Maternal Diet Quality During Pregnancy and Child Cognition in US Cohorts
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.Maternal diet quality during pregnancy is linked to better cognitive function in mid-childhood offspring. This study found no associations in early childhood, highlighting the importance of prenatal nutrition for later cognitive development.
Area Of Science
- Nutritional Neuroscience
- Developmental Psychology
- Public Health
Background
- Maternal nutrition significantly impacts offspring cognitive development.
- Early life nutrition is crucial for brain development and long-term cognitive health.
Purpose Of The Study
- To investigate the association between maternal dietary patterns during pregnancy and offspring cognitive function.
- To assess cognitive outcomes in early and mid-childhood.
Main Methods
- 178 mother-child dyads in early childhood and 174 in mid-childhood from the ECHO cohort were analyzed.
- Maternal diet quality was assessed using food frequency questionnaires and indices like AHEI-P, MIND-P, and MDS-P.
- Offspring cognition was measured using the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery; statistical models analyzed diet-cognition associations.
Main Results
- Higher Alternative Healthy Eating Index for Pregnancy (AHEI-P) and Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay (MIND-P) scores were linked to better overall cognitive composite scores in mid-childhood.
- Improved crystallized cognitive scores in mid-childhood were associated with higher AHEI-P, Mediterranean Diet Score (MDS-P), and MIND-P.
- No significant associations were found between maternal diet quality and cognitive scores in early childhood or fluid cognitive scores in mid-childhood.
Conclusions
- Higher maternal diet quality during pregnancy is associated with enhanced composite and crystallized cognitive function in offspring during mid-childhood.
- The study did not find a link between maternal diet quality and cognitive function in early childhood.
- These findings underscore the long-term impact of prenatal nutrition on child cognitive development.
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