Relationships between seafood consumption during pregnancy and childhood and neurocognitive development: Two systematic reviews.

ABSTRACT: Abundant data are now available to evaluate relationships between seafood consumption in pregnancy and childhood and neurocognitive development. We conducted two systematic reviews utilizing methodologies detailed by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans Scientific Advisory Committee 2020-2025. After reviewing 44 publications on 106,237 mother-offspring pairs and 25,960 children, our technical expert committee developed two conclusion statements that included the following: "Moderate and consistent evidence indicates that consumption of a wide range of amounts and types of commercially available seafood during pregnancy is associated with improved neurocognitive development of offspring as compared to eating no seafood. Overall, benefits to neurocognitive development began at the lowest amo

SUBMITTER: Hibbeln JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6924512 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature