Longitudinal Associations Between Maternal Glucose Levels and Ultrasonographic Fetal Biometrics in a Shanghai Cohort.

Importance: Evidence on the timing of fetal growth alterations associated with gestational diabetes or on the association of the maternal glycemic trajectory with fetal growth during pregnancy remains lacking.

Objective: To examine the associations between maternal glucose levels and offspring intrauterine growth.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This cohort study used data from 4574 eligible pregnant women and their offspring in the Shanghai Maternal-Child Pairs Cohort collected from April 10, 2016, to April 30, 2018.

A Longitudinal Study of the Effects of Bed-Sharing Experience in Infancy on Sleep Outcomes at 2 Years Old.

Objective: To assess the effects of bed-sharing experiences in infancy on sleep patterns and sleep problems at 2 years of age.

Study Design: A total of 1564 children from an ongoing Shanghai Maternal-Child Pairs Cohort were included. Bed-sharing experiences were collected when children were 2, 6, and 24 months old via caregiver-completed questionnaires (whether caregivers shared a bed with children during the night), and children's bed-sharing experiences were classified as follows: no bed-sharing, early-only bed-sharing, late-onset bed-sharing, and persistent bed-sharing.

Cross-cultural adaption and validation of the Chinese version of the Child Food Neophobia Scale.

Objective: To adapt the Child Food Neophobia Scale (CFNS) cross-culturally for use among 12-36-month-old Chinese toddlers and to perform a preliminary assessment of its construct validity and reliability.

Background: Food neophobia is the fear of eating new or unfamiliar foods, which affects the type and quality of individual dietary intake, especially during early childhood. However, measurements of child food neophobia have rarely been reported in China due to a lack of reliable and valid measurements.

Application of a combined model with seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average and support vector regression in forecasting hand-foot-mouth disease incidence in Wuhan, China.

Hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) is a serious public health problem with increasing cases and substantial financial burden in China, especially in Wuhan city. Hence, there is an urgent need to construct a model to predict the incidence of HFMD that could make the prevention and control of this disease more effective.The incidence data of HFMD of Wuhan city from January 2009 to December 2016 were used to fit a combined model with seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) model and support vector regression (SVR) model.

New cooperative medical financing policy and hospitalization in rural China: multi-stage cross-sectional surveys.

Background: In 2003 China began to implement the New-type rural Cooperative Medical System (NCMS). This provided enhanced funding for hospital-based medical services among farmers. We examined self-reported utilization data for evidence of changes following the new policy.