selected scholarly activity
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books
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chapters
- Fetal Origins of Coronary Artery Disease. 258-267. 2009
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conferences
- EFFICACY OF THE AIM2BE MHEALTH INTERVENTION FOR CHILDREN WITH OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. S182-S182. 2021
- Infrared Thermography as a Measure of Brown Adipose Tissue and its relationship to body composition, fasting glucose and lipids in 8-10 year old males. Irish Journal of Medical Science. S207-S207. 2019
- Does the impact of a plant-based diet during pregnancy on birthweight differ by ethnicity?. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society. E130-E130. 2018
- Interim analysis of a phase I dose escalation trial of the antibody drug conjugate (ADC) AGS15E (ASG-15ME) in patients (Pts) with metastatic urothelial cancer (mUC). Annals of Oncology. 2016
- Effect of rosuvastatin therapy on carotid intima media thickness in children with familial hypercholesterolemia: Findings from the charon study. Atherosclerosis. e18-e19. 2014
- Efficacy and safety of rosuvastatin in children aged 6–17 years with familial hypercholesterolemia: Findings from the charon study. Atherosclerosis. e34-e34. 2014
- WHAT INFLUENCES ACADEMIC CLINICIANS' INTENTION TO TREAT PEDIATRIC OBESITY?. Obesity Surgery. 1298-1298. 2014
- Perinatal Exposure to the Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Fluoxetine Results in Hepatic Lipid Accumulation and Inflammation. Endocrine Reviews. 2014
- EFFECT OF ROSUVASTATIN THERAPY ON ARTERIAL WALL CHANGES IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA: RESULTS FROM THE CHARON STUDY. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. A1379-A1379. 2014
- EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF ROSUVASTATIN THERAPY FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA: RESULTS FROM THE CHARON STUDY. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. A1288-A1288. 2014
- Why Do Parents Decide Not To Initiate Treatment For Pediatric Obesity?. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. 477-478. 2014
- NP026 Randomized Trial of E-Learning Vs Face-to-Face Education on Patient Knowledge and Treatment Choices for Cholesterol Lowering Interventions. Canadian Journal of Cardiology. S450-S450. 2012
- Fetal Exposure to the Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Sertraline Results in Impaired Fetal Growth and Pancreatic Development in Wistar Rats. Reproductive Sciences. 119A-119A. 2012
- Postnatal Reproductive Health Following Fetal and Neonatal Exposure to the Smoking Cessation Drug Bupropion. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. S6-S6. 2011
- Postnatal Metabolic Health Following Fetal and Neonatal Exposure to the Antidepressant Bupropion.. Reproductive Sciences. 211A-211A. 2011
- Reproducibility of oral glucose tolerance test derived parameters in obese youth. Clinical Biochemistry. 195-195. 2008
- Effects of maternal smoking on the placenta vaculosyncytial membrane thickness. Placenta. A41-A41. 2007
- Bone health status in relation to body adiposity in obese children and youth enrolled in a hospital-based weight management program. Bone. S79-S79. 2007
- A plea for intra-laboratory reference limits. Part 2. A bimodal retrospective concept for determining reference limits from intra-laboratory databases demonstrated by catalytic activity concentrations of enzymes. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine. 1043-1057. 2007
- Adiponectin oligomers in obese children. Clinical Biochemistry. 1100-1100. 2006
- Noninvasive measures of subclinical atherosclerosis in children, a systematic overview. Circulation. 823-823. 2006
- Relationship Between Stages of Change, Physical Activity, and Exercise Tolerance Among Patients with Heart Failure. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. S254-S254. 2006
- Effect of fetal and neonatal exposure to nicotine on postnatal glucose homeostasis: Identifying critical windows of exposure.. Reproductive Sciences. 93A-94A. 2006
- Quantification of the Soluble Leptin Receptor in Human Blood by Ligand-Mediated Immunofunctional Assay. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM). 2931-2939. 2002
- Normal Values of Insulin-Like Growth Factor I and Their Clinical Utility in Adults. Hormone Research in Paediatrics. 100-105. 2001
- Weight loss at high altitude. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. 237-247. 2001
- Influence of hypobaric hypoxia on leptin levels in men. International Journal of Obesity. S151-S151. 2000
- BONE-MINERAL DENSITY AND CALCIUM INTAKE IN CHILDREN DURING PUBERTY. NUTRITIONAL ASPECTS OF OSTEOPOROSIS. 77-89. 1991
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journal articles
- Characteristics of Abdominal Visceral Adipose Tissue, Metabolic Health and the Gut Microbiome in Adults. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM). 109:680-690. 2024
- Reduced plasma GDF10 levels are positively associated with cholesterol impairment and childhood obesity. Scientific Reports. 14:1805. 2024
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Cohort profile update : The CanadianMaternal–Infant Research on Environmental Chemicals Child Development study (MIREC‐CD PLUS ). Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 37:719-732. 2023 - Attrition from paediatric weight management impacts anthropometric outcomes at 2 years, but not health‐related quality of life. Clinical Obesity. 13:e12606. 2023
- Do Individual Characteristics and Social Support Increase Children's Use of an MHealth Intervention? Findings from the Evaluation of a Behavior Change MHealth App, Aim2Be. Childhood Obesity. 19:435-442. 2023
- Factors Associated With the Development of Dyslipidemia Among Pediatric Patients With Diabetes: A Single-centre–based Study. Canadian Journal of Diabetes. 47:611-617. 2023
- Recruiting families using social media versus pediatric obesity clinics: A secondary analysis of the Aim2Be RCT. Contemporary Clinical Trials. 133:107322-107322. 2023
- Surrogate Adiposity Markers and Mortality. JAMA network open. 6:e2334836-e2334836. 2023
- Exploring the complexities of weight management care for children with spina bifida: a qualitative study with children and parents. Disability and Rehabilitation. ahead-of-print:1-9. 2023
- Association between impaired lung function and carotid intima-media thickness in children. ERJ Open Research. 9:00330-2023. 2023
- Associations of intrapartum antibiotics and growth, atopy, gastrointestinal and sleep outcomes at one year of age. Pediatric Research. 94:1026-1034. 2023
- Correction To: Associations of intrapartum antibiotics and growth, atopy, gastrointestinal and sleep outcomes at one year of age. Pediatric Research. 94:1251-1251. 2023
- Measuring severe obesity in pediatrics using body mass index-derived metrics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and World Health Organization: a secondary analysis of CANadian Pediatric Weight management Registry (CANPWR) data. European Journal of Pediatrics. 182:3679-3690. 2023
- Weight Management for Children With Disabilities: Exploring the Perspectives of Health Care Professionals Working in Pediatric Weight Management Clinics in Canada.. Childhood Obesity. 2023
- Effects of the pesticide deltamethrin on high fat diet-induced obesity and insulin resistance in male mice. Food and Chemical Toxicology. 176:113763-113763. 2023
- Integrative multiomics analysis of infant gut microbiome and serum metabolome reveals key molecular biomarkers of early onset childhood obesity. Vaccine Reports. 9:e16651-e16651. 2023
- Author Correction: Chronic exposure to synthetic food colorant Allura Red AC promotes susceptibility to experimental colitis via intestinal serotonin in mice. Nature Communications. 14:3125. 2023
- Early sex-dependent differences in metabolic profiles of overweight and adiposity in young children: a cross-sectional analysis. BMC Medicine. 21:176. 2023
- Severe obesity and global developmental delay in preschool children: Findings from a Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program study. Paediatrics and Child Health. 28:107-112. 2023
- Incorporation of patient and family values and preferences for health‐related outcomes in paediatric obesity management: A systematic review. Pediatric Obesity. 18:e13006. 2023
- Efficacy of the Aim2Be Intervention in Changing Lifestyle Behaviors Among Adolescents With Overweight and Obesity: Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 25:e38545-e38545. 2023
- The association of maternal sugary beverage consumption during pregnancy and the early years with childhood sugary beverage consumption. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 114:231-240. 2023
- Chronic exposure to synthetic food colorant Allura Red AC promotes susceptibility to experimental colitis via intestinal serotonin in mice. Nature Communications. 13:7617. 2022
- DNA methylation changes in cord blood and the developmental origins of health and disease – a systematic review and replication study. BMC Genomics. 23:221. 2022
- Growth and body composition trajectories in infants meeting the WHO growth standards study requirements. Pediatric Research. 92:1640-1647. 2022
- Screening and addressing social needs of children and families enrolled in a pediatric weight management program: a protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial. Pilot and Feasibility Studies. 8:129. 2022
- Maternal Schizophrenia and the Risk of a Childhood Chronic Condition. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 48:1252-1262. 2022
- A survey of stakeholders' perceived importance of health indicators and subgroup analyses to inform the Canadian clinical practice guideline for managing paediatric obesity. Pediatric Obesity. 17:e12949. 2022
- Les effets de la pandémie de COVID-19 sur la santé mentale et physique des enfants inscrits à une clinique pédiatrique de gestion du poids. Paediatrics and Child Health. 27:S158-S164. 2022
- High-fructose feeding suppresses cold-stimulated brown adipose tissue glucose uptake independently of changes in thermogenesis and the gut microbiome. Cell Reports Medicine. 3:100742-100742. 2022
- Capturing the antibiotic resistome of preterm infants reveals new benefits of probiotic supplementation. Microbiome. 10:136. 2022
- The Detection, Evaluation, and Management of Dyslipidemia in Children and Adolescents: A Canadian Cardiovascular Society/Canadian Pediatric Cardiology Association Clinical Practice Update. Canadian Journal of Cardiology. 38:1168-1179. 2022
- Increased gut serotonin production in response to bisphenol A structural analogs may contribute to their obesogenic effects. American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism. 323:E80-E091. 2022
- The Aim2Be mHealth Intervention for Children With Overweight or Obesity and Their Parents: Person-Centered Analyses to Uncover Digital Phenotypes. British Journal of Haematology. 24:e35285-e35285. 2022
- Sources of Variation in Food-Related Metabolites during Pregnancy. Nutrients. 14:2503-2503. 2022
- Impaired Cold-Stimulated Supraclavicular Brown Adipose Tissue Activity in Young Boys With Obesity. Diabetes. 71:1193-1204. 2022
- Impact of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on the mental and physical health of children enrolled in a paediatric weight management clinic. Paediatrics and Child Health. 27:S72-S77. 2022
- Metabolic-endocrine disruption due to preterm birth impacts growth, body composition, and neonatal outcome. Pediatric Research. 91:1350-1360. 2022
- Efficacy of the Aim2Be Intervention in Changing Lifestyle Behaviors Among Adolescents With Overweight and Obesity: Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint) 2022
- Effect of obesity treatment interventions in preschool children aged 2–6 years: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Open. 12:e053523-e053523. 2022
- Serum metabolomic signatures of gestational diabetes in South Asian and white European women. BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care. 10:e002733-e002733. 2022
- Complex chronic conditions among children born to women with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research. 241:24-35. 2022
- DNA methylation profiles in adults born at extremely low birth weight. Development and Psychopathology. 34:19-36. 2022
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Metabolically healthy obesity in children enrolled in the
CANadian Pediatric Weight management Registry (CANPWR ): An exploratory secondary analysis of baseline data. Clinical Obesity. 12:e12490. 2022 - Individual and family characteristics associated with health indicators at entry into multidisciplinary pediatric weight management: findings from the CANadian Pediatric Weight management Registry (CANPWR). International Journal of Obesity. 46:85-94. 2022
- Non-esterified fatty acids as biomarkers of diet and glucose homeostasis in pregnancy: The impact of fatty acid reporting methods. Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids. 176:102378-102378. 2022
- Updating the Canadian clinical practice guideline for managing pediatric obesity: a protocol. CMAJ open. 10:E155-E164. 2022
- Cumulative risks predict epigenetic age in adult survivors of extremely low birth weight. Developmental Psychobiology. 63:e22222. 2021
- Metabolite profiles and the risk of metabolic syndrome in early childhood: a case-control study. BMC Medicine. 19:292. 2021
- The Aim2Be mHealth Intervention for Children With Overweight or Obesity and Their Parents: Person-Centered Analyses to Uncover Digital Phenotypes (Preprint) 2021
- Nutritional Metabolomics and the Classification of Dietary Biomarker Candidates: A Critical Review. Advances in Nutrition. 12:2333-2357. 2021
- Blood pressure in adults with cerebral palsy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data. Journal of Hypertension. 39:1942-1955. 2021
- Lower brown adipose tissue activity is associated with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease but not changes in the gut microbiota. Cell Reports Medicine. 2:100397-100397. 2021
- Variability in How Canadian Pediatric Weight Management Clinics Deliver Care: Evidence from the CANadian Pediatric Weight Management Registry. Childhood Obesity. 17:420-426. 2021
- The pesticide chlorpyrifos promotes obesity by inhibiting diet-induced thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue. Nature Communications. 12:5163. 2021
- Infants’ First Solid Foods: Impact on Gut Microbiota Development in Two Intercontinental Cohorts. Nutrients. 13:2639-2639. 2021
- Extremely Low Birth Weight and Accelerated Biological Aging. Pediatrics. 147:e2020001230. 2021
- Exposure to the Widely Used Pyrethroid Pesticide Deltamethrin, Does Not Exacerbate High Fat Diet Induced Obesity or Insulin Resistance in C57BL/6J Mice. Journal of the Endocrine Society. 5:A45-A46. 2021
- The Pesticide Chlorpyrifos Promotes Obesity by Inhibiting Diet-Induced Thermogenesis. Journal of the Endocrine Society. 5:A59-A60. 2021
- Common Core Assessments in follow‐up studies of adults born preterm—Recommendation of the Adults Born Preterm International Collaboration. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 35:371-387. 2021
- Grip strength is lower in adults born with extremely low birth weight compared to term-born controls. Pediatric Research. 89:996-1003. 2021
- Adiposity in Survivors of Cancer in Childhood: How is it Measured and Why Does it Matter?. Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. 43:1-11. 2021
- Investigating colonization patterns of the infant gut microbiome during the introduction of solid food and weaning from breastmilk: A cohort study protocol. PLoS ONE. 16:e0248924-e0248924. 2021
- Metabolic Flexibility during Exercise in Children with Obesity and Matched Controls. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 53:159-164. 2021
- Aim2Be mHealth intervention for children with overweight and obesity: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 21:132. 2020
- Maternal Diet and the Serum Metabolome in Pregnancy: Robust Dietary Biomarkers Generalizable to a Multiethnic Birth Cohort. Current Developments in Nutrition. 4:nzaa144-nzaa144. 2020
- Childhood Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Working Toward Solutions. Canadian Journal of Cardiology. 36:1352-1361. 2020
- The children of preterm survivors: shyness, parenting, and parental stress. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. 11:410-414. 2020
- “Health, wealth and achievements of former very premature infants in adult life”. Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine. 25:101107-101107. 2020
- Development of the Microbiota and Associations With Birth Mode, Diet, and Atopic Disorders in a Longitudinal Analysis of Stool Samples, Collected From Infancy Through Early Childhood. Gastroenterology. 158:1584-1596. 2020
- Genetic deletion of mast cell serotonin synthesis prevents the development of obesity and insulin resistance. Nature Communications. 11:463. 2020
- Fat and Fat-Free Mass of Preterm and Term Infants from Birth to Six Months: A Review of Current Evidence. Nutrients. 12:288-288. 2020
- Ethnic differences in maternal diet in pregnancy and infant eczema. PLoS ONE. 15:e0232170-e0232170. 2020
- Persistence of Suspected Probiotic Organisms in Preterm Infant Gut Microbiota Weeks After Probiotic Supplementation in the NICU. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11:574137. 2020
- MRI Reveals Human Brown Adipose Tissue Is Rapidly Activated in Response to Cold. Journal of the Endocrine Society. 3:2374-2384. 2019
- Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology 52nd Annual General Meeting / Actes du 52e congrès annuel de la Société canadienne de physiologie de l’exercice. Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism. 44:S55-S120. 2019
- Exposure to antenatal corticosteroids and reduced respiratory sinus arrhythmia in adult survivors of extremely low birth weight. International Journal of Neuroscience. 129:776-783. 2019
- Childhood Motor Coordination and Adult Affective Experience Among Extremely Low Birth Weight Survivors. Perceptual and Motor Skills. 126:656-674. 2019
- Continued attendance for paediatric weight management: A multicentre, qualitative study of parents' reasons and facilitators. Clinical Obesity. 9:e12304. 2019
- Obesity class versus the Edmonton Obesity Staging System for Pediatrics to define health risk in childhood obesity: results from the CANPWR cross-sectional study. The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health. 3:398-407. 2019
- Pathways to eating in children and adolescents with obesity. International Journal of Obesity. 43:1193-1201. 2019
- Multifactorial correlates of blood pressure in South Asian children in Canada: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Open. 9:e027844-e027844. 2019
- Publisher Correction: Pathways to eating in children and adolescents with obesity. International Journal of Obesity. 43:638-638. 2019
- Understanding paediatric patients’ attitudes toward obesity and expectations prior to entering a weight management program. Paediatrics and Child Health. 24:e26-e32. 2019
- Adiposity measures and their validity in estimating risk of hypertension in South Asian children: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Open. 9:e024087-e024087. 2019
- Associations of cardiometabolic outcomes with indices of obesity in children aged 5 years and younger. PLoS ONE. 14:e0218816-e0218816. 2019
- Electronic device use and beverage related sugar and caffeine intake in US adolescents. PLoS ONE. 14:e0223912-e0223912. 2019
- Canadian Cardiovascular Society Position Statement on Familial Hypercholesterolemia: Update 2018. Canadian Journal of Cardiology. 34:1553-1563. 2018
- The CANadian Pediatric Weight management Registry (CANPWR): lessons learned from developing and initiating a national, multi-centre study embedded in pediatric clinical practice. BMC Pediatrics. 18:237. 2018
- Trajectories of psychopathology in extremely low birth weight survivors from early adolescence to adulthood: a 20‐year longitudinal study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 59:1192-1200. 2018
- The prognosis for glycemic status among children and youth with obesity 2 years after entering a weight management program. Pediatric Diabetes. 19:874-881. 2018
- Effect of 7 days of exercise on exogenous carbohydrate oxidation and insulin resistance in children with obesity. Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism. 43:677-683. 2018
- Recent advances in the detection of brown adipose tissue in adult humans: a review. Clinical Science. 132:1039-1054. 2018
- Trajectories of self-esteem in extremely low birth weight survivors through adulthood. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. 56:35-41. 2018
- Validity and reliability of a novel metabolic flexibility test in children with obesity. Journal of applied physiology. 124:1062-1070. 2018
- Parental and child genetic contributions to obesity traits in early life based on 83 loci validated in adults: the FAMILY study. Pediatric Obesity. 13:133-140. 2018
- Response by Kusters et al to Letter Regarding Article, “Effect of Rosuvastatin on Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Children With Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia: The CHARON Study (Hypercholesterolemia in Children and Adolescents Taking Rosuvastatin Open Label)”. Circulation. 137:641-642. 2018
- Parent Recommendations to Enhance Enrollment in Multidisciplinary Clinical Care for Pediatric Weight Management. Journal of Pediatrics. 192:122-129. 2018
- The Team to Address Bariatric Care in Canadian Children (Team ABC3): Team Grant Research Proposal. BMC Research Notes. 10:301. 2017
- The readiness and motivation interview for families (RMI-Family) managing pediatric obesity: study protocol. BMC Health Services Research. 17:261. 2017
- Intrapartum antibiotics for GBS prophylaxis alter colonization patterns in the early infant gut microbiome of low risk infants. Scientific Reports. 7:16527. 2017
- Effect of Oral Insulin on Prevention of Diabetes in Relatives of Patients With Type 1 Diabetes. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). 318:1891-1891. 2017
- Does the impact of a plant-based diet during pregnancy on birth weight differ by ethnicity? A dietary pattern analysis from a prospective Canadian birth cohort alliance. BMJ Open. 7:e017753-e017753. 2017
- Optimizing the methodology for measuring supraclavicular skin temperature using infrared thermography; implications for measuring brown adipose tissue activity in humans. Scientific Reports. 7:11934. 2017
- Respiratory sinus arrhythmia in the fourth decade of life depends on birth weight and the DRD4 gene: Implications for understanding the development of emotion regulation. Developmental Psychobiology. 59:767-775. 2017
- Causes and consequences of gestational diabetes in South Asians living in Canada: results from a prospective cohort study. CMAJ open. 5:E604-E611. 2017
- A model linking video gaming, sleep quality, sweet drinks consumption and obesity among children and youth. Clinical Obesity. 7:191-198. 2017
- Extremely low birth weight babies grown up: Gene–environment interaction predicts internalizing problems in the third and fourth decades of life. Development and Psychopathology. 29:837-843. 2017
- Effect of Rosuvastatin on Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Children With Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia. Circulation. 136:359-366. 2017
- Why do parents discontinue health services for managing paediatric obesity? A multi-centre, qualitative study. Obesity Research and Clinical Practice. 11:335-343. 2017
- Genetic contribution to lipid levels in early life based on 158 loci validated in adults: the FAMILY study. Scientific Reports. 7:68. 2017
- Associations Between Childhood Cognition and Cardiovascular Events in Adulthood: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Canadian Journal of Cardiology. 33:232-242. 2017
- A genetic link between prepregnancy body mass index, postpartum weight retention, and offspring weight in early childhood. Obesity. 25:236-243. 2017
- Parental and offspring contribution of genetic markers of adult blood pressure in early life: The FAMILY study. PLoS ONE. 12:e0186218-e0186218. 2017
- Understanding academic clinicians’ intent to treat pediatric obesity. World Journal of Clinical Pediatrics. 6:60-60. 2017
- A comparison of intestinal microbiota in a population of low-risk infants exposed and not exposed to intrapartum antibiotics: The Baby & Microbiota of the Intestine cohort study protocol. BMC Pediatrics. 16:183. 2016
- Health-Related Quality of Life Trajectories of Extremely Low Birth Weight Survivors into Adulthood. Journal of Pediatrics. 179:68-73.e1. 2016
- Prenatal and early-life predictors of atopy and allergic disease in Canadian children: results of the Family Atherosclerosis Monitoring In earLY life (FAMILY) Study. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. 7:665-671. 2016
- Harmonization of Food-Frequency Questionnaires and Dietary Pattern Analysis in 4 Ethnically Diverse Birth Cohorts. Journal of Nutrition. 146:2343-2350. 2016
- Blood Pressure in Young Adults Born at Very Low Birth Weight. Hypertension. 68:880-887. 2016
- Cardiometabolic Health in Adults Born Premature With Extremely Low Birth Weight. Pediatrics. 138:e20160515. 2016
- Frameshift mutation in the APOA5 gene causing hypertriglyceridemia in a Pakistani family: Management and considerations for cardiovascular risk. Journal of Clinical Lipidology. 10:1272-1277. 2016
- No difference in exogenous carbohydrate oxidation during exercise in children with and without impaired glucose tolerance. Journal of applied physiology. 121:724-729. 2016
- ELBW survivors in early adulthood have higher hepatic, pancreatic and subcutaneous fat. Scientific Reports. 6:31560. 2016
- Recommendations From Parents to Improve Health Services for Managing Pediatric Obesity in Canada. Academic Pediatrics. 16:587-593. 2016
- Health, Wealth, Social Integration, and Sexuality of Extremely Low-Birth-Weight Prematurely Born Adults in the Fourth Decade of Life. JAMA pediatrics. 170:678-678. 2016
- Effect of serotonin modulating pharmacotherapies on body mass index and dysglycaemia among children and adolescents: a systematic review and network meta-analysis protocol. BMJ Open. 6:e009998-e009998. 2016
- Why do families enrol in paediatric weight management? A parental perspective of reasons and facilitators. Child: Care, Health and Development. 42:278-287. 2016
- What accounts for ethnic differences in newborn skinfold thickness comparing South Asians and White Caucasians? Findings from the START and FAMILY Birth Cohorts. International Journal of Obesity. 40:239-244. 2016
- Health Outcomes of Information System Use Lifestyles among Adolescents: Videogame Addiction, Sleep Curtailment and Cardio-Metabolic Deficiencies. PLoS ONE. 11:e0154764-e0154764. 2016
- Risk Alleles in/near ADCY5, ADRA2A, CDKAL1, CDKN2A/B, GRB10, and TCF7L2 Elevate Plasma Glucose Levels at Birth and in Early Childhood: Results from the FAMILY Study. PLoS ONE. 11:e0152107-e0152107. 2016
- The Edmonton Obesity Staging System for Pediatrics: A proposed clinical staging system for paediatric obesity. Paediatrics and Child Health. 21:21-26. 2016
- Canadian Pediatric Weight Management Registry (CANPWR): baseline descriptive statistics and comparison to Canadian norms. BMC Obesity. 2:29. 2015
- Outcomes in the offspring of mothers with pre-diabetes during pregnancy: a protocol for a systematic review. Systematic Reviews. 4:67. 2015
- Understanding Academic Clinicians' Decision Making for the Treatment of Childhood Obesity. Childhood Obesity. 11:696-706. 2015
- Efficacy and safety of rosuvastatin therapy in children and adolescents with familial hypercholesterolemia: Results from the CHARON study. Journal of Clinical Lipidology. 9:741-750. 2015
- An Overview of Links Between Obesity and Mental Health. Current Obesity Reports. 4:303-310. 2015
- 137: Genes Increasing Glucose Levels in Early Childhood Provide Support for the Fetal Insulin Hypothesis: Results from the Family Study. Paediatrics and Child Health. 20:e84-e84. 2015
- Antenatal exposure to the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor fluoxetine leads to postnatal metabolic and endocrine changes associated with type 2 diabetes in Wistar rats. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. 285:32-40. 2015
- Why don’t families initiate treatment? A qualitative multicentre study investigating parents’ reasons for declining paediatric weight management. Paediatrics and Child Health. 20:179-184. 2015
- Cold-Stimulated Supraclavicular Skin Temperature as a Measure of Brown Adipose Tissue Activity and Its Relation to Physical Activity and Body Composition in 8-10 Year Old Boys. Canadian Journal of Diabetes. 39:S42-S42. 2015
- Understanding Pediatric Patients’ Attitudes Toward Obesity Treatment: A Qualitative Study. Canadian Journal of Diabetes. 39:S33-S34. 2015
- Mental Health of Extremely Low Birth Weight Survivors in Their 30s. Pediatrics. 135:452-459. 2015
- Treatment of overweight and obesity in children and youth: a systematic review and meta-analysis. CMAJ open. 3:E35-E46. 2015
- Prevention of overweight and obesity in children and youth: a systematic review and meta-analysis. CMAJ open. 3:E23-E33. 2015
- Association of depression & health related quality of life with body composition in children and youth with obesity. Journal of Affective Disorders. 172:18-23. 2015
- Inhibiting peripheral serotonin synthesis reduces obesity and metabolic dysfunction by promoting brown adipose tissue thermogenesis. Nature Medicine. 21:166-172. 2015
- Autonomic Functioning in Young Adults Born at Extremely Low Birth Weight. Global Pediatric Health. 2:2333794X1558956-2333794X1558956. 2015
- Cardiovascular Responses to Psychosocial Stress Reflect Motivation State in Adults Born at Extremely Low Birth Weight. Global Pediatric Health. 2:2333794X1557409-2333794X1557409. 2015
- The CANadian Pediatric Weight Management Registry (CANPWR): Study protocol. BMC Pediatrics. 14:161. 2014
- A standardized infrared imaging technique that specifically detects UCP1-mediated thermogenesis in vivo. Molecular Metabolism. 3:490-494. 2014
- Body mass index among immigrant and non-immigrant youth: Evidence from the Canadian Community Health Survey. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 105:e239-e244. 2014
- It’s like rocket science…only more complex: challenges and experiences related to managing pediatric obesity in Canada. Expert Review of Endocrinology and Metabolism. 9:223-229. 2014
- Child and Adolescent Psychopathology Predicts Increased Adult Body Mass Index. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. 35:108-117. 2014
- Aboriginal birth cohort (ABC): a prospective cohort study of early life determinants of adiposity and associated risk factors among Aboriginal people in Canada. BMC Public Health. 13:608. 2013
- Rationale and design of South Asian Birth Cohort (START): a Canada-India collaborative study. BMC Public Health. 13:79. 2013
- Are children and adolescents with psychiatric illness at risk for increased future body weight? A systematic review. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology. 55:980-987. 2013
- Maternal and Newborn Health Profile in a First Nations Community in Canada. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada. 35:905-913. 2013
- Postnatal Metabolic and Reproductive Consequences of Fetal and Neonatal Exposure to the Smoking Cessation Drug Bupropion. Reproductive Sciences. 20:1156-1161. 2013
- Design and baseline data of a pediatric study with rosuvastatin in familial hypercholesterolemia. Journal of Clinical Lipidology. 7:408-413. 2013
- Assessing Determinants of Readiness to Change at Baseline in DECCO Cohort. Canadian Journal of Diabetes. 37:S225-S225. 2013
- The Edmonton Obesity Staging System for Pediatrics (EOSS-P): A Proposed Clinical Staging System for Pediatric Obesity. Canadian Journal of Diabetes. 37:S240-S240. 2013
- The impact of obesity on quality of life. Best Practice and Research in Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 27:139-146. 2013
- Maternal and Pregnancy Related Predictors of Cardiometabolic Traits in Newborns. PLoS ONE. 8:e55815-e55815. 2013
- Should I stay or should I go? Understanding families’ decisions regarding initiating, continuing, and terminating health services for managing pediatric obesity: the protocol for a multi-center, qualitative study. BMC Health Services Research. 12:486. 2012
- Maternal antioxidants prevent β‐cell apoptosis and promote formation of dual hormone‐expressing endocrine cells in male offspring following fetal and neonatal nicotine exposure. Journal of Diabetes. 4:297-306. 2012
- Childhood Onset Depression is Associated with Adult Overweight: Results from a Prospective Longitudinal Community Study. Paediatrics and Child Health. 17:11A-11A. 2012
- Screening for Dysglycemia in Overweight Youth Presenting for Weight Management. Diabetes Reviews. 35:711-716. 2012
- Human maternal and umbilical cord blood concentrations of polybrominated diphenyl ethers. Chemosphere. 84:1301-1309. 2011
- Parents’ perceptions and attitudes on childhood obesity: A Q‐methodology study. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. 23:67-75. 2011
- Disseminating the Canadian clinical Practice Guidelines for Pediatric Obesity: Tool development and evaluation. Canadian Journal of Diabetes. 35:145-146. 2011
- Cardiovascular risk factors and non-invasive assessment of subclinical atherosclerosis in youth. Atherosclerosis. 208:501-505. 2010
- The Family Atherosclerosis Monitoring In earLY life (FAMILY) study. American Heart Journal. 158:533-539. 2009
- NovelLPLmutations associated with lipoprotein lipase deficiency: two case reports and a literature review. Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology. 87:151-160. 2009
- DIABETES AND SOCIETy Fighting Child and Adolescent Obesity: Working Towards National, Integrated Strategies. Canadian Journal of Diabetes. 33:16-17. 2009
- Fighting Child and Adolescent Obesity: Working Towards National, Integrated Strategies. Canadian Journal of Diabetes. 33:16-17. 2009
- Serum levels of perfluoroalkyl compounds in human maternal and umbilical cord blood samples. Environmental Research. 108:56-62. 2008
- Increased Pancreatic Beta-Cell Apoptosis following Fetal and Neonatal Exposure to Nicotine Is Mediated via the Mitochondria. Toxicological Sciences. 103:362-370. 2008
- Maternal nicotine exposure increases oxidative stress in the offspring. Free Radical Biology and Medicine. 44:1919-1925. 2008
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- Annual incidence and relative risk of diabetes in people with various categories of dysglycemia: A systematic overview and meta-analysis of prospective studies. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. 78:305-312. 2007
- A Family-based Intervention to Promote Healthy Lifestyles in an Aboriginal Community in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 98:447-452. 2007
- Transgenerational effects of fetal and neonatal exposure to nicotine. Endocrine. 31:254-259. 2007
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preprints
- Consistent Cord Blood DNA Methylation Signatures of Gestational Age between South Asian and white European Cohorts 2024
- Maternal smoking DNA methylation risk score associated with health outcomes in offspring of European and South Asian ancestry 2023
- Measuring severe obesity in pediatrics: A cohort study 2023
- Comparative Analysis of Surrogate Adiposity Markers and Their Relationship With Mortality 2022
- High-fructose feeding suppresses cold-stimulated brown adipose tissue glucose uptake in young men independently of changes in thermogenesis and the gut microbiome 2022
- Investigation of the impact of stool collection methods on the metabolomics analysis/profiles of infant fecal samples 2021
- Aim2Be an mHealth intervention for children with overweight and obesity: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial 2019
- Aim2Be an mHealth intervention for children with overweight and obesity: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial 2019
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theses
- Factors Influencing Body Mass Index Among Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Canadian Youth: Evidence From the Canadian Community Health Survey. Paediatrics and Child Health. 2012