Browsing by Author "Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl"
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Air Pollution Exposure and Abnormal Glucose Tolerance during Pregnancy: The Project Viva Cohort
Fleisch, Abby F.; Gold, Diane R.; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl L.; Koutrakis, Petros; Schwartz, Joel D.; Kloog, Itai; Melly, Steven; Coull, Brent A.; Zanobetti, Antonella; Gillman, Matthew W.; Oken, Emily (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2014)Background: Exposure to fine particulate matter (PM with diameter ≤ 2.5 μm; PM2.5) has been linked to type 2 diabetes mellitus, but associations with hyperglycemia in pregnancy have not been well studied. Methods: We studied ... -
Association of missing paternal demographics on infant birth certificates with perinatal risk factors for childhood obesity
Cheng, Erika R.; Hawkins, Summer Sherburne; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl L.; Gillman, Matthew W.; Taveras, Elsie M. (BioMed Central, 2016)Background: The role of fathers in the development of obesity in their offspring remains poorly understood. We evaluated associations of missing paternal demographic information on birth certificates with perinatal risk ... -
Associations of cord blood metabolites with early childhood obesity risk
Isganaitis, Elvira; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl L.; Oken, Emily; Dreyfuss, Jonathan; Gall, Walt; Gillman, Matthew W.; Patti, Mary-Elizabeth (2015)Background/Objective Rapid postnatal weight gain is a potentially modifiable risk factor for obesity and metabolic syndrome. To identify markers of rapid infancy weight gain and childhood obesity, we analyzed the metabolome ... -
Birth weight-for-gestational age is associated with DNA methylation at birth and in childhood
Agha, Golareh; Hajj, Hanine; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl L.; Just, Allan C.; Hivert, Marie-France; Burris, Heather H.; Lin, Xihong; Litonjua, Augusto A.; Oken, Emily; DeMeo, Dawn L.; Gillman, Matthew W.; Baccarelli, Andrea A. (BioMed Central, 2016)Background: Both higher and lower fetal growth are associated with cardio-metabolic health later in life, suggesting that prenatal developmental programming determines long-term cardiovascular disease risk. Epigenetic ... -
Characteristics of Walkable Built Environments and BMI z-Scores in Children: Evidence from a Large Electronic Health Record Database
Duncan, Dustin T.; Sharifi, Mona; Melly, Steven J.; Marshall, Richard; Sequist, Thomas D.; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl L.; Taveras, Elsie M. (NLM-Export, 2014)Background: Childhood obesity remains a prominent public health problem. Walkable built environments may prevent excess weight gain. Objectives: We examined the association of walkable built environment characteristics ... -
Childhood body mass index trajectories: modeling, characterizing, pairwise correlations and socio-demographic predictors of trajectory characteristics
Wen, Xiaozhong; Kleinman, Ken Paul; Gillman, Matthew William; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl Lynn; Taveras, Elsie Mireya (BioMed Central, 2012)Background: Modeling childhood body mass index (BMI) trajectories, versus estimating change in BMI between specific ages, may improve prediction of later body-size-related outcomes. Prior studies of BMI trajectories are ... -
Chronic Insufficient Sleep and Diet Quality: Contributors to Childhood Obesity
Cespedes, Elizabeth M.; Hu, Frank B.; Redline, Susan; Rosner, Bernard; Gillman, Matthew W.; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl L.; Taveras, Elsie M. (2015)Objective: To examine associations of chronic insufficient sleep with diet, and whether diet explains the sleep-adiposity relationship. Methods: In Project Viva, 1,046 parents reported children’s sleep duration at 6m and ... -
Colonization with Antibiotic-Susceptible Strains Protects against Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus but not Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci Acquisition: A Nested Case-Control Study
Huang, Susan Shih; Datta, Rupak; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl Lynn; Kleinman, Ken Paul; Placzek, Hilary; Lankiewicz, Julie D.; Platt, Richard (BioMed Central, 2011)Introduction: Harboring sensitive strains may prevent acquisition of resistant pathogens by competing for colonization of ecological niches. Competition may be relevant to decolonization strategies that eliminate sensitive ... -
Confounding by indication affects antimicrobial risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus but not vancomycin-resistant enterococci acquisition
Datta, Rupak; Kleinman, Ken; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl; Placzek, Hilary; Lankiewicz, Julie; Platt, Richard; Huang, Susan S (BioMed Central, 2014)Background: Observational studies rarely account for confounding by indication, whereby empiric antibiotics initiated for signs and symptoms of infection prior to the diagnosis of infection are then viewed as risk factors ... -
Consumers’ estimation of calorie content at fast food restaurants: cross sectional observational study
Block, Jason Perry; Condon, Suzanne K; Kleinman, Ken Paul; Mullen, Jewel; Linakis, Stephanie; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl Lynn; Gillman, Matthew William (BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2013)Objective: To investigate estimation of calorie (energy) content of meals from fast food restaurants in adults, adolescents, and school age children. Design: Cross sectional study of repeated visits to fast food restaurant ... -
Correlations among adiposity measures in school-aged children
Boeke, Caroline E; Oken, Emily; Kleinman, Ken P; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl L; Taveras, Elsie M; Gillman, Matthew W (BioMed Central, 2013)Background: Given that it is not feasible to use dual x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) or other reference methods to measure adiposity in all pediatric clinical and research settings, it is important to identify reasonable ... -
Delivery by caesarean section and risk of obesity in preschool age children: A prospective cohort study
Huh, Susanna; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl Lynn; Zera, Chloe Amelia; Edwards, Janet W. Rich; Oken, Emily; Weiss, Scott Tillman; Gillman, Matthew William (BMJ, 2012)Objective: To examine whether delivery by caesarean section is a risk factor for childhood obesity. Design: Prospective pre-birth cohort study (Project Viva). Setting: Eight outpatient multi-specialty practices based ... -
Diabetes and Lipid Screening Among Patients in Primary Care: A Cohort Study
Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl Lynn; Forman, John Phillip; Lane, Kimberly; Caspard, Herve; Gillman, Matthew William (BioMed Central, 2008)Background: Obesity is associated with increased cardiovascular diseases and diabetes mellitus. Guidelines call for intensified glucose and lipid screening among overweight and obese patients. Data on compliance with these ... -
Diagnostic accuracy of the bronchodilator response in children
Tse, Szewah; Gold, Diane R.; Sordillo, Joanne; Hoffman, Elaine; Gillman, Matthew William; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl Lynn; Fuhlbrigge, Anne Louise; Tantisira, Kelan; Weiss, Scott Tillman; Litonjua, Augusto Ampil (Elsevier BV, 2013)Background: The bronchodilator response (BDR) reflects the reversibility of airflow obstruction and is recommended as an adjunctive test to diagnose asthma. The validity of the commonly used definition of BDR, a 12% or ... -
Differential associations of leptin with adiposity across early childhood
Boeke, Caroline E.; Mantzoros, Christos S.; Hughes, Michael D.; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl L.; Villamor, Eduardo; Zera, Chloe A.; Gillman, Matthew W. (2013)Objective: We examined associations of perinatal and 3-year leptin with weight gain and adiposity through 7 years. Design and Methods In Project Viva, we assessed plasma leptin from mothers at 26–28 weeks’ gestation (n=893), ... -
Duration of Lactation and Maternal Adipokines at 3 Years Postpartum
Stuebe, Alison M.; Mantzoros, Christos; Kleinman, Ken Paul; Gillman, Matthew William; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl Lynn; Gunderson, Erica P.; Rich-Edwards, Janet Wilson (American Diabetes Association, 2011)Objective: Lactation has been associated with reduced maternal risk of type 2 diabetes, the metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular disease. We examined the relationship between breastfeeding duration and maternal adipokines ... -
Epidemiology and risk factors for Staphylococcus aureus colonization in children in the post-PCV7 era
Lee, Grace; Huang, Susan Jen; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl Lynn; Hinrichsen, Virginia; Pelton, Stephen I; Kleinman, Kenneth Paul; Hanage, William P.; Lipsitch, Marc; McAdam, Alexander John; Finkelstein, Jonathan Arie (Springer Science + Business Media, 2009)BACKGROUND: The incidence of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has risen dramatically in the U.S., particularly among children. Although Streptococcus pneumoniae colonization has been ... -
Estimation of Newborn Risk for Child or Adolescent Obesity: Lessons from Longitudinal Birth Cohorts
Morandi, Anita; Meyre, David; Lobbens, Stéphane; Kaakinen, Marika; Vatin, Vincent; Gaget, Stefan; Pouta, Anneli; Hartikainen, Anna-Liisa; Laitinen, Jaana; Ruokonen, Aimo; Das, Shikta; Khan, Anokhi Ali; Elliott, Paul; Maffeis, Claudio; Järvelin, Marjo-Riitta; Froguel, Philippe; Kleinman, Ken Paul; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl Lynn; Gillman, Matthew William (Public Library of Science, 2012)Objectives: Prevention of obesity should start as early as possible after birth. We aimed to build clinically useful equations estimating the risk of later obesity in newborns, as a first step towards focused early prevention ... -
Exploring Innovative Approaches and Patient-Centered Outcomes From Positive Outliers in Childhood Obesity
Sharifi, Mona; Marshall, Gareth; Goldman, Roberta E.; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl Lynn; Horan, Christine M.; Koziol, Renata; Marshall, Richard E.; Sequist, Thomas Dean; Taveras, Elsie Mireya (Elsevier BV, 2014)Objective New approaches for obesity prevention and management can be gleaned from 'positive outliers', i.e., individuals who have succeeded in changing health behaviors and reducing their body mass index (BMI) in the ... -
Family functioning and quality of parent-adolescent relationship: cross-sectional associations with adolescent weight-related behaviors and weight status
Haines, Jess; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl L.; Horton, Nicholas J.; Kleinman, Ken; Bauer, Katherine W.; Davison, Kirsten K.; Walton, Kathryn; Austin, S. Bryn; Field, Alison E.; Gillman, Matthew W. (BioMed Central, 2016)Background: Little is known about how factors within the general family environment are associated with weight and related behaviors among adolescents/young adults. Methods: We studied 3768 females and 2614 males, 14–24 ...