Diet during pregnancy: Influence of social characteristics and migration in the ELFE cohort.

ABSTRACT: Better adherence to dietary guidelines during pregnancy is supposed to result in healthier perinatal outcomes. We aim to characterize the diets of pregnant women by hypothesis-driven and exploratory approaches and describe potential social determinants. Analyses included 12 048 mothers from the French nationwide ELFE birth cohort. Dietary intake over the last three months of the pregnancy was assessed by a food frequency questionnaire. Two hypothesis-driven scores (the Diet Quality score, based on benchmarks derived from the National Health and Nutrition Program Guidelines, and the PANDiet score, based on nutrient intake) were calculated. Exploratory dietary patterns were also identified by principal component analysis. Multiple linear regressions were used to assess associations of matern

SUBMITTER: Kadawathagedara M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8189248 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature