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    Prenatal oxidative stress and rapid infant weight gain

    Infant weight patterns predict subsequent weight outcomes. Rapid infant weight gain, defined as a >0.67 increase in weight-for-age z-score (WAZ) between two time points in infancy, increases obesity risk. Higher ...

    Carol Duh-Leong, Akhgar Ghassabian in International Journal of Obesity (2023)

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    “The Stay at Home Order is Causing Things to Get Heated Up”: Family Conflict Dynamics During COVID-19 From The Perspectives of Youth Calling a National Child Abuse Hotline

    The purpose of this study was to identify changes in family conflict and abuse dynamics during COVID-19 stay-at-home orders from the perspectives of youth calling a national child abuse hotline. We analyzed te...

    Laura Sinko, Yuan He, Rachel Kishton, Robin Ortiz in Journal of Family Violence (2022)

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    Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Responses in Women with Endometriosis-Related Chronic Pelvic Pain

    Some chronic pain conditions and comorbidities suppress the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and response to dynamic testing. We measured HPA axis responses to corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) ad...

    Robin Ortiz, Julie Anne L. Gemmill, Ninet Sinaii, Barbara Stegmann in Reproductive Sciences (2020)

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    Type 2 diabetes and cardiometabolic risk may be associated with increase in DNA methylation of FKBP5

    Subclinical hypercortisolism and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis dysfunction are associated with type 2 diabetes (T2DM), cardiovascular disease, and metabolic dysfunction. Intronic methylation of FKBP5 ...

    Robin Ortiz, Joshua J. Joseph, Richard Lee, Gary S. Wand in Clinical Epigenetics (2018)