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Relationship between the Mediterranean Diet Score in Pregnancy and the Incidence of Asthma at 4 Years of Age: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study

Several scoring methods for the Mediterranean diet, which is considered as a healthy diet, are available, but studies that have compared more than one of these scores are rare. In addition, the applicability of Mediterranean diet scoring has not been sufficiently examined outside of Mediterranean re...

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Autores principales: Nakano, Kaita, Kuraoka, Shohei, Oda, Masako, Ohba, Takashi, Mitsubuchi, Hiroshi, Nakamura, Kimitoshi, Katoh, Takahiko
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10096633/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37049612
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15071772
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author Nakano, Kaita
Kuraoka, Shohei
Oda, Masako
Ohba, Takashi
Mitsubuchi, Hiroshi
Nakamura, Kimitoshi
Katoh, Takahiko
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Kuraoka, Shohei
Oda, Masako
Ohba, Takashi
Mitsubuchi, Hiroshi
Nakamura, Kimitoshi
Katoh, Takahiko
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description Several scoring methods for the Mediterranean diet, which is considered as a healthy diet, are available, but studies that have compared more than one of these scores are rare. In addition, the applicability of Mediterranean diet scoring has not been sufficiently examined outside of Mediterranean regions. We collected data on the Mediterranean diet during pregnancy and the incidence of type 1 allergies in offspring from the Japan Environment and Children’s Study. Using multiple Mediterranean diet scoring methods, we analyzed the effect of adherence to the Mediterranean diet in pregnancy on the allergies of the offspring. Overall, 46,532 pairs of mothers and children were analyzed. In Japan, a high adherence to the Mediterranean diet during pregnancy was associated with a lower incidence of asthma in the offspring (odds ratio: 0.896, 95% confidence interval: 0.835, 0.962). Furthermore, we found that the selection of the Mediterranean diet scoring method and the setting of the reference value significantly altered the results. Our findings suggest that an appropriate selection of scoring methods and a reference value for food items are important to analyze the effects of adherence to the Mediterranean diet inside and outside of Mediterranean regions.
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spelling pubmed-100966332023-04-13 Relationship between the Mediterranean Diet Score in Pregnancy and the Incidence of Asthma at 4 Years of Age: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study Nakano, Kaita Kuraoka, Shohei Oda, Masako Ohba, Takashi Mitsubuchi, Hiroshi Nakamura, Kimitoshi Katoh, Takahiko Nutrients Article Several scoring methods for the Mediterranean diet, which is considered as a healthy diet, are available, but studies that have compared more than one of these scores are rare. In addition, the applicability of Mediterranean diet scoring has not been sufficiently examined outside of Mediterranean regions. We collected data on the Mediterranean diet during pregnancy and the incidence of type 1 allergies in offspring from the Japan Environment and Children’s Study. Using multiple Mediterranean diet scoring methods, we analyzed the effect of adherence to the Mediterranean diet in pregnancy on the allergies of the offspring. Overall, 46,532 pairs of mothers and children were analyzed. In Japan, a high adherence to the Mediterranean diet during pregnancy was associated with a lower incidence of asthma in the offspring (odds ratio: 0.896, 95% confidence interval: 0.835, 0.962). Furthermore, we found that the selection of the Mediterranean diet scoring method and the setting of the reference value significantly altered the results. Our findings suggest that an appropriate selection of scoring methods and a reference value for food items are important to analyze the effects of adherence to the Mediterranean diet inside and outside of Mediterranean regions. MDPI 2023-04-05 /pmc/articles/PMC10096633/ /pubmed/37049612 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15071772 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Relationship between the Mediterranean Diet Score in Pregnancy and the Incidence of Asthma at 4 Years of Age: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study
title Relationship between the Mediterranean Diet Score in Pregnancy and the Incidence of Asthma at 4 Years of Age: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study
title_full Relationship between the Mediterranean Diet Score in Pregnancy and the Incidence of Asthma at 4 Years of Age: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study
title_fullStr Relationship between the Mediterranean Diet Score in Pregnancy and the Incidence of Asthma at 4 Years of Age: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study
title_full_unstemmed Relationship between the Mediterranean Diet Score in Pregnancy and the Incidence of Asthma at 4 Years of Age: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study
title_short Relationship between the Mediterranean Diet Score in Pregnancy and the Incidence of Asthma at 4 Years of Age: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study
title_sort relationship between the mediterranean diet score in pregnancy and the incidence of asthma at 4 years of age: the japan environment and children’s study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10096633/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37049612
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15071772
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