Journal article
Periconceptional Intake of Folic Acid and Food Folate and Risks of Preterm Delivery
American journal of perinatology, Vol.28(10), pp.747-752
12/2011
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1280855
PMID: 21681695
Abstract
ABSTRACT
We investigated multiple sources of folate and folic acid to determine whether their periconceptional intakes were associated with preterm delivery. Studied were controls from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study delivered September 1998 to December 2005. Telephone interviews were conducted with 5952 (68% of eligible) mothers. Women were queried about intake of vitamin supplements in the 12 weeks before conception through delivery. A version of the Nurse's Health Study food frequency questionnaire was used to assess food sources. Eight percent of infants (N = 487) were preterm (<37 weeks). Compared with women who began intake of supplements with folic acid before pregnancy, those who began any time during pregnancy had an ~20% lowered risk of preterm delivery. Lower dietary intakes showed a modest increased risk of preterm delivery: odds ratios were 1.44 (1.01 to 2.04) for lowest quartile intake of folate and 1.27 (0.95 to 1.69) for lowest quartile intake of folic acid compared with the highest. Findings suggest some evidence that folates influenced risks; however, an interpretation of results was also consistent with no association between intake of folates and preterm delivery.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Periconceptional Intake of Folic Acid and Food Folate and Risks of Preterm Delivery
- Creators
- Gary M Shaw - Department of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CaliforniaSuzan L Carmichael - Department of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CaliforniaWei Yang - Department of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CaliforniaAnna Maria Siega-Riz - Department of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North CarolinaNational Birth Defects Prevention Study
- Contributors
- Paul A Romitti (Contributor) - University of Iowa, Epidemiology
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- American journal of perinatology, Vol.28(10), pp.747-752
- DOI
- 10.1055/s-0031-1280855
- PMID
- 21681695
- ISSN
- 0735-1631
- eISSN
- 1098-8785
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/2011
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology; Biostatistics
- Record Identifier
- 9984214806502771
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