Amanda L Thompson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 76435 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Amanda L Thompson |
| PRENOMES | Amanda L |
| SOBRENOME | Thompson |
| ASSINATURA | THOMPSON A L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5872-738X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 50 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 96 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Cardiometabolic Health in P'urépecha Migrant‐Sending Communities in Michoacan, Mexico
Migration–health research frequently attributes cardiometabolic risk among migrants to post‐migration dietary and lifestyle change, despite limited empirical evidence from migrant‐sending communities. This assumption is particularly salient in studies of indigenous populations, where pre‐migration contexts are often treated as culturally traditional and implicitly protective. Using a mixed‐methods biocultural design, this study examines cardiomet…
Climate Exposures Increase the Risk of Anemia Among Reproductive‐Age Women in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries
Climate change is having significant demographic and health impacts on human populations around the world. There is growing empirical evidence about the impacts of climate variability and change on population health, but this work has focused disproportionately on children and aggregate indicators of weight and (or) height. We extend this literature by focusing on a more targeted indicator of health—anemia—among reproductive‐age women. To do so, …
Clinical toxicity of nitazene detections in two Australian emergency department toxicosurveillance systems
Examining the role of socioeconomic adversity on depressive symptoms during pregnancy among non-Hispanic Black women
Socioeconomic adversity is associated with higher risk of depressive symptoms during pregnancy. • Neighborhood disadvantage and deprivation were not strongly associated with higher risk of depressive symptoms during pregnancy
A Mixed Methods Analysis of Factors That Influence the Diet Quality and Decision‐Making of Adolescent Girls in an Urban Informal Settlement in Kenya
Due to the nutrition transition, adolescent diets globally appear to be shifting to increased consumption of fast foods and snacks high in sodium, added sugar, and saturated fat. In urban informal settlements in Kenya, limited evidence suggests adolescents consume 1-2 meals per day, have low dietary diversity, and consume foods from roadside stalls. We characterized the diets of adolescent girls in an urban informal settlement in Kenya and assess…
Intestinal microbiota composition and efficacy of iron supplementation in Peruvian children
OBJECTIVE: Despite repeated public health interventions, anemia prevalence among children remains a concern. We use an evolutionary medicine perspective to examine the intestinal microbiome as a pathway underlying the efficacy of iron-sulfate treatment. This study explores whether gut microbiota composition differs between anemic children who respond and do not respond to treatment at baseline and posttreatment and if specific microbiota taxa rem…
Inflammation and Ovarian Function in Reproductive‐Aged Women
Inflammation, as measured by C-reactive protein, is associated with early follicular phase follicle-stimulating hormone and inhibin B, although this is not true of AMH. Inflammation may exert an effect on ovarian function
Healthy eating in globalized food environments
Food environments are the interface between food systems and consumers. Although market access contributes to diet intake, consumer behavior determines food acquisition practices yet is often neglected in food environment research. Implementing sustainable food system transformations in climate-vulnerable, trade-dependent settings requires effective integration of both geographic and experienced-based measures of access. This study in the Galápag…
Are boys more vulnerable to stunting? Examining risk factors, differential sensitivity, and measurement issues in Zambian infants and young children
Our results show that Zambian boys have lower mean HAZ scores than girls and a greater prevalence of stunting throughout the first two years We do not find strong evidence that infant feeding practices, environmental exposures, or care giving differ consistently between boys and girls or that boys and girls respond differently to these exposures. Our results instead indicate that further investigation of prenatal factors and/or measurement issues…
Healthy home food environments of pregnant Black women are shaped by food outlet access and participation in nutrition assistance programs
OBJECTIVES: Improving access to healthy food in Black communities is imperative to combat intergenerational health disparities. Pregnant Black women represent an especially vulnerable population to multiple (and overlapping) sources of socioeconomic and political disenfranchisement and thus for whom maternal nutrition is crucial. This study aimed to (1) define household food environment types, (2) determine whether the distribution of community f…
Confirmatory factor analysis of the infant feeding styles questionnaire in infant and toddler child care teachers
D5.0 - Compressed Sensing Spectral Photoluminescence Imaging of Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Materials for Power Electronics Applications
Fabric of a Nation
Infant eating behaviors and Milk feeding independently predict infant size
OBJECTIVES: This study investigates the association of infant eating behaviors with infant size, and if those associations are mediated by infant feeding. METHODS: Mothers with infants less than 12 months of age and living in Central North Carolina were enrolled (N = 61). Data were collected at baseline and at 3- and 6-month follow up visits. Modified constructs from the Baby Eating Behavior Questionnaire (BEBQ) and Child Eating Behavior Question…
Pathways linking maternal mental health and child health in a dual burden context
What is normal, healthy growth? Global health, human biology, and parental perspectives
Utilization of Psychotherapeutic Interventions by Pediatric Psychosocial Providers
One of the Standards of Psychosocial Care for Children with Cancer and their Families recommends that all youth with cancer and their family members have access to psychotherapeutic interventions and support throughout the cancer trajectory. This study was created to identify the psychosocial interventions and services provided to children with cancer and their family members, to ascertain whether there are differences in interventions provided b…
Greater male vulnerability to stunting? Evaluating sex differences in growth, pathways and biocultural mechanisms
A perspective that incorporates an examination of the social and environmental factors shaping child growth in specific contexts is needed to understand sex-based vulnerability to stunting and to develop context-appropriate interventions
Feeding style profiles are associated with maternal and infant characteristics and infant feeding practices and weight outcomes in African American mothers and infants
Adiposity and pathogen exposure
OBJECTIVES: Peruvians are experiencing rapid dietary and lifestyle changes, resulting in a phenomenon known as the "dual burden of disease." A common manifestation of the dual burden in individuals is the co-occurrence of overweight and anemia. Despite recent initiatives introduced to address these concerns, rates continue to be public health concerns. This study investigates the relationship between immune activation and lack of response to iron…
Water Security in the Galápagos
Water, food, and the dual burden of disease in Galápagos, Ecuador
OBJECTIVE: Rapid development in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) has led to changes in diet that have outpaced water and sanitation improvements, contributing to a dual burden of overweight and noncommunicable disease risk factors (OWT/NCD) and undernutrition and infectious disease symptoms (UND/ID) within individuals and households. Yet, little work has examined the joint impact of water and food exposures on the development of the dual b…
Drinking water improvements and rates of urinary and gastrointestinal infections in Galápagos, Ecuador
OBJECTIVES: The Galápagos provides an important setting to investigate the health impacts of a new drinking water treatment plant (DWTP) in a limited resource environment. We examine how household perceptions and practices affect the relationship between water quality and infections before and after DWTP. METHODS: Ethnographic data and self-reported infections were collected from 121 mothers and 168 children ages 2 to 10 from Isla San Cristóbal. …
Child, caretaker, and community
The findings of this study document an association between children's anemia status and their nutritional and ecological environment, highlighting the importance of examining anemia within a specific context to better understand the factors driving this important health problem
Pathways linking caesarean delivery to early health in a dual burden context
OBJECTIVES: Global increases in caesarean deliveries are exposing more infants to perinatal environments that are evolutionarily novel and potentially increasing their risks for inflammatory conditions. Yet, the pathways linking caesareans to later health outcomes are not well understood, particularly in dual burden contexts. We test two of the hypothesized pathways, altered immune function and gut microbiota, which may link delivery mode to late…
Development and validation of the Infant Feeding Style Questionnaire
The critical period of infant feeding for the development of early disparities in obesity
Whatever Average Is
Biomedical researchers have raised concerns that mothers' inability to recognize infant and toddler overweight poses a barrier to stemming increasing rates of overweight and obesity, particularly among low-income or minority mothers. Little anthropological research has examined the sociocultural, economic or structural factors shaping maternal perceptions of infant and toddler size or addressed biomedical depictions of maternal misperception as a…
Multilevel examination of the association of urbanization with inflammation in Chinese adults
Who’s feeding baby? Non-maternal involvement in feeding and its association with dietary intakes among infants and toddlers
Confirmatory factor analysis of the Infant Feeding Styles Questionnaire in Latino families
Feeding style profiles are associated with maternal and infant characteristics and infant feeding practices and weight outcomes in African American mothers and infants
Secular change in the association between urbanisation and abdominal adiposity in China (1993–2011)
BACKGROUND: Little attention has been paid to how the association between urbanisation and abdominal adiposity changes over the course of economic development in low-income and middle-income countries. METHODS: Data came from the China Health and Nutrition Survey waves 1993-2011 (seven waves). A mixed linear model was used to investigate the association between community-level urbanisation with waist-to-height ratio (WHtR; an indicator of abdomin…
The Local Food Environment and Body Mass Index among the Urban Poor in Accra, Ghana
The influence of maternal psychosocial characteristics on infant feeding styles
Healthcare Assistants
This paper examines the labour process of Healthcare Assistants ( HCAs ) at a National Health Service ( NHS ) hospital trust ( TUH ) in the context of the NHS modernisation agenda. It determines whether application of the modernisation agenda is formalised at TUH and considers how HCAs are affected. The paper is based upon 60 interviews with HCAs , structured questionnaires completed by all interview respondents, observation of HCAs and interview…
Pathways linking maternal mental health and child health in a dual burden context
Adiposity and pathogen exposure
OBJECTIVES: Peruvians are experiencing rapid dietary and lifestyle changes, resulting in a phenomenon known as the "dual burden of disease." A common manifestation of the dual burden in individuals is the co-occurrence of overweight and anemia. Despite recent initiatives introduced to address these concerns, rates continue to be public health concerns. This study investigates the relationship between immune activation and lack of response to iron…
Validation of the Infant Feeding Beliefs Questionnaire (IFBQ) among pregnant African- American women and their study partners
Growth chart curves do not describe individual growth biology
Growth reference tables present statistical distributions of size for age of individuals within a sample or population. As summaries of phenotypic variability at the group level, they document that individuals grow by different rates during similar time frames. The data are commonly fitted by mathematical functions to produce the convex curves of percentile distributions useful for infant and childhood growth monitoring. In this form, the growth …
Using Problem-Based Learning as a Gateway
Individual trajectories of substance use in lesbian, gay and bisexual youth and heterosexual youth
Aims Several decades of research have shown that lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) adults are at high risk for substance use and substance use disorders, and a recent meta‐analysis shows that these disparities most probably begin in adolescence; however, no studies to date have examined longitudinal growth in substance use in LGB youth and heterosexual youth to determine if they follow different trajectories into young adulthood. The primary aims o…
Latent Class Growth Modelling
The present work is an introduction to Latent Class Growth Modelling (LCGM). LCGM is a semi‐parametric statistical technique used to analyze longitudinal data. It is used when the data follows a pattern of change in which both the strength and the direction of the relationship between the independent and dependent variables differ across cases. The analysis identifies distinct subgroups of individuals following a distinct pattern of change over a…
Development and validation of the Infant Feeding Style Questionnaire
Measurement of testosterone in infant fecal samples
OBJECTIVES: This study reports the validation of a noninvasive method for repeated assessment of testosterone from infant fecal samples. METHODS: Fecal samples were collected from cotton diaper liners, subjected to methanol extraction, and assayed using a modified commercial testosterone RIA kit. RESULTS: Method validity was supported by a recovery near 100%, a sensitivity of 1.23 pg/ml, and inter- and intra-assay coefficients of variations less …
Developmental origins of obesity
Prenatal and postnatal energetic conditions and sex steroids levels across the first year of life
OBJECTIVES: Human biologists have documented variability in reproductive maturation, fertility, and cancer risk related to developmental conditions. Yet no previous studies have directly examined the impact of prenatal and postnatal energetic environments on sex steroids in infancy, a critical period for hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis development. Thus, we examined the impact of maternal characteristics, birth size, and feeding practices on …
Who’s feeding baby? Non-maternal involvement in feeding and its association with dietary intakes among infants and toddlers
The critical period of infant feeding for the development of early disparities in obesity
Pathogenic and obesogenic factors associated with inflammation in Chinese children, adolescents and adults
OBJECTIVES: Influenced by pathogen exposure and obesity, inflammation provides a critical biological pathway linking changing environments to the development of cardiometabolic disease. This study tests the relative contribution of obesogenic and pathogenic factors to moderate and acute CRP elevations in Chinese children, adolescents and adults. METHODS: Data come from 8795 participants in the China Health and Nutrition Study. Age-stratified mult…
Multilevel examination of the association of urbanization with inflammation in Chinese adults
Whatever Average Is
Biomedical researchers have raised concerns that mothers' inability to recognize infant and toddler overweight poses a barrier to stemming increasing rates of overweight and obesity, particularly among low-income or minority mothers. Little anthropological research has examined the sociocultural, economic or structural factors shaping maternal perceptions of infant and toddler size or addressed biomedical depictions of maternal misperception as a…
Healthcare Assistants
This paper examines the labour process of Healthcare Assistants ( HCAs ) at a National Health Service ( NHS ) hospital trust ( TUH ) in the context of the NHS modernisation agenda. It determines whether application of the modernisation agenda is formalised at TUH and considers how HCAs are affected. The paper is based upon 60 interviews with HCAs , structured questionnaires completed by all interview respondents, observation of HCAs and interview…
The Local Food Environment and Body Mass Index among the Urban Poor in Accra, Ghana
The influence of maternal psychosocial characteristics on infant feeding styles
Confirmatory factor analysis of the Infant Feeding Styles Questionnaire in Latino families
Consumption of obesogenic foods in non‐Hispanic black mother–infant dyads
Obesity continues to be a problem in the United States. Of particular concern is the epidemic of early childhood obesity. A significant predictor of child diet is maternal diet, but little is known about this relationship during infancy. This study examined the association between maternal and infant consumption of key food groups from 6 to 18 months using data from the Infant Care, Feeding, and Risk of Obesity Study, a prospective cohort of 217 …
Consumption of key food groups during the postpartum period in low-income, non-Hispanic black mothers
Nutritional Issues in Medical Anthropology
Nutrition is an important factor shaping human health in the past and present. Human diets are influenced by biological needs, geography and climate, social organization, and cultural beliefs and practices. Within anthropology, nutritional anthropologists have focused on understanding these factors and their health consequences. This entry provides a brief overview of the historical development of the field of nutritional anthropology, reviews th…
Iron and infection
OBJECTIVES: This article explores the optimal iron hypothesis through secondary data analysis of the association between hemoglobin levels and morbidity among children living in Canto Grande, a peri-urban community located on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. METHODS: Risk ratios were used to test whether lower iron status, assessed using the HemoCue B-Hemoglobin System, was associated with an increased relative risk of morbidity symptoms compared to …
Contributions of nonmaternal caregivers to infant feeding in a low‐income African‐American sample
Infant feeding is a well-established topic of interest in obesity research, yet few studies have focused on contributions of nonmaternal caregivers (NMCs)-such as fathers, grandparents, and daycare providers-to infant feeding. Data from the Infant Care, Feeding and Risk of Obesity Project in North Carolina were used to investigate (a) which factors were associated with NMC feeding styles and (b) how NMCs' and mothers' feeding styles compared. Mul…
Secular change in the association between urbanisation and abdominal adiposity in China (1993–2011)
BACKGROUND: Little attention has been paid to how the association between urbanisation and abdominal adiposity changes over the course of economic development in low-income and middle-income countries. METHODS: Data came from the China Health and Nutrition Survey waves 1993-2011 (seven waves). A mixed linear model was used to investigate the association between community-level urbanisation with waist-to-height ratio (WHtR; an indicator of abdomin…
Pathways linking caesarean delivery to early health in a dual burden context
OBJECTIVES: Global increases in caesarean deliveries are exposing more infants to perinatal environments that are evolutionarily novel and potentially increasing their risks for inflammatory conditions. Yet, the pathways linking caesareans to later health outcomes are not well understood, particularly in dual burden contexts. We test two of the hypothesized pathways, altered immune function and gut microbiota, which may link delivery mode to late…
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Medicine (40 obras) · Environmental health (21 obras) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (20 obras) · Demography (18 obras) · Psychology (17 obras) · Biology (15 obras) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (15 obras) · Internal Medicine (12 obras) · Obesity (12 obras) · Developmental psychology (11 obras)