ReviewNutrients2021
Maternal Dietary Quality and Dietary Inflammation Associations with Offspring Growth, Placental Development, and DNA Methylation.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 46 citations in OpenAlex.
- Association Between Maternal Diet and Frequency of Micronuclei in Mothers and Newborns: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2025Pooled it
- A meta-analysis of epigenome-wide association studies of ultra-processed food consumption with DNA methylation in European children.Clinical epigenetics · 2025Pooled it
- A Predictive Tool Based on DNA Methylation Data for Personalized Weight Loss through Different Dietary Strategies: A Pilot Study.Nutrients · 2023Trial
- Associations Between Maternal Pre-Pregnancy Dietary Patterns and Body Composition in Preschool Children: A Prospective Cohort Study.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Leakage-Controlled and Survey-Weighted Machine Learning for Neonatal Mortality Risk Prediction Using NFHS-5 Data.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Bridging maternal effects and epitranscriptomics: A novel perspective in developmental biology.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2026Review
- Maternal Sleep Quality and Early-Life Epigenetic Programming of Bone-Related Genes in Neonatal Cord Blood: Findings from the PERSIAN Birth Cohort, Isfahan.Calcified tissue international · 2026Article
- Mediterranean Diet and Oxidative Balance During Pregnancy: Molecular Insights into Mitigating the Impact of Environmental Pollution.Current issues in molecular biology · 2026Review
- Systems biology insights into the molecular drivers of childhood stunting and implications for intervention.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Review
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- Placental DNA methylation key topics: sex- and cell-type specificity, mediation, multi-omics, and biomarker discovery.Epigenomics · 2025Review
- Maternal adherence to the EAT-Lancet diet recommendations among pregnant women in Ireland and associations with offspring birth outcomes and childhood adiposity.European journal of nutrition · 2025Article
- First-Second-Trimester Dietary Inflammatory Index and Anemia Risk in the Third Trimester: A Prospective Cohort Study.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Maternal Preconception Omega-6, Omega-3, and Omega-6:Omega-3 Intake and Uterine Artery Indices in Mid-Gestation.American journal of perinatology · 2025Article
- Exploring diet as a source of plasticizers in pregnancy and implications for maternal second-trimester metabolic health.Environmental research · 2024Article
- Evaluation of Muscle Long Non-Coding RNA Profile during Rearing and Finishing Phase of Bulls Subjected to Different Prenatal Nutritional Strategies.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Association between maternal cholesterol level during pregnancy and placental weight and birthweight ratio: data from the Japan Environment and Children's Study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
- Developmental Contributions to Obesity: Nutritional Exposures in the First Thousand Days.Gastroenterology clinics of North America · 2023Review
- Impact of parental lifestyle patterns in the preconception and pregnancy periods on childhood obesity.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
- Association of nutritional glycaemic indices with global DNA methylation patterns: results from the Moli-sani cohort.Clinical epigenetics · 2022Article
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Abstract
The 'Developmental Origins of Health and Diseases' hypothesis posits that prenatal maternal diet influences offspring growth and later life health outcomes. Dietary assessment has focused on selected nutrients. However, this approach does not consider the complex interactions between foods and nutrients. To provide a more comprehensive approach to public health, dietary indices have been developed to assess dietary quality, dietary inflammation and risk factors for non-communicable diseases. Thus far, their use in the context of placental development is limited and associations with offspring outcomes have been inconsistent. Although epidemiological studies have focused on the role of maternal diet on foetal programming, the underlying mechanisms are still poorly understood. Some evidence suggests these associations may be driven by placental and epigenetic changes. In this narrative review, we examine the current literature regarding relationships between key validated diet quality scores (Dietary Inflammatory Index [DII], Mediterranean diet [MD], Healthy Eating Index [HEI], Alternative Healthy Eating Index [AHEI], Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension [DASH], Glycaemic Index [GI] and Glycaemic Load [GL]) in pregnancy and birth and long-term offspring outcomes. We summarise findings, discuss potential underlying placental and epigenetic mechanisms, in particular DNA methylation, and highlight the need for further research and public health strategies that incorporate diet quality and epigenetics.
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