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Impact of the Pathways intervention on dietary intakes of American Indian schoolchildrenJohn H Himes
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Prev Med 37:S55-61. 2003..This paper reports the effects of the Pathways intervention on dietary intake...- Early sexual maturation, body composition, and obesity in African-American girlsJohn H Himes
Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, 1300 South Second Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Obes Res 12:64S-72S. 2004..To describe associations between sexual maturation and body composition in a sample of African-American girls who were participants in phase 1 pilot interventions of the Girls Health Enrichment Multisite Studies... - Examining the evidence for recent secular changes in the timing of puberty in US children in light of increases in the prevalence of obesityJohn H Himes
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 South 2nd St, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454 1015, USA
Mol Cell Endocrinol 254:13-21. 2006..Evidence from a single study indicates the secular changes in age at menarche are consistent with the magnitude of secular change in obesity, although other evidence is equivocal... - Long-term longitudinal studies and implications for the development of an international growth reference for children and adolescentsJohn H Himes
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55454 1015, USA
Food Nutr Bull 27:S199-211. 2006.... - Factors associated with errors in self-reports of stature, weight, and body mass index in Minnesota adolescentsJohn H Himes
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454 1015, USA
Ann Epidemiol 15:272-8. 2005..Because self-reports are based on self perceptions, personal characteristics of youth may be related to errors in reporting... - Validity and reliability of self-reported stature and weight of US adolescentsJ H Himes
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55454 1015, USA
Am J Hum Biol 13:255-60. 2001..57 to 0.91 and from 0.85 to 0.98, for stature and weight, respectively. Self-reported stature and weight are not recommended as proxies for measured dimensions for youth less than 14 years of age... - Reference curves for triceps and subscapular skinfold thicknesses in US children and adolescentsO Yaw Addo
Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 91:635-42. 2010..Skinfold thicknesses have long been considered important and valid measurements of subcutaneous fat. Nevertheless, there are no current skinfold reference data for US children and adolescents... - Minimum time intervals for serial measurements of growth in recumbent length or stature of individual childrenJ H Himes
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55454 1015, USA
Acta Paediatr 88:120-5. 1999..These minimum measurement intervals should be appropriate for almost all individual children when growth in recumbent length or stature is measured serially... - Design and statistical analysis for the Pathways studyC E Davis
Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27514, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 69:760S-763S. 1999..Power computations indicate that the study has power to detect a mean difference of 2.8% in body fat. Data analysis will use intention-to-treat concepts and the mixed linear model. The study will be completed in 2000... - A method to estimate prevalence of iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia in adolescent Jamaican girlsJ H Himes
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 65:831-6. 1997..6% and 4.3%, respectively. This approach should be appropriate for determining hemoglobin cutoffs for iron deficiency anemia in other populations... - Menarche and assessment of body mass index in adolescent girlsJohn H Himes
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, USA
J Pediatr 155:393-7. 2009..To determine whether menarcheal status in individual girls biases assessments of overweight and obesity when using body mass index (BMI) criteria from age-based reference data... - Bone outcomes and technical measurement issues of bone health among children and adolescents: considerations for nutrition and physical activity intervention trialsJayne A Fulkerson
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, MN, USA
Osteoporos Int 15:929-41. 2004..It describes the implications of these issues for the interpretation of intervention effects observed in intervention trials, and provides recommendations for future research... - Intervention-related bias in reporting of food intake by fifth-grade children participating in an obesity prevention studyLisa Harnack
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Am J Epidemiol 160:1117-21. 2004..Specifically, enhancing measures that rely on self-reports with objective measures of dietary intake would help investigators to evaluate whether differential reporting by treatment group has occurred... - Identification and correlates of weight loss in adolescents in a national sampleKerri N Boutelle
Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:473-82. 2007..The second objective of this study was to apply these methods to U.S. adolescents from the National Health and Nutrition Survey 1999 to 2002 data and to identify factors associated with these weight change outcomes... - Dietary intakes of nutrients thought to modify cardiovascular risk from three groups of American Indians: The Strong Heart Dietary Study, Phase IIJamie Stang
Leadership Education and Training Program in Maternal and Child Health Nutrition, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 105:1895-903. 2005..Dietary factors play a role in the development of CVD and associated comorbid conditions, yet surprisingly few data exist to describe the dietary intakes and nutritional adequacy of American Indian adults at risk for CVD... - Challenges of accurately measuring and using BMI and other indicators of obesity in childrenJohn H Himes
University of Minnesota, School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, 1300 S 2nd St, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Pediatrics 124:S3-22. 2009..These alternative measures of fatness remain important for research and perhaps in some specialized screening situations that include a specific focus on risk factors for cardiovascular or diabetic disease... - Child height and the risk of young-adult obesitySteven D Stovitz
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55414, USA
Am J Prev Med 38:74-7. 2010..Childhood obesity is a major risk factor for adult obesity, and obese children tend to be taller than their normal-weight peers... - The interaction of childhood height and childhood BMI in the prediction of young adult BMISteven D Stovitz
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 16:2336-41. 2008.... - Low awareness of overweight status among parents of preschool-aged children, Minnesota, 2004-2005Lisa Harnack
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 6:A47. 2009..Many studies have found that parents of overweight children do not perceive their child to be overweight. Little is known, however, about the extent to which such misperceptions exist among parents of preschool-aged children... - Nutrient intake over time in a multi-ethnic sample of youthLeslie A Lytle
Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis 55454 1054, USA
Public Health Nutr 5:319-28. 2002..The purpose of this paper is to present longitudinal data on nutrient intakes of youth with emphases on differences by sex and race/ethnicity. Nutrients selected for examination are those implicated in chronic disease... - Weight-bearing physical activity among girls and mothers: relationships to girls' weight statusJayne A Fulkerson
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55454 1015, USA
Obes Res 12:258-66. 2004..overweight)... - An after-school obesity prevention program for African-American girls: the Minnesota GEMS pilot studyMary Story
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55454, USA
Ethn Dis 13:S54-64. 2003..This study was part of the GEMS project, created to test interventions designed to reduce excess weight gain in African-American girls... - 1994-1996 U.S. singleton birth weight percentiles for gestational age by race, Hispanic origin, and genderG R Alexander
School of Public Health, Department of Maternal and Child Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294 0022, USA
Matern Child Health J 3:225-31. 1999..In this study, we calculate percentiles of birth weight for gestational age for the total 1994-1996 U.S. population and contrast these percentiles by racial/ethnic and gender groups... - A two-part model for reference curve estimation subject to a limit of detectionZ Zhang
Division of Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD 20892 7510, USA
Stat Med 30:1455-65. 2011..The method is illustrated with hormone data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey... - Association of inflammation with worsening HOMA-insulin resistanceK Park
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 South 2nd Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Diabetologia 52:2337-44. 2009..We examined the cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker of low-grade inflammation, and insulin resistance and whether the association was independent of obesity and oxidative stress... - Association of long-term change in waist circumference with insulin resistanceKyong Park
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 18:370-6. 2010..0001). We conclude that year 0 WC and long-term increment in WC are associated with worsening insulin resistance. However, the association of HOMA(IR) with slope of WC change may vary across the range of initial WC... - Oxidative stress and insulin resistance: the coronary artery risk development in young adults studyKyong Park
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Diabetes Care 32:1302-7. 2009..This study examined the longitudinal relationships of oxidative stress biomarkers with the development of insulin resistance and whether these relationships were independent of obesity in nondiabetic young adults... - Household food insecurity is a risk factor for iron-deficiency anaemia in a multi-ethnic, low-income sample of infants and toddlersKyong Park
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 South Second Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Public Health Nutr 12:2120-8. 2009..The present study examines the relationships of household food security status with Fe deficiency (ID) and Fe-deficiency anaemia (IDA) among children less than 3 years of age, and associated factors that contribute to ID and IDA... - Comparability of skinfold thickness to DXA whole-body total fat in their associations with serum triglycerides in youthsO Y Addo
1 Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, USA 2 Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN, USA
Eur J Clin Nutr 66:989-93. 2012..These skinfold cutoffs could be used in practical settings as a first pass screener for identifying US adolescents at risk of elevated serum TGs... - Auxological evaluation and determinants of growth failure at the time of adoption in Eastern European adopteesBradley S Miller
Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab 22:31-9. 2009..To identify factors contributing to growth failure in international adoptees (IAs) from Eastern Europe... - Growth and endocrine function in patients with Hurler syndrome after hematopoietic stem cell transplantationL E Polgreen
Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Bone Marrow Transplant 41:1005-11. 2008..Growth failure is highly prevalent in children with MPS IH after HSCT. Children who had no TBI exposure and were younger at the time of HSCT had a better height outcome... - Reliability and validity of parental measurements of infant sizeJ L Bradley
Public Health Nutrition, Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis 55454-1015, USA
Am J Hum Biol 13:275-9. 2001.... - Prevalence of nutritional wasting in populations: building explanatory models using secondary dataIsabel D Fernandez
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Bull World Health Organ 80:282-91. 2002.... - Age at menarche and racial comparisons in US girlsWilliam Cameron Chumlea
Lifespan Health Research Center, Department of Community Health, Wright State University, School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio, USA
Pediatrics 111:110-3. 2003..Previous reports have been sparse and interpretation has been limited because of the racial composition and ages of the samples... - National estimates of the timing of sexual maturation and racial differences among US childrenShumei S Sun
The Lifespan Health Research Center Departments of Community Health, Pediatrics, and Mathematics and Statistics, Wright State University, School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio 45420, USA
Pediatrics 110:911-9. 2002.... - Examination of US puberty-timing data from 1940 to 1994 for secular trends: panel findingsSusan Y Euling
National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC 20460, USA
Pediatrics 121:S172-91. 2008.... - Relationship between physical activity and diet among African-American girlsRussell Jago
Children s Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, 1100 Bates Street, Houston, TX 77030 2600, USA
Obes Res 12:55S-63S. 2004..To examine the cross-sectional relationships between physical activity and dietary behaviors among 8- to 10-year-old African-American girls... - Evaluation of quality control procedures for 24-h dietary recalls: results from the Girls Health Enrichment Multisite StudiesKaren W Cullen
Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030 2600, USA
Prev Med 38:S14-23. 2004..Quality control methods are key components of dietary assessment, but have rarely been evaluated... - Assessing weight-related biochemical cardiovascular risk factors in African-American girlsDarrell M Wilson
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
Obes Res 12:73S-83S. 2004..We examined the feasibility of obtaining fasting blood samples and report correlates of these biochemical markers in an understudied population sample... - Is sexual maturity occurring earlier among U.S. children?Shumei S Sun
The Lifespan Health Research Center, Department of Community Health, Wright State University, School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio, USA
J Adolesc Health 37:345-55. 2005..To compare the onset and completion of sexual maturation among U.S. children between 1966 and 1994... - Concordant and discordant sexual maturation among U.S. children in relation to body weight and BMIChristine M Schubert
Department of Community Health, School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA
J Adolesc Health 37:356-62. 2005..Discordant children with large differences in weight and BMI may require additional monitoring of their growth during adolescence... - Indices of changes in adiposity in American Indian childrenTim Lohman
Department of Physiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Prev Med 37:S91-6. 2003..Several body composition methods were compared in intervention and control schools for assessing body composition changes... - Increasing prevalences of overweight and obesity in Northern Plains American Indian childrenElenora Zephier
Aberdeen Area Indian Health Service, Aberdeen, SD, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 160:34-9. 2006.... - The review process fails to require appropriate statistical analysis of a group-randomized trialPeter J Hannan
Pediatrics 114:509-11. 2004 - Body composition and overweight prevalence in 1704 schoolchildren from 7 American Indian communitiesBenjamin Caballero
Center for Human Nutrition, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 78:308-12. 2003..Nationwide data on obesity prevalence in American Indian communities are limited... - Validity and reliability of a behavior-based food coding system for measuring fruit, 100% fruit juice, vegetable, and sweetened beverage consumption: results from the Girls Health Enrichment Multisite StudiesKaren W Cullen
Department of Pediatrics, Children s Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030 2600, USA
Prev Med 38:S24-33. 2004..This paper presents the rationale, reliability, and validity of a behavior-based food coding system for measuring fruit (F), juice (J), vegetable (V), sweetened beverage, and water consumption in children... - Measurement of outcomes, mediators, and moderators in behavioral obesity prevention researchTom Baranowski
Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030 2600, USA
Prev Med 38:S1-13. 2004..This attenuation may indicate that interventions were not effective, when in truth they were. There has been little assessment of the quality of measurement in obesity prevention trials... - Assessment of child and adolescent overweight and obesityNancy F Krebs
Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 4200 E Ninth Ave, Box C225, Denver, CO 80262, USA
Pediatrics 120:S193-228. 2007..With this information, clinicians should find themselves better equipped to face the challenges of assessing childhood overweight and obesity accurately...
Research Grants
- FOOD AND NUTRIENT SYSTEMS FOR RESEARCHJohn Himes; Fiscal Year: 2004....
- FOOD AND NUTRIENT SYSTEMS FOR RESEARCHJohn Himes; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..