ArticlePloS one2014
Characterization of dietary patterns in the Danish national birth cohort in relation to preterm birth.
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- The association between ultra-processed food and common pregnancy adverse outcomes: a dose-response systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Pooled it
- Maternal Consumption of Ultra-Processed Foods-Rich Diet and Perinatal Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2022Pooled it
- Maternal Dietary Patterns and Birth Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2019Pooled it
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- Are pre- and early pregnancy lifestyle factors associated with the risk of preterm birth? A secondary cohort analysis of the cluster-randomised GeliS trial.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022Trial
- Dietary patterns in obese pregnant women; influence of a behavioral intervention of diet and physical activity in the UPBEAT randomized controlled trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2016Trial
- Maternal Nutrition During Pregnancy and Fetal Outcome, Short- and Long-Term Health Effects: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Plant-Based Diet and Pregnancy-Related Disorders: A Narrative Review.Current nutrition reports · 2026Review
- Maternal mid-pregnancy dietary patterns and inflammatory bowel disease in offspring from a prospective cohort study.Communications medicine · 2025Article
- Diet quality from early pregnancy through 1-y postpartum: a prospective cohort study.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2024Article
- Preterm Birth and Its Association with Maternal Diet, and Placental and Neonatal Telomere Length.Nutrients · 2023Review
- A Vegetable, Oil, and Fruit Dietary Pattern in Late Pregnancy is Linked to Reduced Risks of Adverse Birth Outcomes in a Predominantly Low-Income Hispanic and Latina Pregnancy Cohort.The Journal of nutrition · 2023Article
- Association of dietary fiber, liquid intake and lifestyle characteristics with gastrointestinal symptoms and pregnancy outcome.European journal of obstetrics & gynecology and reproductive biology: X · 2022Article
- The Discovery of Data-Driven Temporal Dietary Patterns and a Validation of Their Description Using Energy and Time Cut-Offs.Nutrients · 2022Article
- An Investigation of the Relationship Between Dietary Patterns in Early Pregnancy and Maternal/Infant Health Outcomes in a Chinese Cohort.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Pregnancy; an opportunity to return to a healthy lifestyle: a qualitative study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2021Article
- Effects of Dietary Patterns during Pregnancy on Preterm Birth: A Birth Cohort Study in Shanghai.Nutrients · 2021Article
- Maternal gut microbiota reflecting poor diet quality is associated with spontaneous preterm birth in a prospective cohort study.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2021Article
- Impact of Sugary Food Consumption on Pregnancy: A Review.Nutrients · 2020Review
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundDietary patterns better reflect eating habits as opposed to single dietary components. However, the use of dietary pattern analysis in nutritional epidemiology has been hampered by the complexity of interpreting and presenting multidimensional dietary data.
methodsThis study extracts and visualizes dietary patterns from self-reported dietary data collected in mid-pregnancy (25th week of gestation) from nearly 60,000 mother-child pairs part of a prospective, longitudinal cohort (Danish National Birth Cohort) and further examines their associations with spontaneous and induced preterm birth (gestational age<259 days (<37 weeks)).
resultsA total of seven dietary patterns were extracted by principal component analysis, characterized and visualized by color-coded spider plots, and referred to as: Vegetables/Prudent, Alcohol, Western, Nordic, Seafood, Candy and Rice/Pasta/Poultry. A consistent dose-response association with preterm birth was only observed for Western diet with an odds ratio of 1.30 (95% CI: 1.13, 1.49) comparing the highest to the lowest quintile. This association was primarily driven by induced preterm deliveries (odds ratio = 1.66, 95% CI: 1.30, 2.11, comparing the highest to the lowest quintile) while the corresponding odds ratio for spontaneous preterm deliveries was more modest (odds ratio = 1.18, 95% CI: 0.99, 1.39). All based on adjusted analyses.
conclusionsIn conclusion, this study presented a simple and novel framework for visualizing correlation structures between overall consumption of foods group and their relation to nutrient intake and maternal characteristics. Our results suggest that Western-type diet, high in meat and fats and low in fruits and vegetables, is associated with increased odds of induced preterm birth.
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