Adherence to the Mediterranean diet during pregnancy and offspring adiposity and cardiometabolic traits in childhood.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In adults, adherence to the Mediterranean diet has been inversely associated with cardiovascular risk, but the extent to which diet in pregnancy is associated with offspring adiposity is unclear. We aimed to investigate the association between adherence to Mediterranean diet in pregnancy and offspring cardiometabolic traits in two pregnancy cohorts.

Methods

We studied 997 mother-child pairs from Project Viva in Massachusetts, USA, and 569 pairs from the Rhea study in Crete, Greece. We estimated adherence to the Mediterranean diet with an a priori defined score (MDS) of nine foods and nutrients (0 to 9). We measured child weight, height, waist circumference, skin-fold thicknesses, blood pressure, and blood levels of lipids, c-reactive protein and adipokines in mid-

SUBMITTER: Chatzi L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5697744 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature