ArticleBMJ open2021
Maternal vitamin D intake and BMI during pregnancy in relation to child's growth and weight status from birth to 8 years: a large national cohort study.
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- Maternal vitamin D status in relation to cardiometabolic risk factors in children from the Norwegian Environmental Biobank.PloS one · 2025Article
- Vitamin D Deficiency and Maternal Diseases as Risk Factors for the Development of Macrosomia in Newborns.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Maternal metabolic profiling across body mass index groups: An exploratory longitudinal study.Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica · 2024Article
- Prenatal Vitamin D Levels Influence Growth and Body Composition until 11 Years in Boys.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Maternal plasma vitamin D levels across pregnancy are not associated with neonatal birthweight: findings from an Australian cohort study of low-risk pregnant women.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
- Maternal vitamin D status and risk of childhood overweight at 5 years of age in two Nordic cohort studies.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
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7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
objectivesTo examine the associations between maternal vitamin D intake and childhood growth and risk of overweight up to 8 years. We further examined the effect modification by maternal prepregnancy body mass index (BMI).
designProspective population-based pregnancy cohort study.
settingThe Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study.
participantsIn total, 58 724 mothers and 66 840 singleton children, with information on maternal vitamin D intake during the pregnancy and minimum one postnatal anthropometric measurement. OUTCOME MEASURES: Predicted weight and height growth trajectories and velocities from 1 month to 8 years, rapid growth during infancy and toddlerhood, and risk of overweight in preschool and school age.
resultsOverall, maternal vitamin D intake was associated with lower weight trajectory, lower odds of rapid weight growth and higher odds of childhood overweight. In children of mothers with prepregnancy normal weight, maternal vitamin D intake was negatively associated with weight trajectory and lower OR of a rapid weight growth during the first year, compared with reference (<5 µg/day). Children of mothers with normal weight, with maternal vitamin D intakes of 10-15 and >15 µg/day, also had 0.86 (95% CI 0.77 to 0.97) and 0.88 (95% CI 0.79 to 0.99) lower odds for overweight at 3 years, compared with reference. In contrast, in children of mothers with prepregnancy overweight (BMI ≥25 kg/m
conclusionsMaternal vitamin D intake affects postnatal growth and is inversely associated with childhood overweight in children of mothers with normal weight. Associations between maternal vitamin D intake and child growth and risk of overweight varied by prepregnancy BMI.
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