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Racial divergence in adiposity during adolescence: The NHLBI Growth and Health StudyS Y Kimm
Department of Family Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
Pediatrics 107:E34. 2001..However, the specific age at which this occurs and underlying factors are yet to be identified because of the current paucity of longitudinal cohort data...
Racial differences in the relation between uncoupling protein genes and resting energy expenditureSue Y S Kimm
Department of Family Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 75:714-9. 2002..Lower resting energy expenditure (REE) in African American women may contribute to their obesity. The identification of uncoupling protein (UCP) genes has fueled a search for genes involved in energy metabolism in humans...
Decline in physical activity in black girls and white girls during adolescenceSue Y S Kimm
Department of Family Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
N Engl J Med 347:709-15. 2002..Physical activity declines during adolescence, but the underlying reasons remain unknown...
Childhood obesity: a new pandemic of the new millenniumSue Y S Kimm
Department of Family Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Pediatrics 110:1003-7. 2002
Obesity development during adolescence in a biracial cohort: the NHLBI Growth and Health StudySue Y S Kimm
Department of Family Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
Pediatrics 110:e54. 2002..The purpose of this report was to examine changes in the annual prevalence rates of overweight and obesity in the NGHS cohort from ages 9 to 19 years...
Racial differences in correlates of misreporting of energy intake in adolescent femalesSue Y S Kimm
Department of Family Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 14:156-64. 2006..To determine the extent of misreporting of energy intake (EI) and its anthropometric, demographic, and psychosocial correlates in a bi-racial cohort of young women...
Self-perceived barriers to activity participation among sedentary adolescent girlsSue Y S Kimm
Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Med Sci Sports Exerc 38:534-40. 2006..Potential barriers to activity participation were surveyed among adolescent girls and corroborated with other reported information...
Relation between the changes in physical activity and body-mass index during adolescence: a multicentre longitudinal studySue Y S Kimm
Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM 87131 0001, USA
Lancet 366:301-7. 2005..We examined changes in activity in relation to changes in body-mass index (BMI) and adiposity in a cohort of 1152 black and 1135 white girls from the USA, who were followed up prospectively from ages 9 or 10 to 18 or 19 years...
Macronutrient intake of black and white adolescent girls over 10 years: the NHLBI Growth and Health StudyShari S Kronsberg
Maryland Medical Research Institute, Baltimore, MD 21210, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 103:852-60. 2003....
Higher self-reported physical activity is associated with lower systolic blood pressure: the Dietary Intervention Study in Childhood (DISC)Samuel S Gidding
Nemours Cardiac Center, A I duPont Children s Hospital and Thomas Jefferson University, Wilmington, Delaware 19899, USA
Pediatrics 118:2388-93. 2006....
Nature versus nurture in childhood obesity: a familiar old conundrumSue Y S Kimm
Am J Clin Nutr 78:1051-2. 2003
A summary of results of the Dietary Intervention Study in Children (DISC): lessons learnedLinda Van Horn
Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, 680 North Lake Shore Drive, 1102, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
Prog Cardiovasc Nurs 18:28-41. 2003..Highlights of key lessons learned from DISC and translational applications of potential interest to nurses and other health care providers are presented...
Research Grants
- ANTECEDENTS OF PEAK BONE MASS IN BLACK & WHITE WOMENSUE KIMM; Fiscal Year: 2001....
- GENETIC EPIDEMILOGY OF ENGERGY METABOLISM IN BLACK GIRLSSUE KIMM; Fiscal Year: 2003..This, in turn, should help advance our quest for "thrifty" genes, since parsimonious energy expenditure may be the main phenotypic manifestation of such a genotype. ..
