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| Zuguo MeiSummaryAffiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Country: USA Publications
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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...
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...
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...- 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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.... - Racial/ethnic differences in body fatness among children and adolescentsDavid S Freedman
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 16:1105-11. 2008..Although the BMI is widely used as a measure of adiposity, it is a measure of excess weight, and its association with body fatness may differ across racial or ethnic groups... - Unexplained decline in the prevalence of anemia among US children and women between 1988-1994 and 1999-2002Sarah E Cusick
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, Atlanta, GA, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 88:1611-7. 2008..The current anemia burden among US preschool children and women of childbearing age has not been documented... - Height and adiposity among childrenDavid S Freedman
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mailstop K 26, 4770 Buford Highway, Atlanta, GA 30341 3717, USA
Obes Res 12:846-53. 2004..3) with height among children. We examined whether the resulting preferential classification of taller children as overweight, based on a BMI > or = 95th percentile, is appropriate... - Classification of body fatness by body mass index-for-age categories among childrenDavid S Freedman
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway, Atlanta, GA 30341 3717, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 163:805-11. 2009..To examine the ability of various body mass index (BMI)-for-age categories, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 85th to 94th percentiles, to correctly classify the body fatness of children and adolescents... - 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... - 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))... - The prediction of body fatness by BMI and skinfold thicknesses among children and adolescentsDavid S Freedman
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention K 26, Atlanta, Georgia
Ann Hum Biol 34:183-94. 2007..It has been suggested that skinfold thicknesses be measured among overweight children to confirm the presence of excess adiposity... - Cardiovascular risk factors and excess adiposity among overweight children and adolescents: the Bogalusa Heart StudyDavid S Freedman
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
J Pediatr 150:12-17.e2. 2007.... - 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... - Continuing anemia prevention strategies are needed throughout early childhood in low-income preschool childrenSarah E Cusick
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
J Pediatr 150:422-8, 428.e1-2. 2007..To assess anemia incidence and persistence in low-income preschool children in the United States... - 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... - 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... - 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.... - Relation of childhood height to obesity among adults: the Bogalusa Heart Study David S Freedman
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Pediatrics 109:E23. 2002..In this study, the objective was to determine whether childhood height is related to adult adiposity and whether the association is independent of childhood levels of BMI and triceps skinfold thickness... - Evaluation of and recommendations for growth references for very low birth weight (< or =1500 grams) infants in the United StatesBettylou 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, Georgia 30341 3717, USA
Pediatrics 111:750-8. 2003..To determine the best available growth reference for evaluating the growth status of very low birth weight (VLBW; < or =1500 g) infants in the United States... - 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... - Haemoglobin adjustments to define anaemiaKevin M Sullivan
Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, Atlanta GA 30322, USA
Trop Med Int Health 13:1267-71. 2008..To provide researchers with an unambiguous definition of anaemia using haemoglobin... - Evaluation of an automated soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR) assay on the Roche Hitachi analyzer and its comparison to two ELISA assaysChristine M Pfeiffer
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health, Atlanta, GA 30345, USA
Clin Chim Acta 382:112-6. 2007..Soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR) assays are currently not standardized. This hinders data comparison between studies and also affects the use of a recently proposed model to estimate body iron... - Identifying risk for obesity in early childhoodPhilip R Nader
Division of Community Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, California, USA
Pediatrics 118:e594-601. 2006..Our aim with this study was to assist clinicians by estimating the predictive value of earlier levels of BMI status on later risk of overweight and obesity during the middle childhood and early adolescent years... - Is failure to thrive a greater concern than obesity?William H Dietz
J Pediatr 141:6-7. 2002