Maternal nutritional risk factors for small for gestational age babies in a developed country: a case-control study
| Autor: | Jan Pryor, Ed A. Mitchell, N Glavish, N. S. Pattison, Elizabeth Robinson, Phillipa M. Clark, John M. D. Thompson, Chris J. Wild, David M.O. Becroft |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics Maternal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena Birth weight Reproductive medicine Pregnancy Risk Factors medicine Humans reproductive and urinary physiology Fetal Growth Retardation Obstetrics business.industry Developed Countries Case-control study Infant Newborn Obstetrics and Gynecology Gestational age General Medicine medicine.disease female genital diseases and pregnancy complications Diet Social Class Case-Control Studies Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Infant Small for Gestational Age Gestation Small for gestational age Female Original Article business |
| Zdroj: | Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition. 89(5) |
| ISSN: | 1359-2998 |
| Popis: | To assess the effect of maternal diet during pregnancy on the risk of delivering a baby who is small for gestational age (SGA).Case-control study of 844 cases (SGA) and 870 controls (appropriate size for gestational age (AGA)). Only term (37+ completed weeks of gestation) infants were included. Retrospective food frequency questionnaires were completed at birth on the diet at the time of conception and in the last month of pregnancy.At the time of conception, mothers of AGA infants ate significantly more servings of carbohydrate rich food and fruit, and were more likely to have taken folate and vitamin supplements than mothers of SGA infants. There was some evidence that mothers of AGA infants also ate more servings of dairy products, meat, and fish (0.05p0.1). However, after adjustment for maternal ethnicity, smoking, height, weight, hypertension, and occupation, fish intake (p = 0.04), carbohydrate-rich foods (p = 0.04), and folate supplementation (p = 0.02) were associated with a reduced risk of SGA. In the last month of pregnancy, only iron supplementation was associated with a reduced risk of SGA (p = 0.05) after adjustment for potential confounders.This study suggests that small variations in maternal diets within the normal range during pregnancy in developed countries are associated with differences in birth weight. |
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