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Doom, Jenalee R.; Richards, Blair; Caballero, Gabriela; Delva, Jorge; Gahagan, Sheila; Lozoff, Betsy (Elsevier, 2018)Objective To evaluate associations between iron supplementation and iron deficiency in infancy and internalizing, externalizing, and social problems in adolescence. Study design The study is a follow-up of infants as ...
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Doom, Jenalee R.; Reid, Brie M.; Blanco, Estela; Burrows, Raquel; Lozoff, Betsy; Gahagan, Sheila (Mosby Inc., 2019)Objective: To prospectively assess whether the infant psychosocial environment was associated with cardiometabolic risk as early as adolescence. Study design: Participants were recruited in Santiago, Chile, and have been ...
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Correa-Burrows, Paulina; Blanco, Estela; Reyes, Marcela; Castillo, Marcela; Peirano, Patricio; Algarín, Cecilia; Lozoff, Betsy; Gahagan, Sheila; Burrows, Raquel (BMJ Publishing Group, 2016)Objective: Leptin is a pleiotropic hormone associated with learning and memory via brain receptors. However, elevated plasma leptin levels may impair cognitive and memory functions. Since individual differences in memory ...
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Cheng, Evaline; Burrows, Raquel; Correa, Paulina; Güichapani, Carmen Gloria; Blanco, Estela; Gahagan, Sheila (Springer-Verlag Italia s.r.l., 2019)© 2019, Springer-Verlag Italia S.r.l., part of Springer Nature.Aims: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases. While cigarette smoking is associated with MetS in adults, young ...
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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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Burrows, Raquel; Correa Burrows, María Paulina; Guichapani, Carmen Gloria; Blanco, Estela; Gahagan, Sheila (Karger, 2017)
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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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Correa-Burrows, Paulina; Burrows, Raquel; Blanco, Estela; Reyes, Marcela; Gahagan, Sheila (World Health Organization, 2016)© 2016, World Health Organization. All rights reserved.Objective To explore associations between the nutritional quality of diet at age 16 years and academic performance in students from Santiago, Chile. Methods We assessed ...
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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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Gahagan, Sheila; Delker, Erin; Blanco, Estela; Burrows, Raquel; Lozoff, Betsy (Mosby-Elsevier, 2019)Objectives: To test differences in cognitive outcomes among adolescents randomly assigned previously as infants to iron-fortified formula or low-iron formula as part of an iron deficiency anemia prevention trial. Study ...
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Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Gahagan, Sheila; Díaz Bustos, Erik; Blanco, Estela; Leiva, Laura; Lera Marques, Lydia; Burrows, Raquel (2011)The mild chronic inflammatory state associated with obesity may be an important link between adiposity and insulin resistance (IR). In a sample of 137 overweight and obese Chilean adolescents, we assessed associations between ...
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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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Correa Burrows, Paulina; Rodríguez Letelier, Yanina; Blanco, Estela; Gahagan, Sheila; Burrows, Raquel (MDPI, 2017-05)Although numerous studies have approached the effects of exposure to aWestern diet (WD) on academic outcomes, very few have focused on foods consumed during snack times. We explored whether there is a link between nutritious ...
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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 = ...