LIST OF SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
*Dr. Strakovsky is corresponding/senior author*; Our trainees.
Morris KA, Cinzori ME, Ryva BA, Talge N, Pathak KV, Lovell B, Pirrotte P, Schantz SL, *Strakovsky RS*. Associations of glyphosate and aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) exposure with birth outcomes in pregnant women from the Midwestern U.S. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. 2025 Dec 15;272:114733. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2025.114733. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41401588.
Ryva BA, Wylie BJ, Aung MT, Schantz SL, *Strakovsky RS*. Endocrine disrupting chemicals and persistent nausea among pregnant women enrolled in the Illinois Kids Development Study (I-KIDS). Environmental Health Perspectives. 2025 Mar 31. doi: 10.1289/EHP15547. PMID: 40163373.
Pacyga DC, Jolly L, Whalen J, Calafat AM, Braun JM, Schantz SL, *Strakovsky RS*. Associations of maternal diet quality with gestational metabolic health are partly mediated by urinary phthalate/replacement biomarker concentrations. Environmental Research. 2024 Oct 19;263(Pt 3):120198. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.120198. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39427938.
Cinzori ME, Nicol M, Dewald AL, Goodrich JM, Zhou Z, Gardiner JC, Kerver JM, Dolinoy DC, Talge N, *Strakovsky RS*. Maternal mitochondrial DNA copy number and methylation as possible predictors of pregnancy outcomes in a Michigan pregnancy cohort. Environmental Epigenetics. 2024 Oct 29;10(1):dvae021. doi: 10.1093/eep/dvae021. PMID: 39628676; PMC11614404.
Vecchione R, Westlake M, Bragg MG, Rando J, Bennett DH, Croen LA, Dunlop AL, Ferrara A, Hedderson MM, Kerver JM, Lee B, Lin PD, Hertz-Piccioto I, Schmidt RJ, Strakovsky RS, Lyall K. Maternal Dietary Patterns During Pregnancy and Child Autism-Related Traits in the ECHO Consortium. Nutrients. 2024 Nov 6;16(22):3802. doi: 10.3390/nu16223802. PMID: 39599589; PMC11597253.
Aris IM, Wu AJ, Lin P-ID, Zhang M, Farid H, Hedderson MM, Zhu Y, Ferrara A, Chehab RF, Barrett ES, Carnell S, Camargo CA, Jr, Chu SH, Mirzakhani H, Kelly RS, Comstock SS, Strakovsky RS, O’Connor TG, Ganiban JM, Dunlop AL, Dabelea D, Breton CV, Bastain TM, Farzan SF, Call CC, Hartert T, Snyder B, Santarossa S, Cassidy-Bushrow AE, O’Shea TM, McCormack LA, Karagas MR, McEvoy CT, Alshawabkeh A, Zimmerman E, Wright RJ, McCann M, Wright RO, Coull B, Amutah-Onukagha N, Hacker MR, James-Todd T, Oken E. Neighborhood Food Access in Early Life and Trajectories of Child Body Mass Index and Obesity. JAMA pediatrics. 2024. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.3459.
Drzal N, Kerver JM, Strakovsky RS, Weatherspoon L, Alaimo K. Barriers and facilitators of healthy eating among young adult college students – a cross-sectional study. Nutrition Research. 2025 Jan;133:161-171. doi: 10.1016/j.nutres.2024.06.001. Epub 2024 Jun 6. PMID: 39764858.
Babadi RS, Williams PL, Preston EV, Li Z, Smith RL, Strakovsky RS, Mahalingaiah S, Hauser R, Flaws JA, James-Todd TM. Phthalates and Sex Steroid Hormones Across the Perimenopausal Period: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Midlife Women’s Health Study. Environment International. In Press.
Pacyga DC, Papandonatos GD, Rosas L, Whalen J, Smith S, Park JS, Gardiner JC, Braun JM, Schantz SL, *Strakovsky RS*. Associations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances with mid-pregnancy sex-steroid hormones. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. 2024;259:114380. Epub 2024/04/25. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2024.114380. PubMed PMID: 38657330.
Suthar H, Manea T, Pak D, Woodbury M, Eick SM, Cathey A, Watkins DJ, Strakovsky RS, Ryva BA, Pennathur S, Zeng L, Weller D, Park JS, Smith S, DeMicco E, Padula A, Fry R, Mukherjee B, Aguiar A, Geiger SD, Ng S, Huerta-Montanez G, Vélez-Vega C, Rosario Z, Cordero JF, Zimmerman E, Woodruff TJ, Morello-Frosch R, Schantz SL, Meeker JD, Alshawabkeh A, Aung MT and on behalf of Program Collaborators for Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes. Cross-sectional associations between prenatal maternal per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances and bioactive lipids in three Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) cohorts. Environmental Science & Technology. 2024;58(19):8264-77. Epub 2024/05/01. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.4c00094. PubMed PMID: 38691655; PMCID: PMC11097396.
Aris IM, Lin PD, Wu AJ, Dabelea DM, Lester BM, Wright RJ, Karagas MR, Kerver JM, Dunlop AL, Joseph CLM, Camargo Jr CA, Ganiban JM, Schmidt RJ, Strakovsky RS, McEvoy CT, Hipwell AE, O’Shea TM, McCormack LA, Maldonado LE, Niu Z, Ferrara A, Zhu Y, Chehab RF, Kinsey EW, Bush NR, Nguyen RHN, Carroll KN, Barrett ES, Lyall K, Sims-Taylor LM, Trasande L, Biagini JM, Breton CV, Patti MA, Coull B, Amutah-Onukagha N, Hacker MR, James-Todd T, Oken E. Birth Outcomes in Relation to Neighborhood Food Access and Individual Food Insecurity During Pregnancy in the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)-Wide Cohort Study. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2024;119(5):1216-26. Epub 2024/03/03. doi: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2024.02.022. PubMed PMID: 38431121.
Cinzori ME, Pacyga DC, Rosas L, Whalen J, Smith S, Park JS, Gardiner JC, Braun JM, Schantz SL, *Strakovsky RS*. Associations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances with maternal metabolic and inflammatory biomarkers in early-to-mid-pregnancy. Environmental Research. 2024 Feb 10:118434. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.118434. PMID: 38346483.
Ryva BA, Pacyga DC, Andersen KY, Calafat AM, Whalen J, Aung MT, Gardiner JC, Braun JM, Schantz SL, *Strakovsky RS*. Associations of urinary non-persistent endocrine disrupting chemical biomarkers with mid-pregnancy plasma sex-steroid and thyroid hormones. Environment International. 2024 Jan;183:108433. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2024.108433. Epub 2024 Jan 7. PMID: 38219543; PMCID: PMC10858740.
Pacyga DC, Haggerty DK, Gennings C, Schantz SL, *Strakovsky RS*. Interrogating components of two diet quality indices in pregnancy using a supervised statistical mixtures approach. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2023 May 16:S0002-9165(23)62419-0. doi: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2023.05.020. PMID: 37201722.
Kloboves (now Cinzori) ME, Pacyga DC, Babayev E, Duncan FE, Li Z, Williams PL, Flaws JA, *Strakovsky RS*. Ovarian volume partially explains associations of phthalate biomarkers with anti-Müllerian hormone and estradiol in midlife women. Environment International. 2023 Jan 24;172:107771. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2023.107771. PMID: 36724714.
Babadi RS, Williams PL, Li Z, Smith RL, Strakovsky RS, Hauser R, Flaws JA, James-Todd TM. Urinary phthalate metabolites and hot flash outcomes: longitudinal associations in the Midlife Women’s Health Study. Environmental Research. 2023 Jan 1;216(Pt 2):114576. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.114576. Epub 2022 Oct 14. PMID: 36252832.
Kloboves ME, *Strakovsky RS*. Effects of elevated maternal adiposity on offspring reproductive health: a perspective from epidemiologic studies. Invited Review. Journal of the Endocrine Society. 2022 Oct 27;7(1):bvac163. doi: 10.1210/jendso/bvac163. PMID: 36438545; PMC9683496.
Iizuka T, Yin P, Zuberi A, Kujawa SA, Coon JS, Duque Björvang R, Damdimopoulou P,
Pacyga DC, Strakovsky RS, Flaws JA, Bulun SE. Mono-(2-ethyl-5-hydroxyhexyl) phthalate promotes uterine leiomyoma cell survival through tryptophan-kynurenine-AHR pathway activation. PNAS. 2022 Nov 22;119(47):e2208886119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2208886119. Epub 2022 Nov 14. PMID: 36375056; PMC9704719.
Pacyga DC, Patti MA, Papandonatos GD, Haggerty DK, Calafat AM, Gardiner JC, Braun JM, Schantz SL, *Strakovsky RS*. Associations of unique and cumulative urinary phthalate and replacement biomarkers with gestational weight gain through late pregnancy. Science of the Total Environment. 2022 Sep 15:158788. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158788. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36116648.
Pacyga DC, Schantz SL, Calafat AM, *Strakovsky RS*. Maternal diet as a mitigator of the associations between gestational paraben exposure and birth outcomes. Environmental Research. 2022 Aug 11;214(Pt 3):114078. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.114078. PMID: 35964672.
Ryva BA, Haggerty DK, James-Todd TM, Li Z, Flaws JA, *Strakovsky RS*. Determinants of urinary phthalate biomarker concentrations in pre- and perimenopausal women with consideration of race. Environmental Research. 2022 Aug 8;214(Pt 3):114056. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.114056. PMID: 35952743.
Kloboves ME, Pacyga DC, Gardiner JC, Flaws JA, Schantz SL, *Strakovsky RS*. Associations of maternal pre- and early- pregnancy anthropometrics with newborn anogenital distance and 2:4 digit ratio. Human Reproduction. 2022 Jul 8:deac143. doi: 10.1093/humrep/deac143. PMID: 35802047.
Pacyga DC, Chiang C, Li Z, Strakovsky RS, Ziv-Gal A. Parabens and menopause-related health outcomes in midlife women – a pilot study. Journal of Women’s Health. 2022 Jul 5. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2022.0004. PMID: 35787012.
Pacyga DC, Ryva BA, Li Z, Flaws JA, *Strakovsky RS*. Midlife urinary phthalate metabolite concentrations and prior uterine fibroid diagnosis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022 Feb 26;19(5):2741. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19052741. PMID: 35270433; PMC8910544.
Pacyga DC, Haggerty DK, Braun JM, Li Z, Calafat AM, Schantz SL, *Strakovsky RS*. Identification of profiles and determinants of maternal pregnancy urinary biomarkers of phthalates and replacements in the Illinois Kids Development Study. Environment International. 2022;162:107150. PMC8967784.
Haggerty DK, Upson K, Pacyga DC, Franko JE, Braun JM, *Strakovsky RS*. Pregnancy exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals: implications for women's health. Invited Review, Reproduction. 2021;162(5):F169-F80. Epub 2021. doi: 10.1530/REP-21-0051. PubMed PMID: 34486984; PMC8511181.
Pacyga DC, Gardiner JC, Flaws JA, Li Z, Calafat AM, Korrick SA, Schantz SL, *Strakovsky RS*. Maternal Phthalate and Phthalate Alternative Metabolites and Urinary Biomarkers of Estrogens and Testosterones across Pregnancy. Environment International. 2021;155:106676. Epub 2021. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2021.106676. PubMed PMID: 34116379; PMC8292204.
Pacyga DC*, Chiang C*, Strakovsky RS, Smith RL, James-Todd TM, Williams PL, Hauser R, Meling DD, Li Z, Flaws JA. Urinary Phthalate Metabolite Concentrations and Hormone Concentrations in Pre- and Perimenopausal Women from the Midlife Women’s Health Study. Environment International. 2021;156:106633. Epub 2021/05/19. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2021.106633. PubMed PMID: 34004451; PMCID: PMC8380691. *Authors contributed equally.
Pacyga DC*, Warner GR*, Strakovsky RS, Smith RL, James-Todd TM, Williams PL, Hauser R, Meling DD, Li Z, Flaws JA. Urinary Phthalate Metabolite Concentrations and Hot Flashes in Women from the Midlife Women’s Health Study. Environmental Research. 2021;197:110891. Epub 2021. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.110891. PubMed PMID: 33722529; PMC8187273. *Authors contributed equally.
Haggerty DK, Strakovsky RS, Talge NM, Carignan CC, Glazier-Essalmi AN, Ingersoll BR, Rajendiran K, Kannan K, Paneth NS, Ruden DM. Prenatal phthalate exposures and Autism Spectrum Disorder symptoms in low-risk children. Neurotoxicology and Teratology. 2021;83:106947. doi: 10.1016/j.ntt.2021.106947. PMID: 33412243.
Haggerty DK, Flaws JA, Li Z, *Strakovsky RS*. Phthalate exposures and one-year change in body mass index across the menopausal transition. Environmental Research. 2021 Mar;194:110598. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.110598. Epub 2020 Dec 9. PMID: 33307086; PMC7946761.
Zhou Z, Goodrich JM, *Strakovsky RS*. Mitochondrial epigenetics and environmental health: making a case for endocrine disrupting chemicals. Toxicological Sciences. Invited review. 2020 Nov 1;178(1):16-25. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfaa129. PMID: 32777053.
Wierenga KA, Strakovsky RS, Benninghoff AD, Rajasinghe LD, Lock AL, Harkema JR, Pestka JJ. Requisite Omega-3 HUFA Biomarker Thresholds for Preventing Murine Lupus Flaring. Frontiers in Immunology. 2020 Aug 21;11:1796. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.01796. PMID: 32973753; PMCID: PMC7473030.
Hirko KA, Comstock SS, Strakovsky RS, Kerver JM. Diet during pregnancy and gestational weight gain in a Michigan pregnancy cohort. Current Developments in Nutrition. In press. 2020 Jul 13;4(8):nzaa121. doi: 10.1093/cdn/nzaa121. PMID: 32793851; PMCID: PMC7413979.
Pacyga DC, Henning M, Chiang C, Smith RL, Flaws JA, *Strakovsky RS*. Associations of Pregnancy History with Body Mass Index and Weight Gain in 45-54 Year-old Women. Current Developments in Nutrition. December 2019. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzz139. PubMed PMID: 31893261 PMCID: PMC6933615.
Pacyga DC, Sathyanarayana S, *Strakovsky RS*. Dietary Predictors of Phthalate and Bisphenol Exposures in Pregnant Women. Advances in Nutrition. May 2019;10(5):803-15. PMID: 31144713 PMCID: PMC674384.
*Strakovsky RS*, Schantz SL. Impacts of Bisphenol A (BPA) and Phthalate Exposures on Epigenetic Outcomes in the Human Placenta. Environmental Epigenetics. September 2018;4(3). PMID: 30210810; PMCID: 6128378.
*Strakovsky RS*, Schantz SL. Using Experimental Models to Assess Effects of Bisphenol A (BPA) and Phthalates on the Placenta: Challenges and Perspectives. Toxicological Sciences. 2018;166(2):250-68. PMID: 30203063.