ArticlePaediatric and perinatal epidemiology2013
Physical activity during pregnancy and language development in the offspring.
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- Physical Exercise and Health: A Focus on Its Protective Role in Neurodegenerative Diseases.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2022Review
- Mother's physical activity during pregnancy and newborn's brain cortical development.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Influence of physical activity before and during pregnancy on infant's sleep and neurodevelopment at 1-year-old.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Physical Exercise During Pregnancy Prevents Cognitive Impairment Induced by Amyloid-β in Adult Offspring Rats.Molecular neurobiology · 2019Article
- Effects of Maternal Voluntary Wheel Running During Pregnancy on Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis, Temporal Order Memory, and Depression-Like Behavior in Adult Female and Male Offspring.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Article
- Enriched gestation activates the IGF pathway to evoke embryo-adult benefits to prevent Alzheimer's disease.Translational neurodegeneration · 2019Article
- Early-life influences on obesity: from preconception to adolescence.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2015Article
- Lifelong parental voluntary wheel running increases offspring hippocampal Pgc-1α mRNA expression but not mitochondrial content or Bdnf expression.Neuroreport · 2015Article
- Maternal Exercise and Cognitive Functions of the Offspring.Cognitive sciencesArticle
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Abstract
backgroundIn rodents, physical activity during pregnancy has been associated with improved learning and memory in the offspring. We used data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (born in 1991-92) to investigate maternal physical activity during pregnancy and offspring language development.
methodsAt 18 weeks of gestation, women reported the hours per week they participated in 11 leisure-time physical activities and the hours per week spent in general physical activity (leisure, household and occupational). Caregivers completed a modified MacArthur Infant Communication scale at 15 months. Verbal intelligence quotient (IQ) was measured at age 8 years. Regression analysis was used to examine the associations of physical activity with MacArthur score (more than 75th percentile) and verbal IQ. The number of participants available for analyses ranged from 4529 to 7162.
resultsChildren of women in the two highest quintiles of leisure activity (compared with no leisure activity) were more likely to have high 15-month MacArthur scores (adjusted odds ratio 1.2 [95% confidence interval 0.9, 1.4] and adjusted odds ratio 1.4 [95% CI 1.1, 1.7], respectively). Leisure activity was not associated with IQ, while general physical activity was linked with lower verbal IQ (1 and 3 points lower for the two highest quintiles).
conclusionsThe most robust finding was a transient increase in offspring vocabulary score at young ages with maternal leisure activity. Differences in the associations with leisure-time physical activity compared with general physical activity need further exploration.
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