Association between maternal fermented food consumption and infant sleep duration: The Japan Environment and Children's Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evidence indicates that human circadian rhythm is affected by the intestinal microbiota, and establishment of the circadian rhythm begins during fetal development. However, the relationship between maternal fermented food intake and infant sleep duration has not been previously investigated. In this study, we examined whether dietary consumption of fermented food during pregnancy is associated with infant sleep duration at 1 year of age.

Methods

This birth cohort study used data from a nationwide government-funded study called The Japan Environment and Children's Study (JECS). After exclusions from a dataset comprising 104,065 JECS records, we evaluated 72,624 mother-child pairs where the child was 1 year old. We investigated the association between dietary intake

SUBMITTER: Sugimori N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6777830 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature