Publications 

2023

Noroña-Zhou A, Coccia M, Sullivan A, O'Connor TG, Collett BR, Derefinko K, Renner LM, Loftus CT, Roubinov D, Carroll KN, Nguyen RHN, Karr CJ, Sathyanarayana S, Barrett ES, Mason WA, LeWinn KZ, Bush NR. A Multi-Cohort Examination of the Independent Contributions of Maternal Childhood Adversity and Pregnancy Stressors to the Prediction of Children's Anxiety and Depression. Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol. 2023 Apr;51(4):497-512. doi: 10.1007/s10802-022-01002-3. Epub 2022 Dec 3. PMID: 36462137; PMCID: PMC10017630.

Dearborn LC, Hazlehurst MF, Loftus CT, Szpiro AA, Carroll KN, Moore PE, Adgent MA, Barrett ES, Nguyen RH, Sathyanarayana S, LeWinn KZ, Bush NR, Kaufman JD, Karr CJ. Role of air pollution in development of asthma among children with a history of bronchiolitis in infancy. Epidemiology. 2023 Mar 31. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000001613. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37042935.

Paquette AG, Lapehn S, Freije S, MacDonald J, Bammler T, Day DB, Loftus CT, Kannan K, Alex Mason W, Bush NR, LeWinn KZ, Enquobahrie DA, Marsit C, Sathyanarayana S. Placental transcriptomic signatures of prenatal exposure to Hydroxy-Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Environ Int. 2023 Feb;172:107763. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2023.107763. Epub 2023 Jan 18. PMID: 36689866.

Lapehn S, Houghtaling S, Ahuna K, Kadam L, MacDonald JW, Bammler TK, LeWinn KZ, Myatt L, Sathyanarayana S, Paquette AG. Mono(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate induces transcriptomic changes in placental cells based on concentration, fetal sex, and trophoblast cell type. Arch Toxicol. 2023 Mar;97(3):831-847. doi: 10.1007/s00204-023-03444-0. Epub 2023 Jan 25. PMID: 36695872; PMCID: PMC9968694.

Bush NR, Noroña-Zhou A, Coccia M, Rudd KL, Ahmad SI, Loftus CT, Swan SH, Nguyen RHN, Barrett ES, Tylavsky FA, Mason WA, Karr CJ, Sathyanarayana S, LeWinn KZ. Intergenerational transmission of stress: Multi-domain stressors from maternal childhood and pregnancy predict children's mental health in a racially and socioeconomically diverse, multi-site cohort. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2023 Feb 3. doi: 10.1007/s00127-022-02401-z. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36735003.

Kruger L, Yue G, Paquette A, Sathyanarayana S, Enquobahrie DA, Bammler TK, MacDonald J, Zhao Q, Prasad B. An optimized proteomics-based approach to estimate blood contamination and cellular heterogeneity of frozen placental tissue. Placenta. 2023 Jan;131:111-118. doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2022.12.007. Epub 2022 Dec 23. PMID: 36584637.

2022 

Sienas L, Albright C, Ni Y, Szpiro A, Bush NR, Loftus C, Kannan K, Tylavsky F, Karr CJ, LeWinn KZ, Sathyanarayana S. Associations between Phthalate Exposure and Gestational Age at Delivery in a Diverse Pregnancy Cohort. Toxics. 2022 Dec 3;10(12):754. doi: 10.3390/toxics10120754. PMID: 36548587; PMCID: PMC9785862.

Barrett ES, Workman T, Hazlehurst MF, Kauderer S, Loftus C, Kannan K, Robinson M, Smith AK, Smith R, Zhao Q, LeWinn KZ, Sathyanarayana S, Bush NR. Prenatal polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) exposure in relation to placental corticotropin releasing hormone (pCRH) in the CANDLE pregnancy cohort. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2022 Nov 11;13:1011689. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2022.1011689. PMID: 36440232; PMCID: PMC9691680.

Wallace ER, Buth E, Szpiro AA, Ni Y, Loftus CT, Masterson E, Day DB, Sun BZ, Sullivan A, Barrett E, Nguyen RH, Robinson M, Kannan K, Mason A, Sathyanarayana S, LeWinn KZ, Bush NR, Karr CJ. Prenatal exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons is not associated with adverse behavior in preschool and early school-aged children: A prospective multi-cohort study. Environ Res. 2022 Nov 9:114759. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.114759. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36370819.

LeWinn KZ, Karr CJ, Hazlehurst M, Carroll K, Loftus C, Nguyen R, Barrett E, Swan SH, Szpiro AA, Paquette A, Moore P, Spalt E, Younglove L, Sullivan A, Colburn T, Byington N, Sims Taylor L, Moe S, Wang S, Cordeiro A, Mattias A, Powell J, Johnson T, Norona-Zhou A, Mason A, Bush NR, Sathyanarayana S. Cohort profile: the ECHO prenatal and early childhood pathways to health consortium (ECHO-PATHWAYS). BMJ Open. 2022 Oct 21;12(10):e064288. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-064288. PMID: 36270755.

Loftus CT, Szpiro AA, Workman T, Wallace ER, Hazlehurst MF, Day DB, Ni Y, Carroll KN, Adgent MA, Moore PE, Barrett ES, Nguyen RHN, Kannan K, Robinson M, Masterson EE, Tylavsky FA, Bush NR, LeWinn KZ, Sathyanarayana S, Karr CJ. Maternal exposure to urinary polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in pregnancy and childhood asthma in a pooled multi-cohort study. Environ Int. 2022 Sep 3;170:107494. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2022.107494. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36279735.

Day DB, Sathyanarayana S, LeWinn KZ, Karr CJ, Mason WA, Szpiro AA. A Permutation Test-Based Approach to Strengthening Inference on the Effects of Environmental Mixtures: Comparison between Single-Index Analytic Methods. Environ Health Perspect. 2022 Aug;130(8):87010. doi: 10.1289/EHP10570. Epub 2022 Aug 30. PMID: 36040702; PMCID: PMC9426671.

Paquette AG, MacDonald J, Bammler T, Day DB, Loftus CT, Buth E, Mason WA, Bush NR, Lewinn KZ, Marsit C, Litch JA, Gravett M, Enquobahrie DA, Sathyanarayana S. Placental transcriptomic signatures of spontaneous preterm birth. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2022 Jul 19:S0002-9378(22)00569-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2022.07.015. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35868418.

Quraishi SM, Hazlehurst MF, Loftus CT, Nguyen RHN, Barrett ES, Kaufman JD, Bush NR, Karr CJ, LeWinn KZ, Sathyanarayana S, Tylavsky FA, Szpiro AA, Enquobahrie DA. Association of prenatal exposure to ambient air pollution with adverse birth outcomes and effect modification by socioeconomic factors. Environ Res. 2022 Sep;212(Pt E):113571. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.113571. Epub 2022 May 28. PMID: 35640705.

Enquobahrie DA, MacDonald J, Hussey M, Bammler TK, Loftus CT, Paquette AG, Byington N, Marsit CJ, Szpiro A, Kaufman JD, LeWinn KZ, Bush NR, Tylavsky F, Karr CJ, Sathyanarayana S. Prenatal exposure to particulate matter and placental gene expression. Environ Int. 2022 Jul;165:107310. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2022.107310. Epub 2022 May 25. PMID: 35653832; PMCID: PMC9235522.

Ni Y, Loftus CT, Szpiro AA, Young MT, Hazlehurst MF, Murphy LE, Tylavsky FA, Mason WA, LeWinn KZ, Sathyanarayana S, Barrett ES, Bush NR, Karr CJ. Associations of Pre- and Postnatal Air Pollution Exposures with Child Behavioral Problems and Cognitive Performance: A U.S. Multi-Cohort Study. Environ Health Perspect. 2022 Jun;130(6):67008. doi: 10.1289/EHP10248. Epub 2022 Jun 23. PMID: 35737514; PMCID: PMC9222764.

Wilson K, Gebretsadik T, Adgent MA, Loftus C, Karr C, Moore PE, Sathyanarayana S, Byington N, Barrett E, Bush N, Nguyen R, Hartman TJ, LeWinn KZ, Calvert A, Mason WA, Carroll KN. The association between duration of breastfeeding and childhood asthma outcomes. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2022 May 10:S1081-1206(22)00400-8. doi: 10.1016/j.anai.2022.04.034. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35552008.

Melough MM, Day DB, Fretts AM, Wang S, Flynn JT, de Boer IH, Zhu H, Kannan K, Sathyanarayana S. Associations of Dietary Intake with Urinary Melamine and Derivative Concentrations among Children in the GAPPS Cohort. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Apr 19;19(9):4964. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19094964. PMID: 35564358; PMCID: PMC9102103.

Freije SL, Daniel A. Enquobahrie DA, Day, DB Loftus C, Szpiro AA, Karr CJ, Trasande L, Kahn LG, Barrett E, Kannan K, Nicole R. Bush NB, LeWinn KZ, Swan S, Mason WA, Robinson M, Sathyanarayana S. Prenatal exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and gestational age at birth, Environment International, Volume 164, 2022, 107246, ISSN 0160-4120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2022.107246

Ahmad, S. I., Shih, E. W., LeWinn, K. Z., Rivera, L., Graff, C., Mason, W. A., Karr, C. J., Sathyanarayana, S., Tylavsky, F. A., & Bush, N.R. (2022). Intergenerational transmission of effects of women’s stressors during pregnancy: Child psychopathology and the protective role of parenting. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.838535 

Ni Y, Simpson CL, Davis RL, Szpiro AA, Karr CJ, Kovesdy CP, Hjorten RC, Tylavsky FA, Bush NR, LeWinn KZ, Winkler CA, Kopp JB, Obi Y. Associations between APOL1 genetic variants and blood pressure in African American mothers and children from a U.S. pregnancy cohort: Modification by air pollution exposures. Environ Res. 2022 Mar 28;212(Pt A):113186. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.113186. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35358541. 

Rudd KL, Cheng SS, Cordeiro A, Coccia M, Karr CJ, LeWinn KZ, Mason WA, Trasande L, Nguyen RHN, Sathyanarayana S, Swan SH, Barrett ES, Bush NR. Associations Between Maternal Stressful Life Events and Perceived Distress during Pregnancy and Child Mental Health at Age 4. Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol. 2022 Mar 8. doi: 10.1007/s10802-022-00911-7. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35258749. 

Barrett ES, Corsetti M, Day D, Thurston SW, Loftus CT, Karr CJ, Kannan K, LeWinn KZ, Smith AK, Smith R, Tylavsky FA, Bush NR, Sathyanarayana S. Prenatal phthalate exposure in relation to placental corticotropin releasing hormone (pCRH) in the CANDLE cohort. Environ Int. 2022 Jan 7;160:107078. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2022.107078. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35007898. 

2021 

Wallace ER, Ni Y, Loftus CT, Sullivan A, Masterson E, Szpiro AA, Day DB, Robinson M, Kannan K, Tylavsky FA, Sathyanarayana S, Bush NR, LeWinn KZ, Karr CJ. Prenatal urinary metabolites of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and toddler cognition, language, and behavior. Environ Int. 2021 Dec 10;159:107039. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2021.107039. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34902794. 

Ahmad SI, Rudd KL, LeWinn KZ, Mason WA, Murphy L, Juarez PD, Karr CJ, Sathyanarayana S, Tylavsky FA, Bush NR. Maternal childhood trauma and prenatal stressors are associated with child behavioral health. J Dev Orig Health Dis. 2021 Oct 20:1-11. doi: 10.1017/S2040174421000581. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34666865. 

Senter CC, Bush NR, Loftus CT, Szpiro AA, Fitzpatrick AL, Carroll KN, LeWinn KZ, Mason WA, Sathyanarayana S, Akingbade OA, Karr CJ. Maternal Stressful Life Events during Pregnancy and Atopic Dermatitis in Children Aged Approximately 4-6 Years. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Sep 15;18(18):9696. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18189696. PMID: 34574621; PMCID: PMC8470006. 

Paquette AG, MacDonald J, Lapehn S, Bammler T, Kruger L, Day DB, Price ND, Loftus C, Kannan K, Marsit C, Mason WA, Bush NR, LeWinn KZ, Enquobahrie DA, Prasad B, Karr CJ, Sathyanarayana S. A Comprehensive Assessment of Associations between Prenatal Phthalate Exposure and the Placental Transcriptomic Landscape. Environ Health Perspect. 2021 Sep;129(9):97003. doi: 10.1289/EHP8973. Epub 2021 Sep 3. PMID: 34478338; PMCID: PMC8415559. 

Zhao Q, Hu Z, Kocak M, Liu J, Fowke JH, Han JC, Kakhniashvili D, Lewinn KZ, Bush NR, Mason WA, Tylavsky FA. Associations of prenatal metabolomics profiles with early childhood growth trajectories and obesity risk in African Americans: the CANDLE study. International journal of obesity (2005). 2021 July;45(7):1439-1447. PubMed PMID: 33824402; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8496965; DOI: 10.1038/s41366-021-00808-3.

Kirwa K, Szpiro AA, Sheppard L, Sampson PD, Wang M, Keller JP, Young MT, Kim SY, Larson TV, Kaufman JD. Fine-Scale Air Pollution Models for Epidemiologic Research: Insights From Approaches Developed in the Multi-ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution (MESA Air). Curr Environ Health Rep. 2021 Jun;8(2):113-126. doi: 10.1007/s40572-021-00310-y. PMID: 34086258; PMCID: PMC8278964. 

Shih, E., Ahmad, S., Bush, N., Roubinov, D., Tylavsky, F., Graff, C., Karr, C., Sathyanarayana, S. LeWinn, K. (2021). A path model examination: Maternal anxiety and parenting mediate the association between maternal adverse childhood experiences and children's internalizing behaviors. Psychological Medicine, 1-11. doi:10.1017/S0033291721001203 

Loftus CT, Bush NR, Day DB, Ni Y, Tylavsky FA, Karr CJ, Kannan K, Barrett ES, Szpiro AA, Sathyanarayana S, LeWinn KZ. Exposure to prenatal phthalate mixtures and neurodevelopment in the Conditions Affecting Neurocognitive Development and Learning in Early childhood (CANDLE) study. Environ Int. 2021 May;150:106409. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2021.106409. Epub 2021 Feb 6. PMID: 33556913. 

Hazlehurst MF, Carroll KN, Loftus CT, Szpiro AA, Moore PE, Kaufman JD, Kirwa K, LeWinn KZ, Bush NR, Sathyanarayana S, Tylavsky FA, Barrett ES, Nguyen RHN, Karr CJ. Maternal exposure to PM2.5 during pregnancy and asthma risk in early childhood: consideration of phases of fetal lung development. Environ Epidemiol. 2021 Apr;5(2):e130. doi: 10.1097/ee9.0000000000000130. PMID: 33709049; PMCID: PMC7943175. 

Ni Y, Szpiro A, Loftus C, Tylavsky F, Kratz M, Bush NR, LeWinn KZ, Sathyanarayana S, Enquobahrie DA, Davis R, Fitzpatrick AL, Sonney J, Zhao Q, Karr CJ. Associations Between Maternal Nutrition in Pregnancy and Child Blood Pressure at 4-6 Years: A Prospective Study in a Community-Based Pregnancy Cohort. J Nutr. 2021 Apr 8;151(4):949-961. doi: 10.1093/jn/nxaa395. PMID: 33561258; PMCID: PMC8030724. 

Ni Y, Szpiro AA, Young MT, Loftus CT, Bush NR, LeWinn KZ, Sathyanarayana S, Enquobahrie DA, Davis RL, Kratz M, Fitzpatrick AL, Sonney JT, Tylavsky FA, Karr CJ. Associations of Pre- and Postnatal Air Pollution Exposures with Child Blood Pressure and Modification by Maternal Nutrition: A Prospective Study in the CANDLE Cohort. Environ Health Perspect. 2021 Apr;129(4):47004. doi: 10.1289/EHP7486. Epub 2021 Apr 2. PMID: 33797937; PMCID: PMC8043131. 

Day DB, Collett BR, Barrett ES, Bush NR, Swan SH, Nguyen RHN, Szpiro AA, Sathyanarayana S. Phthalate mixtures in pregnancy, autistic traits, and adverse childhood behavioral outcomes. Environ Int. 2021 Feb;147:106330. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2020.106330. Epub 2021 Jan 5. PMID: 33418196. 

2020 

Steine IM, LeWinn KZ, Lisha N, Tylavsky F, Smith R, Bowman M, Sathyanarayana S, Karr CJ, Smith AK, Kobor M, Bush NR. Maternal exposure to childhood traumatic events, but not multi-domain psychosocial stressors, predict placental corticotrophin releasing hormone across pregnancy. Soc Sci Med. 2020 Dec;266:113461. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113461. Epub 2020 Oct 17. PMID: 33126094. 

Melough MM, Murphy LE, Graff JC, Derefinko KJ, LeWinn KZ, Bush NR, Enquobahrie DA, Loftus CT, Kocak M, Sathyanarayana S, Tylavsky FA. Maternal Plasma 25-Hydroxyvitamin D during Gestation Is Positively Associated with Neurocognitive Development in Offspring at Age 4-6 Years. J Nutr. 2020 Nov 2:nxaa309. doi: 10.1093/jn/nxaa309. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33136167. 

Adgent MA, Carroll KN, Hazlehurst MF, Loftus CT, Szpiro AA, Karr CJ, Barrett ES, LeWinn KZ, Bush NR, Tylavsky FA, Kannan K, Sathyanarayana S. A combined cohort analysis of prenatal exposure to phthalate mixtures and childhood asthma. Environ Int. 2020 Jul 30;143:105970. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2020.105970. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32763629. 

Hu Z, Tylavsky FA, Kocak M, Fowke JH, Han JC, Davis RL, LeWinn KZ, Bush NR, Sathyanarayana S, Karr CJ, Zhao Q. Effects of Maternal Dietary Patterns during Pregnancy on Early Childhood Growth Trajectories and Obesity Risk: The CANDLE Study. Nutrients. 2020 Feb 13;12(2). 

Loftus CT, Ni Y, Szpiro AA, Hazlehurst MF, Tylavsky FA, Bush NR, Sathyanarayana S, Carroll KN, Young M, Karr CJ, LeWinn KZ. Exposure to ambient air pollution and early childhood behavior: A longitudinal cohort study. Environ Res. 2020 Apr;183:109075. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2019.109075 

2019 

Day DB, Collett BR, Barrett ES, Bush NR, Swan SH, Wang C, Sathyanarayana S; TIDES Study team. Prenatal sex hormones and behavioral outcomes in children. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2019 Dec 24;113:104547. 

Loftus CT, Hazlehurst MF, Szpiro AA, Ni Y, Tylavsky FA, Bush NR, Sathyanarayana S, Carroll KN, Karr CJ, LeWinn KZ. Prenatal air pollution and childhood IQ: Preliminary evidence of effect modification by folate. Environ Res. 2019 May 24;176:108505. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2019.05.036.