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| Janet W Rich EdwardsSummaryAffiliation: Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Country: USA Publications
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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...- Longitudinal study of birth weight and adult body mass index in predicting risk of coronary heart disease and stroke in womenJanet W Rich-Edwards
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 133 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
BMJ 330:1115. 2005..To determine whether birth weight and adult body size interact to predict coronary heart disease in women, as has been observed for men. To determine whether birth weight and adult body size interact to predict risk of stroke... 
Psychosocial stress and neuroendocrine mechanisms in preterm deliveryJanet W Rich-Edwards
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Mass 02215, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 192:S30-5. 2005..Like other physiologic systems, the female reproductive axis may be vulnerable to the physiologic "wear and tear" of cumulative stress, which results in preterm delivery...- 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... - Breastfeeding during infancy and the risk of cardiovascular disease in adulthoodJanet W Rich-Edwards
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Epidemiology 15:550-6. 2004..Only 2 studies have evaluated the relation between having been breastfed and the risk of adult cardiovascular events... - Adult height, age at attained height, and incidence of breast cancer in premenopausal womenHeather J Baer
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Cancer 119:2231-5. 2006..65). These results confirm previous findings that taller adult height is associated with increased risk of premenopausal breast cancer but do not provide evidence that age at attained height is related to risk... - 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... - 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... - 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... - Psychosocial risks associated with multiple births resulting from assisted reproductionMarcia A Ellison
Reproductive Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Fertil Steril 83:1422-8. 2005..To determine if increased psychosocial risks are associated with each increase in birth multiplicity (i.e., singleton, twin, triplet) resulting from assisted reproduction... 
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...- 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... - Measuring corticotropin-releasing hormone in pregnant women - comparing blood collection protocols for epidemiological studiesEmily F Strong
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 20:67-71. 2006..Correlation coefficients comparing delayed with gold standard processing exceeded 0.96. These results suggest that CRH may be measured in blood samples that were spun and frozen up to 22 h after blood collection... - Child abuse and smoking among young women: the importance of severity, accumulation, and timingHee Jin Jun
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Adolesc Health 43:55-63. 2008..We examined the association between severity, accumulation, and timing of abuse in childhood and adolescence and smoking status among young women... - Intimate partner violence and cigarette smoking: association between smoking risk and psychological abuse with and without co-occurrence of physical and sexual abuseHee Jin Jun
Channing Laboratory, Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women s Hospital, 181 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 98:527-35. 2008..We examined the association between psychological abuse in a current relationship and current cigarette smoking among women, with and without the co-occurrence of physical or sexual abuse... - Maternal intake of vitamin D during pregnancy and risk of recurrent wheeze in children at 3 y of ageCarlos A Camargo
Center for D receptor Activation Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 85:788-95. 2007..Vitamin D deficiency and asthma are common at higher latitudes. Although vitamin D has important immunologic effects, its relation with asthma is unknown... - Iron intake and risk of ovulatory infertilityJorge E Chavarro
Department of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Obstet Gynecol 108:1145-52. 2006..To evaluate whether iron supplement use or greater intake of total, heme and nonheme iron is associated with lower risk of ovulatory infertility... - Dietary fatty acid intakes and the risk of ovulatory infertilityJorge E Chavarro
Department of Nutrition, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 85:231-7. 2007..Pharmacologic activation of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPAR-gamma) improves ovulatory function in women with polycystic ovary syndrome, and specific dietary fatty acids can affect PPAR-gamma activity... - Physical activity, body mass index, and ovulatory disorder infertilityJanet W Rich-Edwards
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Epidemiology 13:184-90. 2002..These data suggest that, among American women, more ovulatory infertility is attributable to overweight and a sedentary lifestyle than to underweight and overexertion... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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)... - Use of multivitamins, intake of B vitamins, and risk of ovulatory infertilityJorge E Chavarro
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Fertil Steril 89:668-76. 2008..To examine whether use of multivitamins and intake of specific nutrients in multivitamins is associated with ovulatory infertility... - 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 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... - Diet and lifestyle in the prevention of ovulatory disorder infertilityJorge E Chavarro
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston MA 02115, USA
Obstet Gynecol 110:1050-8. 2007..To evaluate the relation of a dietary pattern and other lifestyle practices to risk of ovulatory disorder infertility... - 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... - Neighborhood influences on the association between maternal age and birthweight: a multilevel investigation of age-related disparities in healthMagdalena Cerda
Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, 3632 SPH Tower, 109 Observatory Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 2029, USA
Soc Sci Med 66:2048-60. 2008..The findings support the hypothesis that the relationship between maternal age and birthweight varies between neighborhoods. Indicators of neighborhood disadvantage help to explain such differences... - 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... - 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... - Neighborhood support and the birth weight of urban infantsStephen L Buka
Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, Chicago, IL, USA
Am J Epidemiol 157:1-8. 2003..Results support the hypothesis that neighborhood-level factors are significantly associated with infant birth weight... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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.... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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 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... - Re: "Birth size, growth, and blood pressure between the ages of 7 and 26 years: failure to support the fetal origins hypothesis"Janet W Rich-Edwards
Am J Epidemiol 157:665-6; author reply 666. 2003 - 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... - Duration of lactation and incidence of type 2 diabetesAlison M Stuebe
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
JAMA 294:2601-10. 2005..Lactation may reduce risk of type 2 diabetes in young and middle-aged women by improving glucose homeostasis... - Menstrual cycle characteristics and incidence of premenopausal breast cancerKathryn L Terry
Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:1509-13. 2005..Anovulation, which is more common with long or irregular cycles, has been hypothesized to reduce the incidence of breast cancer... - Diverging associations of maternal age with low birthweight for black and white mothersJanet W Rich-Edwards
Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA, USA
Int J Epidemiol 32:83-90. 2003..The particularly steep increase in risk of low birthweight with increasing maternal age for black women is explained by the high prevalence of disadvantage in this population... - Perinatal predictors of atopic dermatitis occurring in the first six months of lifeMegan M Moore
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Pediatrics 113:468-74. 2004..These findings suggest that genetic and pre- and perinatal influences are important in the early presentation of this condition... - A prospective study of infertility due to ovulatory disorders, ovulation induction, and incidence of breast cancerKathryn L Terry
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Arch Intern Med 166:2484-9. 2006..Anovulation has been hypothesized to decrease the risk of breast cancer. Therefore, infertility attributed to ovulatory disorders and ovulation-induction therapy may influence breast cancer risk... - Misdiagnosis of overweight and underweight children younger than 2 years of age due to length measurement biasSheryl L Rifas-Shiman
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
MedGenMed 7:56. 2005.... - Periodontitis and plasma C-reactive protein during pregnancyWaranuch Pitiphat
Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
J Periodontol 77:821-5. 2006..We examined the relationship between periodontitis and CRP among women who provided dental radiographs and had blood collected during early pregnancy, excluding smokers and diabetic patients... - Work schedule during pregnancy and spontaneous abortionElizabeth A Whelan
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
Epidemiology 18:350-5. 2007..There is inconsistent evidence as to whether work schedule (including rotating shifts and night work) can affect reproductive outcomes... - Calibration of a semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire in early pregnancyWafaie W Fawzi
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA
Ann Epidemiol 14:754-62. 2004..We assessed the validity of a semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) among pregnant women... - Body fatness during childhood and adolescence and incidence of breast cancer in premenopausal women: a prospective cohort studyHeather J Baer
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Breast Cancer Res 7:R314-25. 2005..We examined prospectively the relation between body fatness during childhood and adolescence and the incidence of breast cancer in premenopausal women...