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Emily Oken
Medicine/Public Health, general
Public Health
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Supplementation with antioxidant micronutrients in pregnant women with obesity: a randomized controlled trial
Obesity increases maternal morbidity and adversely affects child health. Maternal inflammation may play a role in adverse outcomes. The objective of this study was to determine whether providing a higher dose ...
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Associations of maternal non-nutritive sweetener intake during pregnancy with offspring body mass index and body fat from birth to adolescence
The evidence that maternal non-nutritive sweetener (NNS) intake during pregnancy increases childhood obesity risk is conflicting. A potential reason for this is that all prior studies examined childhood body m...
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Mode of delivery, type of labor, and measures of adiposity from childhood to teenage: Project Viva
Cesarean delivery has been linked with childhood obesity. Few studies have examined if this association is attenuated if there is labor prior to delivery. The objective of this current analysis was to examine ...
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Understanding childhood obesity in the US: the NIH environmental influences on child health outcomes (ECHO) program
Few resources exist for prospective, longitudinal analysis of the relationships between early life environment and later obesity in large diverse samples of children in the United States (US). In 2016, the Nat...
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Associations of prenatal exposure to impaired glucose tolerance with eating in the absence of hunger in early adolescence
Exposure to impaired gestational glucose tolerance has been shown to have sex-specific associations with offspring obesity risk, perhaps by affecting the development of appetite regulation. We examined the ext...
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Maternal corticotropin-releasing hormone is associated with LEP DNA methylation at birth and in childhood: an epigenome-wide study in Project Viva
Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) plays a central role in regulating the secretion of cortisol which controls a wide range of biological processes. Fetuses overexposed to cortisol have increased risks of d...
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Associations of the dietary approaches to stop hypertension (DASH) diet with pregnancy complications in Project Viva
The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet has been shown to improve cardiometabolic outcomes in non-pregnant populations. Little is known regarding the impact of this diet on health during pregna...
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Open AccessSocioeconomic differences in childhood BMI trajectories in Belarus
To examine associations of parental socioeconomic position with early-life offspring body mass index (BMI) trajectories in a middle-income country.
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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...
