, Ioannidou P, Deutsch M, Alexopoulou A, Papadopoulos N, Papageorgiou MV, Fragopoulou E, Kontogianni MD. Improvements in clinical characteristics of patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, after an intervention based on the Mediterranean lifestyle: a randomised controlled clinical trial. Br J Nutr 2018;120(2):164-175. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29947322/
Kontogianni MD, Tileli N, Margariti A, Georgoulis M, Deutsch M. Tiniakos D, Fragopoulou E, Zafiropoulou R, Manios Y, Papatheodoridis G. Adherence to the Mediterranean diet is associated with the severity of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Clin Nutr 2014;33: 678-683. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24064253/
Kontogianni MD, Liatis S, Grammatikou S, Perrea D, Katsilambros N, Makrilakis K. Changes in dietary habits and their association with metabolic markers after a non-intensive, community-based lifestyle intervention to prevent type 2 diabetes, in Greece. The DEPLAN study. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2012;95(2):207-14. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21955962/