Fish oil supplementation during late pregnancy does not influence plasma lipids or lipoprotein levels in young adult offspring

Dorte Rytter, Erik B Schmidt, Bodil H Bech, Jeppe H Christensen, Tine B Henriksen, Sjurdur F Olsen, Dorte Rytter, Erik B Schmidt, Bodil H Bech, Jeppe H Christensen, Tine B Henriksen, Sjurdur F Olsen

Abstract

Nutritional influences on cardiovascular disease operate throughout life. Studies in both experimental animals and humans have suggested that changes in the peri- and early post-natal nutrition can affect the development of the various components of the metabolic syndrome in adult life. This has lead to the hypothesis that n-3 fatty acid supplementation in pregnancy may have a beneficial effect on lipid profile in the offspring. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of supplementation with n-3 fatty acids during the third trimester of pregnancy on lipids and lipoproteins in the 19-year-old offspring. The study was based on the follow-up of a randomized controlled trial from 1990 where 533 pregnant women were randomized to fish oil (n = 266), olive oil (n = 136) or no oil (n = 131). In 2009, the offspring were invited to a physical examination including blood sampling. A total of 243 of the offspring participated. Lipid values did not differ between the fish oil and olive oil groups. The relative adjusted difference (95% confidence intervals) in lipid concentrations was -3% (-11; 7) for LDL cholesterol, 3% (-3; 10) for HDL cholesterol, -1% (-6; 5) for total cholesterol,-4% (-16; 10) for TAG concentrations, 2%(-2; 7) for apolipoprotein A1, -1% (-9; 7) for apolipoprotein B and 3% (-7; 15) in relative abundance of small dense LDL. In conclusion, there was no effect of fish oil supplementation during the third trimester of pregnancy on offspring plasma lipids and lipoproteins in adolescence.

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Flow chart. Nineteen years follow-up of offspring from a randomized controlled trial with fish oil supplementation in pregnancy. Reprinted with permission from Lancet [19] has previously been published [28] and is reprinted with permission from Am J Clin Nutr
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Distribution of LDL subclass phenotypes A, B and I (Intermediate) in the three randomization groups, stratified by sex. Phenotypes A, B and I were characterized as follows: A: sdLDL 50% of LDL particles. There was no statistically significant difference in the prevalence of phenotype B between groups

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