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Maternal Childhood Adversity, Prepregnancy Obesity, and Gestational Weight Gain by Ranchod, Yamini K., PhD, Headen, Irene E., MS, Petito, Lucia C., MA, Deardorff, Julianna K., PhD, Rehkopf, David H., ScD, Abrams, Barbara F., DrPh

“…Introduction Growing evidence suggests that exposure to childhood adversity may influence obesity across the life course. High maternal weight complicates…”
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Maternal Prepregnancy Weight and Children’s Behavioral and Emotional Outcomes by Deardorff, Julianna, Smith, Louisa H., Petito, Lucia, Kim, Hyunju, Abrams, Barbara F.

“…This study investigated associations between maternal prepregnancy BMI and child behaviors at ages 9–11 years and examine interaction by race and gender. The…”
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Trimester of Maternal Gestational Weight Gain and Offspring Body Weight at Birth and Age Five by Margerison-Zilko, Claire E., Shrimali, Bina P., Eskenazi, Brenda, Lahiff, Maureen, Lindquist, Allison R., Abrams, Barbara F.

“…To investigate associations of trimester-specific GWG with fetal birth size and BMI at age 5 years. We examined 3,015 singleton births to women without…”
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Interpregnancy weight change: associations with severe maternal morbidity and neonatal outcomes by Abrams, Barbara F., Leonard, Stephanie A., Kan, Peiyi, Lyell, Deirdre J., Carmichael, Suzan L.

“…Prepregnancy body mass index and gestational weight gain have been linked with severe maternal morbidity, suggesting that weight change between pregnancies may…”
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Acceptability of Heat Treating Breast Milk to Prevent Mother-to-Child Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Zimbabwe: A Qualitative Study by Israel-Ballard, Kiersten A., Maternowska, M. Catherine, Abrams, Barbara F., Morrison, Pamela, Chitibura, Livona, Chipato, Tsungai, Chirenje, Zvavahera M., Padian, Nancy S., Chantry, Caroline J.

“…Although heat treatment of human milk is an official infant-feeding recommendation for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive mothers in Zimbabwe, its…”
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Reducing infectivity of HIV upon exposure to surfaces coated with N,N-dodecyl, methyl-polyethylenimine by Gerrard, Stephen E., Larson, Alyssa M., Klibanov, Alexander M., Slater, Nigel K.H., Hanson, Carl V., Abrams, Barbara F., Morris, Mary K.

“…The infectivity of high‐titer, cell‐free HIV in culture media and human milk is rapidly reduced upon exposure to polyethylene slides painted with the linear…”
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A nipple shield delivery system for oral drug delivery to breastfeeding infants: Microbicide delivery to inactivate HIV by Gerrard, Stephen E., Baniecki, Mary Lynn, Sokal, David C., Morris, Mary K., Urdaneta-Hartmann, Sandra, Krebs, Fred C., Wigdahl, Brian, Abrams, Barbara F., Hanson, Carl V., Slater, Nigel K.H., Edwards, Alexander D.

“…Cross sectional diagram of milk leaving breast passing through nipple shield delivery system insert. A new drug delivery method for infants is presented which…”
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Vitamin Content of Breast Milk From HIV-1-Infected Mothers Before and After Flash-Heat Treatment by Israel-Ballard, Kiersten A, Abrams, Barbara F, Coutsoudis, Anna, Sibeko, Lindiwe N, Cheryk, Lynn A, Chantry, Caroline J

“…BACKGROUND:World Health Organization advocates heat treatment of expressed breastmilk (EBM) as one method to reduce postnatal transmission of human…”
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Breast Milk Pasteurization: Appropriate Assays to Detect HIV Inactivation by Chantry, Caroline J, Abrams, Barbara F, Donovan, Richard M, Israel-Ballard, Kiersten A, Sheppard, Haynes W

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Heat treating breast milk as an infant feeding option by Israel-Ballard, Kiersten A, Chantry, Caroline J, Dewey, Kathryn G, Donovan, Richard M, Sheppard, Haynes W, Abrams, Barbara F

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Prepregnancy weight, weight gain, and birth weight by Abrams, B F, Laros, Jr, R K

“…The effect of maternal weight gain on birth weight in 2946 live births with delivery after 37 weeks' gestation was studied at Moffitt Hospital, University of…”
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Breast milk pasteurization: appropriate assays to detect HIV inactivation by Donovan, Richard M, Israel-Ballard, Kiersten A, Abrams, Barbara F, Sheppard, Haynes W, Chantry, Caroline J

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Letters to the Editor by Israel-Ballard, Kiersten A., Chantry, Caroline J., Dewey, Kathryn G., Donovan, Richard M., Sheppard, Haynes W., Abrams, Barbara F., Gohil, Jayendra R., Hartmann, Sandra Urdaneta, Berlin, Cheston M., Howett, Mary K.

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Letters to the Editor by Israel-Ballard, Kiersten A., Chantry, Caroline J., Dewey, Kathryn G., Donovan, Richard M., Sheppard, Haynes W., Abrams, Barbara F., Gohil, Jayendra R., Hartmann, Sandra Urdaneta, Berlin, Cheston M., Howett, Mary K.

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Changes in energy intakes during pregnancy and lactation in a national sample of US women by Murphy, S.P, Abrams, B.F

“…Increases in energy intakes during pregnancy and lactation were elevated by examining dietary data for 458 pregnant women who participated in the Continuing…”
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Development and validation of a food use checklist for evaluation of community nutrition interventions by Kristal, A.R. (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA), Abrams, B.F, Thornquist, M.D, Disogra, L, Croyle, R.T, Shattuck, A.L, Henry, H.J

“…We developed a new dietary assessment instrument, the Food Behavior Checklist (FBC), which measures food use related to adopting lower-fat and higher-fiber…”
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Nutrition during pregnancy and lactation by Abrams, B F, Berman, C A

“…Because appropriate maternal nutrition improves pregnancy outcome, improving maternal nutrition before, during, and after pregnancy is an excellent example of…”
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Report of a Special Panel on Desired Prenatal Weight Gains for Underweight and Normal Weight Women by BROWN, J. E, ABRAMS, B. F, LEDERMAN, S. A, NAEYE, R. L, REES, J. M, TAFFEL, S, WORTHINGTON-ROBERTS, B. S, THARP, T. M

“…A major challenge facing the health care system is to improve the distribution of infant birth weights. Prenatal weight gain and prepregnancy weight status are…”
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