Browsing by Author "Wright, Rosalind Jo"

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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 Traffic-Related Black Carbon Exposure and Lung Function among Urban Women 

      Suglia, Shakira Franco; Gryparis, Alexandros; Schwartz, Joel David; Wright, Rosalind Jo (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2008)
      Background: Although a number of studies have documented the relationship between lung function and traffic-related pollution among children, few have focused on adult lung function or examined community-based populations. ...

    • Biomarkers of Lead Exposure and DNA Methylation within Retrotransposons 

      Bollati, Valentina; Tarantini, Letizia; Hu, Howard; Schwartz, Joel David; Wright, Rosalind Jo; Park, Sung Kyun; Sparrow, David; Vokonas, Pantel S; Baccarelli, Andrea; Wright, Robert O. (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2010)
      Background: DNA methylation is an epigenetic mark that regulates gene expression. Changes in DNA methylation within white blood cells may result from cumulative exposure to environmental metals such as lead. Bone lead, a ...

    • 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 Outcomes in a Prospective Pregnancy-Birth Cohort Study of Environmental Risk Factors in Kuwait: The TRACER Study 

      Alseaidan, Mohammad M.S.; Al Wotayan, Rihab; Christophi, Costas A.; Al-Makhseed, Massouma; Abu Awad, Yara; Nassan, Feiby; Ahmed, Ayah; Abraham, Smitha; Boley, Robert Bruce; James-Todd, Tamarra; Wright, Rosalind; Dockery, Douglas William; Behbehani, Kazem (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)
      Background—Rapid development and westernisation in Kuwait and other Gulf states have been accompanied by rising rates of obesity, diabetes, asthma, and other chronic conditions. Prenatal experiences and exposures may be ...

    • Land use regression modeling of intra-urban residential variability in multiple traffic-related air pollutants 

      Clougherty, Jane E; Wright, Rosalind Jo; Baxter, Lisa K; Levy, Jonathan Ian (BioMed Central, 2008)
      Background: There is a growing body of literature linking GIS-based measures of traffic density to asthma and other respiratory outcomes. However, no consensus exists on which traffic indicators best capture variability ...

    • 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 ...

    • Protocol for Investigating Genetic Determinants of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Women from the Nurses' Health Study II 

      Koenen, Karestan; DeVivo, Immaculata; Rich-Edwards, Janet Wilson; Smoller, Jordan W; Wright, Rosalind Jo; Purcell, Shaun (BioMed Central, 2009)
      Background: One in nine American women will meet criteria for the diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in their lifetime. Although twin studies suggest genetic influences account for substantial variance in ...

    • Racial discrimination, response to unfair treatment, and depressive symptoms among pregnant black and African American women in the United States 

      Ertel, Karen; James-Todd, Tamarra; Kleinman, Kenneth Paul; Krieger, Nancy; Gillman, Matthew William; Wright, Rosalind Jo; Rich-Edwards, Janet Wilson (Elsevier BV, 2012)
      Purpose To assess the association between self-reported racial discrimination and prenatal depressive symptoms among black women. Methods Our study population consisted of two cohorts of pregnant women: the Asthma ...

    • Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia as an Index of Vagal Activity during Stress in Infants: Respiratory Influences and Their Control 

      Ritz, Thomas; Bosquet Enlow, Michelle A; Schulz, Stefan M.; Kitts, Robert Li; Staudenmayer, John; Wright, Rosalind Jo (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) is related to cardiac vagal outflow and the respiratory pattern. Prior infant studies have not systematically examined respiration rate and tidal volume influences on infant RSA or the ...

    • Stress and childhood asthma risk: overlapping evidence from animal studies and epidemiologic research 

      Wright, Rosalind Jo (BioMed Central, 2008)
      Rapidly expanding evidence increasingly strengthens the evidence linking psychological factors to asthma and allergy expression. Parallel studies in animals and humans demonstrating the influence of prenatal maternal stress ...

    • Synergistic effects of traffic-related air pollution and exposure to violence on urban asthma etiology 

      Clougherty, Jane E.; Levy, Jonathan Ian; Kubzansky, Laura Diane; Ryan, P. Barry; Suglia, Shakira Franco; Canner, Marina Jacobson; Wright, Rosalind Jo (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2007)
      Background: Disproportionate life stress and consequent physiologic alteration (i.e., immune dysregulation) has been proposed as a major pathway linking socioeconomic position, environmental exposures, and health disparities. ...