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The disease burden associated with overweight and obesityA Must
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA
JAMA 282:1523-9. 1999..Overweight and obesity are increasing dramatically in the United States and most likely contribute substantially to the burden of chronic health conditions...- Impact of overweight on the risk of developing common chronic diseases during a 10-year periodA E Field
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 181 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Intern Med 161:1581-6. 2001..Overweight adults are at an increased risk of developing numerous chronic diseases... - Weight and body mass index at menarche are associated with premenopausal bone massM Blum
Calcium and Metabolic Bone Laboratory, Jean Mayer United States Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Osteoporos Int 12:588-94. 2001..In conclusion, low body weight and low BMI at menarche appear to be significant predictors of reduced bone mass in healthy premenopausal women ages 40-45 years... - Child temperament does not predict adolescent body composition in girlsS E Anderson
Gerald J and Dorothy R Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 29:47-53. 2005..We tested this hypothesis with longitudinal data from the MIT study... - Dairy food consumption and body weight and fatness studied longitudinally over the adolescent periodS M Phillips
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 27:1106-13. 2003..We find no evidence that dairy food consumption is associated with BMI z-score or %BF during adolescence, but further research specifically designed to address this question is needed... - Predictors of overweight and overfatness in a multiethnic pediatric population. Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health Collaborative Research GroupJ T Dwyer
Frances Stern Nutrition Center, New England Medical Center, School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Tufts University, Boston, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 67:602-10. 1998..Groups of children who were overweight and overfat at baseline were more likely to be overweight and overfat at follow-up and to have more cardiovascular risk factors than their peers... - Body mass index in children and adolescents: considerations for population-based applicationsA Must
Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 30:590-4. 2006 - Physical activity and sedentary behavior: a review of longitudinal studies of weight and adiposity in youthA Must
Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 29:S84-96. 2005..To review the published prospective observational studies of the relationship of physical activity and sedentary behavior with the development of overweight and adiposity, with an emphasis on methodologic issues... 
Modifiable risk factors in relation to changes in BMI and fatness: what have we learned from prospective studies of school-aged children?A Must
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 33:705-15. 2009....- Leptin, body composition and bone mineral density in premenopausal womenM Blum
Calcium and Metabolic Bone Laboratory, Jean Mayer United States Department of Agriculture, Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
Calcif Tissue Int 73:27-32. 2003..In summary, the results of this study suggest that for a given body weight, a higher proportion of fat and a higher serum leptin concentration have negative associations with bone mass in premenopausal women... - Recall of early menstrual history and menarcheal body size: after 30 years, how well do women remember?A Must
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, School of Medicine, Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Am J Epidemiol 155:672-9. 2002..The failure to identify certain menstrual characteristics as exposures for subsequent disease may reflect limitations in the accuracy and precision of the recalled measures... - Expert opinion on body mass index percentiles for figure drawings at menarcheA Must
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 26:876-9. 2002..0 to 97.6, with the greatest agreement at the high end and the poorest agreement in the central part of the range. This approach may be useful in situations where weight and height are not readily recalled... - Household tobacco smoke exposure is negatively associated with premenopausal bone massM Blum
Calcium and Metabolic Bone Laboratory, Jean Mayer United States Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Osteoporos Int 13:663-8. 2002.... - Energy cost of physical activities in 12-y-old girls: MET values and the influence of body weightJ L Spadano
General Clinical Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 27:1528-33. 2003..Few data exist on the energy cost of specific activities in children. The influence of body weight on the energy cost of activity when expressed as metabolic equivalents (METs) has not been vigorously explored... - Sedentary behavior and sleep: paradoxical effects in association with childhood obesityA Must
Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, 136 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 33:S82-6. 2009..Measurement issues present a challenge to both areas of research. Prospective studies that include more accurate measures of both sedentary behavior and of sleep will be needed to clarify causal pathways... - Relationship between temperament, nonresting energy expenditure, body composition, and physical activity in girlsS E Anderson
Gerald J and Dorothy R Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 28:300-6. 2004..To assess the extent that predilection for movement, as measured by a temperament questionnaire (activity temperament), contributes to nonresting energy expenditure and body composition in girls... - Tutorial in Biostatistics: Evaluating the impact of 'critical periods' in longitudinal studies of growth using piecewise mixed effects modelsE N Naumova
Tufts University School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Int J Epidemiol 30:1332-41. 2001..A detailed example that examines the influence of menarche on changes in body fat accretion will be presented using data from a prospective study of 162 girls measured annually from approximately age 10 until 4 years post menarche... - Food purchased away from home as a predictor of change in BMI z-score among girlsO M Thompson
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 28:282-9. 2004..To assess the relationship between eating food purchased away from home (FAH) and longitudinal change in body mass index (BMI) z-score among girls, and to assess the longitudinal tracking of eating FAH from childhood through adolescence... - Dietary pattern as a predictor of change in BMI z-score among girlsO M Thompson
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, 98195, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 30:176-82. 2006..To describe child and adolescent dietary patterns and to determine associations between childhood dietary pattern and longitudinal change in body mass index (BMI) z-score among girls... - Coexistence of maternal central adiposity and child stunting in MexicoS Barquera
Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Int J Obes (Lond) 31:601-7. 2007..To assess the coexistence of maternal adiposity and child stunting (CS) in Mexico, estimate its national prevalence and identify the associated socio-demographic factors... - Obesity and psychopathology in women: a three decade prospective studyS Kasen
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 32:558-66. 2008..To evaluate prospective associations between elevations in body mass index (BMI) at average age 27 and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) at average age 59 in a community sample of women...