Maternal dietary intake of fish and PUFAs and child neurodevelopment at 6 months and 1 year of age: a nationwide birth cohort-the Japan Environment and Children's Study (JECS).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although emerging evidence indicates a relation between maternal intake of fish and improved child neurodevelopment, the results are inconsistent.

Objectives

This study investigated whether dietary consumption of fish during pregnancy is associated with offspring neurodevelopment at age 6 mo and 1 y. As exploratory research, we also examined the association between consumption of PUFAs and neurodevelopment at the same time points.

Methods

After exclusion and multiple imputation from a dataset comprising 104,065 records from the Japan Environment and Children's Study, we evaluated 81,697 and 77,751 mother-child pairs at age 6 mo and 1 y, respectively.

Results

Maternal fish intake during pregnancy was independently associated with reduced risk of delay

SUBMITTER: Hamazaki K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7657336 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature