Commentaries
Gillman MW. Subject in review: Lowering dietary fat and cholesterol in "high risk" children. Pediatric Alert 1995;20:79-80.
Rich-Edwards JW, Gillman MW. A hypothesis challenged. BMJ 1997;315:1348-1349.
Committee on Pediatric Research, American Academy of Pediatrics (MW Gillman, member). Race/Ethnicity, gender,
socioeconomic status — research exploring their effects on child health: A subject review. Pediatrics 2000;105:1349-1351.
Gillman MW, Rich-Edwards J. The fetal origins of adult disease. From sceptic to convert. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol
2000;14(3):192-193.
Gillman MW. Epidemiological challenges in studying the fetal origins of adult chronic disease. Int J Epidemiol. 2002
Apr;31(2):294-9. Review. PubMed PMID: 11980782.
Committee on Pediatric Research, American Academy of Pediatrics (MW Gillman, member). Promoting education,
mentorship, and support for pediatric research. Pediatrics. 2001;107(6):1447-50.
Rich-Edwards JW, Krieger N, Majzoub J, Zierler S, Lieberman E, Gillman MW. Maternal experiences of racism and violence as predictors of preterm birth: rationale and study design. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2001 Jul;15 Suppl 2:124-35. PubMed PMID: 11520405.
Oken E, Gillman MW. Fetal origins of obesity. Obes Res 2003;11:496-506.
St. Jeor ST, Hayman LL, Daniels SR, Gillman MW, Howard G, Law CM, Lewis CE, Poehlman E; American Heart Association. Prevention Conference VII: Obesity, a worldwide epidemic related to heart disease and stroke: Group II: Age-dependent risk factors for obesity and comorbidities. Circulation. 2004;110(18):e471-5.
Mone SM, Gillman MW, Miller TL, Herman EH, Lipshultz SE. Effects of environmental exposures on the cardiovascular
system: Prenatal period through adolescence. Pediatrics 2004;113:1058-1069.
Demerath EW, Cameron N, Gillman MW, Towne B, Siervogel RM. Telomeres and telomerase in the fetal origins of
cardiovascular disease: A review. Hum Biol. 2004;76(1):127-46.
Lederman SA, Akabas SR, Moore BJ, Bentley ME, Devaney B, Gillman MW, Kramer MS, Mennella JA, Ness A, Wardle J.
Summary of the presentations at the Conference on Preventing Childhood Obesity, December 8, 2003. Pediatrics
2004;114:1146 – 1173.
Gidding SS, Dennison BA, Birch LL, Daniels SR, Gillman MW, Lichtenstein AH, Rattay KT, Steinberger J,Stettler N, Van Horn L; American Heart Association; American Academy of Pediatrics. Dietary Recommendations for children and adolescents: A guide for practitioners: Consensus statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation 2005;112(13):2061-75. Erratum in: Circulation 2005;112(15):2375
Gidding SS, Dennison BA, Birch LL, Daniels SR, Gillman MW, Lichtenstein AH, Rattay KT, Steinberger J, Stettler N, Van Horn L; American Heart Association. Dietary Recommendations for children and adolescents: A guide for practitioners. Pediatrics 2006;117(2):544-59.
Committee on the Impact of Pregnancy Weight on Maternal and Child Health, National Research Council and Institute of Medicine (Gillman MW, member). Influence of Pregnancy Weight on Maternal and Child Health: Workshop Report.
Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2007.
Gillman MW, Barker DJP, Bier DM, Cagampang FRA, Challis JRG, Fall CHD, Godfrey KM, Gluckman PD, Hanson MA, Kuh D, Nathanielsz PW, Nestel P, Thornburg KL. Report on the 3rd International Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. Pediatr Res 2007;61(5,Part 1):625-9.
Gillman MW, Kleinman K. Antecedents of obesity - analysis, interpretation, and use of longitudinal data. Am J Epidemiol.
2007 Jul 1;166(1):14-6; author reply 17-8. Epub 2007 May 8. PubMed PMID: 17490988; PubMed
Gillman MW, Mantzoros CS. Breast-feeding, adipokines, and childhood obesity.Epidemiology. 2007 Nov;18(6):730-2.
PubMed PMID: 18049187.
Koletzko B, Cetin I, Thomas Brenna J; for the Perinatal Lipid Intake Working Group (Gillman MW, member). Dietary fat
intakes for pregnant and lactating women. Br J Nutr 2007;98(5):873-7
Gillman MW. The first months of life: A critical period for development of obesity. Am J Clin Nutr 2008;87(6):1587-9.
Committee to Reexamine Institute of Medicine Pregnancy Weight Guidelines, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council (Gillman MW, member).Weight Gain During Pregnancy: Reexamining the Guidelines. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2009.
Oken E. Excess gestational weight gain amplifies risks among obese mothers. Epidemiology. 2009 Jan;20(1):82-3. doi:
10.1097/EDE.0b013e3181880ef5. PubMed PMID: 18813018.
Gillman MW. Predicting Pre-diabetes and diabetes. Can we do it? Is it worth it? Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2010;
164(2):198-9.
Gillman MW. Breastfeeding and Obesity – The 2011 Scorecard. Int J Epidemiol. 2011 Jun;40(3):681-4.
Gillman MW. Changing the conversation regarding pediatric cholesterol screening:the rare disease paradigm. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2012 Dec;166(12):1097-8.
Muhlhausler BS, Bloomfield FH, Gillman MW. Whole animal experiments should be more like human randomized controlled trials. PLoS Biol. 2013.
Oken E. Secular trends in birthweight. Nestle Nutr Inst Workshop Ser. 2013;71:103-14
Gillman MW, Gluckman PD, Rosenfeld RG. Concluding remarks. Nestle Nutr Inst Workshop Ser. 2013;71:223-4.
Health infant growth: what are the tradeoffs in the developed world? In Gillman MW, Gluckman PD, Rosenfeld RG (eds):
Recent advances in Growth Research: Nutritional, Molecular and Endocrine Perspectives. Nestlé Nutr Inst Workshop Ser. 2013;71:171-184
Editorials
Rexrode KM, Manson JE, Gillman MW. An apple a day...and stroke prevention. Journal of the Irish Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons 1998;27:20-24.
Gillman MW. Breastfeeding and obesity. J Pediatr 2002;141:749-750.
Jepsen P, Johnsen, Sørensen HT, Gillman MW. Interpretation of observational studies. Heart 2004;90(8):956-60.
Gillman MW. Developmental origins of health and disease. N Engl J Med 2005;353:1848-50.
Kumanyika SK, Obarzanek E, Stettler N, Bell R, Field AE, Fortmann SP, Franklin BA, Gillman MW, Lewis CE, Poston WC 2nd, Stevens J, Hong Y. Population-based prevention of obesity. The need for comprehensive promotion of healthful eating, physical activity, and energy balance. A scientific statement from American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology and Prevention, Interdisciplinary Committee for Prevention (formerly the Expert Panel on Population and Prevention Science). Circulation 2008;118(4):428-64.
Oken E, Bellinger DC. Fish consumption, methylmercury and child neurodevelopment (Review). Curr Opin Pediatr 2008;20(2):178-183
Oken E. Fish consumption during pregnancy (Review). Up To Date 2009- Last updated May 9th 2014.
Oken E. Maternal and child obesity: The causal link (Review). Obstet Gynecol Clin North Am 2009 Jun;36(2):361-77.
Gillman MW. Childhood prevention of hypertensive cardiovascular disease. J Pediatr. 2009 Aug;155(2):159-61. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2009.04.062. PubMed PMID: 19619745.
Oken E. Excess gestational weight gain amplifies risks among obese mothers. (Invited Editorial) Epidemiology 2009;20(1) 82-3
Gillman MW. Gestational weight gain: now and the future. Circulation. 2012 Mar 20;125(11):1339-40. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.091751. Epub 2012 Feb 17. PubMed PMID: 22344036.
Herring SJ, Oken E. Obesity and Diabetes in Mothers and their Children: Can We Stop the Intergenerational Cycle? (Review). Curr Diab Rep. 2011 Feb;11(1):20-7. PMCID: PMC3191112.
Herring SJ, Rose MZ, Skouteris H, Oken E. Optimizing weight gain in pregnancy to prevent obesity in women and children (Review). Diabetes Obes Metab. 2012 Mar;14(3):195-203. PMCID: PMC3247649.
de Ferranti SD, Gillman MW. Hypertension in children and adolescents: more questions than answers. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2012 Sep;166(9):872-4. doi: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2012.1503. PubMed PMID: 22825569.
Gillman MW, Ludwig DS. How early should obesity prevention start? N Engl J Med. 2013 Dec 5;369(23):2173-5.
Gillman MW. Primordial prevention of cardiovascular disease. Circulation. 2015 Feb 17;131(7):599-601. Epub 2015 Jan 20.
Hutcheon JA, Oken E. Towards Defining Optimal Gestational Weight Gain. Current Epidemiology Reports 2016 Mar; 3(1): 12-8.
Pereira MA, Gillman MW. Maternal Consumption of Artificially Sweetened Beverages and Infant Weight Gain: Causal or Casual?. JAMA Pediatr. 2016 Jul 1;170(7):642-3. PMID: 27159555.
Gold DR, Sordillo JE, Coull BA. Lung Function Tracking Throughout Childhood: Growth Trajectories May Not Be Set in Stone. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2020 Apr;8(4):1272-1274. doi: 10.1016/j.jaip.2020.01.043. PMID: 32276692.
Letters
Rich-Edwards JW, Kleinman KP, Gillman MW. Birth size, growth, and blood pressure between the ages of 7 and 26 years:
failure to support the fetal origins hypothesis. Am J Epidemiol 2003;157:665-666.
Gillman MW. Re: "Why evidence for the fetal origins of adult disease might be a statistical artifact: the 'reversal paradox' for
the relation between birth weight and blood pressure in later life". Am J Epidemiol 2005;162:292.
Gillman MW, Rich-Edwards JW, Rifas-Shiman SL, Kleinman KP, Lipshultz SE. Maternal age and other predictors of newborn
blood pressure. J Pediatr. 2005;146:149.
Gillman MW. Issues in reporting epidemiological studies: Can't we all agree on confidence intervals? BMJ
2005;330(7483):146.
Mayer-Davis EJ, Rifas-Shiman SL, Zhou L, Hu FB, Colditz GA, Gillman MW. Breast-feeding and risk for childhood obesity:
Response to Plagemann et al. Diabetes Care 2007;30(2):452.
Rich-Edwards JW, Hacker MR, Gillman MW. Premature recommendation of corticotropin- releasing hormone as screen for
postpartum depression. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2009; 66(8):917
Gillman MW, Cupples, LA, Gagnon D, Posner BM, Ellison RC, Castelli WP, Wolf PA. Fruits, vegetables and stroke risk. [Reply to letter] JAMA 1995;274:1197.
Gillman MW, Hood MY, Moore LT, Nguyen UDT, Singer MR, Andon MB. Effect of calcium on blood pressure. [Reply to letter]
J Pediatr 1996;128:302-303
Gillman MW, Cupples LA, Millen BE, Ellison RC, Wolf PA. Dietary fat and ischemic stroke. [Reply to letter]. JAMA
1998;279:1171-1173.
Gillman MW, Colditz GA. Breastfeeding and risk of overweight. [Reply to letter]. JAMA 2001;286:1449-1450.
Gillman MW, Moore MM, Rifas-Shiman SL, Rich-Edwards JW, Gold DR. Atopic dermatitis and breastfeeding: in reply.
Pediatrics. 2004;114(4):1129-30.
Gillman MW. Re: "Why evidence for the fetal origins of adult disease might be a statistical artifact: the 'reversal paradox' for
the relation between birth weight and blood pressure in later life". Am J Epidemiol. 2005 Aug 1;162(3):292; author reply
292-3. Epub 2005 Jun 29. PubMed PMID: 15987722.
Gillman MW, Rich-Edwards JW, Rifas-Shiman SL, Kleinman KP, Lipshultz SE. Maternal age and other predictors of newborn
blood pressure. [Reply to letter]. J Pediatr 2005;146:149.
de Ferranti SD, Vinci SR, Gillman MW. Rates of cholesterol screening of youth--reply. JAMA. 2014 Oct 1;312(13):1354.
Reviews
Stanbury JB, Ermans AE, Bourdoux P, Todd C, Oken E, Tonglet R, Vidor G, Braverman LE, Medeiros-Neto G. Iodine-induced
hyperthyroidism: occurrence and epidemiology (Review). Thyroid 1998;8(1):83-100.
Barker DJP. Mothers, Babies, and Disease in Later Life. London: BMJ Publishing Group, 1994. In BMJ 1995;310:68-69
Pless IB, ed. The Epidemiology of Childhood Disorders. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. In Epidemiology
1995;6:196.
Brien PMS, Wheeler T, Barker DJP. Fetal Programming. Influences on development and disease in later life. London: RCOG Press, 1999. In Paediatr Perinatal Epidemiol 2000;14:373.
Oken E, Lightdale JR. Updates in pediatric nutrition (Review). Curr Opin Pediatr 2000;12(3):282-90
Oken E, Lightdale JR. Updates in pediatric nutrition (Review). Curr Opin Pediatr 2001;13(3):280-8.
Lightdale JR, Oken E. Breastfeeding, food choices, restrictive diets, and nutritional fads (Review). Curr Opin Pediatr
2002;14(3):344-9
Oken E, Duggan C. Update on micronutrients: iron and zinc (Review). Curr Opin Pediatr 2002;14(3):350-3.
Oken E, Gillman MW. Fetal origins of obesity. Obes Res 2003;11:496-506.
Demerath EW, Cameron N, Gillman MW, Towne B, Siervogel RM. Telomeres and telomerase in the fetal origins of
cardiovascular disease: a review. Hum Biol. 2004 Feb;76(1):127-46.
Jepsen P, Johnsen SP, Gillman MW, Sørensen HT. Interpretation of observational studies. Heart. 2004 Aug;90(8):956-60. Review. PubMed PMID: 15253985; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1768356.
Mone SM, Gillman MW, Miller TL, Herman EH, Lipshultz SE. Effects of environmental exposures on the cardiovascular system: prenatal period through adolescence. Pediatrics 2004;113:1058-1069.
Gluckman PD, Hanson MA. Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. In JAMA 2007;297:1259a-1260a.
Oken E, Levitan EB, Gillman MW. Maternal smoking during pregnancy and child overweight: systemic review and metaanalysis. Int J Obes (Lond). 2008;32(2):201-10.
Oken, E. Fish intake and mercury levels: only part of the picture (Invited Editorial). Journal of Pediatrics 2010;
Jul;157(1):10-2.
Oken E, Belfort MB. Fish, fish oil, and pregnancy (Invited Editorial). JAMA 2010 Oct 20;304(15):1717-8
Herring SJ, Oken E. Weight gain in pregnancy: Importance for maternal and child health (Review). Annales Nestlé 2010; 68:17–28.
Mahaffey KR, Sunderland EM, Chan HM, Choi AL, Grandjean P, Mariën K, Oken E, Sakamoto M, Schoeny R, Weihe P, Yan CH, Yasutake A. Balancing the benefits of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and the risks of methylmercury exposure from fish consumption. Nutr Reviews 2011. 69(9):493–508. PMCID:PMC3219437.
Zera C, McGirr S, Oken E. Screening for obesity in reproductive-aged women. Prev Chronic Dis. 2011 Nov;8(6):A125. Epub 2011 Oct 17. Review. PubMed PMID: 22005618; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3221567.
Tovar A, Chasan-Taber L, Eggleston E, Oken E. Postpartum screening for diabetes among women with a history of
gestational diabetes mellitus. Prev Chronic Dis 2011;8(6):A124. PMCID: PMC3221566.
de Jong F, Monuteaux MC, van Elburg RM, Gillman MW, Belfort MB. Systematic review and meta-analysis of preterm birth and later systolic blood pressure. Hypertension. 2012 Feb;59(2):226-34. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.111.181784. Epub 2011 Dec 12. Review. PubMed PMID: 22158643.
Karagas MR, Choi AL, Oken E, Horvat M, Schoeny R, Kamai E, Cowell W, Grandjean P, Korrick S. Evidence on the human health effects of low-level methylmercury exposure. Environ Health Perspect. 2012 Jun;120(6):799-806. doi:
10.1289/ehp.1104494. Epub 2012 Jan 24. Review. PubMed PMID: 22275730.
Oken E, Choi AL, Karagas MR, Mariën K, Rheinberger CM, Schoeny R, Sunderland E, Korrick S. Which Fish Should I Eat? Perspectives Influencing Fish Consumption Choices. Environ Health Perspect. 2012 Jun;120(6):790-8.
Belfort MB, Gillman MW. Healthy infant growth: what are the trade-offs in the developed world?. Nestle Nutr Inst
Workshop Ser. 2013;71:171-84. doi: 10.1159/000342610. Epub 2013 Jan 22. Review. PubMed PMID: 23502152.
Oken E, Baccarelli AA, Gold DR, Kleinman KP, Litonjua AA, De Meo D, Rich-Edwards JW, Rifas-Shiman SL, Sagiv S, Taveras EM, Weiss ST, Belfort MB, Burris HH, Camargo CA Jr, Huh SY, Mantzoros C, Parker MG, Gillman MW. Cohort Profile: Project Viva. Int J Epidemiol. 2014 Mar 16. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 24639442.
Rokoff LB, Koutrakis P, Garshick E, Karagas MR, Oken E, Gold DR, Fleisch AF. Wood Stove Pollution in the Developed
World: A Case to Raise Awareness Among Pediatricians. Curr Probl Pediatr Adolesc Health Care. 2017 Jun;47(6):123-141. doi: 10.1016/j.cppeds.2017.04.001. Epub 2017 Jun 2. PMID: 28583817.
Chapters/Books
Rich-Edwards JW. A lifecourse approach to women's reproductive health. In: Kuh D, Hardy R, editors. A Lifecourse Approach to Women's Health. London: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Gillman MW. Dietary fat (topic review). In: Rose, BD (Ed), UpToDate (online version), Wellesley, MA: UpToDate, 1998-2004.
Rich-Edwards JW. Epidemiology of the fetal origins of adult cardiovascular disease: cohort studies. In: Langley-Evans SC, editor. Frontiers in Nutritional Sciences: Fetal nutrition and adult disease: Programming of chronic disease through fetal exposure to undernutrition. London: CAB International, 2004.
Gillman MW. Life course approach to obesity. In: Kuh D, Ben-Shlomo Y, editors. A Life Course Approach to Chronic Disease Epidemiology, 2nd edition. London: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Taveras EM, Gillman MW. Breastfeeding and Overweight. In: Goran MI and Sothern.MS, editors. Handbook of Pediatric Obesity: Etiology, Pathophysiology, and Prevention. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2005.
Gillman MW. Developmental Origins of Obesity. In: Hu FB, editor. Obesity Epidemiology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Gillman MW. Fetal and Infant Origins of Obesity. In: Kopelman PG, Caterson ID, Dietz WH, editors. Clinical Obesity in Adults & Children 3rd edition. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
Gillman MW, Davey Smith G, Hanson MA, Spencer HG. DOHaD Across Generations - Theory, Observation, Experiment. In: Newnham JP, Ross MG, editors. Early Life Origins of Human Health and Disease. Basel: Karger, 2009
McKelvey W, Oken E. Mercury and Public Health: An Assessment of Human Exposure (Chapter 13). In: Mercury in the
Environment: Pattern and Process. Bank M, ed. University of California Press. 2012.
Gillman MW. Interrupting Intergenerational Cycles of Maternal Obesity. In: Fewtrell MS, Haschke F, Prescott SL, editors. Preventative Aspects of Early Nutrition: Nestlé Nutrition Institute Workshop Series Vol 85. Karger, 2016.
BOOK: Gillman MW, Gluckman PD, Rosenfeld RG (eds) (2013) Recent advances in Growth Research: Nutritional, Molecular and Endocrine Perspectives. Nestlé Nutrition Institute Workshop Series. Vol.71.
BOOK: Gillman, MW, Poston, L, eds (2012). Maternal Obesity. Cambridge University Press.