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2017

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High Body Mass Index in Infancy May Predict Severe Obesity in Early Childhood

This study demonstrates that infants at risk for developing severe obesity by age 6 years can be identified as young as 6 months old, using a cutoff of BMI =>85th percentile on the WHO growth curves. Jessica Woo, MHSA, PhD, and her colleagues published their findings in the Journal of Pediatrics.

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Inflammatory Milieu & Cardiovascular Homeostasis in Children With Obstructive Sleep Apnea

In April 2017, DBE researcher Guixia Huang, MS, and colleagues published findings in the journal Sleep.

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A Randomized Trial of a Children's Book Versus Brochures for Safe Sleep Knowledge and Adherence in a High-Risk Population

DBE researcher Resmi Gupta, MS, and colleagues published findings in Academic Pediatrics reporting on the efficacy of specially-designed children's books and brochures in conveying safe sleep knowledge to mothers of low socio-economic status.

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Heritability of the Severity of the Metabolic Syndrome in Whites and Blacks in 3 Large Cohorts

DBE faculty member Jessica Woo, MHSA, PhD, and colleagues published a  study examining the heritability of a new continuous race- and sex-specific metabolic syndrome score in both black and white adult families from the Princeton Lipid Research Study, the Take Off Pounds Sensibly Cohort, and the Jackson Heart Study. Findings are published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics.

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Low Bone Mineral Density & Fractures are Highly Prevalent in Pediatric Patients with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Regardless of Disease Severity

DBE researcher Lindsey Hornung, MS, and her colleagues published findings in Neuromuscular Disorders that reveal poor bone health may be an under-recognized comorbidity of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA).

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Lifestyle Interventions in Preschool Children: A Meta-analysis of Effectiveness

This meta-analysis, from Nanhua Zhang, PhD and colleagues, aimed to estimate the effects of lifestyle interventions on body mass index among preschool children and explore potential intervention moderators. These results are published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

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Giving Children a Voice

DBE faculty member Jareen Meinzen-Derr, PhD is leading a study called the Technology Assisted Language Intervention (TALI) project. The study uses iPads in therapy to help children learn language.

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Longitudinal Cardiovascular Outcomes of Sleep Disordered Breathing in Children: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review

DBE faculty member Nanhua Zhang, PhD, and colleagues published findings in the journal Sleep that a well-designed, large-scale, prospective cohort studies (using standardized outcomes) are needed to better understand the relationship of cardiovascular morbidity in the context of pediatric sleep disordered breathing.

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2016

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Residential Mobility Impacts Exposure Assessment & Community Socioeconomic Characteristics in Longitudinal Epidemiology Studies

DBE faculty member Patrick Ryan, PhD, MS, and colleagues published findings in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology.

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Semiparametric Mixed Models for Nested Repeated Measures Applied to Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Data

DBE faculty member Rhonda Szcesniak, PhD and colleagues apply a flexible statistical approach to reveal complex relationships. Findings are published in the Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods.

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$32.5 million heart study funded by NIH

DBE associate professor Eileen King, PhD, to lead the multi-center study.

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Study strengthens evidence linking autism to maternal obesity-diabetes

Researchers, including DBE assistant professor Katherine Bowers, PhD, MPH, published their findings in Autism Research.

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