Reliability and Validity of Digital Images to Assess Child Dietary Intake in a Quick-Service Restaurant Setting.

Background: Development of methods to accurately measure dietary intake in free-living situations-restaurants or otherwise-is critically needed to understand overall dietary patterns.

Objective: This study aimed to develop and test reliability and validity of digital images (DI) for measuring children's dietary intake in quick-service restaurants (QSRs), validating against weighed plate waste (PW) and bomb calorimetry (BC).

Design: In 2016, cross-sectional data were collected at two time points within a randomized controlled trial assessing children's leftovers in QSRs from parents of 4- to 12-year-old children.

Using a Marketing Evaluation Tool to Optimize a Social Marketing Campaign: Insights From a Copy Test of a You're the Mom Campaign Ad.

A copy test is a business tool for assessing advertisements. This report provides an example of how copy test may be used within nutrition education practice and research. A public health nutrition advertisement for You're the Mom was copy tested with a market research firm.

A pilot and feasibility study to assess children's consumption in quick-service restaurants using plate waste methodology.

Background: Children regularly consume foods from quick-service restaurants (QSR), but little is known about the foods that children order, the calories and nutrients consumed, the accuracy of stated calorie information, or the ability to assess food orders and consumption in QSRs. This study evaluated the feasibility of plate waste collection in QSRs and examined children's orders and consumption of meals from the standard and children's menus. Additional aims were to examine if the meals ordered met healthier standards for children's menu items and determine the accuracy of the QSR-stated energy content of foods.

White matter injury and the inflammatory response following neonatal cardiac surgery.

White matter injury (WMI) is a known complication following neonatal heart surgery in term infants. In preterm infants, WMI has been associated with the degree of systemic inflammation. It is not known whether inflammation is an important mechanism of WMI as documented by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) following neonatal heart surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass.

Inflammatory response after neonatal cardiac surgery and its relationship to clinical outcomes.

Background: Cardiac surgery in infants results in a profound inflammatory response secondary to cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and the need for blood products. It is not clear how this inflammatory response modulates postoperative course or whether quantification of proinflammatory cytokines can aid with risk stratification. In this study, we prospectively assessed a panel of candidate markers to determine the time course for inflammation and the association of specific markers with clinical outcomes defined as intensive care unit length of stay (LOS).