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Sheryl L. Rifas-Shiman
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Open AccessDiabetes and lipid screening among patients in primary care: A cohort study
Obesity is associated with increased cardiovascular diseases and diabetes mellitus. Guidelines call for intensified glucose and lipid screening among overweight and obese patients. Data on compliance with thes...
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Open AccessMisperceived pre-pregnancy body weight status predicts excessive gestational weight gain: findings from a US cohort study
Excessive gestational weight gain promotes poor maternal and child health outcomes. Weight misperception is associated with weight gain in non-pregnant women, but no data exist during pregnancy. The purpose of...
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Open AccessEpidemiology and risk factors for Staphylococcus aureuscolonization in children in the post-PCV7 era
The incidence of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has risen dramatically in the U.S., particularly among children. Although Streptococcus pneumoniae colonization has been in...
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Open AccessAssessing the role of undetected colonization and isolation precautions in reducing Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureustransmission in intensive care units
Screening and isolation are central components of hospital methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) control policies. Their prevention of patient-to-patient spread depends on minimizing undetected and u...
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Open AccessChildhood body mass index trajectories: modeling, characterizing, pairwise correlations and socio-demographic predictors of trajectory characteristics
Modeling childhood body mass index (BMI) trajectories, versus estimating change in BMI between specific ages, may improve prediction of later body-size-related outcomes. Prior studies of BMI trajectories are l...
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Age of Achievement of Gross Motor Milestones in Infancy and Adiposity at Age 3 Years
Early life physical activity may help prevent obesity but is difficult to measure. The purpose of this study was to examine associations of age of achievement of gross motor milestones in infancy with adiposit...
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Open AccessCorrelations among adiposity measures in school-aged children
Given that it is not feasible to use dual x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) or other reference methods to measure adiposity in all pediatric clinical and research settings, it is important to identify reasonable alte...
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Open AccessFeasibility and impact of Creciendo Sanos, a clinic-based pilot intervention to prevent obesity among preschool children in Mexico City
Mexico has the highest adult overweight and obesity prevalence in the Americas; 23.8% of children <5 years old are at risk for overweight and 9.7% are already overweight or obese. Creciendo Sanos was a pilot i...
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Excessive gestational weight gain prior to glucose screening and the risk of gestational diabetes: a meta-analysis
Excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) may be a risk factor for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). We aimed to study the association between excessive GWG (defined according to Institute of Medicine recomme...
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Open AccessSecular trends in family dinner frequency among adolescents
Eating meals, particularly dinner, with family members has been found to be associated with improved dietary intake, lower prevalence of disordered eating behaviors, lower levels of substance abuse, and improv...
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Open AccessThe Linked CENTURY Study: linking three decades of clinical and public health data to examine disparities in childhood obesity
Despite the need to identify the causes of disparities in childhood obesity, the existing epidemiologic studies of early life risk factors have several limitations. We report on the construction of the Linked ...
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Open AccessFamily functioning and quality of parent-adolescent relationship: cross-sectional associations with adolescent weight-related behaviors and weight status
Little is known about how factors within the general family environment are associated with weight and related behaviors among adolescents/young adults.
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Open AccessAssociation of missing paternal demographics on infant birth certificates with perinatal risk factors for childhood obesity
The role of fathers in the development of obesity in their offspring remains poorly understood. We evaluated associations of missing paternal demographic information on birth certificates with perinatal risk f...
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Open AccessBirth weight-for-gestational age is associated with DNA methylation at birth and in childhood
Both higher and lower fetal growth are associated with cardio-metabolic health later in life, suggesting that prenatal developmental programming determines long-term cardiovascular disease risk. Epigenetic mec...
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Open AccessPersistent DNA methylation changes associated with prenatal mercury exposure and cognitive performance during childhood
Prenatal exposure to mercury, a known neurotoxic metal, is associated with lower cognitive performance during childhood. Disruption of fetal epigenetic programming could explain mercury’s neurodevelopmental ef...
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Open AccessCord blood DNA methylation and adiposity measures in early and mid-childhood
Excess adiposity in childhood is associated with numerous adverse health outcomes. As this condition is difficult to treat once present, identification of risk early in life can help inform and implement strat...
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Open AccessCumulative exposure to environmental pollutants during early pregnancy and reduced fetal growth: the Project Viva cohort
Reduced fetal growth is associated with perinatal and later morbidity. Prenatal exposure to environmental pollutants is linked to reduced fetal growth at birth, but the impact of concomitant exposure to multip...
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Open AccessEpigenome-wide association study of total serum immunoglobulin E in children: a life course approach
IgE-mediated sensitization may be epigenetically programmed in utero, but early childhood environment may further alter complex traits and disease phenotypes through epigenetic plasticity. However, the epigeno...
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Open AccessPrenatal n-3 long-chain fatty acid status and offspring metabolic health in early and mid-childhood: results from Project Viva
Higher maternal and biomarker levels of n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFAs) have been associated with improved perinatal outcomes and may also influence offspring metabolic health. Past studie...
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Maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring overweight: is there a dose–response relationship? An individual patient data meta-analysis
A number of meta-analyses suggest an association between any maternal smoking in pregnancy and offspring overweight obesity. Whether there is a dose–response relationship across number of cigarettes and whethe...
