Author: Jessica Dziuba
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Pre-pregnancy overweight and obesity associated with child neurodevelopment
In the Child Health and Development Studies (CHDS) cohort, we examined how pre-pregnancy BMI was associated with child neurodevelopment at age 9. Briefly, we found that pre-pregnancy obesity and overweight were associated with lower verbal test scores. Pregnancy weight gain did not impact associations. Check out our research in Maternal & Child Nutrition.
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HIV and body composition during breastfeeding in Ugandan women
Our paper on HIV and body composition changes during lactation was published online in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. In our cohort of HIV+ and HIV- women from Gulu area in Northern Uganda, we observed minimal changes in body fat and lean mass from 1 week to 12 months postpartum. Strikingly, we found that HIV was not associated…
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Pathway to Independence Award!
Our K99/R00 award “Pregnancy weight trajectories and offspring adiposity” (K99HD086304) was awarded. This award will provide $1,005,402 for Dr. Widen’s training and research for the next five years! This Pathway to Independence Award will allow Dr. Widen to gain additional training in advanced trajectory modeling and human phenotyping. The research component of this project applies innovative trajectory…
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Dr. Widen Earns Best Paper Award: Science Unbound Foundation
We are thrilled to announce that our paper in “Excessive gestational weight gain is associated with long-term body fat and weight retention at 7 y postpartum in African American and Dominican mothers with underweight, normal, and overweight prepregnancy BMI” in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition was awarded 2015 Best Paper on obesity-related research by an investigator affiliated…