Browsing by Author "Gillman, Matthew"

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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 ...

    • Assessing care providers’ perceptions and beliefs about physical activity in infants and toddlers: baseline findings from the Baby NAP SACC study 

      Hesketh, Kathryn R; van Sluijs, Esther MF; Blaine, Rachel E; Taveras, Elsie M; Gillman, Matthew W; Benjamin Neelon, Sara E (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: As children now spend increasing amounts of time in out-of-home care, care providers play an important role in promoting positive health behaviors. Little is currently known about providers’ perceptions and ...

    • Association between umbilical cord glucocorticoids and blood pressure at age 3 years 

      Huh, Susanna; Andrew, Ruth; Rich-Edwards, Janet Wilson; Kleinman, Ken Paul; Seckl, Jonathan R; Gillman, Matthew William (BioMed Central, 2008)
      Background: Animal data show that decreased activity of placental 11-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 (11β-HSD2), which potently inactivates glucocorticoids (e.g. cortisol) to inert forms (cortisone), allows increased ...

    • 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 cohorts in asthma and allergic diseases: Report of a NIAID/NHLBI/MeDALL joint workshop 

      Bousquet, Jean; Gern, James E.; Martinez, Fernando D.; Anto, Josep M.; Johnson, Christine Haynes; Holt, Patrick G.; Lemanske, Robert F.; Le Souëf, Peter N.; Tepper, Robert Ira; von Mutius, Erika R.M.; Arshad, S. Hasan; Bacharier, Leonard B.; Becker, Allan; Belanger, Kathleen; Bergström, Anna; Bernstein, David I.; Cabana, Michael D.; Carroll, Kecia N.; Castro, Mario; Cooper, Philip J.; Gillman, Matthew William; Gold, Diane R.; Henderson, John; Heinrich, Joachim; Hong, Soo-Jong; Jackson, Danielle; Keil, Thomas; Kozyrskyj, Anita L.; Lødrup Carlsen, Karin C.; Miller, Rachel Blair; Momas, Isabelle; Morgan, Wayne J.; Noel, Patricia; Ownby, Dennis R.; Pinart, Mariona; Ryan, Patrick H.; Schwaninger, Julie M.; Sears, Malcolm R.; Simpson, Angela; Smit, Henriette A.; Stern, Debra A.; Subbarao, Padmaja; Valenta, Rudolf; Wang, Xiaobin; Weiss, Scott Tillman; Wood, Robert J.; Wright, Anne L.; Wright, Rosalind Jo; Togias, Alkis; Gergen, Peter J. (Elsevier BV, 2014)
      Population-based birth cohorts on asthma and allergies increasingly provide new insights into the development and natural history of the diseases. Over 130 birth cohorts focusing on asthma and allergy have been initiated ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • The cost of a primary care-based childhood obesity prevention intervention 

      Wright, Davene R; Taveras, Elsie M; Gillman, Matthew W; Horan, Christine M; Hohman, Katherine H; Gortmaker, Steven L; Prosser, Lisa A (BioMed Central, 2014)
      Background: United States pediatric guidelines recommend that childhood obesity counseling be conducted in the primary care setting. Primary care-based interventions can be effective in improving health behaviors, but also ...

    • 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 ...

    • Early child care and obesity at 12 months of age in the Danish National Birth Cohort 

      Neelon, Sara E Benjamin; Andersen, Camilla Schou; Morgen, Camilla Schmidt; Kamper-Jørgensen, Mads; Oken, Emily; Gillman, Matthew W; Sørensen, Thorkild IA (2014)
      Background/Objectives Evidence suggests that the child care environment may be more obesogenic than the family home, and previous studies have found that child care use may be associated with obesity in children. Few ...

    • Economic and Other Barriers to Adopting Recommendations to Prevent Childhood Obesity: Results of a Focus Group Study with Parents 

      Sonneville, Kendrin Rae; La Pelle, Nancy; Taveras, Elsie Mireya; Gillman, Matthew William; Prosser, Lisa Alison (BioMed Central, 2009)
      Background: Parents are integral to the implementation of obesity prevention and management recommendations for children. Exploration of barriers to and facilitators of parental decisions to adopt obesity prevention ...

    • Efficacy of a group-based dietary intervention for limiting gestational weight gain among obese women: a randomized trial 

      Vesco, Kimberly K.; Karanja, Njeri; King, Janet C.; Gillman, Matthew W.; Leo, Michael C.; Perrin, Nancy; McEvoy, Cindy T.; Eckhardt, Cara L.; Smith, K. Sabina; Stevens, Victor J. (2014)
      Objective: Observational studies suggest that minimal gestational weight gain (GWG) may optimize pregnancy outcomes for obese women. This trial tested the efficacy of a group-based weight management intervention for limiting ...