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Exposure to overnutrition in utero sets youth on a trajectory towards higher fasting insulin levels during childhood in the absence of overweight/obesity, followed by greater accrual of adiposity from childhood through adolescence. Wei Perng @Center_LEAD bit.ly/2WcGBTl

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NEW RESEARCH: Midpregnancy Phthalate and Phenol Biomarkers in Relation to Infant Body Composition: The Healthy Start Prospective Cohort ➡️ ow.ly/mG0J50PE2ZS Niel UNC Public Health LEAD Center ColoradoSPH @CUDeptofPeds CDC Environment Kelly Ferguson

LEAD PRA Celeste Connell presented her capstone project on 8/17 to complete her MPH in Epidemiology. Celeste worked with LEAD faculty, Traci Bekelman, PhD, MPH, and used data from the Healthy Start Study to present on racial and ethnic disparities in low-risk c-sections.

#ICYMI...NEW RESEARCH: Midpregnancy Phthalate and Phenol Biomarkers in Relation to Infant Body Composition: The Healthy Start Prospective Cohort ➡️ ow.ly/vcnE50PIOJe Niel UNC Public Health LEAD Center ColoradoSPH CDC Environment Kelly Ferguson

Poster presentation of maternal PFAS and breastfeeding duration in the Healthy Start study at #ISEE2023 @AnnePStarling LEAD Center

Presented my work using data from @Center_LEAD discussing metabolomics in Gestational Diabetes prediction. Finished off the night with great company Catherine Cioffi Cohen, PhD, RDN #EASD2023

Congratulations to LEAD Center’s Associate Director of Administration, Lisa Testaverde on winning CU’s staff excellence award! ColoradoSPH CU Anschutz Medical Campus

So exciting to hear about new(ish) LEAD faculty @noeltmueller’s research at the intersection of diet, nutrition, and the gut microbiome across the lifecourse. LEAD Center CU Anschutz Medical Campus

ICYMI: Wei Perng, PhD, MPH of CU Anschutz Medical Campus gave an #ECHODiscovery presentation last week on characterizing the natural history of #cardiovascular health across early life for primordial prevention of #cardiovascular disease: bit.ly/3s6vVpB

Happy to share that after 3 years of hard work, our paper on precision prognostics of gestational diabetes mellitus is published, as part of a larger series of systematic reviews for the ADA/EASD Precision Medicine in Diabetes Initiative. Link to paper in comments!

congrats to Dr. Dana Dabelea for her CU Anschutz Medical Campus Distinguished Lectureship award!

LEAD researcher Dr. Allie Shapiro finds that the link between diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease starts much earlier than previously suspected. Listen here: kunc.org/podcast/inthen…

LEAD at CoSPH received two awards totaling $29.2 million from the National Institutes of Health for a seven-year cycle of the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes ECHO Child Health Research . Read more about both the new and continuing grant here: news.cuanschutz.edu/coloradosph/co…

LEAD Center Director and CoSPH Associate Dean for Research, Dana Dabelea, presented about her life’s work, her continuing diabetes research, and the LEAD Center as part of her CU Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Lectureship award, which she received earlier this year.

Excited to share the news that Katerina Kechris, Leslie Lange, Ivana Yang and I are leading the Biostatistics Research Center for a new NIDDK-funded consortium to subtype type 2 diabetes, DEFINE-T2D. Read the story here: nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

Last week, the LEAD team attended the 3rd annual ColoradoSPH 2024 Research Exchange. Huge shoutout to 2 LEAD students, Madeline Farron PhD student and Chris Hollander MPH student, who took home awards for their poster presentations!

Thrilled to announce the launch of the nationwide DISCOVERY consortium! 🌟 We're working to understand factors behind youth-onset type 2 diabetes, aiming to identify at-risk children and improve prevention strategies. Learn more here: news.cuanschutz.edu/coloradosph/le…

This year, the 3rd annual ColoradoSPH Research Exchange welcomed over 170 attendees. 27 students presented their research on the impacts of cancer diagnosis and wellbeing at work, COVID-19 and lessons learned, opioid use, worker health, and more. buff.ly/3Yy1Hcn

Congrats to Wei Perng (Wei Perng ), University of Colorado for receiving the ADA Modan Award for the DPPOS abstract “Metabolomics Profiles Underlying Development of Microvascular Complications in the Diabetes Prevention Project Outcome Study (DPPOS)”. #diabetes #ADASciSessions