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- Title
Maternal One-Carbon Nutrient Intake and Risk of Being Overweight or Obese in Their Offspring—A Transgenerational Prospective Cohort Study.
- Authors
Bogl, Leonie H.; Strohmaier, Susanne; Hu, Frank B.; Willett, Walter C.; Eliassen, A. Heather; Hart, Jaime E.; Sun, Qi; Chavarro, Jorge E.; Field, Alison E.; Schernhammer, Eva S.
- Abstract
We aimed to investigate the associations between maternal intake of folate, vitamin B12, B6, B2, methionine, choline, phosphatidylcholine and betaine during the period surrounding pregnancy and offspring weight outcomes from birth to early adulthood. These associations were examined among 2454 mother–child pairs from the Nurses' Health Study II and Growing Up Today Study. Maternal energy-adjusted nutrient intakes were derived from food frequency questionnaires. Birth weight, body size at age 5 and repeated BMI measurements were considered. Overweight/obesity was defined according to the International Obesity Task Force (<18 years) and World Health Organization guidelines (18+ years). Among other estimands, we report relative risks (RRs) for offspring ever being overweight with corresponding 95% confidence intervals across quintiles of dietary factors, with the lowest quintile as the reference. In multivariate-adjusted models, higher maternal intakes of phosphatidylcholine were associated with a higher risk of offspring ever being overweight (RRQ5vsQ1 = 1.16 [1.01–1.33] p-trend: 0.003). The association was stronger among offspring born to mothers with high red meat intake (high red meat RRQ5vsQ1 = 1.50 [1.14–1.98], p-trend: 0.001; low red meat RRQ5vsQ1 = 1.05 [0.87–1.27], p-trend: 0.46; p-interaction = 0.13). Future studies confirming the association between a higher maternal phosphatidylcholine intake during pregnancy and offspring risk of being overweight or obese are needed.
- Subjects
OBESITY risk factors; RISK assessment; WORLD Health Organization; FOOD consumption; BODY mass index; RESEARCH funding; CARBON; FOLIC acid; NUTRITIONAL requirements; VITAMIN B12; LECITHIN; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; LONGITUDINAL method; VITAMIN B6; PREGNANCY complications; CHILDHOOD obesity; CONFIDENCE intervals; PREGNANCY
- Publication
Nutrients, 2024, Vol 16, Issue 8, p1210
- ISSN
2072-6643
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/nu16081210