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    • Abuse in Childhood and Adolescence As a Predictor of Type 2 Diabetes in Adult Women 

      Rich-Edwards, Janet Wilson; Spiegelman, Donna Lynn; Lividoti Hibert, Eileen; Jun, Hee-Jin; Todd, Tamarra James; Kawachi, Ichiro; Wright, Rosalind (Elsevier BV, 2010)
      Background: Although child abuse is associated with obesity, it is not known whether early abuse increases risk of type 2 diabetes. Purpose: To investigate associations of child and adolescent abuse with adult diabetes. ...
    • 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 ...
    • Birth weight and later life adherence to unhealthy lifestyles in predicting type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort study 

      Li, Yanping; Ley, Sylvia H; Tobias, Deirdre K; Chiuve, Stephanie E; VanderWeele, Tyler J; Rich-Edwards, Janet W; Curhan, Gary C; Willett, Walter C; Manson, JoAnn E; Hu, Frank B; Qi, Lu (BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2015)
      Objectives To prospectively assess the joint association of birth weight and established lifestyle risk factors in adulthood with incident type 2 diabetes and to quantitatively decompose the attributing effects to birth ...
    • Body Fatness During Childhood and Adolescence and Incidence of Breast Cancer in Premenopausal Women: A Prospective Cohort Study 

      Baer, Heather Joanne; Colditz, Graham A.; Rosner, Bernard Alfred; Michels, Karin B.; Rich-Edwards, Janet Wilson; Hunter, David J.; Willett, Walter C. (BioMed Central, 2005)
      Introduction: Body mass index (BMI) during adulthood is inversely related to the incidence of premenopausal breast cancer, but the role of body fatness earlier in life is less clear. We examined prospectively the relation ...
    • Childhood Hair Product Use and Earlier Age at Menarche in a Racially Diverse Study Population: A Pilot Study 

      James-Todd, Tamarra; Terry, Mary Beth; Rich-Edwards, Janet Wilson; Deierlein, Andrea; Senie, Ruby (Elsevier BV, 2011)
      Purpose Previous studies suggest that hair products containing endocrine disrupting chemicals could alter puberty. We evaluated the association between childhood hair product use and age at menarche in a racially diverse ...
    • Childhood Physical and Sexual Abuse History and Leukocyte Telomere Length among Women in Middle Adulthood 

      Mason, Susan M.; Prescott, Jennifer; Tworoger, Shelley S.; DeVivo, Immaculata; Rich-Edwards, Janet W. (Public Library of Science, 2015)
      Objective: Abuse victimization in childhood is associated with a variety of age-related cardiometabolic diseases, but the mechanisms remain unknown. Telomeres, which form the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes, ...
    • 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 ...
    • Gestational Age, Infant Birth Weight, and Subsequent Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Mothers: Nurses’ Health Study II 

      James-Todd, Tamarra; Karumanchi, Subbian Ananth; Hibert, Eileen L.; Mason, Susan M.; Vadnais, Mary Alice; Hu, Frank B.; Rich-Edwards, Janet Wilson (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2013)
      Introduction Women with a history of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) are at higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2DM); however, little is known about the association between other common pregnancy complications ...
    • The Impact of Socioeconomic Status across Early Life on Age at Menarche Among a Racially Diverse Population of Girls 

      James-Todd, Tamarra; Tehranifar, Parisa; Rich-Edwards, Janet Wilson; Titievsky, Lina; Terry, Mary Beth (Elsevier BV, 2010)
      Purpose We sought to evaluate the association between childhood socioeconomic status (SES) at two time points and age at menarche in a multiracial sample of U.S. girls. Methods Our study population consisted of a ...
    • Is grand-parental smoking associated with adolescent obesity? A three-generational study 

      Dougan, M M; Field, A E; Rich-Edwards, Janet Wilson; Hankinson, Susan Elizabeth; Glynn, Robert James; Willett, Walter C.; Michels, Karin B. (Nature Publishing Group, 2015)
      Background/Objectives: Data from previous studies consistently suggest that maternal smoking is positively associated with obesity later in life. Whether this association persists across generations is unknown. We examined ...
    • Lifetime maternal experiences of abuse and risk of pre-natal depression in two demographically distinct populations in Boston 

      Rich-Edwards, Janet Wilson; James-Todd, Tamarra; Mohllajee, A.; Kleinman, Kenneth Paul; Burke, A.; Gillman, Matthew William; Wright, Rosalind Jo (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2010)
      Background To investigate lifetime history of interpersonal abuse and risk of pre-natal depression in socio-economically distinct populations in the same city. Methods We examined associations of physical and sexual ...
    • Maternal depressive symptoms not associated with reduced height in young children in a US prospective cohort study 

      Ertel, Karen Ann; Koenen, Karestan; Rich-Edwards, Janet Wilson; Gillman, Matthew William (Public Library of Science, 2010)
      Background: Shorter stature is associated with greater all cause and heart disease mortality, but taller stature with increased risk of cancer mortality. Though childhood environment is important in determining height, ...
    • Maternal experiences of racial discrimination and child weight status in the first 3 years of life 

      Dixon, B.; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl Lynn; James-Todd, Tamarra; Ertel, K; Krieger, Nancy; Kleinman, Kenneth Paul; Rich-Edwards, Janet Wilson; Gillman, Matthew William; Taveras, Elsie Mireya (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2012)
      Among US racial/ethnic minority women, we examined associations between maternal experiences of racial discrimination and child growth in the first 3 years of life. We analyzed data from Project Viva, a pre-birth cohort ...
    • Maternal Fish Consumption, Hair Mercury, and Infant Cognition in a U.S. Cohort 

      Oken, Emily; Wright, Robert O.; Kleinman, Ken Paul; Bellinger, David C.; Amarasiriwardena, Chitra J.; Hu, Howard; Rich-Edwards, Janet Wilson; Gillman, Matthew William (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2005)
      Fish and other seafood may contain organic mercury but also beneficial nutrients such as n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. We endeavored to study whether maternal fish consumption during pregnancy harms or benefits fetal ...
    • Milk Consumption and the Prepubertal Somatotropic Axis 

      Rich-Edwards, Janet Wilson; Ganmaa, Davaasambuu; Pollak, Michael N; Nakamoto, Erika K; Kleinman, Ken Paul; Tserendolgor, Uush; Willett, Walter C.; Frazier, A. Lindsay (BioMed Central, 2007)
      Background: Nutrients, hormones and growth factors in dairy foods may stimulate growth hormone (GH), insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I), and raise the ratio of IGF-I to its binding protein, IGFBP-3. We conducted pilot ...
    • Misperceived Pre-pregnancy Body Weight Status Predicts Excessive Gestational Weight Gain: Findings from a US Cohort Study 

      Herring, Sharon J; Oken, Emily; Haines, Jess; Rich-Edwards, Janet Wilson; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl Lynn; Kleinman, Ken Paul; Gillman, Matthew William (BioMed Central, 2008)
      Background: Excessive gestational weight gain promotes poor maternal and child health outcomes. Weight misperception is associated with weight gain in non-pregnant women, but no data exist during pregnancy. The purpose of ...
    • A Nearly Continuous Measure of Birth Weight for Gestational Age Using a United States National Reference 

      Oken, Emily; Kleinman, Ken Paul; Rich-Edwards, Janet Wilson; Gillman, Matthew William (BioMed Central, 2003)
      Background: Fully understanding the determinants and sequelae of fetal growth requires a continuous measure of birth weight adjusted for gestational age. Published United States reference data, however, provide estimates ...
    • Oral contraceptive use and mortality after 36 years of follow-up in the Nurses' Health Study: prospective cohort study 

      Charlton, Brittany Michelle; Rich-Edwards, Janet Wilson; Colditz, Graham Andrew; Missmer, Stacey Ann; Rosner, Bernard Alfred; Hankinson, Susan Elizabeth; Speizer, Frank E.; Michels, Karin B. (BMJ, 2014)
      Objective: To determine whether use of oral contraceptives is associated with all cause and cause specific mortality. Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting: Nurses’ Health Study, data collected between 1976 and ...
    • Pregnancy Hyperglycaemia and Risk of Prenatal and Postpartum Depressive Symptoms 

      Huang, Tianyi; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl Lynn; Ertel, Karen; Rich-Edwards, Janet Wilson; Kleinman, Kenneth Paul; Gillman, Matthew William; Oken, Emily; James-Todd, Tamarra (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
      Background Glucose dysregulation in pregnancy may affect maternal depressive symptoms during the prenatal and postpartum periods via both physiologic and psychological pathways. Methods During mid-pregnancy, a combination ...
    • Pregnancy urinary phthalate metabolite concentrations and gestational diabetes risk factors 

      James-Todd, Tamarra; Meeker, John D.; Huang, Tianyi; Hauser, Russ B.; Ferguson, Kelly K.; Rich-Edwards, Janet Wilson; McElrath, Thomas Frederick; Seely, Ellen Wells (Elsevier BV, 2016)
      Background: Epidemiologic studies suggest phthalate metabolite concentrations are associated with type 2 diabetes. GDM is a strong risk factor for type 2 diabetes. Little is known about phthalates and GDM risk factors (i.e. ...