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Nutrition and Lifestyle Intervention and Weight Management during Pregnancy: For Maternal and Offspring's Health

A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition in Women".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (13 September 2023) | Viewed by 8179

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Dr. Angela Vinturache

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1. Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
2. Department of Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
Interests: obesity in pregnancy; gestational diabetes; nutrition in pregnancy; gestational weight gain; pregnancy outcomes
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Dear Colleagues,

Women's nutritional status and lifestyle prior to and during pregnancy play an important role in the developmental and growth processes of the offspring and successful pregnancy outcomes. Nutrition and Lifestyle Intervention and Weight Management during Pregnancy aims to publish opinions, research findings, and international recommendations on a variety of pregnancy nutrition and lifestyle-related aspects from preconception to pregnancy and delivery. We invite papers looking at overall health, exercise and lifestyle interventions prior to conception that could provide recommendations for pre-conception counseling of women. We also invite papers with a focus on diet and nutrition recommendations for a healthy pregnancy to ensure optimal maternal and fetal outcomes, as well as articles centered on the most common nutrition-related pregnancy complications, obesity, and gestational diabetes. Articles that delve into the cutting-edge world of epigenetic and metabolomic research assessing the role of the programming effects of nutrition in pregnancy on the long-term health and disease outcomes in the offspring are welcomed.

We also consider qualitative research of everyday situations, questions, and challenges pregnant women face in trying to maintain a healthy nutrition and lifestyle in pregnancy that could provide answers to aid healthcare professionals in the nutrition-based counseling of pregnant women and their families.

Given the multifaceted complexity of nutrition during conception and in pregnancy, we have established this Special Issue to highlight the theoretical and practical, clinical, and allied health aspects of weight and nutrition management in childbearing.

Dr. Angela Vinturache
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • nutrition
  • lifestyle
  • diet
  • weight
  • BMI
  • obesity
  • gestational weight gain
  • diabetes
  • exercise
  • pregnancy
  • childbearing
  • postpartum
  • gestation

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Association of the Severity of Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy with Birthweight, Childhood Obesity, and Blood Pressure at Age 7
by Yan Chen, Yiwen Wang, Yanjun Li, Guodong Ding and Yongjun Zhang
Nutrients 2023, 15(14), 3104; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15143104 - 11 Jul 2023
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We aimed to examine the effects of various severities of hypertensive disorders in pregnancy on birthweight, blood pressure (BP), and body mass index in offspring at age 7. In the China Labor and Delivery Survey and the United States Collaborative Perinatal Project (CPP), [...] Read more.
We aimed to examine the effects of various severities of hypertensive disorders in pregnancy on birthweight, blood pressure (BP), and body mass index in offspring at age 7. In the China Labor and Delivery Survey and the United States Collaborative Perinatal Project (CPP), the relationship of the severity of hypertensive disorders and nutritional and cardiovascular outcomes in offspring was assessed using a multivariable logistic and general linear regression model. In both datasets, those with gestational hypertension were more likely to deliver large for gestational age (LGA) and macrosomia (adjusted odds ratios (aOR) ranged from 1.29 to 1.91), as well as low birth weight (LBW) neonates (aOR ranged from 1.23 to 3.56), compared with normotensive mothers. In the CPP, when gestational hypertension was further stratified into mild and severe, only those with mild gestational hypertension (the mild group) were more likely to deliver macrosomia and LGA (aOR ranged from 1.25 to 1.32). Others (severe gestational hypertension and preeclampsia/eclampsia) were closely related to LBW and small for gestational age (aOR ranged from 1.27 to 2.77). Moreover, children of mothers in the mild group tended to be overweight/obese and had elevated diastolic BP. We concluded that the severity of hypertensive disorders had different effects on birthweight, childhood overweight, and BP. Full article
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Maternal Vitamin B12 Status during Pregnancy and Early Infant Neurodevelopment: The ECLIPSES Study
by Josué Cruz-Rodríguez, Andrés Díaz-López, Josefa Canals-Sans and Victoria Arija
Nutrients 2023, 15(6), 1529; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15061529 - 22 Mar 2023
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In this prospective cohort study of 434 mother–infant pairs from the ECLIPSES study, we examine the association between maternal vitamin B12 status at the beginning and end of pregnancy and the neurodevelopmental outcomes of infants 40 days after birth in a pregnant population [...] Read more.
In this prospective cohort study of 434 mother–infant pairs from the ECLIPSES study, we examine the association between maternal vitamin B12 status at the beginning and end of pregnancy and the neurodevelopmental outcomes of infants 40 days after birth in a pregnant population from a Mediterranean region of northern Spain. Maternal vitamin B12 concentrations were determined in the first and third trimesters, and sociodemographic, nutritional, and psychological data were collected. At 40 days postpartum, the Bayley Scales of Infant Development-III (BSID-III, cognitive, language, and motor skills) were administered to the infants and several obstetrical data were recorded. In the multivariable models, medium maternal first-trimester vitamin B12 levels (312 to 408 pg/mL, tertile 2) were associated with better neonatal performance in the motor, gross motor, language, and cognitive skills with respect to tertile 1 (<312 pg/mL). The probability of obtaining a neonatal motor, gross motor, and receptive language score >75th percentile was significantly higher also in the tertile 2 group. In summary, good maternal vitamin B12 status in the early stage of pregnancy appears to be associated with better infant motor, language, and cognitive performance at 40 days postpartum. Full article
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Nutritional Education in the Midwife’s Consultation Room
by M. Josefa Olloqui-Mundet, M. Mar Cavia, Sara R. Alonso-Torre and Celia Carrillo
Nutrients 2023, 15(13), 2906; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15132906 - 27 Jun 2023
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Evidence of the importance of maternal nutrition during pregnancy is growing, and midwives are the healthcare professionals in charge of monitoring pregnancy. In the present review, the aim is therefore to look at the relevant contributions on midwifery and the role of midwifery [...] Read more.
Evidence of the importance of maternal nutrition during pregnancy is growing, and midwives are the healthcare professionals in charge of monitoring pregnancy. In the present review, the aim is therefore to look at the relevant contributions on midwifery and the role of midwifery in the provision of nutritional education. Searches were conducted on three databases—Medline, PubMed Central, and Web of Science—using two key search terms (“nutrition” and “midwives”) and their synonyms, for an extensive set of results. The final selection consisted of 27 original papers, most of which concerned the nutritional knowledge of midwives, their training, and their views, attitudes, and practices within the field of nutrition. According to the findings, although the midwives considered nutritional education to be part of their role and they agreed on the importance of nutrition during pregnancy, their knowledge of this topic was poor, perhaps due to inadequate nutritional education during their midwifery training. Academic programs on midwifery must therefore be reviewed, so as to increase the workload of nutrition-related subjects, in order to reinforce the corresponding knowledge bases of future midwives. In addition, based on the success of the nutritional interventions discussed in the present review, these sorts of initiatives could be of utmost importance to improve the knowledge of practicing midwives. In any case, it must be highlighted that the available evidence discussed in this review was drawn from only a few countries around the world. Further studies involving midwives of varied origins are therefore needed. Such research would be of immense assistance in the design of the corresponding nutritional interventions in the field, so as to improve the health of pregnant women. Full article
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