Maternal dietary inflammatory index during pregnancy and the risk of offspring allergic disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Maternal diet during pregnancy is considered a potential modifiable risk factor for allergic diseases in offspring. The dietary inflammatory index (DII) is a tool to assess the inflammatory potential of the diet and has been suggested to be associated with offspring allergy development. Its association with food allergy and immunoglobulin E (IgE) sensitization in children remains understudied.

Methods

This study analyzed 4709 mother-partner-child triads from the NorthPop Birth Cohort in Sweden. Maternal DII scores were calculated from a food frequency questionnaire administered at gestational week 34. Allergy outcomes at 18 months included parent-reported physician-diagnosed food allergy, parent-reported eczema and atopic eczema according to UK Working Party crite

SUBMITTER: Osterlund J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12268808 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature