ReviewNutrients2020
Impact of Sugary Food Consumption on Pregnancy: A Review.
Review in Nutrients, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.
- Maternal macronutrient intake and gestational diabetes: systematic review of prospective observational studies and dose-response meta-analyses.BMC medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Consumption of Non-Nutritive Sweetener during Pregnancy and Weight Gain in Offspring: Evidence from Human Studies.Nutrients · 2022Pooled it
- Effects of Axivity 3.0-based management model on pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Trial
- Maternal Nutrition During Pregnancy and Fetal Outcome, Short- and Long-Term Health Effects: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Socio-demographic and economic factors associated with unhealthy food consumption among women of reproductive age in Tanzania: a nationwide cross-sectional study.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2026Article
- Mendelian Randomization Mediation Analysis Reveals the Impact of Dietary Preferences on Preeclampsia and Fetal Growth Restriction via Immune Modulation.Food science & nutrition · 2025Article
- Prenatal sugar exposure shapes late-life human capital and health.PNAS nexus · 2025Article
- Rural-urban differences in dietary intake across pregnancy trimesters: A multisite prospective cohort study.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2025Article
- Magnitude and associated factors of unhealthy food consumption among women in lesotho: evidence from the demographic and health survey 2023-2024.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Food Insecurity is Associated with Poor Diet Quality Among Pregnant Adolescents and Adolescent Mothers in Ghana.Current developments in nutrition · 2025Article
- Association between caries experience and reproductive history of women; a population-based study.BMC oral health · 2025Article
- Progress of Eastern Mediterranean Countries towards Meeting USDA Dietary Guidelines for Pregnant Women: A Focused Review.Current nutrition reports · 2025Review
- Myo-inositol supplementation in gestational diabetes mellitus: is there any interference with diet?Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Addressing Oral Health Disparities in Pregnancy: Oral Health Risk Factors and Clinical Findings at a Safety-Net Hospital in the Bronx.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- Association of Beverage Consumption during Pregnancy with Adverse Maternal and Offspring Outcomes.Nutrients · 2024Article
- The silent threat: investigating the incidence and clinical characteristics of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in women from tertiary care hospitals of the Democratic Republic of Congo.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2024Article
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- Associations among eating behaviors, food security status, and dietary intake during pregnancy.Appetite · 2023Article
- Assessing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in early pregnancy using a substance abuse framework.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes and Perinatal Health: A Quasi-Experimental Study.American journal of preventive medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
Obesity in pregnancy has been directly associated with an increased risk of almost all pregnancy complications such as gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), and premature delivery. Thereby, according to current evidence available, life-style interventions to prevent pre-pregnancy overweight and obesity in women of fertile age are necessary to reduce the negative impact of obesity on mother and child health. Unhealthy dietary patterns, together with the increased consumption of processed foods rich in simple sugar and sweeteners are some of the responsible, among others, for the increase in obesity rates during the last years. Nevertheless, how its consumption can affect pregnancy outcomes and long-term children's health is still uncertain. This review aims to collate the available evidence about the consequences of unhealthy dietary patterns and sugary products consumption, including sweeteners, during pregnancy for obesity in childhood and mid-childhood. High simple sugar intake during gestation may contribute to an excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) as well as to develop other pregnancy complications such as GDM, preeclampsia and preterm birth. The heterogeneity of study populations, sample size, different approaches to measure GWG, GMD, preeclampsia, and birth weight, among other conditions, might explain the divergences observed among studies. Therefore, large, well-designed intervention-controlled trials with biological biomarkers to ensure dietary adherence are necessary to evaluate the effectiveness of lifestyle interventions in order to provide effective nutritional advice.
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