To develop the dietary and lifestyle strategies to prevent and manage diabetes and its complications and to investigate earlier life risk factors for diabetes and cardiovascular disease over the lifecourse.

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  1. Ley, SH, Li, Y, Tobias, DK, Manson, JE, Rosner, B, Hu, FB, Rexrode, KM. Duration of reproductive life span, age at menarche, and age at menopause are associated with risk of cardiovascular disease in women. J Am Heart Assoc 6(11): pii: e006713, 2017
  2. Ley, SH, Pan, A, Li, Y, Manson, JE, Willett, WC, Sun, Q, Hu, FB. Changes in overall diet quality and subsequent type 2 diabetes risk: Three U.S. prospective cohorts. Diabetes Care 39(11):2011-2018, 2016
  3. Ley, SH, Hamdy, O, Mohan, V, Hu, FB. Prevention and management of type 2 diabetes: Dietary components and nutritional strategies. Lancet 383(9933):1999-2007, 2014
  4. Ley, SH, Hanley, AJ, Sermer, M, Zinman, B, O’Connor, DL. Associations of prenatal metabolic abnormalities with insulin and adiponectin concentrations in human milk. Am J Clin Nutr 95(4):867-874, 2012