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Ricardo Uauy is affiliated with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions to nursing as well. The scientist's work spans several subfields including obstetrics and gynecology, nutrition and dietetics, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, public health, environmental and occupational health, and epidemiology.

Key research topics covered by Ricardo Uauy include:

  • Birth, development, and health
  • Gestational diabetes research and management
  • Infant nutrition and health
  • Breastfeeding practices and influences
  • Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies
  • Infant development and preterm care
  • Neonatal respiratory health research

Ricardo Uauy has published extensively in several scientific journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • BMC Pediatrics
  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • JAMA Pediatrics
  • The Lancet Haematology

Among recent publications are:

  • "Association Between Preterm-Birth Phenotypes and Differential Morbidity, Growth, and Neurodevelopment at Age 2 Years" (2021) in JAMA Pediatrics
  • "International gestational age-specific centiles for umbilical artery Doppler indices: a longitudinal prospective cohort study of the INTERGROWTH-21st Project" (2020) in American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • "Association between maternal haemoglobin concentrations and maternal and neonatal outcomes: the prospective, observational, multinational, INTERBIO-21st fetal study" (2023) in The Lancet Haematology
  • "Association between fetal abdominal growth trajectories, maternal metabolite signatures early in pregnancy, and childhood growth and adiposity: prospective observational multinational INTERBIO-21st fetal study" (2022) in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • "Effectiveness of a normative nutrition intervention in Chilean pregnant women on maternal and neonatal outcomes: the CHiMINCs study" (2020) in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Ricardo Uauy include:

  • Aris T. Papageorghiou
  • Rose McGready
  • Fernando C. Barros
  • Shama Munim
  • James A. Berkley

Best Publications

  • Obesity : Preventing and managing the global epidemic

    D. S. Akram;A. V. Astrup;T. Atinmo;J. L. Boissin

  • Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries

    Robert E Black;Cesar G. Victora;Susan P. Walker;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta

  • Obesity in children and young people: a crisis in public health.

    Tim Lobstein;Louise A. Baur;Ricardo Uauy

  • Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective

    M Marmot;T Atinmo;T Byers;J Chen

  • Diet, nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases

    EK Amine;NH Baba;M Belhadj;M Deurenberg-Yap

  • Food, livestock production, energy, climate change, and health

    Anthony J McMichael;John W Powles;Colin D Butler;Ricardo Uauy;Ricardo Uauy

  • Essentiality of copper in humans.

    R Uauy;M Olivares;M Gonzalez

  • Preconceptional and maternal obesity: epidemiology and health consequences.

    Lucilla Poston;Rishiraj Caleyachetty;Sven Cnattingius;Camila Corvalán

  • A randomized controlled trial of early dietary supply of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and mental development in term infants.

    Eileen E Birch;Sharon Garfield;Dennis R Hoffman;Ricardo Uauy

  • The joint WHO/FAO expert consultation on diet, nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases: process, product and policy implications

    Chizuru Nishida;Ricardo Uauy;Shiriki Kumanyika;Prakash Shetty

  • The roles of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in pregnancy, lactation and infancy: review of current knowledge and consensus recommendations.

    Berthold Koletzko;Eric Lien;Carlo Agostoni;Hansjosef Böhles

  • Obesity Trends in Latin America: Transiting from Under- to Overweight

    Ricardo Uauy;Cecilia Albala;Juliana Kain

  • Effect of dietary omega-3 fatty acids on retinal function of very-low-birth-weight neonates.

    Ricardo D. Uauy;David G. Birch;Eileen E. Birch;Jon E. Tyson

  • Visual Acuity and the Essentiality of Docosahexaenoic Acid and Arachidonic Acid in the Diet of Term Infants

    Eileen E Birch;Dennis R Hoffman;Ricardo Uauy;Ricardo Uauy;David G Birch

  • Nutritional quality of organic foods: a systematic review

    Alan D Dangour;Sakhi K Dodhia;Arabella Hayter;Elizabeth Allen

  • Essential fatty acids in visual and brain development

    Ricardo Uauy;Dennis R. Hoffman;Patricio Peirano;David G. Birch

  • Arachidonic and docosahexaenoic acids are biosynthesized from their 18-carbon precursors in human infants

    Norman Salem;Brent Wegher;Patricia Mena;Ricardo Uauy

  • Nutrition in Brain Development and Aging: Role of Essential Fatty Acids

    Ricardo Uauy;Alan D. Dangour

  • Dietary essential fatty acid supply and visual acuity development.

    Eileen E. Birch;Dovid G. Birch;Dennis R. Hoffman;Ricardo Uauy

  • Integrated Systems Approach to Study the Role of Omega-3 Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Health and Disease of the Retina

    J. P. SanGiovanni;C. M. Aderman;C. Rojas;T. E. Clemons

Frequent Co-Authors

Berthold Koletzko
Berthold Koletzko Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
David G. Birch
David G. Birch The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Eileen E. Birch
Eileen E. Birch Retina Foundation of the Southwest
Diana Elbourne
Diana Elbourne London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Lindsay H. Allen
Lindsay H. Allen United States Department of Agriculture
Astrid E. Fletcher
Astrid E. Fletcher London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Karen Lock
Karen Lock London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Reynaldo Martorell
Reynaldo Martorell Emory University
Aris T. Papageorghiou
Aris T. Papageorghiou University of Oxford
Stephen Kennedy
Stephen Kennedy University of Oxford

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