Maternal Dietary Patterns during Pregnancy and Child Autism-Related Traits: Results from Two US Cohorts.

ABSTRACT: We examined the relationship between maternal intake of established dietary patterns and child autism-related outcomes in two prospective cohorts in the United States. Participants were drawn from the Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation (EARLI, n = 154) and the Nurses' Health Study II (NHSII, n = 727). Dietary information was collected via food frequency questionnaires (FFQs) and used to calculate the empirical dietary inflammatory pattern (EDIP), Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI), Western and Prudent dietary patterns, and the alternative Mediterranean Diet (aMED) score. Primary analyses examined associations with continuous autism-related traits as measured by the Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS), and secondary analyses with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) dia

SUBMITTER: Vecchione R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9268965 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature