Lifetime history of gestational diabetes and cognitive function in parous women in midlife.
Soria-Contreras DC, Wang S, Liu J, Lawn RB, Mitsunami M, Purdue-Smithe AC, Zhang C, Oken E, Chavarro JE.
Diabetologia. 2024 Sep 06. PMID: 39240352
Secondary Faculty
Emily Oken
Other Positions
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute Professor of Population Medicine
Population Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Head of the Department of Population Medicine
Population Medicine
Harvard Medical School
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Early Pregnancy Plasma Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) and Maternal Midlife Adiposity.
Burdeau JA, Stephenson BJK, Chavarro JE, Mahalingaiah S, Preston EV, Hivert MF, Oken E, Calafat AM, Rifas-Shiman SL, Zota AR, James-Todd T.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2024 Sep 05. PMID: 39235224
Hair cortisol concentrations are associated with greater adiposity in late adolescence amongst non-Hispanic White individuals.
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Validation of Variables for Use in Pediatric Obesity Risk Score Development in Demographically and Racially Diverse United States Cohorts.
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Sociodemographic Correlates of High Cardiovascular Health Across Childhood and Adolescence: A Prospective Study Among 2 Cohorts in the ECHO Consortium.
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Eager to improve women's cardiovascular health.
Oken E.
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First trimester prenatal metal mixtures, vitamins, and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in the project viva cohort.
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