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Maternal diet in pregnancy and offspring blood pressure.

Leary SD, Ness AR, Emmett PM, Davey Smith G, Headley JE,

Unit of Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, Department of Community-based Medicine, University of Bristol, UK. s.d.leary@bristol.ac.uk

Associations between maternal nutrient intakes in late pregnancy and offspring blood pressure at 7(1/2) years were investigated in 6944 singletons from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. The only finding was a weak inverse association with omega-3 fatty acids that was lost after adjustment for potential confounders, suggesting that diet in pregnancy does not influence offspring blood pressure in well-nourished populations.

Published 26 April 2005 in Arch Dis Child, 90(5): 492-3.
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