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| Tracy K RichmondSummaryAffiliation: Harvard University Country: USA Publications
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The association of adolescent socioeconomic position and adult height: variation across racial/ethnic groupsTracy K Richmond
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, United States
Econ Hum Biol 11:178-84. 2013..These findings emphasize the need to recognize differential effects of socioeconomic status on height in different racial/ethnic and gender subpopulations...
Sexual orientation and bias in self-reported BMITracy K Richmond
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 20:1703-9. 2012..Self-reporting of weight and height by gay males may exaggerate the differences in BMI between gay and heterosexual males...
The association of body mass index and externally perceived attractiveness across race/ethnicity, gender, and timeTracy K Richmond
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Adolesc Health 50:74-79.e2. 2012..Our objective was to determine whether body mass index (BMI) was associated with perceptions by others regarding attractiveness and whether this relationship was similar across race/ethnicity, gender, and time...
School variation in asthma: compositional or contextual?Tracy K Richmond
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS ONE 4:e8512. 2009....
Television viewing is not predictive of BMI in Black and Hispanic young adult femalesTracy K Richmond
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 18:1015-20. 2010..Among black and Hispanic females, counseling to decrease TV viewing may be important but insufficient for promoting weight loss...
School level contextual factors are associated with the weight status of adolescent males and femalesTracy K Richmond
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 16:1324-30. 2008..To determine whether school context influences the BMI of adolescent males and females...
Can neighborhoods explain racial/ethnic differences in adolescent inactivity?Tracy K Richmond
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Int J Pediatr Obes 2:202-10. 2007..To determine if neighborhoods and their attributes contribute to racial/ethnic disparities in adolescent inactivity...
Guidelines for adolescent well care: is there consensus?Tracy K Richmond
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Curr Opin Pediatr 18:365-70. 2006..This paper reviews recent clinical guidelines for adolescent well care put forth by seven national organizations. It compares the guidelines recommendation by recommendation in order to assess consistency between them...
Can school income and racial/ethnic composition explain the racial/ethnic disparity in adolescent physical activity participation?Tracy K Richmond
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pediatrics 117:2158-66. 2006..Our goal was to determine if racial/ethnic disparities in adolescent boys' and girls' physical activity participation exist and persist once the school attended is considered...
The treatment of adolescent depression in the era of the black box warningTracy K Richmond
Department of Medicine, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Curr Opin Pediatr 17:466-72. 2005....
Effect of the planet health intervention on eating disorder symptoms in Massachusetts middle schools, 2005-2008S Bryn Austin
Boston Children s Hospital, Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 9:E171; quiz E171. 2012....
The contribution of school environmental factors to individual and school variation in disordered weight control behaviors in a statewide sample of middle schoolsS Bryn Austin
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Boston Children s Hospital, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Eat Disord 21:91-108. 2013..School-neighborhood poverty was associated with higher odds of DWCB in boys. Preventive strategies need to account for wide variability across schools and environmental factors that may contribute to DWCB in early adolescence...
Food insecurity and increased BMI in young adult womenHolly C Gooding
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 20:1896-901. 2012..Providers should inquire about food insecurity, especially when treating obesity, and policy initiatives should address the role of access to healthy food in those facing food insecurity...
Disordered weight control behaviors in early adolescent boys and girls of color: an under-recognized factor in the epidemic of childhood overweightS Bryn Austin
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Adolesc Health 48:109-12. 2011..We examined the distribution and determinants of ethnic and gender disparities in DWCB in early adolescents...
