Browsing by Author "Peterson, Karen"

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    • Associations between maternal depressive symptoms and child feeding practices in a cross-sectional study of low-income mothers and their young children 

      Goulding, Alison N; Rosenblum, Katherine L; Miller, Alison L; Peterson, Karen E; Chen, Yu-Pu; Kaciroti, Niko; Lumeng, Julie C (BioMed Central, 2014)
      Background: Maternal depression may influence feeding practices important in determining child eating behaviors and weight. However, the association between maternal depressive symptoms and feeding practices has been ...

    • Biomarker Validation of Dietary Intervention in Two Multiethnic Populations 

      Eliassen, A Heather; Colditz, Graham A.; Peterson, Karen E.; Furtado, Jeremy Daniel; Fay, Martha Elizabeth; Sorensen, Glorian; Emmons, Karen Maria (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2006)
      Introduction: Intervention studies have been designed to change dietary and lifestyle factors associated with chronic diseases, but self-reported behavior change may incorporate intervention-related bias. This study examines ...

    • Comfort and Utility of School-Based Weight Screening: The Student Perspective 

      Kalich, Karrie A; Chomitz, Virginia Rall; Peterson, Karen E.; McGowan, Robert; Houser, Robert F; Must, Aviva (BioMed Central, 2008)
      Background: Weight screening in schools has been proposed as one strategy to address childhood obesity. Students' response to such screening is unexplored, however. In this study we evaluated the perceived comfort, utility ...

    • Differential association of lead on length by zinc status in two-year old Mexican children 

      Cantoral, Alejandra; Téllez-Rojo, Martha M.; Levy, Teresa Shamah; Hernández-Ávila, Mauricio; Schnaas, Lourdes; Hu, Howard; Peterson, Karen E.; Ettinger, Adrienne S. (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: Blood lead levels have decreased in Mexico since leaded fuel was banned in 1997, but other sources remain, including the use of lead-glazed ceramics for food storage and preparation. Zinc deficiency is present ...

    • Effect of breast milk lead on infant blood lead levels at 1 month of age 

      Ettinger, Adrienne S; Téllez-Rojo, Martha María; Amarasiriwardena, Chitra J.; Bellinger, David C.; Peterson, Karen E.; Schwartz, Joel David; Hu, Howard; Hernández-Avila, Mauricio (National Institue of Environmental Health Sciences, 2004)
      Nursing infants may be exposed to lead from breast milk, but relatively few data exist with which to evaluate and quantify this relationship. This route of exposure constitutes a potential infant hazard from mothers with ...

    • Effect of Calcium Supplementation on Blood Lead Levels in Pregnancy: A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial 

      Lamadrid-Figueroa, Héctor; Téllez-Rojo, Martha M.; Mercado-García, Adriana; Hu, Howard; Hernández-Avila, Mauricio; Ettinger, Adrienne S; Peterson, Karen E.; Schwartz, Joel David (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2008)
      Background: Prenatal lead exposure is associated with deficits in fetal growth and neurodevelopment. Calcium supplementation may attenuate fetal exposure by inhibiting mobilization of maternal bone lead and/or intestinal ...

    • Effect of multivitamin supplements on weight gain during pregnancy among HIV-negative women in Tanzania 

      Changamire, Freeman T.; Mwiru, Ramadhani S.; Peterson, Karen E.; Msamanga, Gernard I.; Spiegelman, Donna Lynn; Petraro, Paul; Urassa, Willy; Fawzi, Wafaie W. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)
      Multivitamin supplementation has been shown to reduce the risk of low birthweight. This effect could be mediated through gestational weight gain. However, the effect of multivitamin supplementation on weight gain during ...

    • Effect of Succimer on Growth of Preschool Children with Moderate Blood Lead Levels. 

      Peterson, Karen E.; Salganik, Mikhail; Campbell, Carla; Rhoads, George G; Rubin, Judith; Berger, Omer; Ware, James H.; Rogan, Walter (2004)
      Growth deficits associated with lead exposure might be ameliorated by chelation. We examined the effect of succimer on growth in 780 children 12-33 months old who had blood lead levels of 20-44 microg/dL and were randomized ...

    • Effect of the Planet Health Intervention on Eating Disorder Symptoms in Massachusetts Middle Schools, 2005–2008 

      Austin, Sydney Bryn; Spadano-Gasbarro, Jennifer L.; Greaney, Mary L.; Blood, Emily A.; Hunt, Anne T.; Richmond, Tracy K.; Wang, Monica L.; Mezgebu, Solomon; Osganian, Stavroula Kalis; Peterson, Karen E. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012)
      Introduction: The Planet Health obesity prevention curriculum has prevented purging and abuse of diet pills (disordered weight control behavior [DWCB]) in middle-school girls in randomized trials, but the effects of Planet ...

    • Levels of Lead in Breast Milk and Their Relation to Maternal Blood and Bone Lead Levels at One Month Postpartum. 

      Téllez-Rojo, Martha María; González-Cossío, Teresa; Aro, Antonio; Hu, Howard; Hernández-Avila, Mauricio; Ettinger, Adrienne S; Amarasiriwardena, Chitra J.; Peterson, Karen E. (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2004)
      Despite the many well-recognized benefits of breast-feeding for both mothers and infants, detectable levels of lead in breast milk have been documented in population studies of women with no current environmental or ...

    • Mealtime behavior among siblings and body mass index of 4–8 year olds: a videotaped observational study 

      Mosli, Rana H.; Miller, Alison L.; Kaciroti, Niko; Peterson, Karen E.; Rosenblum, Katherine; Baylin, Ana; Lumeng, Julie C. (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: Being a last-born child and having a sister have been associated with higher body mass index (BMI). Encouragement to eat that overrides children’s self-regulation has been reported to increase the risk of ...

    • Perinatal Lead (Pb) Exposure Results in Sex-Specific Effects on Food Intake, Fat, Weight, and Insulin Response across the Murine Life-Course 

      Faulk, Christopher; Barks, Amanda; Sánchez, Brisa N.; Zhang, Zhenzhen; Anderson, Olivia S.; Peterson, Karen E.; Dolinoy, Dana C. (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      Developmental lead (Pb) exposure has been associated with lower body weight in human infants and late onset obesity in mice. We determined the association of perinatal Pb exposure in mice with changes in obesity-related ...

    • Predictors of breastfeeding cessation among HIV-infected women in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 

      Petraro, Paul; Duggan, Christopher Paul; Msamanga, Gernard; Peterson, Karen E.; Spiegelman, Donna Lynn; Fawzi, Wafaie W. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
      This paper examines predictors of breastfeeding cessation among a cohort of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected women. This was a prospective follow-up study of HIV-infected women who participated in a randomized ...

    • Pretreatment dietary intake is associated with tumor suppressor DNA methylation in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas 

      Colacino, Justin A.; Arthur, Anna E.; Dolinoy, Dana C.; Sartor, Maureen A.; Duffy, Sonia A.; Chepeha, Douglas B.; Bradford, Carol R.; Walline, Heather M.; McHugh, Jonathan B.; D'Silva, Nisha; Carey, Thomas E.; Wolf, Gregory T.; Taylor, Jeremy M.G.; Peterson, Karen E.; Rozek, Laura S. (Landes Bioscience, 2012)
      Diet is associated with cancer prognosis, including head and neck cancer (HNC), and has been hypothesized to influence epigenetic state by determining the availability of functional groups involved in the modification of ...

    • Relationship of exclusive breast-feeding to infections and growth of Tanzanian children born to HIV-infected women 

      Mwiru, Ramadhani S; Spiegelman, Donna Lynn; Duggan, Christopher Paul; Peterson, Karen E.; Liu, Enju; Msamanga, Gernard; Aboud, Said; Fawzi, Wafaie W. (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2011)
      Objective We examined the relationships between exclusive breast-feeding and the risks of respiratory, diarrhoea and nutritional morbidities during the first 2 years of life among children born to women infected with ...

    • Three-Year Improvements in Weight Status and Weight-Related Behaviors in Middle School Students: The Healthy Choices Study 

      Peterson, Karen E.; Spadano-Gasbarro, Jennifer L.; Greaney, Mary L.; Austin, S. Bryn; Mezgebu, Solomon; Hunt, Anne T.; Blood, Emily A.; Horan, Chrissy; Feldman, Henry A.; Osganian, Stavroula K.; Bettencourt, Maria F.; Richmond, Tracy K. (Public Library of Science, 2015)
      Introduction: Few dissemination evaluations exist to document the effectiveness of evidence-based childhood obesity interventions outside the research setting. Objective: Evaluate Healthy Choices (HC), a multi-component ...