The main areas of study for Dr. James-Todd are the effects of environmental chemicals, especially endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), on poor maternal health outcomes, racial and ethnic disparities in environmental chemical exposures and poor health outcomes, and the development of pregnancy and postpartum interventions to reduce women’s risk of developing chronic diseases.
The publications by Dr. James-Todd are listed below.
- Pregnancy Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance Concentrations and Postpartum Health in Project Viva: A Prospective Cohort.
- Association of self-reported personal care product use with blood glucose levels measured during pregnancy among women from a fertility clinic.
- Birth outcomes in a prospective pregnancy-birth cohort study of environmental risk factors in Kuwait: The TRACER study.
- Associations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) with glucose tolerance during pregnancy in Project Viva.”
- Evaluating effects of prenatal exposure to phthalate mixtures on birth weight: A comparison of three statistical approaches.”
- Pregnancy urinary bisphenol-A concentrations and glucose levels across BMI categories.
- Perinatal weight and risk of prenatal and postpartum depressive symptoms.
- Urinary phthalate metabolite concentrations and maternal weight during early pregnancy.
- Birth outcomes in a prospective pregnancy-birth cohort study of environmental risk factors in Kuwait: The TRACER study.
- The association between phthalates and metabolic syndrome: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2001-2010.
- Racial/ethnic disparities in environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals and women’s reproductive health outcomes: Epidemiological examples across the life course.
- Gastric bypass surgery in severely obese women with type 1 diabetes: anthropometric and cardiometabolic effects at 1 and 5 years post-surgery.
- Gender and racial/ethnic differences in the associations of urinary phthalate metabolites with markers of diabetes risk: National health and nutrition examination survey 2001-2008.
- Association of osteoarthritis with perfluorooctanoate and perfluorooctane sulfonate in NHANES 2003-2008.
- Racial discrimination, response to unfair treatment, and depressive symptoms among pregnant black and African American women in the United States.
- Urinary phthalate metabolite concentrations and diabetes among women in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2001-2008.
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and change in mammographic density: a cohort study using pharmacy records on over 29,000 postmenopausal women.
- Chemical/straightening and other hair product usage during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood among African-American women: potential implications for health.
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