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Gahagan, Sheila; Yu, Sunkyung; Kaciroti, Niko; Castillo, Marcela; Lozoff, Betsy (2009)Iron deficiency remains the most common nutritional deficiency worldwide and supplementation is recommended during periods of high risk, including infancy. However, questions have been raised about possible adverse effects ...
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Marijuana use associated with worse verbal learning and delayed recall in a sample of young adults Laspada, Natalia; Delker, Erin; Blanco, Estela; Encina, Pamela; Caballero, Gabriela; Delva, Jorge; Burrows, Raquel; Lozoff, Betsy; Gahagan, Sheila (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2019)Background: There is concern about the cognitive consequences of marijuana consumption. Aim: To assess the influence of current and past marijuana use and frequency on verbal learning and memory in a sample of adults aged ...
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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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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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Reyes García, Sussanne; Peirano Campos, Patricio; Lozoff, Betsy; Algarin Crespo, Cecilia (Cambridge University Press, 2020)Introduction Obesity has been associated with lower white matter integrity (WMI) in limbic brain regions, including the fornix. Both early decrease of WMI in the fornix (WMIf) and midlife obesity have been related to ...
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Pino Zúñiga, Paulina; Burden, Matthew J.; Walter, Tomas; Lozoff, Betsy; Oyarzún Gómez, Manuel (HELDREF PUBLICATIONS, 2004-04)This study was conducted to relate blood lead levels in infants to changes in lead emissions in Santiago, Chile, a heavily polluted setting where leaded gasoline began to be replaced with unleaded gasoline in 1993. Over ...
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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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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 = ...