Breastfeeding and Later-Life Cardiometabolic Health in Women With and Without Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy.

Background Breastfeeding is associated with improved cardiometabolic profiles decades after pregnancy. Whether this association exists for women who experience hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) is unknown. The authors examined whether breastfeeding duration or exclusivity are associated with long-term cardiometabolic health, and whether this relationship differs by HDP status.

Epigenomic Links Between Social Determinants of Health and Symptoms: A Scoping Review.

Social determinants of health (SDoH) impact health and wellness. The link between SDoH and adverse health outcomes, including symptom occurrence and severity, may be explained by an individual's physiologic response to one or more SDoH. One potential mechanism underlying this physiologic response linking SDoH and symptoms is the dynamic epigenome.

Dietary Inflammatory Index and sleep quality and duration among pregnant women with overweight or obesity.

Study Objectives: Sleep disturbances, which can worsen during pregnancy, have been linked to inflammatory processes. This study tested the hypothesis that more pro-inflammatory diets during pregnancy are associated with a decrease in sleep quality and shorter sleep duration.

Methods: The Health in Pregnancy and Postpartum study promoted a healthy lifestyle in pregnant women with pre-pregnancy overweight or obesity (n = 207).

Patterns of physical activity and sedentary behavior before and during pregnancy and cardiometabolic outcomes.

Objective: To assess how physical activity and sedentary behavior change from pre-pregnancy to pregnancy, and if pre-pregnancy and pregnancy physical activity and sedentary behavior are related to gestational weight gain, blood pressure, or blood glucose across pregnancy.

Design: Secondary analysis of two prospective cohort studies.

Setting: Prenatal research centers in Pittsburgh, PA and Iowa City, IA.

Associations of objectively measured physical activity and sedentary time with pregnancy-specific health-related quality of life.

Purpose: To examine associations of objectively measured moderate-to-vigorous-intensity physical activity (MVPA) and sedentary behavior (SED) with pregnancy-specific health-related quality of life (QoL) across pregnancy trimesters.

Materials And Methods: Women (N=131, mean age 30.9 years ± 4.

Successful and Cost-Effective Facebook Recruitment: Is It Possible? Results From a Longitudinal Randomized Clinical Trial in Grandmother Caregivers.

Facebook is often cited in health-related research as a practical option to recruit participants into research studies, but issues with recruiting verifiable and qualified participants and unpredictable costs exist. The purpose of this paper is to describe a social network theory-guided, no-cost, Facebook recruitment strategy in comparison to a traditional recruitment campaign for a national online intervention study for grandmother caregivers ( = 348); 211 participants were recruited via Facebook, and 137 through traditional techniques. Participation rates did not vary by recruitment method.

Longitudinal Assessment of Relationships Between Health Behaviors and IL-6 in Overweight and Obese Pregnancy.

Background: Inflammation is a common factor in adverse pregnancy outcomes (APOs). Behavioral factors influence inflammatory markers and APOs but rarely have been investigated simultaneously in pregnancy. Our purpose was to determine how diet, physical activity, and obesity are associated with interleukin (IL)-6 in early and late pregnancy.

Theoretical and Operational Consideration of Mindfulness, Resilience, and Resourcefulness.

Mindfulness, resilience, and resourcefulness are theoretically distinct but related constructs critical for improving psychosocial well-being outcomes for informal caregivers and others. Our aims were to evaluate the theoretical and operational distinctions among these constructs. Measures of mindfulness (Decentering Scale), resilience (Connor-Davidson Scale) and resourcefulness (Resourcefulness Scale) were collected from a national sample of 348 grandmother caregivers.

Incidental findings: A practical protocol for reporting elevated depressive symptoms in behavioral health research.

Intervention studies conducted in caregivers often focus on improving mental health. Consequently, researchers may discover incidental findings like elevated depressive symptoms. Researchers have an ethical obligation to report incidental findings to participants, but no protocols exist for reporting behavioral health symptoms.

"Take an opportunity whenever you get it": Information Sharing among African-American Women with Hypertension.

Nearly half of African-American women have hypertension, which increases their risk for cardiovascular disease and stroke. A plethora of consumer health information products and services exist to inform people with hypertension and to promote self-management among them. Promotion of information sharing by African-American women represents a promising, culturally-applicable strategy for consumer health information services focused on hypertension self-management.