Dietary Quality During Adolescence is Associated With Mother's Dietary Quality During Pregnancy

Completed

• Conditions: Eating Behavior
• Interventions: Behavioral: Observational

• Registration Number: NCT03239028
• Lead Sponsor: Centre for Fetal Programming, Denmark

Brief Summary

We will examine the association between diet quality in offspring at age 14 years and maternal diet quality during pregnancy in the Danish National Birth Cohort

Detailed Description

Background: Dietary exposures in fetal life may have long lasting impact on the individual's susceptibility for several non-communicable diseases. Although offspring's own dietary habits become increasingly independent from parental influence other external factors are likely to exist. Further insights are needed to interpret and separate potential influence from exposures in pregnancy from later dietary habits on later disease risk.

Objectives: We will examine the association between diet quality in offspring at age 14 years and maternal diet quality during pregnancy in the Danish National Birth Cohort (DNBC).

Design: A total of 19620 DNBC offspring-mother pairs will be matched by offspring dietary intake assessed at age \~14 years with a 150-item food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) and dietary intake assessed with a 300-item FFQ during mid-pregnancy (1996-2003). A Healthy Eating Index (HEI) will be developed as an indicator for diet quality based on current Danish Food-Based Dietary Guidelines including 8 components; fruit and vegetables, fish, dietary fibers, red meat, saturated fatty acids, sodium, sugar-sweetened beverages, and added sugar.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-01-01
• Primary Completion: 2016-12-31
• Status Verified: 2017-08
• Study Completion: 2017-08-01
• Study First Submitted: 2017-08-01
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-08-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-08-01
• Study First Posted: 2017-08-03
• Last Update Posted: 2017-08-03

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 19620

Inclusion Criteria

• Participants in the Danish National Birth Cohort

Exclusion Criteria

• If mother did not complete a food frequency questionnaire during pregnancy

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Danish National Birth Cohort	Observational	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Diet quality	Reported intake during one year	Healthy Eating Index depicting diet quality