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Michelle C Dimitris

Research Fellow, Hospital for Sick Children
Verified email at mail.mcgill.ca
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The impact of parental and medical leave policies on socioeconomic and health outcomes in OECD countries: a systematic review of the empirical literature

A Nandi, D Jahagirdar, MC Dimitris… - The Milbank …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Policy Points: Historically, reforms that have increased the duration of job‐protected paid
parental leave have improved women's economic outcomes. By targeting the period around …

How global is global health research? A large-scale analysis of trends in authorship

MC Dimitris, M Gittings, NB King - BMJ global health, 2021 - gh.bmj.com
Many have called for greater inclusion of researchers from low-and middle-income countries
(LMICs) in the conduct of global health research, yet the extent to which this occurs is …

[HTML][HTML] Guidance for design and analysis of observational studies of fetal and newborn outcomes following COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy

DB Fell, MC Dimitris, JA Hutcheon, JR Ortiz, RW Platt… - Vaccine, 2021 - Elsevier
COVID-19 vaccines are now being deployed as essential tools in the public health response
to the global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Pregnant individuals are a unique subgroup of the …

[HTML][HTML] Maternal vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy and lactation to promote infant growth in Dhaka, Bangladesh (MDIG trial): study protocol for a …

DE Roth, AD Gernand, SK Morris, B Pezzack, MM Islam… - Trials, 2015 - Springer
Background Vitamin D regulates bone mineral metabolism and skeletal development. Some
observational studies have suggested that prenatal vitamin D deficiency increases the risk of …

[HTML][HTML] Utility and feasibility of integrating pulse oximetry into the routine assessment of young infants at primary care clinics in Karachi, Pakistan: a cross-sectional …

CA Emdin, F Mir, S Sultana, AM Kazi, AKM Zaidi… - BMC pediatrics, 2015 - Springer
Background Hypoxemia may occur in young infants with severe acute illnesses or
congenital cardiac anomalies, but is not reliably detected on physical exam. Pulse oximetry …

[HTML][HTML] Maternal vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy and lactation to prevent acute respiratory infections in infancy in Dhaka, Bangladesh (MDARI trial) …

SK Morris, LG Pell, MZ Rahman, MC Dimitris… - BMC pregnancy and …, 2016 - Springer
Background Early infancy is a high-risk period for severe acute respiratory infection (ARI),
particularly in low-income countries with resource-limited health systems. Lower respiratory …

What has the pandemic revealed about the shortcomings of modern epidemiology? What can we fix or do better?

MC Dimitris, S Galea, JL Marcus, A Pan… - American Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
In this commentary, we discuss themes that emerged from our symposium about what
modern epidemiology as a science may learn from the COVID-19 pandemic. We reflect on …

Investigating the Shape and Strength of the Relationship Between Maternal Weight Gain and Gestational Age at Delivery in Twin and Singleton Pregnancies

MC Dimitris, JA Hutcheon, RW Platt… - American Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Both inadequate and excessive maternal weight gain are correlated with preterm delivery in
singleton pregnancies, yet this relationship has not been adequately studied in twins. We …

Gestational diabetes in twin versus singleton pregnancies with normal weight or overweight pre-pregnancy body mass index: the mediating role of mid-pregnancy …

MC Dimitris, JS Kaufman, LM Bodnar, RW Platt… - …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Background: Gestational diabetes might be more common in twin versus singleton
pregnancies, yet the reasons for this are unclear. We evaluated the extent to which this …

Effect of weekly high-dose vitamin D3 supplementation on serum cholecalciferol concentrations in pregnant women

MC Dimitris, N Perumal, HA Craig-Barnes… - The Journal of steroid …, 2016 - Elsevier
Vitamin D status is conventionally defined by the serum concentration of 25-hydroxyvitamin
D. However, it has been proposed that the serum cholecalciferol concentration (D3) also …