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Letter to the Editor in Response to "Z-Score Burden Metric: A Method for Assessing Burden of Injury and Disease" by Kaciroti, Niko A

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Early childhood curiosity and kindergarten reading and math academic achievement by Shah, Prachi E., Weeks, Heidi M., Richards, Blair, Kaciroti, Niko

“…Background Although children’s curiosity is thought to be important for early learning, the association of curiosity with early academic achievement has not…”
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Maternal Mobile Device Use During a Structured Parent–Child Interaction Task by Radesky, Jenny, MD, Miller, Alison L., PhD, Rosenblum, Katherine L., PhD, Appugliese, Danielle, MPH, Kaciroti, Niko, PhD, Lumeng, Julie C., MD

“…Abstract Objective To examine associations of maternal mobile device use with the frequency of mother–child interactions during a structured laboratory task…”
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Functional Significance of Early-Life Iron Deficiency: Outcomes at 25 Years by Lozoff, Betsy, MD, Smith, Julia B., EdD, Kaciroti, Niko, PhD, Clark, Katy M., MA, Guevara, Silvia, MD, Jimenez, Elias, MD

“…Objective To evaluate adulthood function following chronic iron deficiency in infancy. Study design At 25 years, we compared 33 subjects with chronic iron…”
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A Bayesian Mixture Model for Predicting the COVID-19 Related Mortality in the United States by Kaciroti, Niko A, Lumeng, Carey, Parekh, Vikas, Boulton, Matthew L

“…An outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 has led to a global pandemic affecting virtually every country. As of August 31, 2020, globally, there have been approximately…”
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Bayesian sensitivity analyses for longitudinal data with dropouts that are potentially missing not at random: A high dimensional pattern‐mixture model by Kaciroti, Niko A., Little, Roderick J.A.

“…Randomized clinical trials with outcome measured longitudinally are frequently analyzed using either random effect models or generalized estimating equations…”
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Contribution of iron status at birth to infant iron status at 9 months: data from a prospective maternal-infant birth cohort in China by Shao, Jie, Richards, Blair, Kaciroti, Niko, Zhu, Bingquan, Clark, Katy M., Lozoff, Betsy

“…Background/Objectives The contribution of iron status at birth to iron status in infancy is not known. We used a physiologic framework to evaluate how iron…”
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Longitudinal associations between overweight/obesity and stress biology in low-income children by Doom, Jenalee R., Lumeng, Julie C., Sturza, Julie, Kaciroti, Niko, Vazquez, Delia M., Miller, Alison L.

“…Background/Objectives Associations between overweight and altered stress biology have been reported cross-sectionally during childhood, but it is unclear…”
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Eating in the Absence of Hunger and Weight Gain in Low-income Toddlers by Asta, Katharine, Miller, Alison L, Retzloff, Lauren, Rosenblum, Katherine, Kaciroti, Niko A, Lumeng, Julie C

“…To identify predictors of eating in the absence of hunger (EAH) in low-income toddlers, describe affect during EAH, test EAH as a predictor of body mass index…”
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Bayesian sensitivity analysis of incomplete data: bridging pattern-mixture and selection models by Kaciroti, Niko A., Raghunathan, Trivellore

“…Pattern‐mixture models (PMM) and selection models (SM) are alternative approaches for statistical analysis when faced with incomplete data and a nonignorable…”
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Parenting Styles and Overweight Status in First Grade by Rhee, Kyung E, Lumeng, Julie C, Appugliese, Danielle P, Kaciroti, Niko, Bradley, Robert H

“…The goal was to determine the relationship between the 4 parenting styles (authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and neglectful) and overweight status in…”
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Targeting self-regulation to promote health behaviors in children by Miller, Alison L., Gearhardt, Ashley N., Fredericks, Emily M., Katz, Benjamin, Shapiro, Lilly Fink, Holden, Kelsie, Kaciroti, Niko, Gonzalez, Richard, Hunter, Christine, Lumeng, Julie C.

“…Poor self-regulation (i.e., inability to harness cognitive, emotional, motivational resources to achieve goals) is hypothesized to contribute to unhealthy…”
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Capacity for Regulation of Energy Intake in Infancy by Reynolds, Lyndsey A F, McCaffery, Harlan, Appugliese, Danielle, Kaciroti, Niko A, Miller, Alison L, Rosenblum, Katherine L, Gearhardt, Ashley N, Lumeng, Julie C

“…The capacity for regulation of energy intake (REI) to match energy needs is thought to contribute to differences in weight gain, and preventing excess infant…”
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Gestational Age and Kindergarten School Readiness in a National Sample of Preterm Infants by Shah, Prachi E., MD, MS, Kaciroti, Niko, PhD, Richards, Blair, MS, Lumeng, Julie C., MD

“…Objective To examine the association of gestational age with school readiness in kindergarten reading and math skills. We hypothesized that compared with…”
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Daily television exposure, parent conversation during shared television viewing and socioeconomic status: Associations with curiosity at kindergarten by Shah, Prachi E, Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy, Kashdan, Todd B, Harrison, Kristen, Rosenblum, Katherine, Weeks, Heidi M, Singh, Priya, Kaciroti, Niko

“…To examine the main and interactive effects of the amount of daily television exposure and frequency of parent conversation during shared television viewing on…”
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Reduced birth weight in relation to pesticide mixtures detected in cord blood of full-term infants by Wickerham, Erin L., Lozoff, Betsy, Shao, Jie, Kaciroti, Niko, Xia, Yankai, Meeker, John D.

“…Previous research has shown that prenatal exposure to pesticides may be associated with decreased fetal growth. The specific pesticides investigated and…”
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Ecological contexts associated with early childhood curiosity: Neighborhood safety, home and parenting quality, and socioeconomic status by Shah, Prachi E, Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy, Spinelli, Maria, Ozor, Jenny, Weeks, Heidi M, McCaffery, Harlan, Kaciroti, Niko

“…Curiosity is an important social-emotional process underlying early learning. Our previous work found a positive association between higher curiosity and…”
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Maternal restrictive feeding and eating in the absence of hunger among toddlers: a cohort study by Bauer, Katherine W, Haines, Jess, Miller, Alison L, Rosenblum, Katherine, Appugliese, Danielle P, Lumeng, Julie C, Kaciroti, Niko A

“…Restrictive feeding by parents has been associated with greater eating in the absence of hunger (EAH) among children, a risk factor for obesity. However, few…”
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Surgency and negative affectivity, but not effortful control, are uniquely associated with obesogenic eating behaviors among low-income preschoolers by Leung, Christy Y.Y., Lumeng, Julie C., Kaciroti, Niko A., Chen, Yu Pu, Rosenblum, Katherine, Miller, Alison L.

“…•Surgency was related to more food responsiveness, desire and eating without hunger•Negative affect was related to more food tantrums but less eating without…”
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Greater analgesic effects of sucrose in the neonate predict greater weight gain to age 18 months by Lumeng, Julie C., Li, Xing, He, Yunyi, Gearhardt, Ashley, Sturza, Julie, Kaciroti, Niko A., Li, Ming, Asta, Katharine, Lozoff, Betsy

“…Intraoral sucrose has analgesic effects in the newborn period. The hedonic and analgesic effects of sucrose overlap and hedonic response to sweet food is…”
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