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Integrating Food Rx With Best Feeding Practices With EFNEP
The purpose of the pilot study is to test the FFYF feeding curriculum material and procedures for implementation, staff training, recruitment, and data collection.
Baylor Role: Lead Sponsor
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Food for Thought: Executive Functioning Around Eating Among Children
Appetite self-regulation (ASR) has been described as involving children's use of eating-specific, "top-down" cognitive processes to moderate "bottom-up" biological drives to eat. Much of the research to date on ASR …
Baylor Role: Collaborator
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Nurturing Needs Study: Parenting Food Motivated Children
High levels of food motivation among young children are heritable, track over time, and associated with elevated risks of unhealthy eating and obesity. Despite significant growth of family-based obesity prevention …
Baylor Role: Collaborator
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Efficacy Trial Healthy Dads, Healthy Kids for Hispanic Fathers and Children
Hispanics in the United States face health disparities for obesity and related medical conditions, such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Targeting families to promote healthy lifestyle behaviors has been identified …
Baylor Role: Lead Sponsor
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Diet and Exercise Plus Metformin to Treat Frailty in Obese Seniors
The growing prevalence of obesity in older adults including many older Veterans, has become a major concern in the US already strained health care system in general and in the …
Baylor Role: Collaborator
Completed
The i Heart Rhythm Project: Healthy Sleep and Behavioral Rhythms for Obesity Prevention
The current study employs a 2 group randomized control design (treatment and no-treatment control) with randomization occurring after baseline (time 0) and 3 additional evaluation periods (end of intervention (time …
Baylor Role: Lead Sponsor
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Glycine "Deficiency" and the Kinetics of Acylglycine in Morbid Obesity
This study aims to evaluate the effects of oral glycine supplementation on plasma glycine concentration, intracellular glutathione (GSH) concentration, plasma acylglycine concentration, urine acylglycine concentration, and insulin resistance in subjects …
Baylor Role: Collaborator
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Genetic Disorders of Obesity Program Database
Children and adolescents who have suffered from severe weight gain prior to 5 years of age and who are seen in the Genetic Disorders of Obesity Program at Texas Children …
Baylor Role: Lead Sponsor
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Causal Mechanisms in Adolescent Arterial Stiffness
Aortic stiffness measured in adolescence or adulthood determines current hypertension, predicts future incidence of hypertension, and future atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) events. International hypertension guidelines list severe aortic stiffness as …
Baylor Role: Lead Sponsor
Completed
Obesity-Related Glycine Deficiency: Investigating a Long-standing Metabolic Paradox Using Bedside and Bench Approaches
Metabolic tracers: 1,2-[13C2]-Glycine, 1,2-[13C2]-Glycine, 2,3,3,-[2H3]-Serine and [2H5]-Phenylalanine will be infused for quantification of various pathways associated with glycine metabolism.
Baylor Role: Collaborator