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Antecedents of obesity - analysis, interpretation, and use of longitudinal dataMatthew W Gillman
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Am J Epidemiol 166:14-6; author reply 17-8. 2007..Ultimately, interventions in these factors may help prevent obesity-related adverse health outcomes for future generations...- Meeting report on the 3rd International Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)Matthew W Gillman
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Pediatr Res 61:625-9. 2007..Improving the environment to which an individual is exposed during development may be as important as any other public health effort to enhance population health world wide... - Developmental origins of childhood overweight: potential public health impactMatthew W Gillman
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 16:1651-6. 2008..Interventions to modify several factors during pregnancy and infancy could have substantial impact on prevention of childhood overweight... - Maternal corticotropin-releasing hormone levels during pregnancy and offspring adiposityMatthew W Gillman
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 14:1647-53. 2006..We examined associations of maternal corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) levels in the late 2nd trimester of pregnancy, a marker of fetal glucocorticoid exposure, with child adiposity at age 3 years... - Breast-feeding and overweight in adolescence: within-family analysis [corrected]Matthew W Gillman
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 133 Brookline Ave, 6th Floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Epidemiology 17:112-4. 2006..These associations may be confounded by sociocultural determinants of both breast-feeding and obesity. We addressed this possibility by assessing the association of breast-feeding duration with adolescent obesity within sibling sets... - Breast-feeding, adipokines, and childhood obesityMatthew W Gillman
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Epidemiology 18:730-2. 2007..It is possible that adipokine exposure in infancy determines later weight status, but fundamental research is needed on associations of circulating adipokines with excess weight gain and on determinants of adipokine levels... - Effect of treatment of gestational diabetes mellitus on obesity in the next generationMatthew W Gillman
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Diabetes Care 33:964-8. 2010..Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) may cause obesity in the offspring. The objective was to assess the effect of treatment for mild GDM on the BMI of 4- to 5-year-old children... - Epidemiological challenges in studying the fetal origins of adult diseaseMatthew W Gillman
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 19:1. 2005 - Maternal age and other predictors of newborn blood pressureMatthew W Gillman
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Pediatr 144:240-5. 2004..To investigate perinatal predictors of newborn blood pressure... - Risk of overweight among adolescents who were breastfed as infantsM W Gillman
Harvard Medical School Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, 126 Brookline Ave, Suite 200, Boston, MA 02215, USA
JAMA 285:2461-7. 2001..Physiological and behavioral mechanisms and preliminary epidemiologic data suggest that breastfeeding could lower the risk of subsequent obesity in adolescence... - Maternal calcium intake and offspring blood pressureMatthew W Gillman
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Mass 02215, USA
Circulation 110:1990-5. 2004..Few data exist on the intergenerational influence of calcium intake during pregnancy on offspring blood pressure... - Relationships of physical activity with dietary behaviors among adultsM W Gillman
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Prev Med 32:295-301. 2001..The purpose of this study was to examine relationships between physical activity and dietary quality and to identify determinants of the combination of sedentary behavior and suboptimal diet... - Maternal gestational diabetes, birth weight, and adolescent obesityMatthew W Gillman
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pediatrics 111:e221-6. 2003.... - Associations of seafood and elongated n-3 fatty acid intake with fetal growth and length of gestation: results from a US pregnancy cohortEmily Oken
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Epidemiol 160:774-83. 2004..Results from this US cohort support the conclusion that seafood intake during pregnancy is associated with reduced fetal growth... - Gestational weight gain and child adiposity at age 3 yearsEmily Oken
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 196:322.e1-8. 2007..The purpose of this study was to examine the associations of gestational weight gain with child adiposity... - Early child care and adiposity at ages 1 and 3 yearsSara E Benjamin
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Pediatrics 124:555-62. 2009..The majority of infants in the United States are in nonparental child care, yet little is known about the effect of child care on development of obesity... - Family dinner and disordered eating behaviors in a large cohort of adolescentsJess Haines
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Eat Disord 18:10-24. 2010..Estimates of association among males were similar in direction and magnitude, although lower frequency of the outcomes resulted in less precise estimates and fewer statistically significant results... - Family dinner and adolescent overweightElsie M Taveras
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, 133 Brookline Avenue, Sixth Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Obes Res 13:900-6. 2005..quot;DISCUSSION: The frequency of eating family dinner was inversely associated with overweight prevalence at baseline but not with likelihood of becoming overweight in longitudinal analyses... - Plasma C-reactive protein in early pregnancy and preterm deliveryWaranuch Pitiphat
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Epidemiol 162:1108-13. 2005..64, 95% confidence interval: 0.94, 22.96) versus indicated delivery (odds ratio = 1.42, 95% confidence interval: 0.44, 4.61). These findings suggest that very high CRP levels in early pregnancy are associated with preterm delivery... - Diet during early pregnancy and development of gestational diabetesJenny S Radesky
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA, USA
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 22:47-59. 2008..Nutritional status entering pregnancy, as reflected by pre-pregnancy BMI, is probably more important than pregnancy diet in development of GDM... - Short sleep duration in infancy and risk of childhood overweightElsie M Taveras
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School, 133 Brookline Ave, Sixth Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 162:305-11. 2008..To examine the extent to which infant sleep duration is associated with overweight at age 3 years... - Prenatal, perinatal, and heritable influences on cord blood immune responsesBen M Willwerth
Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 96:445-53. 2006..The implications of these findings for future development of allergy or asthma are, as yet, unknown... - Dietary quality during pregnancy varies by maternal characteristics in Project Viva: a US cohortSheryl L Rifas-Shiman
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 133 Brookline Ave, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 109:1004-11. 2009..Maternal diet may influence outcomes of pregnancy and childhood, but data on correlates of food and nutrient intake during pregnancy are scarce... - Early infancy as a critical period for development of obesity and related conditionsMatthew W Gillman
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA, USA
Nestle Nutr Workshop Ser Pediatr Program 65:13-20; discussion 20-4. 2010..less rapid weight gain for different outcomes, and to incorporate any interventions that prove to be efficacious into clinical and public health practice in a cost-effective manner... - Associations of physical activity and inactivity before and during pregnancy with glucose toleranceEmily Oken
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Obstet Gynecol 108:1200-7. 2006.... - Maternal gestational weight gain and offspring weight in adolescenceEmily Oken
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Obstet Gynecol 112:999-1006. 2008..To study associations of maternal gestational weight gain with offspring weight status in adolescence... - Racial/ethnic differences in early-life risk factors for childhood obesityElsie M Taveras
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Harvard Medical School, 133 Brookline Ave, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Pediatrics 125:686-95. 2010..By the preschool years, racial/ethnic disparities in obesity prevalence are already present. The objective of this study was to examine racial/ethnic differences in early-life risk factors for childhood obesity... - Parental perceptions of overweight counseling in primary care: the roles of race/ethnicity and parent overweightElsie M Taveras
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 16:1794-801. 2008..To examine parental perceptions of primary care efforts aimed at childhood obesity prevention... - Sociodemographic predictors of antenatal and postpartum depressive symptoms among women in a medical group practiceJanet W Rich-Edwards
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA 02215, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 60:221-7. 2006..This study investigated whether race/ethnicity, age, finances, and partnership status were associated with antenatal and postpartum depressive symptoms... - Associations of maternal prenatal smoking with child adiposity and blood pressureEmily Oken
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 133 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Obes Res 13:2021-8. 2005..To examine the extent to which maternal prenatal smoking is associated with adiposity, central adiposity, and blood pressure in 3-year-old children... - Maternal dietary pattern during pregnancy is not associated with recurrent wheeze in childrenNancy E Lange
Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Allergy Clin Immunol 126:250-5, 255.e1-4. 2010..Previous studies have found associations between individual foods or nutrients consumed during pregnancy and asthma or wheeze in children, but these may be confounded by overall dietary pattern... - Associations of gestational weight gain with short- and longer-term maternal and child health outcomesEmily Oken
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Am J Epidemiol 170:173-80. 2009..For obese women, the lowest-risk weight change was weight loss in all models. Recommendations for gestational weight gain for obese women should be revised... - Fetal origins of obesityEmily Oken
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Obes Res 11:496-506. 2003..Prevention of obesity starting in childhood is critical and can have lifelong, perhaps multigenerational, impact... - Candidate gene association study for diabetic retinopathy in persons with type 2 diabetes: the Candidate gene Association Resource (CARe)Lucia Sobrin
Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 52:7593-602. 2011.... - Association between television viewing and poor diet quality in young childrenSonia A Miller
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Int J Pediatr Obes 3:168-76. 2008..To examine the association between television/video (TV) viewing and markers of diet quality among 3-year-old children... - Maternal fish intake during pregnancy, blood mercury levels, and child cognition at age 3 years in a US cohortEmily Oken
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Am J Epidemiol 167:1171-81. 2008..3, -0.9) for the WRAVMA. Fish consumption of < or =2 servings/week was not associated with a benefit. Dietary recommendations for pregnant women should incorporate the nutritional benefits as well as the risks of fish intake... - Prospective association between milk intake and adiposity in preschool-aged childrenSusanna Y Huh
Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Children s Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 110:563-70. 2010..To determine whether the quantity and type of milk (whole, reduced fat, or 1%/nonfat) consumed at age 2 years is associated with adiposity at age 3 years... - Maternal iron intake and iron status during pregnancy and child blood pressure at age 3 yearsMandy B Belfort
Division of Newborn Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Epidemiol 37:301-8. 2008..Our aim was to examine the extent to which lower maternal iron intake, haemoglobin level and mean cell volume (MCV) during pregnancy are associated with higher child systolic blood pressure (SBP) at age 3 years... - Association of maternal prenatal depressive symptoms with child cognition at age 3 yearsAlison C Tse
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 24:232-40. 2010..5 (95% CI -3.0, 2.1)]. We found no evidence to suggest that maternal prenatal depression is independently associated with early child cognition... - Misperceived pre-pregnancy body weight status predicts excessive gestational weight gain: findings from a US cohort studySharon J Herring
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA, USA
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 8:54. 2008..The purpose of this study was to examine the association of misperceived pre-pregnancy body weight status with excessive gestational weight gain... - Higher adiposity in infancy associated with recurrent wheeze in a prospective cohort of childrenElsie M Taveras
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA 02215, USA
J Allergy Clin Immunol 121:1161-1166.e3. 2008..Few prospective data link early childhood adiposity with asthma-related symptoms... - Infant weight gain and school-age blood pressure and cognition in former preterm infantsMandy B Belfort
Children s Hospital Boston, Division of Newborn Medicine, Hunnewell 437, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Pediatrics 125:e1419-26. 2010..The objective of this study was to determine the extent to which infant weight gain is associated with systolic BP (SBP) and IQ at school age in former preterm, low birth weight infants... - Association between umbilical cord glucocorticoids and blood pressure at age 3 yearsSusanna Y Huh
Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA
BMC Med 6:25. 2008..Data in humans are limited. We examined in humans the association between venous umbilical cord blood glucocorticoids, a potential marker for placental 11beta-HSD2 enzyme activity, and blood pressure at age 3 years... - Economic and other barriers to adopting recommendations to prevent childhood obesity: results of a focus group study with parentsKendrin R Sonneville
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
BMC Pediatr 9:81. 2009..Exploration of barriers to and facilitators of parental decisions to adopt obesity prevention recommendations will inform future efforts to reduce childhood obesity... - Maternal depressive symptoms not associated with reduced height in young children in a US prospective cohort studyKaren A Ertel
Department of Society, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS ONE 5:e13656. 2010..We examined the relationships between antenatal and postpartum depressive symptoms and child height and linear growth from birth to age 3 years in a U.S. sample... - Infant growth and child cognition at 3 years of ageMandy B Belfort
Children s Hospital Boston, Division of Newborn Medicine, Hunnewell 437, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Pediatrics 122:e689-95. 2008..Infancy is a critical period for brain development. Few studies have examined the extent to which infant weight gain is associated with later neurodevelopmental outcomes in healthy populations... - Associations of maternal fish intake during pregnancy and breastfeeding duration with attainment of developmental milestones in early childhood: a study from the Danish National Birth CohortEmily Oken
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 88:789-96. 2008..Few studies have examined the overall effect of maternal fish intake during pregnancy on child development or examined whether the developmental benefits of maternal fish intake are greater in infants breastfed for a shorter duration... - Cord blood leptin and adiponectin as predictors of adiposity in children at 3 years of age: a prospective cohort studyChristos S Mantzoros
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Pediatrics 123:682-9. 2009.... - Antenatal and postpartum depressive symptoms are differentially associated with early childhood weight and adiposityKaren A Ertel
Departments of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 24:179-89. 2010..14 [0.11, 2.18]). In conclusion, whereas antenatal depression was associated with smaller size and central adiposity at age 3 years, postpartum depression was associated with higher overall adiposity... - Size at birth, infant growth, and blood pressure at three years of ageMandy B Belfort
Division of Newborn Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Pediatr 151:670-4. 2007..Our aim was to determine the extent to which infant growth-in weight-for-length-from birth to 6 months is associated with systolic blood pressure (SBP) at 3 years and to determine whether this association varies with birth size... - Maternal protein intake is not associated with infant blood pressureSusanna Y Huh
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, MA 02215, USA
Int J Epidemiol 34:378-84. 2005..We examined the associations of first and second trimester maternal protein intake with offspring blood pressure (BP) at the age of six months... - Incidence and remission rates of overweight among children aged 5 to 13 years in a district-wide school surveillance systemJuhee Kim
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 95:1588-94. 2005..To monitor annual changes in weight status, we determined incidence and remission rates of overweight among school-aged children with longitudinal school-based surveillance... - Relationship of physical fitness to prevalence and incidence of overweight among schoolchildrenJuhee Kim
677 Huntington Avenue, III 616, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Obes Res 13:1246-54. 2005..We examined the relationship between comprehensive fitness tests and overweight using a school surveillance system in a racially diverse city in the United States... - Changes in dietary intake from the first to the second trimester of pregnancySheryl L Rifas-Shiman
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 20:35-42. 2006..However, investigators should assess caffeine, alcohol, and vitamin and supplement use in both the 1st and 2nd trimester, and consider doing so for foods and nutrients for which trimester-specific hypotheses are well substantiated... - Screening for type 2 diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents: attitudes, barriers, and practices among pediatric cliniciansErinn T Rhodes
Division of Endocrinology, Children s Hospital Boston, MA 02115, USA
Ambul Pediatr 6:110-4. 2006..The purpose of this study was to describe attitudes, barriers, and practices related to type 2 diabetes screening in children among pediatric clinicians... - Trends in overweight from 1980 through 2001 among preschool-aged children enrolled in a health maintenance organizationJuhee Kim
Department of Society and Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 14:1107-12. 2006..To examine overweight trends over a 22-year period among preschool-aged children from primarily middle-income families enrolled in a health maintenance organization... - Maternal antioxidant intake in pregnancy and wheezing illnesses in children at 2 y of ageAugusto A Litonjua
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 84:903-11. 2006..Low intakes of dietary antioxidants may contribute to increases in asthma and allergy... - Cord blood cytokines and acute lower respiratory illnesses in the first year of lifeNgoc P Ly
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pediatrics 119:e171-8. 2007..The purpose of this work was to examine the relation between cytokine secretions by cord blood mononuclear cells and acute lower respiratory illness in a birth cohort of 297 children... - Sugar-added beverages and adolescent weight changeCatherine S Berkey
Channing Laboratory, Departmetn of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Obes Res 12:778-88. 2004..S. adolescents. Our aim was to evaluate the relationship between BMI changes and intakes of sugar-added beverages, milk, fruit juices, and diet soda... - Television, walking, and diet: associations with postpartum weight retentionEmily Oken
Obesity Prevention Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Am J Prev Med 32:305-11. 2007..For many women, pregnancy begets long-term weight gain. Modifiable behaviors that contribute to postpartum weight retention have not been well studied... - Relation between dieting and weight change among preadolescents and adolescentsAlison E Field
Division of Adolescent Young Adult Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pediatrics 112:900-6. 2003..To assess whether dieting to control weight was associated with weight change among children and adolescents... - Epidemiological challenges in studying the fetal origins of adult chronic diseaseMatthew W Gillman
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA, USA
Int J Epidemiol 31:294-9. 2002 - Maternal periodontitis and adverse pregnancy outcomesWaranuch Pitiphat
Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 36:3-11. 2008..We evaluated periodontitis in relation to preterm birth (<37 weeks' gestation) and small-for-gestational-age (SGA, birth weight below the 10th percentile of birth weight for gestational age) among a group of medically insured women... - One-year changes in activity and in inactivity among 10- to 15-year-old boys and girls: relationship to change in body mass indexCatherine S Berkey
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Pediatrics 111:836-43. 2003..Our objective is to study the association between change in body mass index (BMI) over 1 year and same year change in recreational physical activity and change in recreational inactivity (TV/videos/video games)... - How should gestational weight gain be assessed? A comparison of existing methods and a novel method, area under the weight gain curveKen P Kleinman
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Int J Epidemiol 36:1275-82. 2007..Methods commonly used to assess weight gain incorporate assumptions that are usually not borne out, such as a linear weight gain, or do not account for differential length of gestation... - Smoking, getting drunk, and engaging in bulimic behaviors: in which order are the behaviors adopted?Alison E Field
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 41:846-53. 2002..To assess the relation between beginning to binge-eat or purge, beginning to smoke, and getting drunk for the first time... - Association of breastfeeding with maternal control of infant feeding at age 1 yearElsie M Taveras
Center for Child Health Care Studies, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School, 133 Brookline Ave, 6th Fl, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Pediatrics 114:e577-83. 2004..The objective of this study was to examine whether preponderance of breastfeeding in the first 6 months of life and breastfeeding duration are associated with less maternal restrictive behavior and less pressure to eat... - Weight status in childhood as a predictor of becoming overweight or hypertensive in early adulthoodAlison E Field
Children s Hospital Boston, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Medicine, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Obes Res 13:163-9. 2005..To assess the extent to which weight status in childhood or adolescence predicts becoming overweight or hypertensive by young adulthood... - Maternal diet and cord blood leptin and adiponectin concentrations at birthChristos S Mantzoros
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, ST816, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Clin Nutr 29:622-6. 2010.... - Association of consumption of fried food away from home with body mass index and diet quality in older children and adolescentsElsie M Taveras
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA, USA
Pediatrics 116:e518-24. 2005.... - Weight gain in pregnancy and risk of maternal hyperglycemiaSharon J Herring
Center for Obesity Research and Education, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 201:61.e1-7. 2009..The purpose of this study was to examine associations of weight gain from prepregnancy to glycemic screening with glucose tolerance status... - The influence of wanting to look like media figures on adolescent physical activityElsie M Taveras
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
J Adolesc Health 35:41-50. 2004..To examine the association of adolescents' wanting to look like figures in the media with physical activity levels... - Association of birth weight with asthma-related outcomes at age 2 yearsElsie M Taveras
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Pediatr Pulmonol 41:643-8. 2006.... - Associations of cord blood fatty acids with lymphocyte proliferation, IL-13, and IFN-gammaDiane R Gold
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Allergy Clin Immunol 117:931-8. 2006..However, both n-3 eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and n-6 arachidonic acid (AA) are required for normal fetal development... - The association of television and video viewing with fast food intake by preschool-age childrenElsie M Taveras
Center for Child Health Care Studies, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School, 133 Brookline Avenue, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 14:2034-41. 2006..To examine the extent to which television (TV) and video viewing is associated with consumption of fast food by preschool-age children... - Association of postpartum depression with weight retention 1 year after childbirthSharon J Herring
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 16:1296-301. 2008..To examine the extent to which early postpartum depression is associated with weight retention 1 year after childbirth... - Gestational intake of methyl donors and global LINE-1 DNA methylation in maternal and cord blood: prospective results from a folate-replete populationCaroline E Boeke
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Epigenetics 7:253-60. 2012.... - Prevention Conference VII: Obesity, a worldwide epidemic related to heart disease and stroke: Group II: age-dependent risk factors for obesity and comorbiditiesSachiko T St Jeor
Circulation 110:e471-5. 2004 - Immigration, race/ethnicity, and social and economic factors as predictors of breastfeeding initiationAnn C Celi
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159:255-60. 2005.... - Nuclear factor kappa B activation in human cord blood mononuclear cellsChristian H Schroeter
Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, U.S.A
Pediatr Res 56:212-8. 2004..Whether differential NF-kappaB activity in cord blood is related to the subsequent development of immune diseases requires further investigation... - Developmental origins of health and diseaseMatthew W Gillman
N Engl J Med 353:1848-50. 2005 - Longitudinal relationship between television viewing and leisure-time physical activity during adolescenceElsie M Taveras
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Pediatrics 119:e314-9. 2007..The goal was to examine the longitudinal associations of changes in television viewing and other sources of sedentary behavior with changes in leisure-time moderate/vigorous physical activity in adolescence... - Predictors of change in physical activity during and after pregnancy: Project VivaMark A Pereira
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55454, USA
Am J Prev Med 32:312-9. 2007..Few studies document longitudinal changes in physical activity from prepregnancy to the postpartum period... - Patterns and determinants of physical activity in U.S. adolescentsJessica A Kahn
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
J Adolesc Health 42:369-77. 2008..S. adolescents and to assess the effect of multiple individual, parental, and environmental factors on initial level and rates of change in adolescent physical activity... - Milk consumption during pregnancy is associated with increased infant size at birth: prospective cohort studySjurdur F Olsen
Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Public Health, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Am J Clin Nutr 86:1104-10. 2007..Cow milk contains many potentially growth-promoting factors... - Effects of prolonged and exclusive breastfeeding on child height, weight, adiposity, and blood pressure at age 6.5 y: evidence from a large randomized trialMichael S Kramer
Department of Pediatrics, McGill University Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, PQ, Canada
Am J Clin Nutr 86:1717-21. 2007..The evidence that breastfeeding protects against obesity and a variety of chronic diseases comes almost entirely from observational studies, which have a potential for bias due to confounding, selection bias, and selective publication... - Association of fewer hours of sleep at 6 months postpartum with substantial weight retention at 1 year postpartumErica P Gunderson
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Research Foundation, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Am J Epidemiol 167:178-87. 2008..Interventions to prevent postpartum obesity should consider strategies to attain optimal maternal sleep duration...
Research Grants
- Maternal vitamin D, adiposity in early life, and risk of childhood asthmaMatthew Gillman; Fiscal Year: 2007..This work also brings together a multidisciplinary research team with a proven track record of collaboration and expertise in nutritional, respiratory, and pediatric epidemiology. ..
- Maternal vitamin D, adiposity in early life, and risk of childhood asthma.Matthew W Gillman; Fiscal Year: 2010..This work also brings together a multidisciplinary research team with a proven track record of collaboration and expertise in nutritional, respiratory, and pediatric epidemiology. ..
- Improving primary care to prevent childhood obesityMatthew Gillman; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Pre- and peri-natal predictors of childhood obesityMatthew Gillman; Fiscal Year: 2009..The results of this study promise to unravel some knotty epidemiologic issues in the early origins of obesity, and to open up new potential avenues for primordial obesity prevention. ..
- Improving primary care to prevent childhood obesityMatthew Gillman; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Limiting Weight Gain in Overweight Pregnant Women: Effects on Mother and ChildMatthew Gillman; Fiscal Year: 2009..End of Abstract) ..
- Limiting Weight Gain in Overweight Pregnant Women: Effects on Mother and ChildMatthew W Gillman; Fiscal Year: 2010..End of Abstract) ..
- Improving primary care to prevent childhood obesityMatthew Gillman; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Patient-oriented research in early life origins of CVDMatthew Gillman; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Maternal fatty acids, child obesity, and asthma immunityMatthew Gillman; Fiscal Year: 2007..This work also brings together a multidisciplinary research team with a proven track record of collaboration and expertise in immunology, epidemiology, and biostatistics. ..
- Breastfeeding Promotion RCT and Child Metabolic SyndromeMatthew Gillman; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- PRENATAL DIET EFFECTS ON MOTHER AND CHILDMatthew Gillman; Fiscal Year: 2002..There are plans to provide new avenues for the prevention of common adverse conditions of pregnancy, childhood and, perhaps, adulthood with the prospective, longitudinal study. ..
- NUTRITION IN PREGNANCY, BIRTH WEIGHT, & CHILDHOOD ASTHMAMatthew Gillman; Fiscal Year: 2004..This work also brings together a multidisciplinary research team with a proven track record of collaboration and expertise in nutritional, respiratory, and pediatric epidemiology. ..
- International Congress--Origins of Health and DiseaseMatthew Gillman; Fiscal Year: 2005..For trainees and young investigators, the program will include a welcome reception/awards ceremony, meet-the-professor luncheon roundtables, reduced registration fees, and travel stipends. ..
- Pre- and peri-natal predictors of childhood obesityMatthew Gillman; Fiscal Year: 2009..The results of this study promise to unravel some knotty epidemiologic issues in the early origins of obesity, and to open up new potential avenues for primordial obesity prevention. ..