The Importance of Nutrition in Fertility and Pregnancy
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition in Women".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 March 2025 | Viewed by 1516
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Interests: reproductive health; perinatal nutrition; social epidemiology; early life adversity; life course epidemiology; birth defects; disability; teratogenesis; development; neuroscience; maternal and fetal medicine; screenomics
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Dear Colleagues,
Nutrition is fundamental to life, being especially critical from the early life, during pregnancy, and even far into the perinatal period. Nutrients, such as folic acid and other derivates, inositol, as well as other vitamins, are traditionally used as a supplement for improving fertility and for the prevention of embryonal neural tube defects. However, the health benefits of nutrients is far beyond these; as we have paid more attention to the offspring during this crucial period, the impact on women’s health is still less studied. We are pleased to invite you to submit your research to this Special Issue entitled “The Importance of Nutrition in Fertility and Pregnancy”.
This Issue is going to cover a broad range of topics related to reproductive health. Nutrition exposure could include the following: nutrition including vitamins such as folic acid, inositol, vitamin B12 choline and other vitamin B group vitamins (thiamine (vitamin B1), B6, etc.), vitamin D, vitamin C, micronutrient supplementation, and different diets. The outcomes could include both female and male fertility/infertility and related reproduction disorders, such as polycystic ovary syndrome, endometriosis, sex ratio at birth, and others. For pregnancy complications, these can include birth defects, preterm birth, miscarriage, postpartum disorders, such as depression, obstetric disorders, gestational metabolic diseases, and cardiovascular risk. The possible correlation of nutrients and drug use as well as infection in pregnancy could also be investigated. Besides descriptions of nutrition, reproductive health outcomes, and mechanisms, intervention strategies are also welcome. The overall goal of this Special Issue is to provide comprehensive, widespread, and updated evidence on recommendations for essential vitamins and diet models focused on improving reproductive health for both generations, including offspring and mothers. We hope health professionals, policymakers, researchers, teachers, students and general readers benefit from these latest studies and projects, cooperating to promote and develop more effective strategies to improve human health during this crucial period.
Original research, which is encouraged, systematic reviews, and metanalyses are welcome for this Special Issue. I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Jufen Liu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- vitamins
- diets
- infertility
- reproduction disorders
- pregnancy complications
- obstetric disorders
- adverse pregnancy outcomes
- mental health
- metabolic disease
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