Women's dietary patterns change little from before to during pregnancy.

Journal article

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a popular method of dietary patterns analysis, but our understanding of its use to describe changes in dietary patterns over time is limited. Using a FFQ, we assessed the diets of 12,572 nonpregnant women aged 20-34 y from Southampton, UK, of whom 2270 and 2649 became pregnant and provided complete dietary data in early and late pregnancy, respectively. Intakes of white bread, breakfast cereals, cakes and biscuits, processed meat, crisps, fruit and fruit ...

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Authors: Crozier, SR; Robinson, S; Godfrey, K; Cooper, C; Inskip, H

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Journal of nutrition
• Volume: 139
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 1956-1963
• Publication date: 2009-10-01
• DOI: 10.3945/jn.109.109579
• EISSN: 1541-6100
• ISSN: 0022-3166
• Language: English
• Keywords: Female; Food Habits; Adult; Diet Surveys; Humans; Pregnancy; Prenatal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; Maternal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; Diet; Principal Component Analysis; Young Adult; Questionnaires