EDUCATION

• Research Center for Food and Development (CIAD, A.C), Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.
  Ph.D. in Science, 2000.
  Dissertation: "Physical activity level, energy requirement and body composition in free-living rural elderly subjects from Cuba, Chile, and Mexico"
• Autonomous Metropolitan University, Mexico City, Mexico
  Bachelor in Nutrition, 1990-1995
  

POSITIONS

TEACHING

PUBLICATIONS

1. Nayeli Macias, Heliodoro Aleman-Mateo, Julian Esparza-Romero, Mauro E. Valencia. Body fat measurement by bioelectrical impedance versus air displacement plethysmography: a cross-validation study to design bioelectrical impedance equations in Mexican adults. Nutrition Journal 2007, 6:18 (15Aug2007).
2. Heliodoro Aleman-Mateo, Julian Esparza-Romero, Rene Urquidez Romero, Humberto Astiazaran Garcia, Flavia A. Perez Flores, Blanca V. Ochoa Chacon, Mauro E. Valencia. Prevalence of malnutrition and associated metabolic risk factors for cardiovascular disease in older adults from Northwest Mexico. Arch Gerontol Geriatr. 2007 Jun 25; [Epub ahead of print]
3. Aleman-Mateo H, Huerta RH, Esparza-Romero J, Mendez RO, Urquidez R, Valencia ME. Body composition by the four-compartment model: validity of the BOD POD for assessing body fat in Mexican elderly. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2007 Jul;61(7):830-6.
4. Aleman-Mateo H, Salazar G, Hernandez-Triana M, Valencia ME. Total energy expenditure, resting metabolic rate and physical activity level in free-living rural elderly men and women from Cuba, Chile and Mexico. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2006 Nov;60(11):1258-65.
5. Abraham Ramírez Pereda, Bertha I. Pacheco, Humberto Astiazarán-García, Julián Esparza-Romero, Alemán-Mateo H. Nutricional status of vitamin B12 in healthy older people from Northwest of Mexico. Arch Latinoam Nutr 2006;56:2
6. Alemán Mateo H, Esparza Romero Julián, Macías Morales Nayeli, Salazar Gabriela, Hernández Triana Manuel, Wyatt C Jane and Valencia Mauro E. Determination of body composition using air displacement plethysmography, anthropometry and bio-electrical impedance in rural elderly Mexican men and women. J Nutr Health Aging 2004;8:344-349.
7. Alemán-Mateo H, Julián Esparza Romero, Nayeli Macías Morales, Gabriela Salazar, Manuel Hernández Triana and Mauro E. Valencia. Body composition and relative validity of some methods to assess percentage body fat in healthy elderly subjects. Gerontology 2004;50:366-72.
8. Mauro E. Valencia, Alemán-Mateo H, Gabriela Salazar, and Manuel Hernández Triana. Body composition by hydrometry (Deuterium oxide dilution) and bioelectrical impedance in subjects aged >60 y from a rural regions of Cuba, Chile and Mexico. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 2003;27:848-855.
9. Macias N, Calderon de la Barca AM, Bolanos AV, Aleman H, Esparza J, Valencia ME. Body composition in Mexican adults by air displacement pletismography (ADP) with the Bod-POD and deuterium oxide dilution using infrared spectroscopy (IRS-DOD). Food Nutr Bull 2002;23(3 Suppl):99-102.
10. Alemán-Mateo H, Esparza J, Mauro E. Valencia. Anthropometry and body composition in elderly people: importance of physical activity. Salud P¨²blica Méx 1999;41:309-316.
11. Alemán-Mateo H, Guadalupe Thelma Reza Durán, Esparza J, Mauro E. Valencia. Energy requirements in active elderly individuals living in a rural region of Northwest Mexico. Arch Latinoam Nutr 1999;49:121-129.

ABSTRACTS

1. Raquel Huerta Huerta, Julian Esparza, Rosa O. Mendez, Rene Urquidez, Mauro E. Valencia, Heliodoro Alemán Mateo. Body composition by the 4C model and validation of the air-displacement plethysmography in Mexican older people. AGE 2006;28:21. Abstract
2. Heliodoro Alemán-Mateo, Julián Esparza Romero, Nayeli Macías, Gabriela Salazar, Manuel Hernández Triana and Mauro E. Valencia. Body composition and relative validity of some methods to assess percentage body fat in healthy elderly subjects. ACTA DIABETOLOGICA 3 2002;XXXIX: 175. Abstracts of the Sixth International Symposium " In Vivo Body Composition Studies" Rome, Italia, October 3-5, 2002.
3. S. Gonzalez, H Aleman, M Hernadez-Triana, G. Salazar, V. Sanchez B. Basabe, M. Valencia. Total energy expenditure in elderly subjects from a rural community in Cuba, by questionnaire and resting metabolic rate (factorial method), compared with the double labelled water method as gold standard). Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism (FENS). 17 th International Congress of Nutrition. August 27-31, 2001, Viena Austria. Abstracs.
4. Mauro E. Valencia, Nayeli Macías, Ana María Calderón de la Barca, María I. Ortega, Heliodoro Alemán Mateo, Julián Esparza, Alma Robles. Body composition in Mexican adults by the air displacement plethysmography (ADP) with the BOD-POD and deuterium oxide using infrared spectroscopy (IRS-DOD). Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism (FENS). 17 th International Congress of Nutrition. August 27-31, 2001, Vienna, Austria. Abstracts.
5. Heliodoro Alemán Mateo (As author in work frees), Thelma G. Reza Durán, Julián Esparza Romero y Mauro E Valencia: Physical activity level and energy requirement of active elderly. III International Congress of Nutrition. 25 to 28 de March, 1998. Puebla City, Puebla, Mexico.

GRANTS

• National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT-J37891-M). Study of body composition in older adults using a four-compartment model based on densitometry and hydrometry.
• Part of Co-ordinated Project: Assessment of total energy expenditure and body composition for older adult subjects with different lifestyles. IAEA, 2004- Research contract No. 12694/R0. Energy expenditure by DLW and body composition using the 4C model in rural and urban elderly subjects from Mexico.
• National Council for Science and Technology, CONACYT 2006-2007. Total energy expenditure by DLW: validation study of seventh-day food record to estimate energy requirement in elderly people.