Sherwood, Nancy E., PhD

Former Senior Research Investigator

About

Publications While At HealthPartners

selected publications

Journal Article

Cumulative environmental stress and emerging cardiometabolic risk during childhood.

Pediatric Obesity. 2024

Do children's health behaviors buffer the impact of cumulative environmental stress on emerging cardiometabolic risk?.

Journal of the American Heart Association. 2024

Household income, cortisol, and obesity during early childhood: a prospective longitudinal study.

Journal of Pediatrics. 2023

Association of childhood abuse with behavioral weight-loss outcomes: Examining the mediating effect of binge eating severity.

Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.). 2022

BestFIT Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial results: a SMART approach to developing individualized weight loss treatment sequences.

Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2022

Race/ethnicity and age associations with hair cortisol concentrations among children studied longitudinally from early through middle childhood.

Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2022

Applying the behavior change technique taxonomy to four multicomponent childhood obesity interventions.

Western Journal of Nursing Research. 2021

Discrepancies between clinician and participant intervention adherence ratings predict percent weight change during a six-month behavioral weight loss intervention.

Translational Behavioral Medicine. 2021

Using targeting to recruit men and women of color into a behavioral weight loss trial.

Trials. 2020

The Healthy Homes/Healthy Kids 5-10 Obesity Prevention Trial: 12 and 24-month outcomes.

Pediatric Obesity. 2019

Understanding outcomes in behavior change interventions to prevent pediatric obesity: the role of dose and behavior change techniques.

Health Education and Behavior. 2019

Clinical decision support for recognition and management of hypertension: a randomized trial.

Pediatrics. 2018

Eating, activity, and weight-related problems from adolescence to adulthood.

American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2018

Evaluation of an electronic clinical decision support tool for incident elevated BP in adolescents.

Academic Pediatrics. 2018

Mediators of weight loss maintenance in the Keep It Off Trial.

Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2018

Multicomponent obesity prevention intervention in low-income preschoolers: primary and subgroup analyses of the NET-Works Randomized Clinical Trial, 2012-2017.

American Journal of Public Health. 2018

Obesity in adolescence predicts lower educational attainment and income in adulthood: the Project EAT Longitudinal Study.

Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.). 2018

Weight loss strategies utilized in a men's weight loss intervention.

Health Education and Behavior. 2018

A pragmatic randomized clinical trial of behavioral activation for depressed pregnant women.

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 2017

An open trial of web-based mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for perinatal women at risk for depressive relapse.

Cognitive and Behavioral Practice. 2017

Beyond the dinner table: who's having breakfast, lunch and dinner family meals and which meals are associated with better diet quality and BMI in pre-school children?.

Public Health Nutrition. 2017

Cardiometabolic risk factors among 1.3 million adults with overweight or obesity, but not diabetes, in 10 geographically diverse regions of the United States, 2012-2013.

Preventing Chronic Disease. 2017

Exploring gender differences in a randomized trial of weight loss maintenance

2017

Feasibility of standardized methods to specify behavioral pediatric obesity prevention interventions.

Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 2017

Mental illness in bariatric surgery: a cohort study from the PORTAL network.

Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.). 2017

Multilevel interventions targeting obesity: research recommendations for vulnerable populations.

American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2017

Parent choice in a pediatric obesity prevention intervention

2017

Park use is associated with less sedentary time among low-income parents and their preschool child: the NET-Works study.

Preventive medicine reports. 2017

Predicting dietary intake among children classified as overweight or at risk for overweight: Independent and interactive effects of parenting practices and styles.

Appetite. 2017

The effect of age on the prevalence of obesity among US youth with autism spectrum disorder

2017

A novel dietary improvement strategy: examining the potential impact of community-supported agriculture membership.

Public Health Nutrition. 2016

Change in weight status and development of hypertension.

Pediatrics. 2016

Emotional eating is associated with weight loss success among adults enrolled in a weight loss program.

Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 2016

Intellectual disability is associated with increased risk for obesity in a nationally representative sample of U.S. children

2016

Long-term microvascular disease outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes after bariatric surgery: evidence for the legacy effect of surgery.

Diabetes care. 2016

Physical changes in the home environment to reduce television viewing and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among 5- to 12-year-old children: a randomized pilot study.

Pediatric Obesity. 2016

The BestFIT trial: a SMART approach to developing individualized weight loss treatments.

Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2016

The Patient Outcomes Research To Advance Learning (PORTAL) network adult overweight and obesity cohort: development and description.

JMIR research protocols. 2016

Activity patterns of preschool-aged children at risk for obesity.

Journal of physical activity & health. 2015

Comparing US paediatric and adult weight classification at the transition from late teenage to young adulthood.

Pediatric Obesity. 2015

Does measuring body weight impact subsequent response to eating behavior questions?.

Journal of the American College of Nutrition. 2015

Eating behaviors and quality of life in preadolescents at risk for obesity with and without abdominal pain.

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. 2015

Factors associated with adherence to blood pressure measurement recommendations at pediatric primary care visits, Minnesota and Colorado, 2007-2010.

Preventing Chronic Disease. 2015

Household factors, family behavior patterns, and adherence to dietary and physical activity guidelines among children at risk for obesity.

Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 2015

Mediation of weight loss and weight loss maintenance through dietary disinhibition and restraint

2015

Objectively coding intervention fidelity during a phone-based obesity prevention study

2015

Pediatric primary care-based obesity prevention for parents of preschool children: a pilot study

2015

Regulatory focus, proximity to goal weight, and weight loss maintenance.

American Journal of Health Behavior. 2015

TeenBP: development and piloting of an EHR-linked clinical decision support system to improve recognition of hypertension in adolescents.

EGEMS (Washington, DC). 2015

Automating assessment of lifestyle counseling in electronic health records.

American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2014

Binge eating behavior and weight loss maintenance over a 2-year period.

Journal of Obesity. 2014

Concern about child weight among parents of children at-risk for obesity

2014

Impact of hypertension on healthcare costs among children.

American Journal of Managed Care. 2014

Initiation of oral contraceptives and changes in blood pressure and body mass index in healthy adolescents.

Journal of Pediatrics. 2014

Introduction to SMART designs for the development of adaptive interventions: with application to weight loss research.

Translational Behavioral Medicine. 2014

Predicting child physical activity and screen time: parental support for physical activity and general parenting styles.

Journal of Pediatric Psychology. 2014

Prevalence of obesity and extreme obesity in children aged 3-5 years.

Pediatric Obesity. 2014

Self-reported activity and accelerometry in 2 behavior-maintenance trials.

American Journal of Health Behavior. 2014

Severe obesity in children: prevalence, persistence and relation to hypertension.

International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology. 2014

Stage 1 treatment of pediatric overweight and obesity: a pilot and feasibility randomized controlled trial

2014

Weight loss, glycemic control, and cardiovascular disease risk factors in response to differential diet composition in a weight loss program in type 2 diabetes: a randomized controlled trial.

Diabetes care. 2014

A multisite study of long-term remission and relapse of type 2 diabetes mellitus following gastric bypass.

Obesity Surgery. 2013

Comparative effectiveness of bariatric surgery vs. nonsurgical treatment of type 2 diabetes among severely obese adults.

Obesity Research & Clinical Practice. 2013

Enhancing long-term weight loss maintenance: 2 year results from the Keep It Off randomized controlled trial.

Preventive Medicine. 2013

Healthy Homes/Healthy Kids: a randomized trial of a pediatric primary care-based obesity prevention intervention for at-risk 5-10 year olds.

Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2013

NET-Works: Linking families, communities and primary care to prevent obesity in preschool-age children.

Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2013

Patterns of care and persistence after incident elevated blood pressure.

Pediatrics. 2013

Predictors of improvement in cardiometabolic risk factors with weight loss in women.

Journal of the American Heart Association. 2013

The authors respond: a multisite study of long-term remission and relapse of type 2 diabetes mellitus following gastric bypass.

Obesity Surgery. 2013

The epidemiology of weight counseling for adults in the United States: a case of positive deviance.

International Journal of Obesity (2005). 2013

Evaluating body mass index-specific trimester weight gain recommendations: differences between black and white women.

Journal of midwifery & women's health. 2012

Health and healing: traditional medicine and the Karen experience.

Journal of Cultural Diversity. 2012

Lifestyle patterns associated with diet, physical activity, body mass index and amount of recent weight loss in a sample of successful weight losers.

The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 2012

Relationship between sleep quality and quantity and weight loss in women participating in a weight-loss intervention trial.

Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.). 2012

Weight loss is associated with increased serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D in overweight or obese women.

Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.). 2012

A pilot study evaluating a telephone-based exercise intervention for pregnant and postpartum women.

Journal of midwifery & women's health. 2011

Keep it off: a phone-based intervention for long-term weight-loss maintenance.

Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2011

Obesogenic family types identified through latent profile analysis.

Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2011

Parental perceptions of their adolescent's weight status: the ECHO study.

American Journal of Health Behavior. 2011

Body mass index measurement and obesity prevalence in ten U.S. health plans.

Clinical Medicine & Research. 2010

Effect of a free prepared meal and incentivized weight loss program on weight loss and weight loss maintenance in obese and overweight women: a randomized controlled trial.

JAMA. 2010

Long-term weight loss maintenance in the United States.

International Journal of Obesity (2005). 2010

Maintaining physical activity among older adults: 24-month outcomes of the Keep Active Minnesota randomized controlled trial.

Preventive Medicine. 2010

Population reach and recruitment bias in a maintenance RCT in physically active older adults.

Journal of physical activity & health. 2010

The drop it at last study: six-month results of a phone-based weight loss trial.

American Journal of Health Promotion. 2010

The long and winding road to physical activity maintenance.

American Journal of Health Behavior. 2010

Effect of socioeconomic status on weight change patterns in adolescents.

Preventing Chronic Disease. 2009

Five-year longitudinal predictive factors for disordered eating in a population-based sample of overweight adolescents: implications for prevention and treatment.

International Journal of Eating Disorders. 2009

Is frequent self-weighing associated with poorer body satisfaction? Findings from a phone-based weight loss trial.

Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 2009

A new approach to physical activity maintenance: rationale, design, and baseline data from the Keep Active Minnesota Trial.

BMC Geriatrics. 2008

A randomized controlled trial of telephone counseling with smokeless tobacco users: the ChewFree Minnesota study.

Nicotine & tobacco research. 2008

Maintaining physical activity among older adults: six-month outcomes of the Keep Active Minnesota randomized controlled trial.

Preventive Medicine. 2008

Evaluating strategies and costs to recruit smokeless tobacco users.

Addictive Behaviors. 2007

Mail and phone interventions for weight loss in a managed-care setting: weigh-to-be 2-year outcomes.

International Journal of Obesity (2005). 2006

Correlates of obesity in African-American girls: an overview.

Obesity Research. 2004

Measurement characteristics of activity-related psychosocial measures in 8- to 10-year-old African-American girls in the Girls Health Enrichment Multisite Study (GEMS).

Preventive Medicine. 2004

Measurement characteristics of weight concern and dieting measures in 8-10-year-old African-American girls from GEMS pilot studies.

Preventive Medicine. 2004

Meeting recommendations for multiple healthy lifestyle factors. Prevalence, clustering, and predictors among adolescent, adult, and senior health plan members.

American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2004

Editorial Article

Is the obesity epidemic exaggerated? No [editorial].

BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 336. 2008

Chapter

Behavioral risk factors for overweight and obesity: diet and physical activity.

Nutrition in the prevention & treatment of disease. 2014

Behavioral risk factors for overweight and obesity: diet and physical activity.

Nutrition in the prevention and treatment of disease. 2008

Diet assessment in children and adolescents.

Handbook of childhood and adolescent obesity. 2008

Conference Paper

Changes in physical activity and nutrition in a behavioral intervention pilot study: Passport to Brain Wellness

2010

Conference Poster

Results of a cluster-randomized trial testing the effects of TeenBP, an EHR-based clinical decision support tool, on recognition of adolescent hypertension [poster]

2017

The dose of behavioral interventions to prevent and treat childhood obesity: a systematic review and meta-regression [poster]

2017

Does parental concern about child weight predict change in child BMI percentile among children in an obesity prevention intervention [poster]?

2016

Do parents choose the topics that matter: correlations of weight-related topics discussed during a tailored pediatric obesity prevention intervention [poster]

2015

Relation of change in weight status to the development of hypertension in children and adolescents [poster]

2015

Prevalence of obesity in children with and without autism: disparity increases across pre-adolescent and adolescent ages [poster]

2014

A multisite study of long-term remission and relapse of type 2 diabetes mellitus following gastric bypass [poster]

2013

Activity patterns of preschool-aged children at risk for obesity [poster]

2013

Are parental perceptions of child weight related to parental weight-related behaviors? [poster]

2013

Comparative effectiveness of bariatric surgery vs. nonsurgical treatment of type 2 diabetes among severely obese adults [poster]

2013

Diagnosis of pediatric hypertension depends on clinical practice guideline definitions [poster]

2013

Frequency and results of glucose screening in children and adolescents 2007-2011 [poster]

2013

Healthy Homes/Healthy Kids 5-10: results from baseline analyses [poster]

2013

Impact of BMI and change in BMI on progression from normotension to prehypertension or hypertension in patients ages 3-17 [poster]

2013

Impact of oral contraceptives on adolescent blood pressure and BMI [poster]

2013

Impact of oral contraceptives on adolescent blood pressure and BMI [poster]

2013

Prevalence of obesity and extreme obesity in children aged three to five years [poster]

2013

The role of household factors and family behavior patterns on children's physical activity and dietary intake [poster]

2013

Enhancing weight loss maintenance: 2 year results from the Keep It Off trial [poster]

2012

Impact of bariatric surgery on life expectancy in adults with diabetes [poster]

2012

Changes in cognitive function and plasma biomarkers in a pilot trial of a multi-domain intervention to prevent cognitive decline [poster]

2010

Childhood hypertension and obesity: diagnosis, care and costs [poster]

2010

Health outcomes of bariatric surgery in individuals with type 2 diabetes [poster]

2010

Patterns of blood pressure measurement at pediatric primary care visits in large medical group practices [poster]

2010

Physical activity maintenance [poster]

2010

One-year results from a multi-site randomized trial of a commercial weight loss program [poster]

2009

Parental perceptions of and concern for their adolescent's weight status: the etiology of childhood obesity (ECHO) study [poster]

2009

The VDW (virtual data warehouse) vital signs file: strengths, issues, and recommendations for the future [poster]

2009

A multi-site randomized trial of the Jenny Craig weight loss program [poster]

2008

Dietary restraint and disinhibition in overweight or obese women in a multi-site randomized clinical trial of a weight loss program [poster]

2008

Overweight children and parental perceptions [poster]

2008

The evaluation of a telephone-based exercise intervention for pregnant and post-partum women: a pilot study [poster]

2008

Report

Prevention and management of obesity [health care guideline]

2011

Prevention and management of obesity: mature adolescents and adults [health care guideline]

2009

Review

Community-supported agriculture as a dietary and health improvement strategy: A narrative review [review article].

Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. 2017

The dose of behavioral interventions to prevent and treat childhood obesity: a systematic review and meta-regression [meta-analysis, review, systematic review].

The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 2017

Deconstructing interventions: approaches to studying behavior change techniques across obesity interventions [review].

Translational Behavioral Medicine. 2016

Managing temptation in obesity treatment: a neurobehavioral model of intervention strategies [review article].

Appetite. 2016

Reporting of treatment fidelity in behavioural paediatric obesity intervention trials: a systematic review [review, systematic review].

Obesity Reviews. 2016

A review of primary care-based childhood obesity prevention and treatment interventions [review].

Current obesity reports. 2015

Recruitment and retention in obesity prevention and treatment trials targeting minority or low-income children: a review of the clinical trials registration database [review].

Trials. 2015

The effect of exercise during pregnancy on maternal outcomes: practical implications for practice [review].

American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. 2008

Abstract

How men and women keep it off: exploring gender differences in weight loss maintenance [abstract].