Trenton Dailey-Chwalibóg
@trenton.phd
#Epidemiologist · #MultiOmics · #MNCH · #Microbiota · #EED · #HumanMilk · #UGent · #AFRICSanté · #BrusselsGriffons
Nothing warrants this and you know it. I cannot take it anymore. It must end. You have a voice, you owe it to these dying babies to use it.
July 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Nothing warrants this and you know it. I cannot take it anymore. It must end. You have a voice, you owe it to these dying babies to use it.
I feel nauseated because I know in the deepest, darkest part of my heart that ready-to-use therapeutic food should not be fucking needed in Gaza.
July 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I feel nauseated because I know in the deepest, darkest part of my heart that ready-to-use therapeutic food should not be fucking needed in Gaza.
I am served sponsored content from the World Food Program, a UN agency that I have worked with on countless occasions, asking me for money to provide ready-to-use therapeutic food to babies in Gaza.
July 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I am served sponsored content from the World Food Program, a UN agency that I have worked with on countless occasions, asking me for money to provide ready-to-use therapeutic food to babies in Gaza.
I feel hopeless and homicidal and my thumbs tremble as I flip through the photos of innocent, starving babies on Instagram. My heart beats through my chest with rage even while I write this message.
July 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I feel hopeless and homicidal and my thumbs tremble as I flip through the photos of innocent, starving babies on Instagram. My heart beats through my chest with rage even while I write this message.
I wake up every morning and see severe acute malnutrition inflicted by sadistic genocidal maniacs on innocent infants in Gaza. I sit on the couch with my phone in my hand and cry silently while I drink my coffee.
July 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I wake up every morning and see severe acute malnutrition inflicted by sadistic genocidal maniacs on innocent infants in Gaza. I sit on the couch with my phone in my hand and cry silently while I drink my coffee.
I cannot explain to you how palpable and contagious the joy is when a group of dedicated nutritionists work a full day in a rehabilitation center and see that the babies are getting better, and we go home knowing that they will make it.
July 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I cannot explain to you how palpable and contagious the joy is when a group of dedicated nutritionists work a full day in a rehabilitation center and see that the babies are getting better, and we go home knowing that they will make it.
Her baby is gaining weight. Her baby is becoming more active. Her baby is smiling again.
July 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Her baby is gaining weight. Her baby is becoming more active. Her baby is smiling again.
I cannot tell you how bright a mother’s eyes become when she realizes her baby will survive this deadly condition, because she got her hands on ready-to-use therapeutic food, she gives it to her baby religiously, and it’s working.
July 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I cannot tell you how bright a mother’s eyes become when she realizes her baby will survive this deadly condition, because she got her hands on ready-to-use therapeutic food, she gives it to her baby religiously, and it’s working.
I have been so blessed to train with and work alongside hundreds, if not thousands, of inspiring individuals (physicians, midwives, nurses, nutritionists). I have learned so much and seen so much. I cannot explain in words what it feels like to see a child recover from severe acute malnutrition.
July 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I have been so blessed to train with and work alongside hundreds, if not thousands, of inspiring individuals (physicians, midwives, nurses, nutritionists). I have learned so much and seen so much. I cannot explain in words what it feels like to see a child recover from severe acute malnutrition.
Severe acute malnutrition, the technical term for child starvation, is the most horrifying thing you could possibly imagine. I promise you that. I have spent my entire career combating it.
July 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Severe acute malnutrition, the technical term for child starvation, is the most horrifying thing you could possibly imagine. I promise you that. I have spent my entire career combating it.
Huge congratulations to Dr. Cheick Ouattara, our brilliant study coordinator, for leading this important paper with dedication and care from the field! 🥰
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April 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Huge congratulations to Dr. Cheick Ouattara, our brilliant study coordinator, for leading this important paper with dedication and care from the field! 🥰
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@carllachat.bsky.social
@gilescook.bsky.social
@lhuybreg.bsky.social
@kokebhaddis.bsky.social
@laeticiacelinetoe.bsky.social
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Accurate gestational age isn’t just a number, it’s the foundation for monitoring pregnancy risk, ensuring appropriate newborn care, and implementing life-saving interventions.
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April 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Accurate gestational age isn’t just a number, it’s the foundation for monitoring pregnancy risk, ensuring appropriate newborn care, and implementing life-saving interventions.
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Our findings highlight a critical need: to improve access to obstetric #ultrasound in #BurkinaFaso and to train clinicians in accurate gestational age assessment, especially in the second and third trimesters.
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April 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Our findings highlight a critical need: to improve access to obstetric #ultrasound in #BurkinaFaso and to train clinicians in accurate gestational age assessment, especially in the second and third trimesters.
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The problem? These methods don’t agree with each other. Like at all.
Compared to ultrasound-based methods, these techniques overestimate the prevalence of #prematurity. This explains the inflated rates reported in routine data, and why we weren’t seeing #preterm births in our cohort.
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Compared to ultrasound-based methods, these techniques overestimate the prevalence of #prematurity. This explains the inflated rates reported in routine data, and why we weren’t seeing #preterm births in our cohort.
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April 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The problem? These methods don’t agree with each other. Like at all.
Compared to ultrasound-based methods, these techniques overestimate the prevalence of #prematurity. This explains the inflated rates reported in routine data, and why we weren’t seeing #preterm births in our cohort.
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Compared to ultrasound-based methods, these techniques overestimate the prevalence of #prematurity. This explains the inflated rates reported in routine data, and why we weren’t seeing #preterm births in our cohort.
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Here’s what we found: most women in #BurkinaFaso don’t have access to #ultrasound during #pregnancy. Instead, gestational age is estimated using traditional methods—last menstrual period (#LMP), symphysis-fundal height (#SFH), and others.
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April 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Here’s what we found: most women in #BurkinaFaso don’t have access to #ultrasound during #pregnancy. Instead, gestational age is estimated using traditional methods—last menstrual period (#LMP), symphysis-fundal height (#SFH), and others.
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But the question remained: Why such a massive discrepancy between our data and the statistics from health centers in Bobo-Dioulasso?
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April 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
But the question remained: Why such a massive discrepancy between our data and the statistics from health centers in Bobo-Dioulasso?
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This broader operational definition, based on low birth weight (#LBW), small-for-gestational age (#SGA), and/or preterm birth (#PTB), had just been proposed in a timely series by The Lancet on Small Vulnerable Newborns.
We adapted. The study was saved 😅
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#smallVulnerableNewborns
We adapted. The study was saved 😅
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#smallVulnerableNewborns
April 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This broader operational definition, based on low birth weight (#LBW), small-for-gestational age (#SGA), and/or preterm birth (#PTB), had just been proposed in a timely series by The Lancet on Small Vulnerable Newborns.
We adapted. The study was saved 😅
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#smallVulnerableNewborns
We adapted. The study was saved 😅
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#smallVulnerableNewborns
Throughout the first 6 months of implementation, only four #preterm births were recorded in our cohort. That’s right, four, compared to the 48 we had projected.
Naturally, we panicked 😨
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Naturally, we panicked 😨
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April 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Throughout the first 6 months of implementation, only four #preterm births were recorded in our cohort. That’s right, four, compared to the 48 we had projected.
Naturally, we panicked 😨
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Naturally, we panicked 😨
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Based on routine preterm prevalence data from our study sites in urban #BurkinaFaso, we estimated we’d reach our target sample size (50 #preterm and 50 full-term newborns) within roughly six months, expecting 8–12 preterm births per month.
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April 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Based on routine preterm prevalence data from our study sites in urban #BurkinaFaso, we estimated we’d reach our target sample size (50 #preterm and 50 full-term newborns) within roughly six months, expecting 8–12 preterm births per month.
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Many pregnant women in rural #BurkinaFaso struggle to eat enough to meet the demands of their growing babies. This leads to higher rates of #miscarriage, still- and #preterm birth, and intrauterine growth restriction.
March 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Many pregnant women in rural #BurkinaFaso struggle to eat enough to meet the demands of their growing babies. This leads to higher rates of #miscarriage, still- and #preterm birth, and intrauterine growth restriction.
My out-of-office automatic reply is set. I’m about to (not really) slam my laptop closed for the holidays. Currently, I’m in Detroit with my family and about to head to the airport to pick up my partner and dog, who are joining us.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
December 20, 2024 at 9:14 PM
My out-of-office automatic reply is set. I’m about to (not really) slam my laptop closed for the holidays. Currently, I’m in Detroit with my family and about to head to the airport to pick up my partner and dog, who are joining us.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Nutrition friends far and wide! Submit your abstracts to #ICN2025 and come visit me in Paris this coming summer. The weather is beautiful in late August and I promise you a glass of fine wine on a terrasse (on me). Deadline is today, 23:59 UTC+2 🍷🗼
December 13, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Nutrition friends far and wide! Submit your abstracts to #ICN2025 and come visit me in Paris this coming summer. The weather is beautiful in late August and I promise you a glass of fine wine on a terrasse (on me). Deadline is today, 23:59 UTC+2 🍷🗼
Thrilled to present at #ISRHML2024 on behalf the #IMiC consortium! We analyzed maternal nutrition interventions in Burkina Faso, Pakistan & Tanzania, finding #BEP shifts human milk composition, increasing B-vitamins & seemingly enriching polyunsaturated fatty acids for neurodevelopment. #misame3 🥛🌍🌏
December 12, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Thrilled to present at #ISRHML2024 on behalf the #IMiC consortium! We analyzed maternal nutrition interventions in Burkina Faso, Pakistan & Tanzania, finding #BEP shifts human milk composition, increasing B-vitamins & seemingly enriching polyunsaturated fatty acids for neurodevelopment. #misame3 🥛🌍🌏
Milk friends! Lishi, Laéticia and I are on our way to The International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation (#ISRHML) conference in Charleston, SC. Laéticia and I both present on Tuesday and Lishi presents on Thursday. Come find us and connect! Looking forward to it 🥛🤓
December 7, 2024 at 9:55 AM
Milk friends! Lishi, Laéticia and I are on our way to The International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation (#ISRHML) conference in Charleston, SC. Laéticia and I both present on Tuesday and Lishi presents on Thursday. Come find us and connect! Looking forward to it 🥛🤓
Our paper highlights the urgent need for nutrition-sensitive strategies to mitigate dietary OTA, as well as food safety policies during pregnancy. Read the whole story here: doi.org/10.1016/j.tj... 📑
November 22, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Our paper highlights the urgent need for nutrition-sensitive strategies to mitigate dietary OTA, as well as food safety policies during pregnancy. Read the whole story here: doi.org/10.1016/j.tj... 📑