ArticleJournal of abnormal child psychology2017
Associations between Prenatal and Early Childhood Fish and Processed Food Intake, Conduct Problems, and Co-Occurring Difficulties.
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- Seafood During Pregnancy and Lactation and Child Neurocognitive Development: A Systematic Review.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2025Pooled it
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- Conduct problems trajectories and psychosocial outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2018Pooled it
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- Epigenetic profiling of social communication trajectories and co-occurring mental health problems: a prospective, methylome-wide association study.Development and psychopathology · 2022Article
- The associations between maternal and child diet quality and child ADHD - findings from a large Norwegian pregnancy cohort study.BMC psychiatry · 2021Article
- Pre-pregnancy diet quality and its association with offspring behavioral problems.European journal of nutrition · 2021Article
- Estimating the Strength of Associations Between Prenatal Diet Quality and Child Developmental Outcomes: Results From a Large Prospective Pregnancy Cohort Study.American journal of epidemiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Little is known about early life diet as a risk factor for early-onset persistent conduct problems (EOP CP). To investigate this, we used data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, a UK-based prospective epidemiological birth cohort. 5727 mother-child pairs (49.9 % boys) monitored since pregnancy (delivery date between 1 April, 1991 and 31 December, 1992) reported intake of fish and processed foods at 32 weeks gestation and, for the child, at 3 years; EOP (n = 666) and Low conduct problem (Low CP, n = 5061) trajectories were measured from 4 to 13 years; hyperactivity and emotional difficulties were assessed in childhood (4-10 years) and early adolescence (12-13 years), in addition to potential confounding factors (family adversity, birth complications, income). Compared to Low CP, mothers of EOP children consumed less fish (p < 0.01) and more processed food (p < 0.05) prenatally, while EOP children consumed more processed food at 3 years (p < 0.05). For EOP, but not Low CP children, consuming less than two servings/week of fish (vs. two or more servings/week, p < 0.05), and one or more servings/day of processed food (vs. less than one serving/day, p < 0.01), was associated with higher emotional difficulties in early adolescence.
conclusionsFindings suggest that prenatal and postnatal diets high in processed food, and low in fish, associate with an EOP CP trajectory and co-occurring difficulties in early adolescence. As small effect size differences were found, further studies are needed to investigate the long-term impact of early unhealthy diet.
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