Beth Widen, PhD, RD

My lab has received our first R01 from NIDDK "Mothers and CareGivers Investing in Children: A virtual intervention to support healthy growth in infants and toddlers." Thrilled to extend our infant feeding program to include bottle/breast feeding in earlier infancy! reporter.nih.gov/search/xWxQk...

Aw thanks, so much @mdhayward.bsky.social!

Infant body composition trajectories differ by in utero exposure to gestational diabetes mellitus: a prospective cohort from birth to 12 months Infants exposed to gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in utero are known to have higher fat mass (FM) and less fat-free mass (FFM) at birth, but litt…

Led by Widen Lab doctoral student Rachel Rickman, we challenge norms on how infants exposed to diabetes grow. Our data suggest that GDM exposed infants experience a downshift in adipose tissue accrual after birth. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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