MAASTHI

• Ana Y, van den Brand FA, van Schayck OCP, Babu GR. Association of physical activity level during pregnancy with preterm birth and infant adiposity: longitudinal analysis from the MAASTHI cohort, India. Sport Sciences for Health. 2025.
• Ana Y, van den Brand FA, van Schayck OC, Babu GR. Relationship between physical activity during pregnancy and maternal health outcomes: evidence from the MAASTHI cohort study in Bengaluru, India. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living. 2025 Jan 30;7:1265929.
• Shriyan P, Koya S, Lobo E, van Schayck OC, Babu GR. Psychosocial and sociodemographic factors associated with gestational blood glucose levels in women attending public hospitals: Results from baseline of MAASTHI cohort (vol 18, e0293414, 2023). PLOS ONE. 2025 Jan 2;20(1).
• Deepa, R., Lewis, M. G., Van Schayck, O., & Babu, G. R. (2024). The Plasma Glucose Threshold Values Associated with Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Among Asian Indian Pregnant Women: MAASTHI Birth Cohort Analysis. Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity, 17, 3365–3378.
• Menon JS, Roy A, Mukherjee D, R D, Todkar S, Yadav A, Gupta R, Babu GR, Mandal S, Prabhakaran P, Consortium C. Environmental pollutant exposures and children’s cognitive, academic and mental health outcomes in India. InISEE Conference Abstracts 2024 Aug 28 .
• Deepa R, Schayck OC, Babu GR. Low levels of Vitamin D during pregnancy associated with gestational diabetes mellitus and low birth weight: results from the MAASTHI birth cohort. Frontiers in nutrition. 2024 Jun 3;11:1352617.
• Shriyan P, Koya S, Lobo E, van Schayck OC, Babu GR (2023) Psychosocial and sociodemographic factors associated with gestational blood glucose levels in women attending public hospitals: Results from baseline of MAASTHI cohort. PLOS ONE 18(10): e0293414.
• Shriyan P, Sudhir P, van Schayck OC, Babu GR. Association of high cortisol levels in pregnancy and altered fetal growth. Results from the MAASTHI, a prospective cohort study, Bengaluru. The Lancet Regional Health-Southeast Asia. 2023  Apr 13.
• Shriyan P, Khetrapal S., van Schayck O. C. P., Babu GR. Maternal depressiveness and infant growth outcomes: Findings from the MAASTHI cohort study in India. J Psychosom Res. 2023
• Shriyan P, Sudhir P, van Schayck OC, Babu GR. Association of high cortisol levels in pregnancy and altered fetal growth. Results from the MAASTHI, a prospective cohort study, Bengaluru. The Lancet Regional Health-Southeast Asia. 2023 Apr 13.
• Lawn, J. E., Ohuma, E. O., Bradley, E., Idueta, L. S., Hazel, E., Okwaraji, Y. B., … & Babu, G. R. (2023). Small babies, big risks: global estimates of prevalence and mortality for vulnerable newborns to accelerate change and improve counting. The Lancet, 401(10389), 1707-1719.
• Erchick DJ, Hazel EA, Katz J, Lee AC, Diaz M, Wu LS, Yoshida S, Bahl R, Grandi C, R. Babu, P. Shriyan, Labrique AB, Rashid M. Vulnerable newborn types: analysis of subnational, population‐based birth cohorts for 541 285 live births in 23 countries, 2000–2021. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 2023 May 8
• Deepa R, Mandal S, Van Schayck OC, Babu GR. Vitamin B6 Levels and Impaired Folate Status but Not Vitamin B12 Associated with Low Birth Weight: Results from the MAASTHI Birth Cohort in South India. Nutrients. 2023 Apr 6;15(7):1793.
• Lobo E, Ana Y, Deepa R, Shriyan P, Sindhu ND, Karthik M, Kinra S, Murthy GV, Babu GR. Cohort profile: maternal antecedents of adiposity and studying the transgenerational role of hyperglycaemia and insulin (MAASTHI). BMJ open. 2022 Sep 1;12(9):e063794.
• John DA, Babu GR. What is the Modern Human Eating? Dietary Transition of the Age-Old to the Modern Man of India. Public Health Reviews. 2022:4.
• Shriyan P, Sudhir P, van Schayck OC, Babu GR. Association of high cortisol levels in pregnancy and altered fetal growth. Results from the MAASTHI, a prospective cohort study, Bengaluru. The Lancet Regional Health-Southeast Asia. 2023 Apr 13
• Shriyan P, Khetrapal S., van Schayck O. C. P., Babu GR. Maternal depressiveness and infant growth outcomes: Findings from the MAASTHI cohort study in India. J Psychosom Res. 2023(IF 4.6)
• Babu GR, Mueller NT, Lewis MG, Krishnan A, Lobo E, Deepa R, Khetrapal S, Benjamin-Neelon SE. Delivery mode and altered infant growth at one year of life in India. Pediatric Research. 2021 Mar 2:1-7.
• Ana Y, Prafulla S, Deepa R, Babu GR. Emerging and Public Health Challenges Existing in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Diabetes in Pregnancy. Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America. 2021;50(3):513-30.
• Babu GR, Das A, Lobo E, Deepa R, John DA, Thankachan P, Khetrapal S, Benjamin-Neelon SE, Murthy GV. Mid-upper arm circumference in pregnant women and birth weight in newborns as a substitute for skinfold thickness: findings from the MAASTHI cohort study, India. BMC pregnancy and childbirth. 2021 Dec;21(1):1-1.
• Ana Y, Lewis MG, van Schayck OC, Babu GR. Is physical activity in pregnancy associated with prenatal and postnatal depressive symptoms? Results from MAASTHI cohort study in South India. Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 2021 May 1;144:110390.
• John DA, Babu GR. Lessons from the Aftermaths of Green Revolution on Food System and Health. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 5: 644559. doi: 10.3389/fsufs. 2021 Feb 22.
• Chidanand U, Deepa R, Babu GR. Screening of gestational diabetes mellitus in pregnant women in public hospitals of urban Bengaluru. RGUHS National Journal of Public Health. 2021;3(4).
• Deepa R, Lewis MG, Van Schayck OC, Babu GR. Food habits in pregnancy and its association with gestational diabetes mellitus: results from a prospective cohort study in public hospitals of urban India. BMC nutrition. 2020;6(1):1-9.

• Babu GR, Murthy GVS, Reddy Y et al. Small for gestational age babies and depressive symptoms of mothers during Pregnancy: Results from a birth cohort in India. Wellcome Open Res 2018, 3:76
• Babu GR, Melissa Glenda Lewis, Eunice Lobo, Anjaly Krishnan, Yamuna Ana, Jodie Katon, Daniel A. Enquobahrie, Onyebuchi A. Arah, Sanjay Kinra, GVS Murthy. Do Gestational obesity and Gestational Diabetes have an independent effect on neonatal adiposity? Results of mediation analysis from a cohort study in South India. Clinical epidemiology,2019. Clinical Epidemiology. Clinical Epidemiology 2019:11 1067-80.
• Shriyan P, Babu GR, Ravi D, Ana Y, van Schayck OC, Thankachan P, Murthy GV. Ambient and Indoor Air Pollution in Pregnancy and the risk of Low birth weight and Ensuing Effects in Infants (APPLE): A cohort study in Bangalore, South India. Wellcome Open Research. 2019 Oct 30;3:133
• Babu GR, Karthik M, Ravi D, Ana Y, Shriyan P, Hasige KK, Deshpande K, Siddlingaiah LB, Kinra S, Murthy GVS. What makes pregnant women revisit public hospitals for research? Participant engagement and retention trial in a public hospital (PERTH): an RCT protocol. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2018;18:369.
• Babu GR, Murthy GVS, Singh N, et al. Sociodemographic and Medical Risk Factors Associated with Antepartum Depression. Frontiers in Public Health. 2018; 6:127. doi:10.3389/fpubh.2018.00127.
• Babu GR, GVS Murthy, Yamuna, Prital Patel, Deepa R, Sara E Benjamin Neelon, Sanjay Kinra, K Srinath Reddy. Association of Obesity with hypertension and Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus in India, A meta-analysis of observational studies. World J Diabetes. 2018 January 15; 9(1): 40–52.
• Babu GR, Murthy GV, Deepa R, Ana Y, Prafulla S, Kinra S. Feasibility of setting up a birth cohort and screening Gestational Hyperglycemia in Public health facilities in Bengaluru, India. RGUHS National Journal of Public Health. 2018;3(3).
• Babu GR, Murthy G, Deepa R, Yamuna, Prafulla, Kumar HK, Karthik M, Deshpande K, Benjamin Neelon S.E., Prabhakaran D, Anura Kurpad, Sanjay Kinra. Maternal antecedents of adiposity and studying the transgenerational role of hyperglycemia and insulin (MAASTHI): a prospective cohort study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016, 16(1):311.
• Babu GR, Tejaswi B, Kalavathi M, Vatsala G, Murthy G, Kinra S, Neelon SEB: Assessment of screening practices for gestational hyperglycaemia in public health facilities: a descriptive study in Bengaluru, India. Journal of public health research 2015, 4(1).
• Babu GR, Garadi L, Murthy G, Kinra S: Effect of hyperglycaemia in Pregnancy on adiposity in their infants in India: a protocol of a multicenter cohort study. BMJ open 2014, 4(6): e005417.