Category: Conferences/Presentations

Dr. Widen presented some of her recent work on trajectory modeling at the Society for Epidemiologic Research Annual meeting in Baltimore, MD. In the NICHD fetal growth studies, we used latent class modeling to identify six distinct pregnancy weight trajectories in this cohort. Our lab is currently working on methods to further understand these trajectories…

At ASN 2018, Dr. Widen presented a poster entitled “Classifying pregnancy weight gain trajectories in African American and Dominican Women from Northern Manhattan and the South Bronx.”  This analysis introduced Dr. Widen’s use of semi-parametric modeling for pregnancy weight gain trajectories as a means of more accurately tracking and examining weight gain patterns.  Unlike prior…

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.

We were thrilled to present the first set of longitudinal results from our cohort in Uganda at the Epidemiology Congress of the Americas 2016. Our poster focused on the the role of maternal HIV and food insecurity in body composition changes during lactation in Ugandan women. Dr. Widen also co-chaired the Speed Networking event along…

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…