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| Jennifer L BakerSummaryAffiliation: Copenhagen University Hospital Country: Denmark Publications
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Obesity research based on the Copenhagen School Health Records RegisterJennifer L Baker
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Øster Søgade 18, 1357 Copenhagen K, Denmark
Scand J Public Health 39:196-200. 2011..CONCLUSION: Research using this unique register is ongoing, and its contributions to the study of obesity as well as other topics will continue for years to come...- The Copenhagen School Health Records RegisterJennifer L Baker
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, 1357 Copenhagen K, Denmark
Scand J Public Health 39:87-90. 2011..The Copenhagen School Health Records Register is an electronic register of health examination information on 372,636 children who attended school in Copenhagen, Denmark from 1936 to 2005... - Invited commentary: How early in life does the risk of obesity originate?Jennifer L Baker
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark
Am J Epidemiol 176:93-6; discussion 97-8. 2012.... - Breastfeeding reduces postpartum weight retentionJennifer L Baker
Centre for Health and Society, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark
Am J Clin Nutr 88:1543-51. 2008..Weight gained during pregnancy and not lost postpartum may contribute to obesity in women of childbearing age... 
Childhood body-mass index and the risk of coronary heart disease in adulthoodJennifer L Baker
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Center for Health and Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
N Engl J Med 357:2329-37. 2007..Risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) are already identifiable in overweight children. The severity of the long-term effects of excess childhood weight on CHD, however, remains unknown...
High prepregnant body mass index is associated with early termination of full and any breastfeeding in Danish womenJennifer L Baker
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 86:404-11. 2007..An association between high prepregnant body mass index (BMI) and early termination of breastfeeding has been observed, but this finding may have depended on the sociocultural context...- Birth weight, childhood body mass index and risk of coronary heart disease in adults: combined historical cohort studiesLise Geisler Andersen
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
PLoS ONE 5:e14126. 2010..We studied individual and combined associations of birth weight and childhood BMI with the risk of CHD in adulthood... - Life course path analysis of birth weight, childhood growth, and adult systolic blood pressureMichael Gamborg
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital and Center for Health and Society, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen K, Denmark
Am J Epidemiol 169:1167-78. 2009..These results suggest that increases in body size prior to age 11 years are less harmful to adult blood pressure than increases occurring after this age... - Maternal prepregnant body mass index, duration of breastfeeding, and timing of complementary food introduction are associated with infant weight gainJennifer L Baker
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 80:1579-88. 2004..Future investigations of the effects of breastfeeding on infant weight gain should account for all of these factors... - Weight at birth and all-cause mortality in adulthoodJennifer L Baker
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Centre for Health and Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
Epidemiology 19:197-203. 2008..The overall impact of these opposing effects on mortality throughout the lifespan is unclear because causes of death change with age... - Stability of the association between birth weight and childhood overweight during the development of the obesity epidemicSusi Rugholm
Danish Epidemiology Science Centre, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Kommunehospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Obes Res 13:2187-94. 2005.... - Birth weight in relation to leisure time physical activity in adolescence and adulthood: meta-analysis of results from 13 nordic cohortsLise Geisler Andersen
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Center for Health and Society, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
PLoS ONE 4:e8192. 2009.... - Birth cohort effect on the obesity epidemic in DenmarkLina W Olsen
Danish Epidemiology Science Centre, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Epidemiology 17:292-5. 2006.... - Birth weight and systolic blood pressure in adolescence and adulthood: meta-regression analysis of sex- and age-specific results from 20 Nordic studiesMichael Gamborg
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Am J Epidemiol 166:634-45. 2007..This meta-analysis supports the evidence of an inverse birth weight-SBP association, regardless of adjustment for concurrent body size. It also reveals important heterogeneity in the shape and strength of the association by sex and age... - Contributions of incidence and persistence to the prevalence of childhood obesity during the emerging epidemic in DenmarkLise Geisler Andersen
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
PLoS ONE 7:e42521. 2012..We investigated whether increasing incidence and/or persistence during childhood drove the prevalence of childhood obesity during the emerging epidemic... - Risk of lymphoma and leukaemia after bacille Calmette-Guérin and smallpox vaccination: a Danish case-cohort studyMarie Villumsen
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Centre for Health and Society, Øster Søgade 18, 1st Floor, DK 1357 Copenhagen K, Denmark
Vaccine 27:6950-8. 2009..81 (0.31-2.16); smallpox vaccination HR=1.32 (0.49-3.53)). The present study with very reliable vaccine history information indicates a beneficial effect of BCG vaccination on the risk of lymphomas... - Assortative marriages by body mass index have increased simultaneously with the obesity epidemicTeresa A Ajslev
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital Copenhagen, Denmark
Front Genet 3:125. 2012..Yet, there were assorted marriages between spouses with high BMI at age 13 years and the tendency increased alongside with the obesity epidemic which may increase the offsprings' predisposition to obesity... - Evaluation of the overweight/obese child--practical tips for the primary health care provider: recommendations from the Childhood Obesity Task Force of the European Association for the Study of ObesityJennifer L Baker
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Centre for Health and Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
Obes Facts 3:131-7. 2010..We have attempted to use an evidence-based approach while allowing flexibility for the practicing clinician in domains where evidence is currently lacking and ensuring that treating the obese child involves the entire family as well...