Observational studyNutrients2021
Mediterranean-Style Diet and Birth Outcomes in an Urban, Multiethnic, and Low-Income US Population.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline 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
- Maternal Mediterranean Diet during Pregnancy and Adiposity from Early Childhood through Preadolescence.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2026Article
- Prenatal Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Exposures, Newborn Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number, and the Modifying Role of the Maternal Folate Level.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Associations of Heavy Metals and Trace Elements with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in the Boston Birth Cohort.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Maternal Mediterranean-Style Diet During Pregnancy and Child Social Impairment as Measured by the Social Responsiveness Scale.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Article
- Prenatal Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance Exposures and Longitudinal Blood Pressure Measurements in Children Aged 3 to 18 Years: Findings From a Racially and Ethnically Diverse US Birth Cohort.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
- Mediterranean Diet Outcomes Across the Mother-Milk-Infant Triad: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Maternal exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and epitope level antibody response to vaccines against measles and rubella in children from the Boston birth cohort.Environment international · 2025Article
- Cord plasma metabolomic signatures of prenatal per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) exposures in the Boston Birth Cohort.Environment international · 2024Article
- Metabolomic profiles during early childhood and risk of food allergies and asthma in multiethnic children from a prospective birth cohort.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2024Article
- Nutritional Barriers to the Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet in Non-Mediterranean Populations.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Distribution and correlates of plasma folate, vitamin B12, and homocysteine in a sample of low-income minority children aged 6 months to 9 years in the U.S.Precision nutrition · 2024Article
- Diet as a Lifestyle Intervention to Lower Preeclampsia Risk.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2024Article
- Maternal Mediterranean-Style Diet Adherence during Pregnancy and Metabolomic Signature in Postpartum Plasma: Findings from the Boston Birth Cohort.The Journal of nutrition · 2024Article
- Mother's age at menarche is associated with odds of preterm delivery: A case-control study.BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 2024Article
- Impact of consuming a Mediterranean-style diet during pregnancy on neurodevelopmental disabilities in offspring: results from the Boston Birth Cohort.Precision nutrition · 2023Article
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- Metabolome-Wide Association Study of Cord Blood Metabolites With Blood Pressure in Childhood and Adolescence.Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) · 2022Article
- Prenatal adherence to the Mediterranean diet decreases the risk of having a small-for-gestational-age baby, ECLIPSES study.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- In-utero co-exposure to toxic metals and micronutrients on childhood risk of overweight or obesity: new insight on micronutrients counteracting toxic metals.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2022Observational
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Abstract
Findings on the role of Mediterranean-style diet (MSD) on duration of pregnancy and birth weight have been inconsistent and based largely on Non-Hispanic white populations, making it unclear as to whether they could extend to African Americans who are at a higher risk of unfavorable birth outcomes. Our study addresses this gap using a large urban, multiethnic, predominantly low-income cohort of mother-infant dyads from Boston, MA, USA. Dietary information was obtained via food frequency questionnaires; health information including birth outcomes were extracted from medical records. A Mediterranean-style diet score (MSDS) was formulated based on intake history, and linear and log-binomial regressions were performed to assess its association with birth outcomes. After adjustment, the lowest MSDS quintile from the overall sample was found to be associated with an increased relative risk (RR) of overall preterm birth (RR 1.18; 95% CI: 1.06-1.31), spontaneous preterm birth (1.28; 1.11-1.49), late preterm birth (1.21; 1.05-1.39), and low birth weight (1.11; 1.01-1.22), compared to the highest quintile. The findings were similar for the African American sample. Our study adds to the current understanding of the diet's influence on birth outcomes by demonstrating that adherence to MSD may improve birth outcomes for African American women.
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