David Fields, PhD
- Position: Diabetes Research Member, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Health Education
- Graduate School
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Post Doctoral Fellowship
Washington University
St. Louis, MO -
Doctoral Studies
Auburn University
Auburn, AL -
Master's Degree
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK
- University
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Bachelor's Degree
University of the Ozarks
Clarksville, AR
Research Interests:
- Breast milk
- Body composition and growth
- Fetal origins of disease
- Body composition methodology
- Lactational programming
Grant Funding
- Fields, D. (Co-principal investigator) and Isganaitis, E. (Co-Principal Investigator) at 8% effort. Impact of exercise on breastmilk: A novel strategy for obesity and diabetes prevention. Harold Hamm Diabetes Team Scientist Award. Total Amount $96,600 (direct costs).
- Fields, D. (Co-principal investigator) and Demerath, E. (Co-Principal Investigator) at 25% effort. Maternal obesity, breast milk composition and infant growth (1R01HD080444-01). National Institutes of Health (NICHD). Total Amount $2,464,417 (direct costs).
Publications
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Maternal obesity and the human milk metabolome: associations with infant body composition and postnatal weight gain.
2019
AJCN. April 4.109:1353-60.
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Associations of maternal weight status before, during, and after pregnancy with inflammatory markers in breast milk.
2017
Obesity Dec 25(12).
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Associations between human breast milk hormones and adipocytokines and infant growth and body composition in the first 6 months of life.
2017
Pediatr Obesity June 24 (6):1213-21.
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Fructose in breast milk is positively associated with infant body composition at 6 months of age.
2017
Nutrients Feb 16:E146. [PMID 28212335].
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Fetal epicardial fat thickness in diabetic and non-diabetic pregnancies: A retrospective cross-sectional study
2016
Obesity Jan 24:167-71.