ArticleMaternal & child nutrition2018
Maternal dietary patterns during pregnancy and intelligence quotients in the offspring at 8 years of age: Findings from the ALSPAC cohort.
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- Maternal dietary patterns, breastfeeding duration, and their association with child cognitive function and head circumference growth: A prospective mother-child cohort study.PLoS medicine · 2025Article
- The role of nutrition and gut microbiome in childhood brain development and behavior.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Review
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- Diet quality during pregnancy, adolescent brain morphology, and cognitive performance in a population-based cohort.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2024Article
- Association between Dietary Patterns during Pregnancy and Children's Neurodevelopment: A Birth Cohort Study.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Maternal Diet Quality during Pregnancy Is Associated with Neonatal Brain White Matter Development.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Impact of consuming a Mediterranean-style diet during pregnancy on neurodevelopmental disabilities in offspring: results from the Boston Birth Cohort.Precision nutrition · 2023Article
- Maternal obesity, gestational diabetes mellitus, and diet in association with neurodevelopment of 2-year-old children.Pediatric research · 2023Article
- Macronutrient intake during infancy and neurodevelopment in preschool children from the EDEN mother-child cohort.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2023Article
- Prenatal Healthy Dietary Patterns Are Associated with Reduced Behavioral Problems of Preschool Children in China: A Latent Class Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Maternal Pre-Pregnancy Body Mass Index, Gestational Weight Gain and Children's Cognitive Development: A Birth Cohort Study.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Are Dietary Patterns Related to Cognitive Performance in 7-Year-Old Children? Evidence from a Birth Cohort in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Association of Maternal Dietary Patterns during Gestation and Offspring Neurodevelopment.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Maternal diet quality during pregnancy and child cognition and behavior in a US cohort.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 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
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Abstract
Dietary intake during pregnancy may influence child neurodevelopment and cognitive function. This study aims to investigate the associations between dietary patterns obtained in pregnancy and intelligence quotients (IQ) among offspring at 8 years of age. Pregnant women enrolled in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children completed a food frequency questionnaire at 32 weeks' gestation (n = 12,195). Dietary patterns were obtained by cluster analysis. Three clusters best described women's diets during pregnancy: "fruit and vegetables," "meat and potatoes," and "white bread and coffee." The offspring's IQ at 8 years of age was assessed using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children. Models, using variables correlated to IQ data, were performed to impute missing values. Linear regression models were employed to investigate associations between the maternal clusters and IQ in childhood. Children of women who were classified in the meat and potatoes cluster and white bread and coffee cluster during pregnancy had lower average verbal (β = -1.74; p < .001 and β = -3.05; p < .001), performance (β = -1.26; p = .011 and β = -1.75; p < .001), and full-scale IQ (β = -1.74; p < .001 and β = -2.79; p < .001) at 8 years of age when compared to children of mothers in the fruit and vegetables cluster in imputed models of IQ and all confounders, after adjustment for a wide range of known confounders including maternal education. The pregnant women who were classified in the fruit and vegetables cluster had offspring with higher average IQ compared with offspring of mothers in the meat and potatoes cluster and white bread and coffee cluster.
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