Fish Intake in Pregnancy and Child Growth: A Pooled Analysis of 15 European and US Birth Cohorts.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Maternal fish intake in pregnancy has been shown to influence fetal growth. The extent to which fish intake affects childhood growth and obesity remains unclear.

Objective

To examine whether fish intake in pregnancy is associated with offspring growth and the risk of childhood overweight and obesity.

Design, setting, and participants

Multicenter, population-based birth cohort study of singleton deliveries from 1996 to 2011 in Belgium, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Massachusetts. A total of 26,184 pregnant women and their children were followed up at 2-year intervals until the age of 6 years.

Exposures

Consumption of fish during pregnancy.

Main outcomes and measures

We estimated offspring

SUBMITTER: Stratakis N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5103635 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature