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The impact of diet during adolescence on the neonatal health of offspring: evidence on the importance of preconception diet. The HUNT study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2020

Wendy Van Lippevelde Open the ORCID record for Wendy Van Lippevelde [Opens in a new window] ,
Frøydis N. Vik ,
Andrew K. Wills ,
Sofia T. Strömmer Open the ORCID record for Sofia T. Strömmer [Opens in a new window] ,
Mary E. Barker ,
Marianne Skreden ,
Ann Anderson Berry ,
Corinne Hanson ,
Anne Lise Brantsæter Open the ORCID record for Anne Lise Brantsæter [Opens in a new window]  and
Elisabeth R. Hillesund
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Wendy Van Lippevelde*
Affiliation:
Department of Marketing, Innovation and Organisation, Faculty of Economics and Business administration, Ghent University, Tweekerkenstraat 2, 9000Ghent, Belgium Department of Nutrition and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Sports Sciences, University of Agder, PO box 422, 4604Kristiansand, Norway
Frøydis N. Vik
Affiliation:
Department of Nutrition and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Sports Sciences, University of Agder, PO box 422, 4604Kristiansand, Norway
Andrew K. Wills
Affiliation:
Bristol Dental School/Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, 5 Tyndall Avenue, BristolUKBS8 1UD
Sofia T. Strömmer
Affiliation:
MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton and NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, Southampton General Hospital, SouthamptonUKSO16 6AN
Mary E. Barker
Affiliation:
MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton and NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, Southampton General Hospital, SouthamptonUKSO16 6AN
Marianne Skreden
Affiliation:
Department of Nutrition and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Sports Sciences, University of Agder, PO box 422, 4604Kristiansand, Norway
Ann Anderson Berry
Affiliation:
MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton and NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, Southampton General Hospital, SouthamptonUKSO16 6AN
Corinne Hanson
Affiliation:
Medical Nutrition Education, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Buffet Cancer Center, S 42nd St &, Emile St, OmahaNE, USA
Anne Lise Brantsæter
Affiliation:
Department of Environmental Exposure and Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, PO Box 222-Skøyen, N-0213Oslo, Norway
Elisabeth R. Hillesund
Affiliation:
Department of Nutrition and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Sports Sciences, University of Agder, PO box 422, 4604Kristiansand, Norway
Nina C. Øverby
Affiliation:
Department of Nutrition and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Sports Sciences, University of Agder, PO box 422, 4604Kristiansand, Norway
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Address for correspondence: Wendy Van Lippevelde, Department of Marketing, Innovation and Organisation, Faculty of Economics and Business administration, Ghent University, Tweekerkenstraat 2, 9000Ghent, Belgium. Email: Wendy.VanLippevelde@ugent.be
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Abstract

Emerging evidence suggests that parents’ nutritional status before and at the time of conception influences the lifelong physical and mental health of their child. Yet little is known about the relationship between diet in adolescence and the health of the next generation at birth. This study examined data from Norwegian cohorts to assess the relationship between dietary patterns in adolescence and neonatal outcomes. Data from adolescents who participated in the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (Young-HUNT) were merged with birth data for their offspring through the Medical Birth Registry of Norway. Young-HUNT1 collected data from 8980 adolescents between 1995 and 1997. Linear regression was used to assess associations between adolescents’ diet and later neonatal outcomes of their offspring adjusting for sociodemographic factors. Analyses were replicated with data from the Young-HUNT3 cohort (dietary data collected from 2006 to 2008) and combined with Young-HUNT1 for pooled analyses. In Young-HUNT1, there was evidence of associations between dietary choices, meal patterns, and neonatal outcomes, these were similar in the pooled analyses but were attenuated to the point of nonsignificance in the smaller Young-HUNT3 cohort. Overall, energy-dense food products were associated with a small detrimental impact on some neonatal outcomes, whereas healthier food choices appeared protective. Our study suggests that there are causal links between consumption of healthy and unhealthy food and meal patterns in adolescence with neonatal outcomes for offspring some years later. The effects seen are small and will require even larger studies with more state-of-the-art dietary assessment to estimate these robustly.

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Preconceptionneonatal outcomesHUNT studyadolescentsnutrition
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Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease , Volume 12 , Issue 5 , October 2021 , pp. 798 - 810
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press in association with International Society for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

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