Author: Mariam Eid

  • Thrasher Research Fund Award

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    Our proposal “Pathways between maternal nutrition, toxicant exposure, home environment and child neurodevelopment” was awarded a Thrasher Research Fund Early Career Award by the Thrasher Research Fund. This will be the first study to evaluate the pathways between maternal nutrition, environmental toxicants and child neurodevelopment.  We will examine these pathways with in our prospective birth cohort (n=727)…

  • American Society for Nutrition Meeting

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    We are very excited to be presenting at ASN meeting in San Diego. Dr. Widen will be co-charing a session on “Global Nutrition: Nutritional Deficiency Prevalence and Consequences” on Saturday April 2nd. During this session, Dr. Widen will be giving a talk on pregnancy weight gain and body composition in HIV infected and HIV-uninfected Kenyan women. We…

  • Long term effects of pregnancy weight gain on maternal health

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    Our paper in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that high pregnancy weight gain had long term effects on maternal body size and fatness at 7 years postpartum. This is the first study of showing these effects in a low-income, urban and minority population. This research was featured on YahooNews, MedicalResearch.com and other parenting websites!

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