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Diet quality among pregnant women in the Navajo Birth Cohort Study.
- Source :
- Maternal & Child Nutrition; Jul2020, Vol. 16 Issue 3, p1-13, 13p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Proper nutrition during pregnancy is vital to maternal health and fetal development and may be challenging for Navajo Nation residents because access to affordable and healthy foods is limited. It has been several decades since reported diet quality during pregnancy was examined on Navajo Nation. We present the first study to estimate iodine intake and use the Healthy Eating Index (HEI‐2015) to assess maternal diet quality among pregnant women in the Navajo Birth Cohort Study (NBCS). Based on dietary intake data derived from food frequency questionnaires, overall estimated micronutrient intake has remained similar since the last assessment in 1981, with potential improvements evident for folate and niacin. A high proportion of women (>50%) had micronutrient intakes from dietary sources below the Estimated Average Requirements during pregnancy. The median urinary iodine concentration for NBCS women (90.8 μg/L; 95% CI [80, 103.5]) was less than adequate and lower than concentrations reported for pregnant women that participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) between 2011 and 2014. Overall, average diet quality of NBCS women estimated using the HEI‐2015 (62.4; 95% CI [60.7, 64.0]) was similar to that reported for women of child‐bearing age and pregnant women in NHANES. Although, NBCS women had diets high in added sugar, with sugar‐sweetened beverages as the primary contributors. Our study provides updated insights on maternal diet quality that can inform health and nutrition initiatives in Navajo communities emphasizing nutrition education and access to prenatal vitamins and calcium, iodine, and vitamin E dense foods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- MEDICAL quality control
NIACIN
KRUSKAL-Wallis Test
MATHEMATICAL statistics
NONPARAMETRIC statistics
ANALYSIS of variance
PARAMETERS (Statistics)
FOOD consumption
DIET
PREGNANT women
FISHER exact test
NUTRITION education
HEALTH literacy
QUESTIONNAIRES
RESEARCH funding
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
NAVAJO (North American people)
MICRONUTRIENTS
FOLIC acid
PRENATAL care
DATA analysis software
LONGITUDINAL method
IODINE
PREGNANCY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17408695
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Maternal & Child Nutrition
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 143797885
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12961