Gloria Aguayo MSc, MD, PhD

Dr Gloria Aguayo is interested in psychosocial problems in severely obese patients, including social stigma, depression, anxiety, body image, quality of life, eating disorders, and personality. She worked in the psychological assessment with severely obese patients candidates for bariatric surgery, trying to find determinants of unsuccessful weight loss or weight regain after surgery.

Other areas that interest her are healthy aging and frailty. Currently, she is working on frailty and finding a way to assess and define it, the objective measurement of frailty with physical functioning, the assessment of frailty scores, the examination of determinants of frailty in cohort studies in the general population such as diabetes, obesity, and physical activity and is planning to develop etiological and predictive models for frailty.