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A pilot randomized controlled trial to promote healthful fish consumption during pregnancy: The Food for Thought StudyEmily Oken
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, 133 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
Nutr J 12:33. 2013..However, concern exists that this advice will lead to excess intake of methylmercury, a developmental neurotoxicant...- Which fish should I eat? Perspectives influencing fish consumption choicesEmily Oken
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Environ Health Perspect 120:790-8. 2012..Diverse perspectives have influenced fish consumption choices... - 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... - Fish consumption, methylmercury and child neurodevelopmentEmily Oken
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Curr Opin Pediatr 20:178-83. 2008..To summarize recent evidence regarding associations of early life exposure to mercury from maternal fish consumption during pregnancy, thimerosal in vaccines and dental amalgam with child neurodevelopment... - Maternal smoking during pregnancy and child overweight: systematic review and meta-analysisE Oken
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 32:201-10. 2008..Perform a systematic review of studies reporting on the association between maternal prenatal cigarette smoking and child overweight... - 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.... - 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... - 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... - Trends in childhood anemia in a Massachusetts Health Maintenance Organization, 1987-2001Emily Oken
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts Email
MedGenMed 8:58. 2006..An important indicator of nutritional status within a pediatric population is the anemia prevalence rate. Limited national data are available regarding trends in anemia prevalence among non-low-income children... - 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... - Neonatal thyroxine, maternal thyroid function, and child cognitionEmily Oken
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 94:497-503. 2009..Thyroid hormone is essential for normal brain development. Limited data are available regarding whether thyroid function in neonates influences later cognitive development... - A nearly continuous measure of birth weight for gestational age using a United States national referenceEmily Oken
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, USA
BMC Pediatr 3:6. 2003..The purpose of our analysis was to create more continuous reference measures of birth weight for gestational age for use in epidemiologic analyses... 
Maternal and child obesity: the causal linkEmily Oken
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 133 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Obstet Gynecol Clin North Am 36:361-77, ix-x. 2009..Efforts to interrupt this cycle of obesity are important for public health and economical, as a successful intervention could benefit the child, the mother, her future pregnancies, and subsequent generations...- 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... 
Use of volunteer medical brigades to assess growth in HondurasEmily Oken
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA 02215, USA
J Trop Pediatr 50:203-8. 2004..This study demonstrates that a visiting volunteer group can collect quality growth data that may assist in nutritional surveillance, identify predictors of poor growth, and provide information useful for local public health initiatives...- 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... - 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 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... - 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 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... - 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... - Associations of diet and physical activity during pregnancy with risk for excessive gestational weight gainAlison M Stuebe
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 201:58.e1-8. 2009..We sought to identify modifiable risk factors for excessive gestational weight gain (GWG)... - 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... - Low-normal gestational age as a predictor of asthma at 6 years of ageBenjamin A Raby
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Pediatrics 114:e327-32. 2004..However, the role of these factors in the development of asthma in later life among children who do not develop perinatal respiratory disease remains unclear... - 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... - Television viewing in infancy and child cognition at 3 years of age in a US cohortMarie Evans Schmidt
Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Obesity Prevention Program, 133 Brookline Ave, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02215
Pediatrics 123:e370-5. 2009..To examine the extent to which infant television viewing is associated with language and visual motor skills at 3 years of age... - 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... - 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... - Preterm delivery in Boston before and after September 11th, 2001Janet W Rich-Edwards
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 133 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Epidemiology 16:323-7. 2005..To test this hypothesis, we compared gestational duration and risk of preterm delivery among women who were pregnant on September 11 with women who had delivered before that date... - Weight status in the first 6 months of life and obesity at 3 years of ageElsie M Taveras
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 133 Brookline Ave, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Pediatrics 123:1177-83. 2009..The goal was to examine the associations of weight-for-length at birth and at 6 months with obesity at 3 years of age... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - Association of first-trimester thyroid function test values with thyroperoxidase antibody status, smoking, and multivitamin useElizabeth N Pearce
Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Endocr Pract 14:33-9. 2008..To determine first-trimester thyroid function values and associations with thyroperoxidase antibody (TPO-Ab) status, smoking, emesis, and iodine-containing multivitamin use... - A qualitative study of fish consumption during pregnancyArienne Bloomingdale
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 92:1234-40. 2010.... - 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.... - 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... - Excess gestational weight gain amplifies risks among obese mothersEmily Oken
Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Epidemiology 20:82-3. 2009..There is good reason to believe that constraining gestational weight gain within an optimal range will minimize adverse outcomes. Revised gestational weight gain guidelines are needed, especially for obese women... - Associations of maternal prenatal dietary intake of n-3 and n-6 fatty acids with maternal and umbilical cord blood levelsS M A Donahue
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 133 Brookline Avenue, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids 80:289-96. 2009..34 for diet with cord blood, r=0.36 for maternal blood with cord blood), and less strong for n-6 PUFA. The FFQ is a reliable measure of elongated PUFA intake, although inter-individual variation is present... - Diet during pregnancy and risk of preeclampsia or gestational hypertensionEmily Oken
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Ann Epidemiol 17:663-8. 2007..We sought to examine associations of first-trimester intake of calcium, n-3 and n-6 fatty acids, trans fatty acids, magnesium, folate, and vitamins C, D, and E with preeclampsia (PE) and gestational hypertension (GH)... - Maternal fish consumption, hair mercury, and infant cognition in a U.S. CohortEmily Oken
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Environ Health Perspect 113:1376-80. 2005..Women should continue to eat fish during pregnancy but choose varieties with lower mercury contamination... - Updates in pediatric nutritionE Oken
Women s Health Center, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Curr Opin Pediatr 13:280-8. 2001..Finally, a greater appreciation for the epidemic of obesity that is sweeping the United States and other countries suggests that children at high risk may represent a far more diverse population than had been recognized previously... - Insurance and quality of care for children with acute asthmaT G Ferris
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
Ambul Pediatr 1:267-74. 2001..We found uninsured children to have consistently poorer quality of care than insured patients... - Trends in birth weight and gestational length among singleton term births in the United States: 1990-2005Sara M A Donahue
Department of Maternal and Child Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Obstet Gynecol 115:357-64. 2010..To estimate changes over time in birth weight for gestational age and in gestational length among term singleton neonates born from 1990 to 2005... - Breastfeeding, food choices, restrictive diets, and nutritional fadsJenifer R Lightdale
Division of GI Nutrition, Children s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Curr Opin Pediatr 14:344-9. 2002..On the other hand, parents must be encouraged to take a well-balanced and reasonable approach to their children's food choices, lest we see increasing evidence of unnecessary nutritional deficiencies... - Update on micronutrients: iron and zincEmily Oken
Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Curr Opin Pediatr 14:350-3. 2002..Although breakthroughs in micronutrient research have generally come from populations in developing countries, children in industrialized countries also benefit from increasing knowledge about nutritional requirements and interventions... - Decline in fish consumption among pregnant women after a national mercury advisoryEmily Oken
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Obstet Gynecol 102:346-51. 2003..We endeavored to estimate the extent to which pregnant women changed fish consumption habits after dissemination of this national advisory... - 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 fatty acids, birth weight and child developmentEmily Oken; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- Breastfeeding Promotion RCT and Child Metabolic SyndromeEmily Oken; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Effects of prenatal diet and mercury exposure on child behavior and developmentEmily Oken; Fiscal Year: 2010..The right kind of message could improve children's developmental potential, but the wrong message could do the opposite. ..