Eva-Charlotte Ekström
Professor at Department of Women's and Children's Health; International Child Health and Nutrition
- Telephone:
- +46 72 999 91 63
- E-mail:
- lotta.ekstrom@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- MTC-huset, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 14B, 1 tr
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 UPPSALA
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Publications
Recent publications
- Perception of affordable diet is associated with pre-school children's diet diversity in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2024)
- Maternal betel quid use during pregnancy and child growth (2024)
- Association between maternal haemoglobin status during pregnancy and children's mental and psychomotor development at 18 months of age (2024)
- Dietary diversity predicts the mortality among older people (2023)
- Dietary patterns and indicators of cardiometabolic risk among rural adolescents (2023)
All publications
Articles
- Perception of affordable diet is associated with pre-school children's diet diversity in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2024)
- Maternal betel quid use during pregnancy and child growth (2024)
- Association between maternal haemoglobin status during pregnancy and children's mental and psychomotor development at 18 months of age (2024)
- Dietary diversity predicts the mortality among older people (2023)
- Dietary patterns and indicators of cardiometabolic risk among rural adolescents (2023)
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) exposure during pregnancy and child anthropometry from birth to 10 years of age (2023)
- Socio-demographic characteristics associated with the dietary diversity of Thai community-dwelling older people (2022)
- Dietary diversity associated with risk of cardiovascular diseases among community-dwelling older people (2022)
- Gender and socio-economic stratification of ultra-processed and deep-fried food consumption among rural adolescents (2022)
- Residential Food Environment, Household Wealth and Maternal Education Association to Preschoolers' Consumption of Plant-Based Vitamin A-Rich Foods (2022)
- Prenatal nutrition supplementation and growth biomarkers in preadolescent Bangladeshi children (2022)
- A longitudinal study of rural Bangladeshi children with long-term arsenic and cadmium exposures and biomarkers of cardiometabolic diseases (2021)
- Early childhood malnutrition trajectory and lung function at preadolescence (2021)
- Environmental metal exposure and growth to 10 years of age in a longitudinal mother-child cohort in rural Bangladesh (2021)
- Association between maternal plasma ferritin level and infants' size at birth (2021)
- Mid-upper arm circumference for identifying adult overweight in large-scale population-based surveys (2021)
- Maternal experience of domestic violence before and during pregnancy and children's linear growth at 15 years (2021)
- The Social Stratification of Availability, Affordability, and Consumption of Food in Families with Preschoolers in Addis Ababa (2020)
- Social Stratification, Diet Diversity and Malnutrition among Preschoolers (2020)
- Exploring the Experience and Determinants of the Food Choices and Eating Practices of Elderly Thai People (2020)
- Exploring Rural Adolescents' Dietary Diversity and Its Socioeconomic Correlates (2020)
- Stunting, recovery from stunting and puberty development in the MINIMat cohort, Bangladesh (2020)
- Sociocultural Influences on Dietary Practices and Physical Activity Behaviors of Rural Adolescents (2019)
- Effects of intrauterine growth restriction and postnatal nutrition on pediatric asthma in Bangladesh (2019)
- Relative importance of prenatal and postnatal determinants of stunting (2019)
- PSICA (2019)
- Maternal Experience of Domestic Violence, Associations with Children's Lipid Biomarkers at 10 Years (2019)
- Cohort Profile (2018)
- Mixed blessings: (2018)
- What Influences Urban Mothers' Decisions on What to Feed Their Children Aged Under Five-The Case of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2018)
- An integrated community-based outpatient therapeutic feeding programme for severe acute malnutrition in rural Southern Ethiopia (2018)
- Breast-feeding counselling mitigates the negative association of domestic violence on exclusive breast-feeding duration in rural Bangladesh. The MINIMat randomized trial. (2017)
- Breastfeeding counseling improves maternal-infant feeding interaction in those exposed to controlling behavior or emotional violence (2017)
- Prenatal early food and multiple micronutrient supplementation trial reduced infant mortality in Bangladesh, but did not influence morbidity (2017)
- Effect of a randomised exclusive breastfeeding counselling intervention nested into the MINIMat prenatal nutrition trial in Bangladesh (2017)
- Effects of early prenatal food supplementation and multiple micronutrients on under-five survival, linear growth, metabolic markers and blood pressure up to 10 years of age (2017)
- First-trimester fetal growth restriction and the occurrence of miscarriage in rural Bangladesh (2017)
- Comparison of Mid-Upper Arm Circumference and Weight-for-Height to Diagnose Severe Acute Malnutrition (2017)
- Choosing Anthropometric Indicators to Monitor the Response to Treatment for Severe Acute Malnutrition in Rural Southern Ethiopia (2017)
- Consumption of highly processed snacks, sugar-sweetened beverages and child feeding practices in a rural area of Nicaragua (2016)
- Effects of prenatal micronutrient and early food supplementation on metabolic status of the offspring at 4.5 years of age. The MINIMat randomized trial in rural Bangladesh. (2016)
- Maternal Micronutrient Supplementation and Long Term Health Impact in Children in Rural Bangladesh (2016)
- Stunted at 10 Years. Linear Growth Trajectories and Stunting from Birth to Pre-Adolescence in a Rural Bangladeshi Cohort. (2016)
- Challenges in Implementing the Integrated Community-Based Outpatient Therapeutic Program for Severely Malnourished Children in Rural Southern Ethiopia (2016)
- Experiencing Lifetime Domestic Violence (2016)
- A Prenatal Multiple Micronutrient Supplement Produces Higher Maternal Vitamin B-12 Concentrations and Similar Folate, Ferritin, and Zinc Concentrations as the Standard 60-mg Iron Plus 400-μg Folic Acid Supplement in Rural Bangladeshi Women. (2016)
- Cost-Effectiveness of Peer Counselling for the Promotion of Exclusive Breastfeeding in Uganda. (2015)
- Socio-economic resources, young child feeding practices, consumption of highly processed snacks and sugar-sweetened beverages (2015)
- Predicted implications of using percentage weight gain as single discharge criterion in management of acute malnutrition in rural southern Ethiopia (2015)
- Early invitation to food and/or multiple micronutrient supplementation in pregnancy does not affect body composition in offspring at 54 months (2015)
- Child survival and BCG vaccination (2015)
- Perceptions of usage and unintended consequences of provision of ready-to-use therapeutic food for management of severe acute child malnutrition (2015)
- Women´s autonomy and social support and their associations with infant and young child feeding and nutritional status (2015)
- Severe events in the first 6 months of life in a cohort of HIV-unexposed infants from South Africa (2014)
- Early infant feeding practices in three African countries (2014)
- Growth effects of exclusive breastfeeding promotion by peer counsellors in sub-Saharan Africa (2014)
- Costs of promoting exclusive breastfeeding at community level in three sites in South Africa. (2014)
- Maternal Urinary Iodine Concentration up to 1.0 mg/L Is Positively Associated with Birth Weight, Length, and Head Circumference of Male Offspring (2014)
- Women's exposure to intimate partner violence and child malnutrition (2014)
- Arsenic Exposure Affects Plasma Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 (IGF-1) in Children in Rural Bangladesh (2013)
- Infant feeding survival and Markov transition probabilities among children under age 6 months in Uganda. (2013)
- Snacking And Infant Young Child Feeding Practices In A Rural Area Of Nicaragua (2013)
- Infant And Young Child Feeding Practices And Nutritional Status In Nicaragua (2013)
- Efficacy of micronutrient supplement intake in increasing hemoglobin in pregnancy (2013)
- Predicted Implications Of Using Percentage Weight Gain As Single Discharge Criterion In Management Of Acute Child Malnutrition In Rural Ethiopia (2013)
- Early Infant Feeding Practices In The Promise-Ebf Trial (2013)
- Effects of exclusive breastfeeding intervention on child growth and body composition (2013)
- Polymorphisms in Iron Homeostasis Genes and Urinary Cadmium Concentrations among Nonsmoking Women in Argentina and Bangladesh (2013)
- Maternal Decision Making Ability And Social Support (2013)
- Early cessation of breastfeeding amongst women in South Africa (2012)
- The high burden of infant deaths in rural Burkina Faso (2012)
- Associations between oxidative parameters in pregnancy and birth anthropometry in a cohort of women and children in rural Bangladesh (2012)
- Associations between oxidative parameters in pregnancy and metabolic, oxidative and inflammatory markers in offspring in early childhood (2012)
- Mother's perceptions and experiences of infant feeding within a community-based peer counselling intervention in South Africa (2012)
- Prenatal Micronutrient and Early Pregnancy Food Supplementation in Bangladesh Reply (2012)
- Effects of Prenatal Micronutrient and Early Food Supplementation on Maternal Hemoglobin, Birth Weight, and Infant Mortality Among Children in Bangladesh (2012)
- Arsenic-Associated Oxidative stress, Inflammation, and Immune Disruption in Human Placenta and Cord Blood (2011)
- Association between calcium in cord blood and newborn size in Bangladesh (2011)
- Infant anaemia is associated with infection, low birthweight and iron deficiency in rural Bangladesh (2011)
- Arsenic methylation efficiency increases during the first trimester of pregnancy independent of folate status (2011)
- Effects of prenatal food and micronutrient supplementation on child growth from birth to 54 months of age (2011)
- Prevalence of anemia and micronutrient deficiencies in early pregnancy in rural Bangladesh, the MINIMat trial (2011)
- Malaria parasitaemia among infants and its association with breastfeeding peer counselling and vitamin A supplementation (2011)
- Arsenic Exposure in Pregnancy Increases the Risk of Lower Respiratory Tract Infection and Diarrhea During Infancy in Bangladesh (2011)
- Exclusive breastfeeding promotion by peer counsellors in sub-Saharan Africa (PROMISE-EBF) (2011)
- Supervision of community peer counsellors for infant feeding in South Africa (2010)
- Maternal multiple micronutrient supplementation has limited impact on micronutrient status of Bangladeshi infants compared with standard iron and folic acid supplementation (2010)
- Accumulation of cadmium in human placenta interacts with the transport of micronutrients to the fetus (2010)
- Maternal education is associated with vaccination status of infants less than 6 months in Eastern Uganda (2010)
- "She would sit with me" (2010)
- Establishing individual peer counselling for exclusive breastfeeding in Uganda (2010)
- Selling a service (2010)
- Arsenic Exposure and Risk of Spontaneous Abortion, Stillbirth, and Infant Mortality (2010)
- Duration of exclusive breast-feeding and infant iron and zinc status in rural Bangladesh (2009)
- Micronutrient supplementation affects maternal-infant feeding interactions and maternal distress in Bangladesh (2009)
- Factors influencing intestinal cadmium uptake in pregnant Bangladeshi women (2009)
- Cadmium interacts with the transport of essential micronutrients in the mammary gland (2009)
- "Peer but not peer" (2009)
- Arsenic exposure during pregnancy and size at birth (2009)
- Arsenic in Drinking Water and Adult Mortality (2009)
- Socio-demographic factors related to periodontal status and tooth loss of pregnant women in Mbale district, Uganda. (2009)
- Periodontal status, tooth loss and self-reported periodontal problems effects on oral impacts on daily performances, OIDP, in pregnant women in Uganda (2009)
- 'No sister, the breast alone is not enough for my baby' a qualitative assessment of potentials and barriers in the promotion of exclusive breastfeeding in southern Zambia. (2008)
- Nutritional status has marginal influence on the metabolism of inorganic arsenic in pregnant Bangladeshi women (2008)
- Gender and age differences in the metabolism of inorganic arsenic in a highly exposed population in Bangladesh (2008)
- Effects of prenatal food and micronutrient supplementation on infant development (2008)
- Influence of iron and zinc status on cadmium accumulation in Bangladeshi women (2007)
- Association of Arsenic Exposure during Pregnancy with Fetal Loss and Infant Death (2007)
- Arsenic exposure and age- and sex-specific risk for skin lesions (2006)
- Prevalence of arsenic exposure and skin lesions. A population based survey in Matlab, Bangladesh. (2006)
- Effect of prenatal food supplementation on birth weight (2006)
- Arsenic exposure in pregnancy (2006)
- Socio-economic resources and child under- and over-nutrition
- Accelerometer-measured physical activity, fitness and indicators of cardiometabolic risk among rural adolescents: a cross-sectional study at 15-year follow-up of the MINIMat cohort
- Consumption of ultra-processed and deep-fried foods among rural adolescents
- The relative importance of pre- and postnatal determinants of stunting.
- Community based outpatient therapeutic programme for severe acute malnutrition in rural southern Ethiopia; Recovery, fatality and nutritional status after discharge
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