ArticleNutrients2018
Effect of Adherence to a Mediterranean Diet and Olive Oil Intake during Pregnancy on Risk of Small for Gestational Age Infants.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Association of Pregnancy Diet with Metabolic Adverse Outcomes in Pregnant Women and Their Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Annals of nutrition & metabolism · 2025Pooled it
- Association between the Maternal Mediterranean Diet and Perinatal Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Pooled it
- Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet in Pregnancy and Its Benefits on Maternal-Fetal Health: A Systematic Review of the Literature.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Effect of Adherence to Mediterranean Diet during Pregnancy on Children's Health: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2019Pooled it
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- Predictors of infant birth weights: Role of the Lebanese mediterranean diet, psychosocial factors and maternal health status.PloS one · 2026Article
- Maternal consumption of urbanized diet compromises early-life health in association with gut microbiota.Gut microbes · 2025Review
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- Oleuropein Attenuates Oxidative Stress in Human Trophoblast Cells.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Knowledge and adherence to the Mediterranean diet in individuals practicing regular amatorial physical activity: a cross-sectional study conducted in the Metropolitan Area of Palermo, Italy.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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- Prenatal adherence to the Mediterranean diet decreases the risk of having a small-for-gestational-age baby, ECLIPSES study.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Application of Mediterranean Diet in Cardiovascular Diseases and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Motivations and Challenges.Nutrients · 2022Review
- Mediterranean Diet in Developmental Age: A Narrative Review of Current Evidences and Research Gaps.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Polyphenols and IUGR Pregnancies: Effects of the Antioxidant Hydroxytyrosol on the Hippocampus Proteome in a Porcine Model.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Periconceptional Mediterranean diet during pregnancy on children's health.Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene · 2022Review
- Comment on Yeste et al. Polyphenols and IUGR Pregnancies: Intrauterine Growth Restriction and Hydroxytyrosol Affect the Development and Neurotransmitter Profile of the Hippocampus in a Pig Model.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet of Pregnant Women in Central South Africa: The NuEMI Study.Nutrition and metabolic insights · 2022Article
- Maternal Dietary Quality and Dietary Inflammation Associations with Offspring Growth, Placental Development, and DNA Methylation.Nutrients · 2021Review
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Abstract
To quantify the effect of a Mediterranean dietary pattern, as well as the consumption of olive oil (OO), on the risk of having a small for gestational age infants (SGA), a matched case-control study was conducted in Spain. Dietary intake during pregnancy was assessed using a validated food frequency questionnaire. Three indices were used to evaluate the adherence to Mediterranean diet (MD) (Predimed, Trichopoulou and Panagiotakos). Crude odds ratios (cOR) and adjusted odds ratios (aOR) and their 95% confidence intervals (CI) were estimated using conditional logistic regression models. Results were stratified by severity of SGA: moderate (percentiles 6⁻10), and severe (percentiles ≤5). For moderate, four or more points in the Predimed´s index was associated with a 41% reduction of having SGA compared with women with a score ≤3, aOR = 0.59 (95% CI 0.38⁻0.98); for severe, the reduction in risk was not statistically significant. Similar results were found when the other MD indexes were used. An intake of OO above 5 g/day was associated with a lower risk of SGA (aOR = 0.53, 95% CI 0.34⁻0.85); statistical significance was observed for moderate SGA (aOR = 0.53, 95% CI 0.30⁻0.96), but not for severe SGA (aOR = 0.51, 95% CI 0.24⁻1.07), although the magnitude of ORs were quite similar. Adherence to a MD and OO intake is associated with a reduced risk of SGA.
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