Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine

Anesthesiology

Usha K. Ramakrishnan, MB

Usha Ramakrishnan practices Anesthesiology. Usha Ramakrishnan is a published doctor as well. She has 83 publications published. The latest was: The role of vitamin A in reducing child mortality and morbidity and improving growth.

Publications

Pre-pregnancy Maternal Plasma Cytokine Levels and Risks of Small-for-Gestational-Age at Birth.
The relative influence of maternal nutritional status before and during pregnancy on birth outcomes in Vietnam.
Macronutrient intake and body composition changes during anti-tuberculosis therapy in adults.
Dietary supplementation with polyunsaturated fatty acid during pregnancy modulates DNA methylation at IGF2/H19 imprinted genes and growth of infants.
Multicausal etiology of anemia among women of reproductive age in Vietnam.
Reply to GC Burdge.
Risk of childhood undernutrition related to small-for-gestational age and preterm birth in low- and middle-income countries.
Dairy intensification, mothers and children: an exploration of infant and young child feeding practices among rural dairy farmers in Kenya.
Parental Resources, Schooling Achievements, and Gender Schooling Gaps: Evidence of Change over 25 years in Rural Guatemala.
Associations among dietary zinc intakes and biomarkers of zinc status before and after a zinc supplementation program in Guatemalan schoolchildren.
Reliability of gestational weight gain reported postpartum: a comparison to the birth certificate.
A culture-specific nutrient intake assessment instrument in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis.
Early life growth trajectories and future risk for overweight.
Micronutrient Intakes among Women of Reproductive Age in Vietnam.
Effect of Multiple Micronutrient versus Iron-Folate Supplementation during Pregnancy on Intrauterine Growth.
Individual and Facility-Level Determinants of Iron and Folic Acid Receipt and Adequate Consumption among Pregnant Women in Rural Bihar, India.
Experiences and challenges in industrialized countries: control of iron deficiency in industrialized countries.
Experiences and challenges in developing countries.
Dietary intake does not account for differences in low iron stores among Mexican American and non-Hispanic white women: Third National Health and Nutrition Examination...
Prevalence of micronutrient malnutrition worldwide.
Assessment and control of vitamin A deficiency disorders.
Iron stores and cardiovascular disease risk factors in women of reproductive age in the United States.
Evaluation of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness guidelines for treatment of intestinal helminth infections among sick children aged 2-4 years in western K...
Multiple micronutrient supplementation during pregnancy does not lead to greater infant birth size than does iron-only supplementation: a randomized controlled trial i...
Iron supplement use among women in the United States: science, policy and practice.
Associations between prenatal and postnatal growth and adult body size and composition.
Prospective study of protein-energy supplementation early in life and of growth in the subsequent generation in Guatemala.
Nutrition and low birth weight: from research to practice.
Comparison of linear growth patterns in the first three years of life across two generations in Guatemala.
Multiple micronutrient supplements during pregnancy do not reduce anemia or improve iron status compared to iron-only supplements in Semirural Mexico.
Multimicronutrient interventions but not vitamin a or iron interventions alone improve child growth: results of 3 meta-analyses.
Multivitamin-mineral supplementation is not as efficacious as is iron supplementation in improving hemoglobin concentrations in nonpregnant anemic women living in Mexico.
Growth and diet quality are associated with the attainment of walking in rural Guatemalan infants.
Schooling, educational achievement, and cognitive functioning among young Guatemalan adults.
Fertility behavior and reproductive outcomes among young Guatemalan adults.
Physical activity level, dietary habits, and alcohol and tobacco use among young Guatemalan adults.
Physical fitness, body composition, blood pressure, and blood metabolic profile among young Guatemalan adults.
Effect of prenatal multiple micronutrient supplements on maternal weight and skinfold changes: a randomized double-blind clinical trial in Mexico.
Early childhood growth and development in rural Guatemala.
Exposure to a nutrition supplementation intervention in early childhood and risk factors for cardiovascular disease in adulthood: evidence from Guatemala.
A simple index to measure hygiene behaviours.
Production of siRNA targeted against TYLCV coat protein transcripts leads to silencing of its expression and resistance to the virus.
The relationship between parity and overweight varies with household wealth and national development.
Multiple micronutrient supplementation and dietary energy intake in pregnant women.
Overweight and obesity doubled over a 6-year period in young women living in poverty in Mexico.
Nutritional supplementation in early childhood, schooling, and intellectual functioning in adulthood: a prospective study in Guatemala.
Effects of micronutrients on growth of children under 5 y of age: meta-analyses of single and multiple nutrient interventions.
Role of docosahexaenoic acid in maternal and child mental health.
Maternal and child mental health: role of nutrition. Introduction.
Maternal years of schooling but not academic skills is independently associated with infant-feeding practices in a cohort of rural Guatemalan women.
Multiple micronutrient supplementation during early childhood increases child size at 2 y of age only among high compliers.
The first 500 days of life: policies to support maternal nutrition.
Prenatal multiple micronutrient supplementation impact on biochemical indicators during pregnancy and postpartum.
Greater years of maternal schooling and higher scores on academic achievement tests are independently associated with improved management of child diarrhea by rural Gu...
Childhood nutrition and later fertility: pathways through education and pre-pregnant nutritional status.
Effects of docosahexaenoic acid supplementation during pregnancy on gestational age and size at birth: randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in Mexico.
Randomized trial of the effect of zinc supplementation on the mental health of school-age children in Guatemala.
Docosahexaenoic acid supplementation from mid-pregnancy to parturition influenced breast milk fatty acid concentrations at 1 month postpartum in Mexican women.
Growth to age 18 months following prenatal supplementation with docosahexaenoic acid differs by maternal gravidity in Mexico.
Long-term effects of iron and zinc supplementation during infancy on cognitive function at 9 y of age in northeast Thai children: a follow-up study.
Fatty acid status and maternal mental health.
Dietary intakes of polyunsaturated fatty acids among pregnant Mexican women.
Impacts of domestic violence on child growth and nutrition: a conceptual review of the pathways of influence.
Maternal influenza immunization and reduced likelihood of prematurity and small for gestational age births: a retrospective cohort study.
Prenatal Docosahexaenoic Acid Supplementation and Infant Morbidity: Randomized Controlled Trial.
Anaemia in low-income and middle-income countries.
Do multiple micronutrient interventions improve child health, growth, and development?
Multiple micronutrient interventions during early childhood: moving towards evidence-based policy and program planning.
Correcting for Inflammation Changes Estimates of Iron Deficiency among Rural Kenyan Preschool Children.
Reproductive performance and nutrition during childhood.
Dietary vitamin A intakes of preschool-age children in South India.
Early childhood nutrition, education and fertility milestones in Guatemala.
The role of vitamin A in reducing child mortality and morbidity and improving growth.
Role of intergenerational effects on linear growth.
Co-occurrence of nutrition problems in Honduran children.
Intrauterine growth retardation, body size, body composition and physical performance in adolescence.
Vitamin A supplementation does not improve growth of preschool children: a randomized, double-blind field trial in south India.
Vitamin A supplementation and morbidity among preschool children in south India.
Iron deficiency anemia: higher prevalence in Mexican American than in non-Hispanic white females in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1994.
Vitamin A supplementation and morbidity in children born to HIV-infected women.
Annex: Maternal anthropometry predictors of intrauterine growth retardation and prematurity in the Malawi Maternal and Child Nutrition study.
Maternal nutrition interventions to improve maternal, newborn, and child health outcomes.

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