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Ibacache Álvarez, Camila; Correa Burrows, Paulina; Burrows Argote, Raquel; Barrera Acevedo, Gladys; Kim, Elissa; Hirsch Birn, Sandra; Jofré, Boris; Blanco, Estela; Gahagan, Sheila; Bunout Barnett, Daniel (MDPI, 2020)An inexpensive and simple method to determine non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the abdominal ultrasound, but there are still doubts about its accuracy. We assessed the precision of a semi-quantitative ultrasound ...
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East, Patricia; Doom, Jenalee R.; Delke, Erin; Blanco Reina, Estela; Burrows Argote, Raquel; Correa Burrows, Paulina; Lozoff, Betsy; Gahagan, Sheila (Elsevier, 2020)Objective: Stress derived from socioeconomic disadvantage can be damaging to mental and physical health. This study uses longitudinal data on a large prospectively studied cohort to examine how socioeconomic hardship during ...
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Martínez, Suzanna M.; Blanco, Estela; Burrows Argote, Raquel; Lozoff, Betsy; Gahagan, Sheila (Wiley, 2020)Background Obesity is a risk factor for insulin resistance (IR) and metabolic disease. Objective To examine potential metabolic pathways linking childhood weight status to adolescent IR and metabolic risk. Methods Participants ...
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Burrows Argote, Raquel; Correa Burrows, Paulina; Bunout Barnett, Daniel; Barrera Acevedo, Gladys; Rogan Castillo, José; Kim, Elissa; Blanco, Estela; Gahagan, Sheila (Wiley, 2020)Aim: We investigated the relation of time of onset and length of obesity with biomarkers of beta-cell function in early adulthood in an infancy cohort. Material and methods: In 1039 23-year-olds, body-mass index (BMI) ...
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Reid, Brie M.; Doom, Jenalee R.; Burrows Argote, Raquel; Correa Burrows, Paulina; Lozoff, Betsy; Blanco, Estela; Gahagan, Sheila (Elsevier, 2020)Early adversity, depression, and obesity are associated with increases in low-grade inflammation. However, there are few prospective and longitudinal studies to elucidate how these associations unfold in children. The ...
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LaSpada, Natalia; Delker, Erin; East, Patricia; Blanco, Estela; Delva, Jorge; Burrows Argote, Raquel; Lozofff, Betzy; Gahagan, Sheila (Elsevier, 2020)Introduction: This study examined changes in substance use from adolescence to young adulthood as related to adolescents' risk taking, sensation seeking, antisocial activities, and personality traits. Methods:Chilean ...
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Doom, Jenalee R.; Rivera, Kenia M.; Blanco, Estela; Burrows Argote, Raquel; Correa Burrows, Paulina; East, Patricia L.; Lozoff, Betsy; Gahagan, Sheila (Cambridge Univ Press, 2020)Greater psychosocial risk in childhood and adolescence predicts poorer cardiometabolic outcomes in adulthood. We assessed whether the timing of psychosocial risk from infancy through adolescence predicts cardiometabolic ...
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Flannagan, Kerry; Gahagan, Sheila; Das, Arun; Burrows Argote, Raquel; Lozoff, Betsy; Villamor, Eduardo (Wiley, 2020)Background Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) have been related to the development of adiposity. N-3 PUFA appears to be protective against obesity risk, while n-6 PUFA may be associated with greater adiposity. However, ...
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Von Holle, Ann; North, Kari E.; Gahagan, Sheila; Burrows Argote, Raquel; Blanco, Estela; Lozoff, Betsy; Howard, Annie Green; Justice, Anne; Graff, Misa; Voruganti, Venkata Saroja (BMJ, 2020)Objectives Infant anthropometric growth varies across socioeconomic factors, including maternal education and income, and may serve as an indicator of environmental influences in early life with long-term health consequences. ...
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Correa Burrows, Paulina; Blanco, Estela; Gahagan, Sheila; Burrows Argote, Raquel (Nature, 2020)Insulin measurements are not advised for cardiometabolic risk screening in large groups. Here we assessed the accuracy of the single-point insulin sensitivity estimator (SPISE) to diagnose cardiometabolic risk in Chilean ...
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East, Patricia; Doom, Jenalee; Blanco, Estela; Burrows Argote, Raquel; Lozoff, Betsy; Gahagan, Sheila (Taylor and Francis, 2020)Objective:This study examined how the lower cognitive skills in children who consumed iron-fortified formula in infancy relate to outcomes in young adulthood. Methods:Participants were 443 Chilean young adults (Mage = ...