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Clinician support and psychosocial risk factors associated with breastfeeding discontinuationElsie M Taveras
Harvard Pediatric Health Services Research Fellowship Program, Children s Hospital of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Pediatrics 112:108-15. 2003....- Opinions and practices of clinicians associated with continuation of exclusive breastfeedingElsie M Taveras
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Center for Child Health Care Studies, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Pediatrics 113:e283-90. 2004..Unfortunately, little information is available on how clinicians and health care organizations can best promote continuation of exclusive breastfeeding... 
Associations of obesogenic behaviors in mothers and obese children participating in a randomized trialKendrin R Sonneville
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 20:1449-54. 2012..Obesogenic behaviors of mothers and preschool aged children were strongly associated. Our findings lend support to obesity prevention strategies that target parental behavior and the family environment...
Content analysis of motivational counseling calls targeting obesity-related behaviors among postpartum womenSarah N Price
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Matern Child Health J 16:439-47. 2012..To improve weight-related infant behaviors, interventions should consider mothers' perceptions of nutrition and physical activity recommendations and barriers to adherence...- Longitudinal association of maternal attempt to lose weight during the postpartum period and child obesity at age 3 yearsKendrin R Sonneville
Department of Medicine, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 19:2046-52. 2011..This association should be thoroughly examined in future studies... - 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... - Randomized controlled trial to improve primary care to prevent and manage childhood obesity: the High Five for Kids studyElsie M Taveras
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, 133 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 165:714-22. 2011..To examine the effectiveness of a primary care-based obesity intervention over the first year (6 intervention contacts) of a planned 2-year study... - Similarity of the CDC and WHO weight-for-length growth charts in predicting risk of obesity at age 5 yearsSheryl L Rifas-Shiman
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 20:1261-5. 2012..7), respectively. Ever being overweight in the first 2 years of life is a strong predictor of obesity at 5 years. CDC WFL, WHO WFL, and WHO BMI cutpoints for overweight in early childhood provided similar estimates of later obesity risk... - Crossing growth percentiles in infancy and risk of obesity in childhoodElsie M Taveras
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 165:993-8. 2011..To examine the associations of upward crossing of major percentiles in weight-for-length in the first 24 months of life with the prevalence of obesity at ages 5 and 10 years... - Gestational glucose tolerance and cord blood leptin levels predict slower weight gain in early infancyMargaret Parker
Division of Newborn Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
J Pediatr 158:227-33. 2011..To determine the extent to which known prenatal and perinatal predictors of childhood obesity also predict weight gain in early infancy... - Systematic review of effective strategies for reducing screen time among young childrenMarie Evans Schmidt
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 20:1338-54. 2012..Attention to these issues may help increase the effectiveness of existing strategies for screen time reduction and extend them to different populations... - 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... - 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... - Mothers' and clinicians' perspectives on breastfeeding counseling during routine preventive visitsElsie M Taveras
Center for Child Health Care Studies, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Pediatrics 113:e405-11. 2004..Little is known, however, about the counseling provided during these visits and how mothers and their clinicians perceive breastfeeding counseling... - 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... - Correlates of participation in a pediatric primary care-based obesity prevention interventionElsie M Taveras
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 19:449-52. 2011..One reason appears to be that they less frequently consider their children to have a weight problem... - 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... - Overweight prevention in pediatric primary care: a needs assessment of an urban racial/ethnic minority populationPhilomena A Asante
Division of Emergency Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Clin Pediatr (Phila) 48:837-43. 2009..Overweight prevention efforts in primary care should include strategies to help clinicians negotiate behavior change with families... - 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... - 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... - Televisions in the bedrooms of racial/ethnic minority children: how did they get there and how do we get them out?Elsie M Taveras
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA Elsie_Taveras hphc org
Clin Pediatr (Phila) 48:715-9. 2009.... - Association of maternal short sleep duration with adiposity and cardiometabolic status at 3 years postpartumElsie M Taveras
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 19:171-8. 2011..In conclusion, short sleep duration in the first year postpartum is associated with higher adiposity at 3 years postpartum... - 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... - 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... - Childhood body mass index trajectories: modeling, characterizing, pairwise correlations and socio-demographic predictors of trajectory characteristicsXiaozhong Wen
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
BMC Med Res Methodol 12:38. 2012..Prior studies of BMI trajectories are limited by restricted age periods and insufficient use of trajectory information... - First steps for mommy and me: a pilot intervention to improve nutrition and physical activity behaviors of postpartum mothers and their infantsElsie M Taveras
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, and Children s Hospital, 133 Brookline Avenue, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Matern Child Health J 15:1217-27. 2011.... - 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... - 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... - Timing of solid food introduction and risk of obesity in preschool-aged childrenSusanna Y Huh
Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Children s Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Pediatrics 127:e544-51. 2011..To examine the association between timing of introduction of solid foods during infancy and obesity at 3 years of age... - Decreasing prevalence of obesity among young children in Massachusetts from 2004 to 2008Xiaozhong Wen
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Pediatrics 129:823-31. 2012..To examine whether the obesity prevalence is increasing, level, or decreasing among young US children (aged <6 years) in the past decade; and to compare regional data to those of 2 national databases... - Maternal short sleep duration is associated with increased levels of inflammatory markers at 3 years postpartumElsie M Taveras
Obesity Prevention Program, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Metabolism 60:982-6. 2011..08 to 0.52), these results did not reach statistical significance. Short sleep duration in the first year postpartum is associated with elevated levels of the proinflammatory marker, IL-6, at 3 years postpartum... - Parental confidence in making overweight-related behavior changesElsie M Taveras
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Pediatrics 124:151-8. 2009..Confidence is an important construct for behavioral change; higher levels of confidence, or self-efficacy, increase the likelihood that a person will change a health behavior even when faced with obstacles... - 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 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.... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - State and regional variation in regulations related to feeding infants in child careSara E Benjamin
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Pediatrics 124:e104-11. 2009..The purpose of this study was to compare state and regional variation in infant feeding regulations for child care facilities and to compare these regulations to national standards... - Associations of early life risk factors with infant sleep durationMichael D Nevarez
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Acad Pediatr 10:187-93. 2010..Insufficient sleep in children is associated with adverse health effects. We examined the associations of early life risk factors with infant sleep duration... - Evaluating the implementation of expert committee recommendations for obesity assessmentMona Sharifi
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Clin Pediatr (Phila) 52:131-8. 2013.... - Healthy Habits, Happy Homes: methods and baseline data of a randomized controlled trial to improve household routines for obesity preventionElsie M Taveras
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Prev Med 55:418-26. 2012..To develop a home-based intervention for parents of 2-5 year old children to promote household routines to prevent overweight/obesity... - Health information technology to guide pediatric obesity managementJulia McDonald
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, 133 Brookline Avenue, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Clin Pediatr (Phila) 50:543-9. 2011..Concerns included "alert fatigue," distraction, and disruption of workflow. Suggestions for future electronic functions included tailored educational materials and physical activity resources customized by patient address... - 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... - Youths' perceptions of overweight-related prevention counseling at a primary care visitElsie M Taveras
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 133 Brookline Avenue, Sixth Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:831-6. 2007..We examined youths' report of receiving specific overweight-related preventive counseling and perceived readiness to adopt nutrition and physical activity behaviors recommended by their clinicians... - 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... - Lifecourse approach to racial/ethnic disparities in childhood obesityBrittany Dixon
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA
Adv Nutr 3:73-82. 2012..Understanding these differences may help inform the design of clinical and public health interventions and policies to reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity and eliminate disparities among racial/ethnic minority children... - Planning for health promotion in low-income preschool child care settings: focus groups of parents and child care providersElsie M Taveras
Center for Child Health Care Studies, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and the Division of General Pediatrics, Children s Hospital, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Ambul Pediatr 6:342-6. 2006..To identify potentially successful strategies, barriers, and facilitators for health promotion in preschool child care settings... - To what extent is the protective effect of breastfeeding on future overweight explained by decreased maternal feeding restriction?Elsie M Taveras
Center for Child Health Care Studies and Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School, 133 Brookline Ave, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Pediatrics 118:2341-8. 2006..The objective of this study was to determine the extent to which the protective effect of breastfeeding on future overweight is explained by decreased maternal feeding restriction... - A randomized, controlled trial of a multifaceted intervention including alcohol-based hand sanitizer and hand-hygiene education to reduce illness transmission in the homeThomas J Sandora
Division of Infectious Diseases, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Pediatrics 116:587-94. 2005..The objective of this study was to determine whether a multifactorial campaign centered on increasing alcohol-based hand sanitizer use and hand-hygiene education reduces illness transmission in the home... - Evaluating the impact of point- of-care decision support tools in improving diagnosis of obese children in primary careChristine R Ayash
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 21:576-82. 2013.... - Proximity to supermarkets associated with higher body mass index among overweight and obese preschool-age childrenLauren Fiechtner
Department of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Boston Children s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Prev Med 56:218-21. 2013..The objective of this study is to examine associations of proximity to food establishments with body mass index (BMI) among preschool-age children... - 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.... - Are you talking to ME? The importance of ethnicity and culture in childhood obesity prevention and managementMichelle Marie Peña
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Child Obes 8:23-7. 2012.... - Parents' beliefs and practices regarding childhood fever: a study of a multiethnic and socioeconomically diverse sample of parentsElsie M Taveras
Center for Child Health Care Studies, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 20:579-87. 2004..Educating parents about fever, improving access to health insurance and primary care, and ensuring that families have thermometers may enhance appropriate use of health services and improve outcomes for febrile children... - 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 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... - Opportunities for health promotion education in child careRuchi S Gupta
Institute for Healthcare Studies, Children s Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Pediatrics 116:e499-505. 2005..We also sought to understand the health consultants' (health professionals serving as consultants to child care centers) current and desired roles in leading health promotion activities in child care settings... - Recommendations for treatment of child and adolescent overweight and obesityBonnie A Spear
Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL 35233, USA
Pediatrics 120:S254-88. 2007....