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Maria Bryant

Professor of Public Health Nutrition
Verified email at york.ac.uk
Cited by 3551

Hyperglycaemia and risk of adverse perinatal outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis

D Farrar, M Simmonds, M Bryant, TA Sheldon… - bmj, 2016 - bmj.com
Objectives To assess the association between maternal glucose concentrations and
adverse perinatal outcomes in women without gestational or existing diabetes and to …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring parent food practices: a systematic review of existing measures and examination of instruments

AE Vaughn, RG Tabak, MJ Bryant, DS Ward - International Journal of …, 2013 - Springer
During the last decade, there has been a rapid increase in development of instruments to
measure parent food practices. Because these instruments often measure different …

Treatments for gestational diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

D Farrar, M Simmonds, M Bryant, TA Sheldon… - BMJ open, 2017 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To investigate the effectiveness of different treatments for gestational diabetes
mellitus (GDM). Design Systematic review, meta-analysis and network meta-analysis …

A systematic review and meta‐analysis estimating the population prevalence of comorbidities in children and adolescents aged 5 to 18 years

V Sharma, S Coleman, J Nixon, L Sharples… - Obesity …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Evidence for the health impact of obesity has largely focussed on adults. We estimated the
population prevalence and prevalence ratio of obesity‐associated comorbidities in children …

[HTML][HTML] Reliability and validity of the Healthy Home Survey: A tool to measure factors within homes hypothesized to relate to overweight in children

MJ Bryant, DS Ward, D Hales, A Vaughn… - International Journal of …, 2008 - Springer
Background The contribution of the environment to the obesity epidemic is well recognized.
Parents have control over their home environment and can, therefore, support healthy …

Modest changes in dietary intake across the menstrual cycle: implications for food intake research

M Bryant, KP Truesdale, L Dye - British journal of nutrition, 2006 - cambridge.org
Food intake varies across the menstrual cycle in mammals, energy intake usually being
greater in the premenstrual phase compared with the postmenstrual phase. Premenstrual …

[HTML][HTML] Risk factor screening to identify women requiring oral glucose tolerance testing to diagnose gestational diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis and …

D Farrar, M Simmonds, M Bryant, DA Lawlor, F Dunne… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Easily identifiable risk factors including: obesity and ethnicity at high risk of
diabetes are commonly used to indicate which women should be offered the oral glucose …

[HTML][HTML] The implications of defining obesity as a disease: a report from the Association for the Study of Obesity 2021 annual conference

M Luli, G Yeo, E Farrell, J Ogden, H Parretti… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Unlike various countries and organisations, including the World Health Organisation and the
European Parliament, the United Kingdom does not formally recognise obesity as a disease …

Effect of consumption of soy isoflavones on behavioural, somatic and affective symptoms in women with premenstrual syndrome

M Bryant, A Cassidy, C Hill, J Powell… - British journal of …, 2005 - cambridge.org
Up to 80% of the Western female population experience premenstrual syndrome (PMS).
Long-term pharmacological therapy is unacceptable to most women, and is not warranted …

[HTML][HTML] Born in Bradford's Better Start: an experimental birth cohort study to evaluate the impact of early life interventions

J Dickerson, PK Bird, RRC McEachan, KE Pickett… - BMC public health, 2016 - Springer
Background Early interventions are recognised as key to improving life chances for children
and reducing inequalities in health and well-being, however there is a paucity of high quality …