Jenn is a published author!

Jenn has informed us that two of her papers were published in the December issues of Pediatric Nephrology and Diabetes Care. She is the third author!!!


ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Weight and elevated albumin to creatinine ratio in youth with diabetes: the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth study
David M. Maahs & Beverly M. Snively & Jennifer Beyer


E p i d e m i o l o g y / H e a l t h S e r v i c e s R e s e a r c h
Association Between Maternal Diabetes in Utero and Age at Offspring’s Diagnosis of
Type 2 Diabetes DAVID J. PETTITT, MD 1 JEAN M. LAWRENCE, SCD, MPH, MSSA 2 JENNIFER BEYER, MS 3
OBJECTIVE— The purpose of this study was to examine age of diabetes diagnosis in youth
who have a parent with diabetes by diabetes type and whether the parent’s diabetes was diagnosed before or after the youth’s birth.
RESEARCH DESIGNANDMETHODS— The cohort comprised SEARCH for Diabetes
in Youth Study participants (diabetes diagnosis 2001–2005) with a diabetic parent. SEARCH is
a multicenter survey of youth with diabetes diagnosed before age 20 years.
RESULTS— Youth with type 2 diabetes were more likely to have a parent with either type 1
or type 2 diabetes (mother 39.3%; father 21.2%) than youth with type 1 diabetes (5.3 and 6.7%,
respectively, P
0.001 for each).