Jennifer A. Emond|Margaret R. Karagas|Emily Baker|Diane Gilbert?Diamond
Better Diet Quality during Pregnancy Is Associated with a Reduced Likelihood of an Infant Born Small for Gestational Age: An Analysis of the Prospective New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study
Cotton (United States)|Dartmouth College|USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center|Dartmouth College|Cotton (United States)|USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center|Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center|Dartmouth College|Dartmouth College|USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center|Cotton (United States)
birth weight ushaped relation chronic disease diet quality pregnancy may impact fetal growth infant birth weight yet findings inconclusivewe examined relation maternal diet quality pregnancy infant birth size among women enrolled prospective birth cohortwomen 1845 old singleton pregnancy recruited 2428 wk gestation prenatal clinics new hampshire women completed validated food frequency questionnaire enrollment diet quality computed adherence alternative healthy eating index infant birth outcomes sex head circumference weight length extracted medical records weightforlength z scores low birth weight macrosomia size gestational age small gestational age sga large gestational age lga computed multivariable regression models fit outcome quartiles diet quality adjusted covariates models computed overall stratified smoking statusanalyses included 862 women infants complete data lower diet quality associated lower maternal education smoker prepregnancy obesity status lack exercise pregnancy overall 34 infants born low birth weight 121 macrosomia 46 sga 87 lga adjusted model increased diet quality appeared linearly associated reduced likelihood sga ptrend 003 although quartile comparison reach statistical significance specifically ors sga 089 95 ci 037 215 073 95 ci 028 189 035 95 ci 011 108 increasing quartile diet quality compared lowest quartile similar trends sga observed among nonsmokers n 756 ptrend 007 also among nonsmokers increased diet quality associated lower infant birth weight ptrend 003 suggested reduction macrosomia ptrend 007increased diet quality pregnancy related reduced risk sga cohort pregnant women new hampshire additional studies needed elucidate relation maternal diet quality macrosomia