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Childhood growth chartsLaurence M Grummer-Strawn
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Pediatrics 109:141-2. 2002- Does breastfeeding protect against pediatric overweight? Analysis of longitudinal data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance SystemLaurence M Grummer-Strawn
Maternal and Child Nutrition Branch, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341 3724, USA
Pediatrics 113:e81-6. 2004..To examine whether increasing duration of breastfeeding is associated with a lower risk of overweight in a low-income population of 4-year-olds in the United States... - Validity of body mass index compared with other body-composition screening indexes for the assessment of body fatness in children and adolescentsZuguo Mei
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341 3724, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 75:978-85. 2002..Validation studies of height- and weight-based indexes of body fatness in children and adolescents have examined only small samples of school-age children... 
Baby-Friendly hospital practices and meeting exclusive breastfeeding intentionCria G Perrine
Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Pediatrics 130:54-60. 2012..To describe mothers' exclusive breastfeeding intentions and whether Baby-Friendly hospital practices are associated with achieving these intentions...- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2000 growth charts for the United States: improvements to the 1977 National Center for Health Statistics versionCynthia L Ogden
National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Maryland National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Pediatrics 109:45-60. 2002..To present a clinical version of the 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) growth charts and to compare them with the previous version, the 1977 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) growth charts... - Assessment of iron status in US pregnant women from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 1999-2006Zuguo Mei
National Centers for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341 3724, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 93:1312-20. 2011..Total body iron calculated from serum ferritin and soluble transferrin receptor concentrations allows for the evaluation of the full range of iron status... - Trends in state-specific prevalence of overweight and underweight in 2- through 4-year-old children from low-income families from 1989 through 2000Bettylou Sherry
Maternal and Child Nutrition Branch, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341 3717, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 158:1116-24. 2004..To document overweight and underweight state-specific prevalence and examine trends among 2- through 4-year-old children from low-income families... - Does overweight in infancy persist through the preschool years? An analysis of CDC Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance System dataZuguo Mei
Maternal and Child Nutrition Branch, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, National Center for Chronic Disease, Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
Soz Praventivmed 48:161-7. 2003..To determine whether overweight in infancy (0-11 months) and young childhood (12-35 months) persists through the preschool years... - Comparison of the prevalence of shortness, underweight, and overweight among US children aged 0 to 59 months by using the CDC 2000 and the WHO 2006 growth chartsZuguo Mei
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC, Atlanta, GA 30341 3724, USA
J Pediatr 153:622-8. 2008..These comparisons are undertaken with 2 sets of cutoff values... - Erythrocyte protoporphyrin or hemoglobin: which is a better screening test for iron deficiency in children and women?Zuguo Mei
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 77:1229-33. 2003..Hemoglobin and erythrocyte protoporphyrin (EP) tests are commonly used to screen for iron deficiency. However, little research has been done to systematically evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of these 2 tests... - Characteristics of breastfeeding practices among US mothersKatherine R Shealy
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, 4770 Buford Hwy NE, Mail Stop K25, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Pediatrics 122:S50-5. 2008..We describe the distributions and characteristics of practices related to common advice about breastfeeding during the infant's first year of life... - Sources of supplemental iron among breastfed infants during the first year of lifeDeborah L Dee
Epidemic Intelligence Service, Office of Career and Workforce Development, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy NE, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Pediatrics 122:S98-104. 2008..Our objectives were to describe the consumption of iron-rich foods, oral iron supplements, and iron-fortified formula among US infants and to assess adherence to iron-intake recommendations... - Comparison of changes in growth percentiles of US children on CDC 2000 growth charts with corresponding changes on WHO 2006 growth chartsZuguo Mei
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway, Atlanta, GA 30341 3724, USA
Clin Pediatr (Phila) 50:402-7. 2011.... - Breastfeeding rates in the United States by characteristics of the child, mother, or family: the 2002 National Immunization SurveyRuowei Li
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and the National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341 3717, USA
Pediatrics 115:e31-7. 2005..Using the data from the 2002 NIS, this study estimates breastfeeding rates in the United States by characteristics of the child, mother, or family... - Risk of bottle-feeding for rapid weight gain during the first year of lifeRuowei Li
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 166:431-6. 2012..To better understand the mechanisms behind breastfeeding and childhood obesity, we assessed the association of weight gain with the mode of milk delivery aside from the type of milk given to infants... - Hemoglobin and ferritin are currently the most efficient indicators of population response to iron interventions: an analysis of nine randomized controlled trialsZuguo Mei
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
J Nutr 135:1974-80. 2005..It is possible that the optimal indicator(s) may differ with age, sex, and pregnancy. There were too few trials in each age and sex group to allow us to explore this question... - Association of breastfeeding intensity and bottle-emptying behaviors at early infancy with infants' risk for excess weight at late infancyRuowei Li
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, 4770 Buford Hwy, Mail Stop K25, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Pediatrics 122:S77-84. 2008.... 
Standard deviation of anthropometric Z-scores as a data quality assessment tool using the 2006 WHO growth standards: a cross country analysisZuguo Mei
Maternal and Child Nutrition Branch, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Bull World Health Organ 85:441-8. 2007..In 2006, WHO published new growth standards. Here, we aim to assess whether the SD of height- and weight-based Z-score indicators from the 2006 WHO growth standards can still be used to assess data quality...- Do infants fed from bottles lack self-regulation of milk intake compared with directly breastfed infants?Ruowei Li
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, 4770 Buford Highway, MS K25, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Pediatrics 125:e1386-93. 2010..We studied whether infants' self-regulation of milk intake is affected by feeding mode (bottle versus breast) and the type of milk in the bottle (formula versus expressed breast milk)... - Progress in protecting, promoting, and supporting breastfeeding: 1984-2009Laurence M Grummer-Strawn
Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Breastfeed Med 4:S31-9. 2009..Thus, in spite of considerable progress, significant gaps remain in protecting, promoting, and supporting breastfeeding... - Do skinfold measurements provide additional information to body mass index in the assessment of body fatness among children and adolescents?Zuguo Mei
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mailstop K 25, 4770 Buford Hwy, Atlanta, GA 30341 3724, USA
Pediatrics 119:e1306-13. 2007.... - Shifts in percentiles of growth during early childhood: analysis of longitudinal data from the California Child Health and Development StudyZuguo Mei
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Pediatrics 113:e617-27. 2004..Pediatricians must consider the prevalence of growth rate shifts during infancy and early childhood before they counsel parents regarding growth or refer children for additional evaluations of growth... - Overweight among low-income preschool children associated with the consumption of sweet drinks: Missouri, 1999-2002Jean A Welsh
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mailstop K 25, 4770 Buford Hwy NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30341 3717, USA
Pediatrics 115:e223-9. 2005..To examine the association between sweet drink consumption and overweight among preschool children... - Serum soluble transferrin receptor concentrations in US preschool children and non-pregnant women of childbearing age from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2003-2010Zuguo Mei
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA
Clin Chim Acta 413:1479-84. 2012..The lack of assay standardization and of representative data on the distribution of sTfR in at-risk populations currently limits its utility... - Use of World Health Organization and CDC growth charts for children aged 0-59 months in the United StatesLaurence M Grummer-Strawn
Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, USA
MMWR Recomm Rep 59:1-15. 2010.... - Relation of body mass index and waist-to-height ratio to cardiovascular disease risk factors in children and adolescents: the Bogalusa Heart StudyDavid S Freedman
Divisions of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 86:33-40. 2007..Several investigators have concluded that the waist-to-height ratio is more strongly associated with cardiovascular disease risk factors than is the body mass index (BMI; in kg/m(2))... - Accuracy of adolescent self-report of height and weight in assessing overweight status: a literature reviewBettylou Sherry
Maternal Child Nutrition Branch, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 161:1154-61. 2007..To examine the accuracy of self-reported height and weight data to classify adolescent overweight status. Self-reported height and weight are commonly used with minimal consideration of accuracy... - Why mothers stop breastfeeding: mothers' self-reported reasons for stopping during the first yearRuowei Li
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, 4770 Buford Hwy, Mail Stop K25, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Pediatrics 122:S69-76. 2008..Our goal was to determine why women stop breastfeeding at various times during their infant's first year... - Effect of maternity-care practices on breastfeedingAnn M DiGirolamo
Emory University, Hubert Department of Global Health, 1518 Clifton Rd, NE, Atlanta, GA 30307, USA
Pediatrics 122:S43-9. 2008..Our goal was to assess the impact of "Baby-Friendly" hospital practices and other maternity-care practices experienced by mothers on breastfeeding duration... - Who is breast-feeding? Recent trends from the pregnancy risk assessment and monitoring systemIndu B Ahluwalia
Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
J Pediatr 142:486-91. 2003..To examine breast-feeding initiation and continuation among women with recent live births in 10 states... - Helicobacter pylori, anemia, and iron deficiency: relationships explored among Alaska native childrenAnn M DiGirolamo
Hubert Department of Global Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 26:927-34. 2007..The current study assessed determinants of anemia and iron deficiency, including H. pylori, in Alaska Native children... - Infant feeding and feeding transitions during the first year of lifeLaurence M Grummer-Strawn
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, 4770 Buford Hwy, MS K25, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Pediatrics 122:S36-42. 2008..This article documents transitions in infant feeding patterns across the first year of life and determinants of key aspects of infant feeding... - Assessment of iron deficiency in US preschool children and nonpregnant females of childbearing age: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2003-2006Mary E Cogswell
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Atlanta, GA, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 89:1334-42. 2009..A new index to determine body iron promises a simpler approach to monitoring iron deficiency (ID) prevalence... - HFE genotype and transferrin saturation in the United StatesMary E Cogswell
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
Genet Med 5:304-10. 2003..Examine the penetrance (defined by high transferrin saturation [TS]) of C282Y and H63D in the U.S. population... - Prepregnancy obesity trends among low-income women, United States, 1999-2008Stefanie N Hinkle
Program in Nutrition and Health Sciences, Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Emory University, 1462 Clifton Rd, Suite 314, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Matern Child Health J 16:1339-48. 2012..3% in 2008, a relative increase of 14.1%. Prepregnancy obesity among low-income women increased from 1999 to 2008 and varied by race-ethnicity. These data can be used by obesity prevention programs to better target high-risk women... - Do perceived attitudes of physicians and hospital staff affect breastfeeding decisions?Ann M DiGirolamo
Department of International Health, Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Birth 30:94-100. 2003..The current study assessed the impact on breastfeeding of the perceived attitudes of health care providers about infant feeding... - Multivariate analysis of state variation in breastfeeding rates in the United StatesMichael D Kogan
Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 18 41, Rockville, MD 20857, USA
Am J Public Health 98:1872-80. 2008..We sought to determine the impact of sociodemographic and behavioral factors and state legislation on breastfeeding initiation (child ever fed breastmilk) and duration... - Associations between breastfeeding practices and young children's language and motor skill developmentDeborah L Dee
Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, and the Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516 2524, USA
Pediatrics 119:S92-8. 2007..We examined the associations of breastfeeding initiation and duration with language and motor skill development in a nationally representative sample of US children aged 10 to 71 months... - Infant Feeding Practices Study II: study methodsSara B Fein
Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, 5100 Paint Branch Pkwy, HFS 020, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Pediatrics 122:S28-35. 2008..In addition, mothers' dietary intake was measured prenatally and postnatally... - Comparison of manual and electric breast pumps among WIC women returning to work or school in HawaiiDonald K Hayes
Family Health Services Division, Hawaii Department of Health, Honolulu, Hawaii 96816, USA
Breastfeed Med 3:3-10. 2008..A study was done to determine whether an electric breast pump (vs. a manual pump) would increase breastfeeding duration in those returning to work or school full-time... - Alcohol consumption among breastfeeding womenRosalind A Breslow
Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Rockville 20892, Maryland, USA
Breastfeed Med 2:152-7. 2007..To determine the prevalence of alcohol consumption among breastfeeding and non-breastfeeding women at 3 months postpartum... - Infant feeding and care practices in the United States: results from the Infant Feeding Practices Study IISara B Fein
Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, 5100 Paint Branch Pkwy, HFS 020, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Pediatrics 122:S25-7. 2008 - To what extent is the protective effect of breastfeeding on future overweight explained by decreased maternal feeding restriction?Elsie M Taveras
Center for Child Health Care Studies and Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School, 133 Brookline Ave, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Pediatrics 118:2341-8. 2006..The objective of this study was to determine the extent to which the protective effect of breastfeeding on future overweight is explained by decreased maternal feeding restriction... - Selected complementary feeding practices and their association with maternal educationSara B Fein
Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, 5100 Paint Branch Pkwy, HFS 020, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Pediatrics 122:S91-7. 2008..Our objective is to describe these factors for US infants...