Effects of promoting longer-term and exclusive breastfeeding on adiposity and insulin-like growth factor-I at age 11.5 years: a randomized trial

RM Martin, R Patel, MS Kramer, L Guthrie, K Vilchuck… - Jama, 2013 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Evidence that longer-term and exclusive breastfeeding reduces child obesity risk
is based on observational studies that are prone to confounding. Objective To investigate …

Effects of promoting long-term, exclusive breastfeeding on adolescent adiposity, blood pressure, and growth trajectories: a secondary analysis of a randomized clinical …

…, J Thompson, S Yang, K Vilchuck… - JAMA …, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Evidence that breastfeeding reduces child obesity risk and lowers blood pressure
(BP) is based on potentially confounded observational studies. Objective To investigate …

Effects of promoting longer-term and exclusive breastfeeding on cardiometabolic risk factors at age 11.5 years: a cluster-randomized, controlled trial

RM Martin, R Patel, MS Kramer, K Vilchuck… - Circulation, 2014 - Am Heart Assoc
Background— The duration and exclusivity of breastfeeding in infancy have been inversely
associated with future cardiometabolic risk. We investigated the effects of an experimental …

Cohort profile: The promotion of breastfeeding intervention trial (PROBIT)

…, B Chalmers, ED Hodnett, K Vilchuck… - International journal …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
SummaryThe PROmotion of Breastfeeding Intervention Trial (PROBIT) is a multicentre,
cluster-randomized controlled trial conducted in the Republic of Belarus, in which the …

[HTML][HTML] Breastfeeding during infancy and neurocognitive function in adolescence: 16-year follow-up of the PROBIT cluster-randomized trial

…, J Thompson, SL Rifas-Shiman, K Vilchuck… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background Evidence on the long-term effect of breastfeeding on neurocognitive development
is based almost exclusively on observational studies. In the 16-year follow-up study of a …

Effect of an intervention to promote breastfeeding on asthma, lung function, and atopic eczema at age 16 years: follow-up of the PROBIT randomized trial

…, SL Rifas-Shiman, S Yang, K Vilchuck… - JAMA …, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Atopic diseases, including asthma and atopic eczema, are the most common
chronic conditions of childhood. Objective To investigate whether an intervention to promote …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of an intervention to promote breastfeeding on maternal adiposity and blood pressure at 11.5 y postpartum: results from the Promotion of Breastfeeding …

E Oken, R Patel, LB Guthrie, K Vilchuck… - The American journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Background: Differences between mothers who do and do not succeed in breastfeeding are
likely to confound associations of lactation with later maternal adiposity. Objective: We …

Associations of atopic dermatitis and asthma with child behaviour: Results from the PROBIT cohort

…, R Patel, J Thompson, K Vilchuck… - Clinical & …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background Conflicting findings from studies evaluating associations of allergic disease
with child behaviour require longitudinal studies to resolve. Objective To estimate the …

[HTML][HTML] Prospective associations between problematic eating attitudes in midchildhood and the future onset of adolescent obesity and high blood pressure

…, R Patel, N Bogdanovich, K Vilchuck… - The American journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background: Clinically diagnosed eating disorders may have adverse cardiometabolic
consequences, including overweight or obesity and high blood pressure. However, the link …

[HTML][HTML] Ongoing monitoring of data clustering in multicenter studies

…, JAC Sterne, MW Gillman, R Patel, K Vilchuck… - BMC medical research …, 2012 - Springer
Background Multicenter study designs have several advantages, but the possibility of non-random
measurement error resulting from procedural differences between the centers is a …