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Trimester-Specific Assessment of Diet Quality in a Sample of Canadian Pregnant Women

The present study aimed to (1) examine changes in diet quality throughout pregnancy and (2) identify maternal characteristics associated with trimester-specific diet quality. Pregnant women (n = 79) were recruited in their 1st trimester of pregnancy and completed, at each trimester, three web-based...

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Autores principales: Savard, Claudia, Lemieux, Simone, Carbonneau, Élise, Provencher, Véronique, Gagnon, Claudia, Robitaille, Julie, Morisset, Anne-Sophie
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6388152/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30678329
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16030311
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author Savard, Claudia
Lemieux, Simone
Carbonneau, Élise
Provencher, Véronique
Gagnon, Claudia
Robitaille, Julie
Morisset, Anne-Sophie
author_facet Savard, Claudia
Lemieux, Simone
Carbonneau, Élise
Provencher, Véronique
Gagnon, Claudia
Robitaille, Julie
Morisset, Anne-Sophie
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description The present study aimed to (1) examine changes in diet quality throughout pregnancy and (2) identify maternal characteristics associated with trimester-specific diet quality. Pregnant women (n = 79) were recruited in their 1st trimester of pregnancy and completed, at each trimester, three web-based 24-hour dietary recalls, from which the Canadian Healthy Eating Index (HEI) was calculated. Physical activity, nutrition knowledge, and socio-demographic web-questionnaires were also completed. Although no variation in total HEI scores was observed across trimesters, we found an overall decrease in the following subscores: adequacy, total fruits and vegetables, unsaturated fats and saturated fats (p < 0.05). In the 1st trimester, overweight and obese pregnant women had a lower diet quality in comparison with normal-weight and underweight women (HEI scores: 63.1 ± 11.9 vs. 68.0 ± 9.3; p = 0.04). In the 3rd trimester, women younger than 28 years old, with no university degree, poorer nutrition knowledge and who reside in an urban setting, had a lower diet quality (p < 0.05). In conclusion, less educated, younger women who reside in an urban setting may be at a higher risk of poor diet quality in late pregnancy and could benefit from public health programs.
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spelling pubmed-63881522019-02-27 Trimester-Specific Assessment of Diet Quality in a Sample of Canadian Pregnant Women Savard, Claudia Lemieux, Simone Carbonneau, Élise Provencher, Véronique Gagnon, Claudia Robitaille, Julie Morisset, Anne-Sophie Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The present study aimed to (1) examine changes in diet quality throughout pregnancy and (2) identify maternal characteristics associated with trimester-specific diet quality. Pregnant women (n = 79) were recruited in their 1st trimester of pregnancy and completed, at each trimester, three web-based 24-hour dietary recalls, from which the Canadian Healthy Eating Index (HEI) was calculated. Physical activity, nutrition knowledge, and socio-demographic web-questionnaires were also completed. Although no variation in total HEI scores was observed across trimesters, we found an overall decrease in the following subscores: adequacy, total fruits and vegetables, unsaturated fats and saturated fats (p < 0.05). In the 1st trimester, overweight and obese pregnant women had a lower diet quality in comparison with normal-weight and underweight women (HEI scores: 63.1 ± 11.9 vs. 68.0 ± 9.3; p = 0.04). In the 3rd trimester, women younger than 28 years old, with no university degree, poorer nutrition knowledge and who reside in an urban setting, had a lower diet quality (p < 0.05). In conclusion, less educated, younger women who reside in an urban setting may be at a higher risk of poor diet quality in late pregnancy and could benefit from public health programs. MDPI 2019-01-24 2019-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6388152/ /pubmed/30678329 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16030311 Text en © 2019 by the authors. 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 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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