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Caroline H.D. Fall is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with a significant number of publications in the subfields of Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Nutrition and Dietetics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and General Health Professions.

The main topics of their work include Birth, Development, and Health, Child Nutrition and Water Access, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Gestational Diabetes Research and Management, Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies, Folate and B Vitamins Research, and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Caroline H.D. Fall are:

  • Kalyanaraman Kumaran
  • Clive Osmond
  • Chittaranjan S. Yajnik
  • Harshpal Singh Sachdev
  • Ghattu V. Krishnaveni

Caroline H.D. Fall's recent papers include:

  • Nutrition in adolescent growth and development, 2021, The Lancet
  • Health and development from preconception to 20 years of age and human capital, 2022, The Lancet
  • Early-childhood linear growth faltering in low- and middle-income countries, 2023, Nature
  • Causes and consequences of child growth faltering in low-resource settings, 2023, Nature
  • Association of maternal vitamin B12 and folate levels in early pregnancy with gestational diabetes: a prospective UK cohort study (PRiDE study), 2021, Diabetologia

The frequent publication venues where this scientist has contributed multiple works are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Public Health Nutrition
  • UNC Libraries
  • Nature
  • Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Maternal and child undernutrition: consequences for adult health and human capital.

    Cesar G. Victora;Linda S Adair;Caroline H.D. Fall;Pedro C. Hallal

  • Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4.4 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Yuan Lu;Kaveh Hajifathalian;James Bentham

  • Fetal and infant growth and impaired glucose tolerance at age 64.

    C. N. Hales;D. J. P. Barker;P. M. S. Clark;L. J. Cox

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus, hypertension and hyperlipidaemia (syndrome X): relation to reduced fetal growth

    D. J. P. Barker;C. N. Hales;C. H. D. Fall;C. Osmond

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Relation of serial changes in childhood body-mass index to impaired glucose tolerance in young adulthood

    Santosh K. Bhargava;Harshpal Singh Sachdev;Caroline H.D. Fall;Clive Osmond

  • Birth Weight and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review

    Peter H. Whincup;Samantha J. Kaye;Christopher G. Owen;Rachel Huxley

  • Vitamin B12 and folate concentrations during pregnancy and insulin resistance in the offspring: the Pune Maternal Nutrition Study.

    C. S. Yajnik;S. S. Deshpande;A. A. Jackson;H. Refsum;H. Refsum

  • Initiation of hypertension in utero and its amplification throughout life.

    C. M. Law;M. De Swiet;C. Osmond;P. M. Fayers

  • Neonatal anthropometry: the thin–fat Indian baby. The Pune Maternal Nutrition Study

    C S Yajnik;C H D Fall;K J Coyaji;S S Hirve

  • Fetal growth and coronary heart disease in South India

    C E Stein;C H D Fall;K Kumaran;C Osmond

  • Insulin resistance syndrome in 8-year-old Indian children: small at birth, big at 8 years, or both?

    A. Bavdekar;C. S. Yajnik;C. H. D. Fall;S. Bapat

  • Elevated plasma cortisol concentrations: a link between low birth weight and the insulin resistance syndrome?

    D. I. W. Phillips;D. J. P. Barker;C. H. D. Fall;J. R. Seckl

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Honor Bixby;James Bentham;Bin Zhou;Mariachiara Di Cesare

  • Associations of linear growth and relative weight gain during early life with adult health and human capital in countries of low and middle income: findings from five birth cohort studies

    Linda S. Adair;Caroline H.D. Fall;Clive Osmond;Aryeh D. Stein

  • Fetal growth and impaired glucose tolerance in men and women

    K. Phipps;D. J. P. Barker;C. N. Hales;C. H. D. Fall

Frequent Co-Authors

Clive Osmond
Clive Osmond University of Southampton
Chittaranjan S. Yajnik
Chittaranjan S. Yajnik King Edward Memorial Hospital
Cyrus Cooper
Cyrus Cooper University of Southampton
Reynaldo Martorell
Reynaldo Martorell Emory University
Cesar G. Victora
Cesar G. Victora Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Mary Barker
Mary Barker University of Southampton
David J. P. Barker
David J. P. Barker University of Southampton
Majid Ezzati
Majid Ezzati Imperial College London
Peter H. Whincup
Peter H. Whincup St George's, University of London
Elaine M. Dennison
Elaine M. Dennison University of Southampton

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