Bioactives in the plants we eat can be further digested by the gut microbiome – that is, the bacteria in our guts. Phenolic acids such as hippuric acid (HA) and 3-(3-hydroxyphenyl) propionic acid (3-3-PPA) can be produced from microbiome digestion of polyphenols, a class of bioactives. HA and 3-3-PPA have been shown to promote bone […]
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Beavers Board Certified in Clinical Informatics
A shout-out to Dr. Jared Beavers, an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and pediatric hospitalist at UAMS and Arkansas Children’s for over 11 years, for recently becoming board-certified in Clinical Informatics through the American Board of Preventative Medicine and a separate certification in safety, quality, informatics and leadership through Harvard Medical School.
Does How One Remembers Being Fed As a Child Influence How One Feeds Children?
Children’s eating behaviors develop with influence from parent feeding styles, practices, and beliefs. Researchers examining childhood eating behaviors including ACNC faculty Taren Swindle, are interested in how classroom feeding practices employed by early education staff, who also interact with children during mealtimes, associate with their own childhood experiences. To examine how classroom feeding practices are […]
Effects of Short-term Supervised Exercise Training on Liver Fat in Adolescents with Obesity
Center investigators Drs. Eva C. Diaz, Xiawei Ou, Elisabet Børsheim, were part of a team that recently published results from a 4-week RCT examining the effects of short-term supervised exercise training on liver fat in adolescents with obesity. The supervised exercise [high-intensity interval training (HIIT)] had beneficial effects on markers of cardiometabolic health, and after limiting analysis […]
Association Between Adiposity During Pregnancy and Offspring’s Physical Activity – Modified by Offspring Sex
Maternal obesity during pregnancy increases risk of obesity and disease in the offspring across the lifespan. Animal models indicate that children born to mothers with obesity are less physically active -however, such studies in humans are complex requiring long follow-ups. Investigators at the ACNC analyzed data from The Glowing Study to evaluate the association between […]
Banana Genotype and Ripening Method Affect Carotenoid Content and Bio-accessibility
Biofortification programs aimed at reducing vitamin A deficiency in vulnerable populations focus on staple crops, such as bananas. What is not well known is how banana’s genetics and ripening methods effect provitamin A carotenoid content and perhaps most critically, how much of it is available for absorption (bioaccessibility). A collaborative team led by Massimo Iorizzo […]
ACRI and Allergy-Immunology Faculty Take Part in Groundbreaking Trial
A recent clinical trial, sponsored and funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and partly conducted at Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH), has discovered a groundbreaking treatment to help children and adults with potentially life-threatening food allergies better handle peanut, milk, egg, wheat, and tree nuts. The OUtMATCH study was published in The New England […]
Allergy and Immunology Faculty Help Advance Food Allergy Therapy
The Arkansas Children’s Food Allergy Program, under the leadership of Dr. Stacie Jones, Professor of Pediatrics, has been a major contributor to advancing therapies for food allergy patients for almost 20 years.
DOP Research Featured in Cancer Journal
Ellen van der Plas, Ph.D. and researchers at the Arkansas Children’s Research Institute took part in a nationwide, multi-center trial to examine the risk factors for neurocognitive impairment, emotional distress and poor quality of life in survivors of pediatric rhabdomyosarcoma. Read about their findings here. Read the findings on PubMed.
Clinical Informatics Faculty Publish In Applied Clinical Informatics
The DOP is excited to announce the publication of Dr. Obeid Shafi’s article titled “Defining Electronic Health Record Standards for Child Health: A State-of-the-Art Review” in Applied Clinical Informatics.