Hilary Bethancourt
Research Data Analyst 4
Medicine
School of Medicine

Publications (28)

Top publication keywords:
AdiposityNutrition SurveysDrinkingEastern OrthodoxyDehydrationVolcanic EruptionsFood SupplyPlants, EdibleReligionOverweightDietMeatEggsUrineBolivia

• Financial, housing, food, and healthcare insecurities and their independent and joint associations with depressive symptoms and stress in a U.S. cohort of adults with and without HIV.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2026 Bethancourt HJ, Turan B, Richards AL, Norcini-Pala A, Maya S, Palar K, Whittle HJ, Kempf MC, Wu KC, Kizer JR, Tien PC, Hanna DB, Appleton AA, Merenstein D, D'Souza G, Ofotokun I, Konkle-Parker D, …
• Mental Distress and Resource Insecurity in the Kingdom of Tonga After the 2022 Volcanic Eruption: Associations of Water and Food Insecurity With Mental Distress.
  Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 2025 Bethancourt HJ, Bose I, Tupou LM, Meinhart M, Frongillo EA, Greaves A, Young SL
• Mental health, water, and food: Relationships between water and food insecurity and probable depression amongst adults in Mexico.
  Journal of affective disorders 2024 Bose I, Bethancourt HJ, Shamah-Levy T, Mundo-Rosas V, Muñoz-Espinosa A, Ginsberg T, Kadiyala S, Frongillo EA, Gaitán-Rossi P, Young SL
• Total daily energy expenditure and elevated water turnover in a small-scale semi-nomadic pastoralist society from Northern Kenya.
  Annals of human biology 2024 McGrosky A, Swanson ZS, Rimbach R, Bethancourt H, Ndiema E, Nzunza R, Braun DR, Rosinger AY, Pontzer H
• Complementing the United States Household Food Security Survey Module with Items Reflecting Social Unacceptability.
  The Journal of nutrition 2024 Frongillo EA, Bethancourt HJ, Norcini Pala A, Maya S, Wu KC, Kizer JR, Tien PC, Kempf MC, Hanna DB, Appleton AA, Merenstein D, D'Souza G, Ofotokun I, Konkle-Parker D, Michos ED, Krier S, Stosor V, …

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• The effects of lifestyle change on indicators of cardiometabolic health in semi-nomadic pastoralists.
  Evolution, medicine, and public health 2023 Swanson ZS, Bethancourt H, Nzunza R, Ndiema E, Braun DR, Rosinger AY, Pontzer H
• Early childhood growth in Daasanach pastoralists of Northern Kenya: Distinct patterns of faltering in linear growth and weight gain.
  American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council 2022 Swanson ZS, Nzunza R, Bethancourt HJ, Saunders J, Mutindwa F, Ndiema E, Braun DR, Rosinger AY, Pontzer H
• Concurrence of water and food insecurities, 25 low- and middle-income countries.
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2022 Young SL, Bethancourt HJ, Frongillo EA, Viviani S, Cafiero C
• Water Insecurity, Water Borrowing, and Psychosocial Stress Among Daasanach Pastoralists in Northern Kenya.
  Water international 2022 Ford L, Bethancourt HJ, Swanson Z, Nzunza R, Wutich A, Brewis A, Young S, Almeida D, Douglass M, Ndiema EK, Braun DR, Pontzer H, Rosinger AY
• Estimating national, demographic, and socioeconomic disparities in water insecurity experiences in low-income and middle-income countries in 2020-21: a cross-sectional, observational study using nationally representative survey data.
  The Lancet. Planetary health 2022 Young SL, Bethancourt HJ, Ritter ZR, Frongillo EA
• The co-occurrence of water insecurity and food insecurity among Daasanach pastoralists in northern Kenya.
  Public health nutrition 2022 Bethancourt HJ, Swanson ZS, Nzunza R, Young SL, Lomeiku L, Douglass MJ, Braun DR, Ndiema EK, Pontzer H, Rosinger AY
• Tap Water Avoidance Is Associated with Lower Food Security in the United States: Evidence from NHANES 2005-2018.
  Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 2022 Rosinger AY, Bethancourt HJ, Young SL
• Assessing the validity of plasma phospholipid fatty acids as biomarkers of dairy fat intake using data from a randomized controlled intervention trial.
  The American journal of clinical nutrition 2022 Bethancourt HJ, Schmidt KA, Cromer G, Burhans MS, Kuzma JN, Hagman DK, Fernando I, Murray M, Utzschneider KM, Holte S, Prentice RL, Kraft J, Kratz M
• Cross-cultural variation in thirst perception in hot-humid and hot-arid environments: Evidence from two small-scale populations.
  American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council 2021 Rosinger AY, Bethancourt HJ, Swanson ZS, Lopez K, Kenney WL, Huanca T, Conde E, Nzunza R, Ndiema E, Braun DR, Pontzer H
• The embodiment of water insecurity: Injuries and chronic stress in lowland Bolivia.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2021 Rosinger AY, Bethancourt HJ, Young SL, Schultz AF
• The Individual Water Insecurity Experiences (IWISE) Scale: reliability, equivalence and validity of an individual-level measure of water security.
  BMJ global health 2021 Young SL, Bethancourt HJ, Ritter ZR, Frongillo EA
• Variation in urine osmolality throughout pregnancy: a longitudinal, randomized-control trial among women with overweight and obesity.
  European journal of nutrition 2021 Rosinger AY, Bethancourt HJ, Pauley AM, Latona C, John J, Kelyman A, Leonard KS, Hohman EE, McNitt K, Gernand AD, Downs DS, Savage JS
• Household Food Insecurity, Hair Cortisol, and Adiposity Among Tsimane' Hunter-Forager-Horticulturalists in Bolivia.
  Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 2021 Bethancourt HJ, Ulrich MA, Almeida DM, Rosinger AY
• Drinking water salinity is associated with hypertension and hyperdilute urine among Daasanach pastoralists in Northern Kenya.
  The Science of the total environment 2021 Rosinger AY, Bethancourt H, Swanson ZS, Nzunza R, Saunders J, Dhanasekar S, Kenney WL, Hu K, Douglass MJ, Ndiema E, Braun DR, Pontzer H
• Hydration in relation to water insecurity, heat index, and lactation status in two small-scale populations in hot-humid and hot-arid environments.
  American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council 2020 Bethancourt HJ, Swanson ZS, Nzunza R, Huanca T, Conde E, Kenney WL, Young SL, Ndiema E, Braun D, Pontzer H, Rosinger AY
• Plasma volume variation across the menstrual cycle among healthy women of reproductive age: A prospective cohort study.
  Physiological reports 2020 Aguree S, Bethancourt HJ, Taylor LA, Rosinger AY, Gernand AD
• Cognitive performance in relation to hydration status and water intake among older adults, NHANES 2011-2014.
  European journal of nutrition 2019 Bethancourt HJ, Kenney WL, Almeida DM, Rosinger AY
• Spiritually motivated restrictions on animal products have a limited impact on consumption of healthy plant-based foods.
  The British journal of nutrition 2019 Bethancourt HJ, Kratz M, O'Connor K
• A short-term religious "fast" from animal products has a minimal impact on cardiometabolic health biomarkers irrespective of concurrent shifts in distinct plant-based food groups.
  The American journal of clinical nutrition 2019 Bethancourt HJ, Kratz M, O'Connor K
• Longitudinal Changes in Measures of Body Fat and Diet Among Adult Tsimane' Forager-Horticulturalists of Bolivia, 2002-2010.
  Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 2019 Bethancourt HJ, Leonard WR, Tanner S, Schultz AF, Rosinger AY
• Association of Caloric Intake From Sugar-Sweetened Beverages With Water Intake Among US Children and Young Adults in the 2011-2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
  JAMA pediatrics 2019 Rosinger AY, Bethancourt H, Francis LA
• No association between blood telomere length and longitudinally assessed diet or adiposity in a young adult Filipino population.
  European journal of nutrition 2015 Bethancourt HJ, Kratz M, Beresford SAA, Hayes MG, Kuzawa CW, Duazo PL, Borja JB, Eisenberg DTA
• Barriers to and facilitators of physical activity program use among older adults.
  Clinical medicine & research 2014 Bethancourt HJ, Rosenberg DE, Beatty T, Arterburn DE