The impact of Mediterranean dietary patterns during pregnancy on maternal and offspring health
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Author(s)
Amati, Federica
Hassounah, Sondus
Swaka, Alexandra
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
(1) Background: Pregnancy outcomes for both mother and child are affected by many environmental factors. The importance of pregnancy for 'early life programming' is well established and maternal nutrition is an important factor contributing to a favourable environment for developing offspring. We aim to assess whether following a Mediterranean Diet during pregnancy is beneficial for maternal and offspring outcomes; (2) Methods: a systematic review was performed using standardized reporting guidelines with the National Heart Lung and Blood Iinstitute quality assessment tool for selection and extraction; (3) Results: results show that being on a Mediterranean Diet during pregnancy is associated with favourable outcomes for both maternal and offspring health, particularly for gestational diabetes in mothers and congenital defects in offspring (4) Conclusions: Following a Mediterranean dietary pattern during gestation is beneficial for the health of both the mother and offspring. Pregnant women and those trying to conceive should be advised to follow a Mediterranean Diet to potentially decrease, for example, the likelihood of atopy (OR 0.55) in the offspring and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in the mother (OR 0.73).
Date Issued
2019-05-17
Date Acceptance
2019-05-13
Citation
Nutrients, 2019, 11 (5)
ISSN
2072-6643
Publisher
MDPI AG
Journal / Book Title
Nutrients
Volume
11
Issue
5
Copyright Statement
©2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open accessarticle distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution(CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31108910
PII: nu11051098
Subjects
Mediterranean diet
maternal nutrition
offspring health
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
Switzerland
Article Number
ARTN 1098
Date Publish Online
2019-05-17