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Pregnancy stage, dietary intake and health outcomes

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition volume 73, page 154 (2019)Cite this article

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I’m am writing to comment on an article by Ogawa et al. [1] published in the February 2018 issue titled ‘Maternal vegetable intake in early pregnancy and wheeze in offspring at the age of 2 years’. In this paper, authors investigate the association between wheeze in children and vegetable consumption of the mothers in early and mid- to late-prenatal stages. Using food frequency questionnaires (FFQ) as the dietary indices, the authors find that mothers’ consumption of total vegetables, folate-rich vegetables, and cruciferous vegetables is related to the presence of wheeze in their children. Compared to the lowest quintile intake group, mothers who consumed the greatest amount of cruciferous and folate-rich vegetables in the early stage of pregnancy had significantly lower incidences of wheeze in their children at 2 years of age. A significant inverse trend for presence of wheeze was related to mother’s total vegetable intake. In addition, no significant association was identified for intake in mid- to late-pregnancy stage.

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    Shakira L. Smith

  2. Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, USA

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Smith, S.L. Pregnancy stage, dietary intake and health outcomes. Eur J Clin Nutr 73, 154 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41430-018-0262-3

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