Associations of maternal consumption of sugary beverages in pregnancy with infant weight status.
Egan KA, Lo BK, Haneuse S, Davison KK, Redline S, Taveras EM.
Acad Pediatr. 2022 May 13. PMID: 35577285
Secondary Faculty
Elsie Mireya Taveras
Other Positions
Associate Professor of Population Medicine
Population Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Conrad Taff Professor of Nutrition in the Department of Pediatrics
Pediatrics-Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
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Implementing expanded COVID-19 testing in Massachusetts community health centers through community partnerships: Protocol for an interrupted time series and stepped wedge study design.
Kruse G, Pelton-Cairns L, Taveras E, Dargon-Hart S, Gundersen DA, Lee RM, Bierer BE, Lawlor E, LaRocque R, Marcus JL, Davies ME, Emmons K.
Contemp Clin Trials. 2022 May 06. 106783. PMID: 35533978
Associations of sleep-related behaviors and the sleep environment at infant age one month with sleep patterns in infants five months later.
Quante M, McGee GW, Yu X, von Ash T, Luo M, Kaplan ER, Rueschman M, Haneuse S, Davison KK, Redline S, Taveras EM.
Sleep Med. 2022 Jun. 94:31-37. PMID: 35489116
Household Food Insecurity is Associated with Obesogenic Health Behaviors among a Low-Income Cohort of Pregnant Women in Boston, MA.
Cheng ER, Luo M, Perkins M, Blake-Lamb T, Kotelchuck M, Arauz Boudreau A, Taveras EM.
Public Health Nutr. 2022 Mar 24. 1-19. PMID: 35321774
Potentially modifiable mediators for socioeconomic disparities in childhood obesity in the United States.
Wen X, Mi B, Wang Y, Taveras EM, Bartashevskyy M.
Obesity (Silver Spring). 2022 03. 30(3):718-732. PMID: 35195362
Awareness, Utilization, and Preferences of Harm Reduction Interventions among Street-Involved Young Adults in Boston.
Noyes EA, Dunleavy S, Mail V, Plakas I, Keyes S, Gaeta JM, Obando A, Paci E, Lent C, Regis C, Taveras EM, Yule AM, Chatterjee A.
Subst Use Misuse. 2022. 57(5):827-832. PMID: 35195488
Estimated Cost-effectiveness of Medical Therapy, Sleeve Gastrectomy, and Gastric Bypass in Patients With Severe Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.
Lauren BN, Lim F, Krikhely A, Taveras EM, Woo Baidal JA, Bellows BK, Hur C.
JAMA Netw Open. 2022 02 01. 5(2):e2148317. PMID: 35157054
Association of Changes in Obesity Prevalence With the COVID-19 Pandemic in Youth in Massachusetts.
Wu AJ, Aris IM, Hivert MF, Rocchio C, Cocoros NM, Klompas M, Taveras EM.
JAMA Pediatr. 2022 02 01. 176(2):198-201. PMID: 34901998
Longitudinal association of actigraphy-assessed sleep with physical growth in the first 6 months of life.
Li X, Haneuse S, Rueschman M, Kaplan ER, Yu X, Davison KK, Redline S, Taveras EM.
Sleep. 2022 01 11. 45(1). PMID: 34676870
Antibiotics prior to age 2 years have limited association with preschool growth trajectory.
Bailey LC, Bryan M, Maltenfort M, Block JP, Teneralli R, Lunsford D, Boone-Heinonen J, Eneli I, Horgan CE, Lin PD, Reynolds JS, Solomonides AE, Janicke D, Sturtevant JL, Toh S, Taveras E, Appelhans BM, Arterburn D, Daley MF, Dempsey A, Dugas LR, Finkelstein J, Fitzpatrick SL, Goodman A, Gurka MJ, Heerman WJ, Horberg M, Hossain MJ, Hsia DS, Isasi CR, Kharbanda EO, Messito MJ, Murphy K, O'Bryan K, Peay HL, Prochaska MT, Puro J, Rayas M, Rosenman MB, Taylor B, VanWormer JJ, Willis Z, Yeramaneni S, Forrest CB.
Int J Obes (Lond). 2022 Apr. 46(4):843-850. PMID: 34999718
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