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

Dietary Quality During Adolescence is Associated With Mother's Dietary Quality During Pregnancy: 15 Years Follow up From a Large National Birth Cohort

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

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Eating Behavior
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Observational

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 Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 19620

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 14 years to 14 years (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Around 95,000 children born during 1996-2003 in Denmark were recruited for The Danish National Birth Cohort

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Participants in the Danish National Birth Cohort

Exclusion Criteria:

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

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

1

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
Danish National Birth Cohort	Behavioral: Observational

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Diet quality	Healthy Eating Index depicting diet quality	Reported intake during one year

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Centre for Fetal Programming, Denmark
• Collaborators: University of Copenhagen; University of Iceland; Statens Serum Institut
• Investigators: Study Director: Sjurdur F Olsen, PhD, Statens Serum Institut

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Olsen J, Melbye M, Olsen SF, Sorensen TI, Aaby P, Andersen AM, Taxbol D, Hansen KD, Juhl M, Schow TB, Sorensen HT, Andresen J, Mortensen EL, Olesen AW, Sondergaard C. The Danish National Birth Cohort--its background, structure and aim. Scand J Public Health. 2001 Dec;29(4):300-7. doi: 10.1177/14034948010290040201.
• Olsen SF, Mikkelsen TB, Knudsen VK, Orozova-Bekkevold I, Halldorsson TI, Strom M, Osterdal ML. Data collected on maternal dietary exposures in the Danish National Birth Cohort. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2007 Jan;21(1):76-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2007.00777.x.

Helpful Links

• Link to web-page of Centre for Fetal Programming

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 1, 2016
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 31, 2016
• Study Completion (Actual): August 1, 2017

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 1, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 1, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): August 3, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 3, 2017
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 1, 2017
• Last Verified: August 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: pregnancy; longitudinal study; adolescence; diet quality; food frequency questionnaire
• Other Study ID Numbers: 2013-04 M-C Association

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: UNDECIDED

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No