Effects of maternal lifestyle interventions on child neurobehavioral development: Follow-up of randomized controlled trials.

ABSTRACT: Obesity is a major public health problem. Children of women who were obese before or during pregnancy are at increased risk for neurobehavioral developmental problems. Whether a maternal lifestyle intervention conducted before and during pregnancy in obese women affects child neurobehavioral development is unknown. This study reports on the follow-up of a subsample of two randomized controlled trials, the Finnish RADIEL (n = 216) and Dutch LIFEstyle (n = 305) trial. Women with a pre-pregnancy BMI ≥29 kg/m² wishing to conceive or who were already pregnant (<20 weeks) were allocated to a lifestyle intervention or to care as usual. Child neurodevelopment was measured with the Ages and Stages Questionnaire and child behavioral problems were measured with the Childhood Behavior Check

SUBMITTER: Menting MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6899471 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature