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| Youfa WangSummaryAffiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago Country: USA Publications
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Is obesity associated with early sexual maturation? A comparison of the association in American boys versus girlsYoufa Wang
Department of Human Nutrition and Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
Pediatrics 110:903-10. 2002..Earlier maturing girls are more likely to be obese than nonearly maturers. However, limited research has been conducted in boys...- Comparison of abdominal adiposity and overall obesity in predicting risk of type 2 diabetes among menYoufa Wang
Department of Human Nutrition and Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 81:555-63. 2005..However, few studies have compared the predictive power of overall obesity with that of central obesity. The cutoffs for waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) as measures of abdominal adiposity remain controversial... - Epidemiology of childhood obesity--methodological aspects and guidelines: what is new?Y Wang
Department of Human Nutrition, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 28:S21-8. 2004..It is still a matter of debate as to how to define obesity in young people, although a growing consensus is to use body mass index (BMI) cutoffs to classify obesity in children and adolescents... - The prevalence of prehypertension and hypertension among US adults according to the new joint national committee guidelines: new challenges of the old problemYoufa Wang
Department of Human Nutrition, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Arch Intern Med 164:2126-34. 2004..Little is known about the current situation of elevated blood pressure in the United States, according to the new guidelines... - How do statistical properties influence findings of tracking (maintenance) in epidemiologic studies? An example of research in tracking of obesityYoufa Wang
Department of Human Nutrition, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Eur J Epidemiol 18:1037-45. 2003..Our proposed methods and predicted probabilities of tracking can help test whether one's observed tracking patterns are different from the statistically predicted ones... - A comparison of international references for the assessment of child and adolescent overweight and obesity in different populationsY Wang
Department of Human Nutrition, University of Illinois, Chicago 60612, USA
Eur J Clin Nutr 56:973-82. 2002..To compare different references assessing child and adolescent overweight and obesity in different populations... - Tracking of dietary intake patterns of Chinese from childhood to adolescence over a six-year follow-up periodYoufa Wang
Department of Human Nutrition, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
J Nutr 132:430-8. 2002..Efforts to promote healthy eating behaviors may be more effective if focused on younger children, and parents should be involved in these efforts... - Cross-national comparison of childhood obesity: the epidemic and the relationship between obesity and socioeconomic statusY Wang
Department of Nutrition and Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Int J Epidemiol 30:1129-36. 2001..Using an international standard, we examined the prevalence of obesity and compared the associations between SES factors and obesity across countries... 
Ethnic disparities in adolescent body mass index in the United States: the role of parental socioeconomic status and economic contextual factorsLisa M Powell
Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1747 W Roosevelt Road, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
Soc Sci Med 75:469-76. 2012..A significantly large portion of the ethnic BMI gap, however, remained unexplained between black and white female adolescents...- Why do some overweight children remain overweight, whereas others do not?Youfa Wang
Department of Human Nutrition, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago UIC, 1919 W Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Public Health Nutr 6:549-58. 2003..To study the dynamics of childhood overweight and the influence of dietary intake on tracking of overweight... - Different risk factor patterns for metabolic syndrome in men with spinal cord injury compared with able-bodied men despite similar prevalence ratesHuifang Liang
Department of Human Nutrition, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 88:1198-204. 2007..To determine if the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and risk factors differs between age- and race-matched men with spinal cord injury (SCI) and able-bodied men... - Trends in the association between obesity and socioeconomic status in U.S. adults: 1971 to 2000Qi Zhang
Section of General Internal Medicine, University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC 2007, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Obes Res 12:1622-32. 2004..To study the secular trends in the disparity of obesity across socioeconomic status (SES) groups among U.S. adults... - Socioeconomic inequality of obesity in the United States: do gender, age, and ethnicity matter?Qi Zhang
Department of Medicine, MC2007, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Soc Sci Med 58:1171-80. 2004..Our analyses suggested that gender, age, and ethnicity could be important factors on socioeconomic inequality in obesity... - Obesity and risk factors for the metabolic syndrome among low-income, urban, African American schoolchildren: the rule rather than the exception?Carol L Braunschweig
Department of Human Nutrition, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 81:970-5. 2005..School-based obesity screening programs may effectively target high-risk populations... - How does maturity adjustment influence the estimates of overweight prevalence in adolescents from different countries using an international reference?Y Wang
Department of Nutrition and Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 25:550-8. 2001..To investigate the effect of adjusting for differences in timing of maturation when assessing overweight prevalence among adolescents in different populations by using an international reference recommended by the WHO... - Food prices and fruit and vegetable consumption among young American adultsLisa M Powell
Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1747 West Roosevelt Road, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
Health Place 15:1064-70. 2009..Fiscal policy instruments such as FV subsidies may help to increase FV intake, particularly among young adults of lower socioeconomic status... - Pharmacokinetic model of ascorbic acid in healthy male volunteers during depletion and repletionJ F Graumlich
Department of Biomedical and Therapeutic Sciences, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria 61656 1649, USA
Pharm Res 14:1133-9. 1997..To develop a new pharmacokinetic model for ascorbic acid (vitamin C) since no previously published model describes ascorbic acid absorption and disposition over a broad physiologic range of doses and plasma concentrations... - Total synthesis of microtubule-stabilizing agent (-)-laulimalideA K Ghosh
Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 West Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
J Org Chem 66:8973-82. 2001..The sensitive epoxide at C(16)-C(17) was introduced in a highly stereoselective manner by Sharpless epoxidation at the final stage of the synthesis... - Estimating cortical potentials from scalp EEG's in a realistically shaped inhomogeneous head model by means of the boundary element methodB He
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Illinois, Chicago 60607, USA
IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 46:1264-8. 1999..The present study demonstrates that the cortical potentials can be directly estimated from the scalp potentials using the BEM in a realistically shaped inhomogeneous head model... - Prevalence of the inactivating 609C-->T polymorphism in the NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase (NQO1) gene in patients with primary and therapy-related myeloid leukemiaR A Larson
Section of Hematology Oncology, Department of Medicine, Cancer Research Center of the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Blood 94:803-7. 1999..Homozygotes and heterozygotes (who are at risk for treatment-induced mutation or loss of the remaining wild-type allele in their hematopoietic stem cells) may be particularly vulnerable to leukemogenic changes induced by carcinogens... - Do nutrition knowledge and beliefs modify the association of socio-economic factors and diet quality among US adults?May A Beydoun
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe St E2546, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Prev Med 46:145-53. 2008..We examined effects of socio-economic status (SES) factors on diet quality and fruits and vegetables intake among US adults and effect modification by nutrition knowledge and beliefs... - Worldwide trends in childhood overweight and obesityYoufa Wang
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Int J Pediatr Obes 1:11-25. 2006..This paper summarises the available information on recent trends in child overweight and obesity prevalence... - The impact of blood pressure on the risk for cardiovascular diseases: what should be done now?Youfa Wang
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Am J Hypertens 21:247. 2008 - The association of fast food, fruit and vegetable prices with dietary intakes among US adults: is there modification by family income?May A Beydoun
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, 615 N Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, United States
Soc Sci Med 66:2218-29. 2008.... 
Ethnic differences in dairy and related nutrient consumption among US adults and their association with obesity, central obesity, and the metabolic syndromeMay A Beydoun
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Center for Human Nutrition, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 87:1914-25. 2008..Recent studies suggest dairy consumption and associated nutrients may be protective against some of the components of the metabolic syndrome (MetS)...- Tracking of blood pressure from childhood to adulthood: a systematic review and meta-regression analysisXiaoli Chen
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University, 615 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Circulation 117:3171-80. 2008..A large number of studies have examined the tracking of blood pressure (BP) from childhood to adulthood, but the reported findings are inconsistent and few systematic analyses have been conducted... - Will all Americans become overweight or obese? estimating the progression and cost of the US obesity epidemicYoufa Wang
Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 16:2323-30. 2008..Timely, dramatic, and effective development and implementation of corrective programs/policies are needed to avoid the otherwise inevitable health and societal consequences implied by our projections ... - Tracking of dietary intake patterns is associated with baseline characteristics of urban low-income African-American adolescentsJi Li
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Nutr 138:94-100. 2008..Decreased energy and snack intakes were negatively related to tracking of high BMI. Overall, urban low-income African-American adolescents tracked their dietary patterns over time. The tracking was affected by baseline characteristics... - The obesity epidemic in the United States--gender, age, socioeconomic, racial/ethnic, and geographic characteristics: a systematic review and meta-regression analysisYoufa Wang
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Epidemiol Rev 29:6-28. 2007..The associations of obesity with gender, age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status are complex and dynamic. Related population-based programs and policies are needed... - Using concentration index to study changes in socio-economic inequality of overweight among US adolescents between 1971 and 2002Qi Zhang
School of Community and Environmental Health, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA
Int J Epidemiol 36:916-25. 2007..The prevalence of overweight among adolescents continues to increase in the United States. This study examines the changes in socio-economic status (SES) inequality of overweight among US adolescents in the past three decades... - Changes in body weight and body fat distribution as risk factors for clinical diabetes in US menPauline Koh-Banerjee
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Epidemiol 159:1150-9. 2004..5 cm. Our findings underscore the critical importance of maintaining weight and waist to reduce the risk of diabetes... - Culturally appropriate approaches are needed to reduce ethnic disparity in childhood obesityYoufa Wang
J Am Diet Assoc 104:1664-6. 2004 - Are American children and adolescents of low socioeconomic status at increased risk of obesity? Changes in the association between overweight and family income between 1971 and 2002Youfa Wang
Center for Human Nutrition, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 84:707-16. 2006..A good understanding of the association between obesity and socioeconomic status (SES) has many important public health and policies implications, particularly for the prevention and management of obesity... - Trends of obesity and underweight in older children and adolescents in the United States, Brazil, China, and RussiaYoufa Wang
Carolina Population Center, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27516-3997, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 75:971-7. 2002..The variations across countries may relate to changes and differences in key environmental factors... - Have Americans increased their fruit and vegetable intake? The trends between 1988 and 2002Sarah Stark Casagrande
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Am J Prev Med 32:257-63. 2007.... - Limitations of the current world health organization growth references for children and adolescentsYoufa Wang
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Food Nutr Bull 27:S175-88. 2006..There is a need for a single international reference to assess the nutritional status and growth of school-aged children and adolescents across different countries... - Obesity and related risk factors among low socio-economic status minority students in ChicagoYoufa Wang
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Public Health Nutr 10:927-38. 2007..To assess overweight and related risk factors among urban low socio-economic status (SES) African-American adolescents in an attempt to study the underlying causes of ethnicity and gender disparities in overweight... - The association between amount of cigarettes smoked and overweight, central obesity among Chinese adults in Nanjing, ChinaFei Xu
Nanjing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, PR China
Asia Pac J Clin Nutr 16:240-7. 2007..To examine the association between overweight, central obesity and cigarette smoking (total amount of cigarettes smoked [TACS] and status)... - Re: "Tracking of cardiovascular risk factors: the Tromsø Study, 1979, 1995"Youfa Wang
Am J Epidemiol 155:1144-5; author reply 1145. 2002 - Association of adiposity status and changes in early to mid-adulthood with incidence of Alzheimer's diseaseMay A Beydoun
Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
Am J Epidemiol 168:1179-89. 2008..70, 95% CI: 1.43, 9.56). Future studies should identify age- and gender-specific optimal weights and weight-loss strategies for preventing AD and investigate potential mechanisms... - Impacts of measurement protocols on blood pressure tracking from childhood into adulthood: a metaregression analysisXiaoli Chen
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Hopkins University, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, 615 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Hypertension 51:642-9. 2008..In general, Korotkoff phase 4 seems to be different from Korotkoff phase 5, and automated device is a promising approach for BP assessment in childhood... - Commentary: Obesity and mortality--light at the end but still a long tunnelBenjamin Caballero
Center for Human Nutrition, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Int J Epidemiol 35:21-2. 2006 - Is sleep duration associated with childhood obesity? A systematic review and meta-analysisXiaoli Chen
Department of International Health, Center for Human Nutrition, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 16:265-74. 2008 - Epidemic of childhood obesity: implications for kidney diseaseYoufa Wang
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Adv Chronic Kidney Dis 13:336-51. 2006..Future studies in the pediatric populations are needed...