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Kathryn G. Dewey is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and nursing, with a strong focus on nutrition and child health.

The main fields of study of their work include:

  • Medicine
  • Nursing

Their research further specializes in several subfields, such as:

  • Nutrition and Dietetics
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Epidemiology

The major topics covered by their research are:

  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Infant Nutrition and Health
  • Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
  • Iron Metabolism and Disorders
  • Global Maternal and Child Health

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Per Ashorn
  • Seth Adu-Afarwuah
  • Charles D. Arnold
  • Kenneth Maleta
  • Christine P. Stewart

The venues where the scientist frequently publishes are:

  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Maternal and Child Nutrition
  • Journal of Nutrition

Representative recent papers include:

  • "Omega-3 Fatty Acid Dietary Supplements Consumed During Pregnancy and Lactation and Child Neurodevelopment: A Systematic Review," 2021, Journal of Nutrition
  • "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
  • "Characteristics that modify the effect of small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplementation on child growth: an individual participant data meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials," 2021, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • "Responsive Feeding Recommendations: Harmonizing Integration into Dietary Guidelines for Infants and Young Children," 2021, Current Developments in Nutrition

Best Publications

  • WHO child growth standards: length/height-for-age, weight-for-age, weight-for-length, weight-for-height and body mass index-for-age - Methods and development

    Mercedes de Onis;Adelheid Onyango;Elaine Borghi;Amani Siyam

  • What works? Interventions for maternal and child undernutrition and survival.

    Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta;Tahmeed Ahmed;Robert E. Black;Simon Cousens

  • Long-term consequences of stunting in early life.

    Kathryn G. Dewey;Khadija Begum

  • Systematic review of the efficacy and effectiveness of complementary feeding interventions in developing countries.

    Kathryn G. Dewey;Seth Adu-Afarwuah

  • Nutrition and brain development in early life.

    Elizabeth L Prado;Kathryn G Dewey

  • Update on technical issues concerning complementary feeding of young children in developing countries and implications for intervention programs.

    Kathryn G. Dewey;Kenneth H. Brown

  • Risk factors for suboptimal infant breastfeeding behavior, delayed onset of lactation, and excess neonatal weight loss

    Kathryn G. Dewey;Laurie A. Nommsen-Rivers;M. Jane Heinig;Roberta J. Cohen

  • Complementary feeding of young children in developing countries: a review of current scientific knowledge.

    Brown K;Dewey K;Allen L

  • Differences in morbidity between breast-fed and formula-fed infants

    Kathryn G. Dewey;M.Jane Heinig;Laurie A. Nommsen-Rivers

  • Contextualising complementary feeding in a broader framework for stunting prevention

    Christine P. Stewart;Lora Iannotti;Kathryn G. Dewey;Kim F. Michaelsen

  • Effects of water quality, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on diarrhoea and child growth in rural Bangladesh: a cluster randomised controlled trial.

    Stephen P Luby;Mahbubur Rahman;Benjamin F Arnold;Leanne Unicomb

  • Gut bacteria that prevent growth impairments transmitted by microbiota from malnourished children

    Laura V. Blanton;Mark R. Charbonneau;Tarek Salih;Michael J. Barratt

  • Sialylated Milk Oligosaccharides Promote Microbiota-Dependent Growth in Models of Infant Undernutrition

    Mark R. Charbonneau;David O'Donnell;Laura V. Blanton;Sarah M. Totten

  • Growth of breast-fed and formula-fed infants from 0 to 18 months: the DARLING Study

    K G Dewey;M J Heinig;L A Nommsen;J M Peerson

  • Guiding principles for complementary feeding of the breastfed child

    Kathryn Dewey

  • Energy and protein intakes of breast-fed and formula-fed infants during the first year of life and their association with growth velocity: the DARLING Study.

    M J Heinig;L A Nommsen;J M Peerson;B Lonnerdal

  • Maternal weight-loss patterns during prolonged lactation

    K G Dewey;M J Heinig;L A Nommsen

  • Effect of timing of umbilical cord clamping on iron status in Mexican infants: a randomised controlled trial

    Camila M Chaparro;Lynnette M Neufeld;Gilberto Tena Alavez;Raúl Eguia-Líz Cedillo

  • Nutrition, growth, and complementary feeding of the breastfed infant

    Kathryn G. Dewey

  • The World Health Organization's global target for reducing childhood stunting by 2025: rationale and proposed actions.

    Mercedes de Onis;Kathryn G. Dewey;Elaine Borghi;Adelheid W. Onyango

Frequent Co-Authors

Bo Lönnerdal
Bo Lönnerdal University of California, Davis
Kenneth H. Brown
Kenneth H. Brown University of California, Davis
Lindsay H. Allen
Lindsay H. Allen United States Department of Agriculture
Olle Hernell
Olle Hernell Umeå University
Kim F. Michaelsen
Kim F. Michaelsen University of Copenhagen
Stephen J. Rogerson
Stephen J. Rogerson University of Melbourne
Stephen P. Luby
Stephen P. Luby Stanford University
James G. Beeson
James G. Beeson Burnet Institute
David A. Mills
David A. Mills University of California, Davis

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