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Kelley S. Scanlon

Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Publications -  74
Citations -  8170

Kelley S. Scanlon is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Breastfeeding & Breast feeding. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 70 publications receiving 7507 citations. Previous affiliations of Kelley S. Scanlon include University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Parent‐Child Feeding Strategies and Their Relationships to Child Eating and Weight Status

TL;DR: Parental feeding restriction, but no other feeding domain, was associated with increased child eating and weight status, and longitudinal studies are needed to test underlying causal pathways, including bidirectional causal models, and to substantiate findings in the presence of other obesity risk factors.
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Reasons for Earlier Than Desired Cessation of Breastfeeding

TL;DR: The findings indicate that the major reasons why mothers stop breastfeeding before they desire include concerns about maternal or child health, infant nutrition, maternal illness or the need for medicine, and infant illness and processes associated with breastfeeding (lactation and milk-pumping problems).
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Dietary Assessment Methods among School-Aged Children: Validity and Reliability

TL;DR: Validity and reliability studies of recalls, records, food frequency questionnaires, diet histories, and observations among children were reviewed and correlations between the validation standard and dietary method were generally higher for recalls and records than FFQs.
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Infant Feeding and Feeding Transitions During the First Year of Life

TL;DR: Transitions in infant feeding patterns across the first year of life and determinants of key aspects of infant feeding are documents.
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High and low hemoglobin levels during pregnancy: differential risks for preterm birth and small for gestational age.

TL;DR: A retrospective cohort analysis of hemoglobin and birth outcome among 173,031 pregnant women who attended publicly funded health programs in ten states and delivered a liveborn infant highlighted the importance of considering anemia and high hemoglobin level as indicators for adverse pregnancy outcome.