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Current Nutrition Reports

Pregnancy as a Fundamental Determinant of Child Health: a Review

  • 05-07-2022
  • Obesity
  • Maternal and Childhood Nutrition (AC Wood, Section Editor)
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Authors
Edem Magdalene Afua Tette
Freda Dzifa Intiful
Anita Ago Asare
Juliana Yartey Enos
Published in
Current Nutrition Reports | Issue 3/2022

Abstract

Purpose of Review

Maternal conditions and exposures during pregnancy including over- and undernutrition are associated with poor childbirth outcomes, growth, development and chronic childhood diseases. We examined contemporary pregnancy-related determinants of child health.

Recent Findings

While maternal undernutrition remains a major contributor to low birth weight, maternal obesity affects foetal growth, birth weight, survival and is associated with childhood obesity, asthma and autistic spectrum disorders. Emerging evidence suggests that epigenetic changes, the prenatal microbiome and maternal immune activation (MIA), a neuroinflammatory process induced by diet and other exposures cause foetal programming resulting in these chronic childhood diseases.

Summary

Maternal diet is potentially a modifiable risk factor for controlling low birth weight, obesity and chronic disease in childhood. Further studies are warranted to refine guidance on dietary restriction and physical activity during pregnancy and determine how MIA and prenatal microbiota can be applied to control childhood diseases arising from programming.
Title
Pregnancy as a Fundamental Determinant of Child Health: a Review
Authors
Edem Magdalene Afua Tette
Freda Dzifa Intiful
Anita Ago Asare
Juliana Yartey Enos
Publication date
05-07-2022
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Current Nutrition Reports / Issue 3/2022
Electronic ISSN: 2161-3311
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13668-022-00416-1
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