ReviewActa paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992)2018
Nutritional influences on brain development.
Review in Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 151 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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151 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- The Association of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure With Brain Development During the First 1000 Days of Life: A Systematic Review.Prenatal diagnosis · 2024Pooled it
- Relevance of diet in schizophrenia: a review focusing on prenatal nutritional deficiency, obesity, oxidative stress and inflammation.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Pooled it
- Breast Milk Micronutrients and Infant Neurodevelopmental Outcomes: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2021Pooled it
- The Escape from Malnutrition of Chilean Boys and Girls: Height-for-Age Z Scores in Late XIX and XX Centuries.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Impact of macronutrient supplements for children born preterm or small for gestational age on developmental and metabolic outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PLoS medicine · 2019Pooled it
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- Anthropometric and sociodemographic variables, but not preconception or prenatal maternal nutrition supplementation, predict neurodevelopment in offspring of the 'Women First' trial.Maternal & child nutrition · 2024Trial
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- Home environment and nutritional status mitigate the wealth gap in child development: a longitudinal study in Vietnam.BMC public health · 2023Trial
- Enhanced Parenteral Nutrition Is Feasible and Safe in Very Low Birth Weight Preterm Infants: A Randomized Trial.Neonatology · 2023Trial
- A Randomized Multiple Micronutrient Powder Point-of-Use Fortification Trial Implemented in Indian Preschools Increases Expressive Language and Reduces Anemia and Iron Deficiency.The Journal of nutrition · 2021Trial
- Preconception micronutrient supplementation positively affects child intellectual functioning at 6 y of age: A randomized controlled trial in Vietnam.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2021Trial
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- Delayed iron improves iron status without altering malaria risk in severe malarial anemia.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2020Trial
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Abstract
There is increasing evidence from preclinical and human studies that nutrition in the late foetal and early neonatal period has a significant impact on neurodevelopment across the lifespan. Certain nutrients have particularly large effects in this time period, and their deficits cause greater long-term risk. The mechanisms by which nutrients influence early brain growth and the sensitive periods for when certain nutrients should be provided are being elucidated. Assessments of nutritional status that index brain growth and predict long-term development are important to assess the efficacy of early life nutritional therapies.
conclusionOptimizing nutrition during foetal and early postnatal life is a golden opportunity to impact neurodevelopment and brain function across the lifespan.
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