Systematic Reviews on Diet and Pregnancy

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence about the effects of diet in pregnancy.
Reviewed October 2011

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Title:   Maternal dietary antigen avoidance during pregnancy or lactation, or both, for preventing or treating atopic disease in the child
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Evidence is inadequate to advise women to avoid specific foods during pregnancy or breastfeeding to protect their children from allergic diseases like eczema and asthma. We included five trials, involving 952 participants. Trials of mothers' avoidance o...
Date:   Jul 2011
Title:   Nutritional advice for improving outcomes in multiple pregnancies
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   In multiple pregnancies (twins, triplets and more) the metabolic rate of the mother is greater than in women who are carrying a single baby so that a high-calorie diet may also help maintain the mother's nutritional state. Multiple pregnancies have a hi...
Date:   Apr 2011
Title:   Vitamin supplementation for preventing miscarriage
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Supplementing women with any vitamins does not reduce the number of women who miscarry or have a stillbirth. Poor diet, without enough vitamins, has been associated with an increased risk of women losing their baby in early pregnancy. Taking vitamin sup...
Date:   Dec 2010
Title:   Calcium supplementation during pregnancy for preventing hypertensive disorders and related problems
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Calcium supplements help prevent pre-eclampsia, preterm birth and lower the risk of the woman dying or having serious problems related to high blood pressure in pregnancy. Pre-eclampsia is a major cause of death in pregnant women and newborn babies worl...
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Vitamin A supplementation during pregnancy for maternal and newborn outcomes
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin derived from the retinoids retinal and retinoic acid, found in liver, kidney, eggs, and dairy produce. Carotenoids are converted to vitamin A in the liver, where vitamin A is stored; beta-carotene is found in dark or y...
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Maternal nutrient supplementation for suspected impaired fetal growth
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Too little evidence to show whether extra carnitine, solcoseryl, glucose or galactose for pregnant women benefits babies in the womb who are smaller than expected. Babies growing more slowly than expected in the womb (impaired fetal growth) may be recei...
Date:   May 2010
Title:   Energy and protein intake in pregnancy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   A baby developing inside the womb receives all its nutrition from its mother. Thus, advising women on diet and providing food supplements in pregnancy may help babies to grow and thrive, particularly babies of undernourished mothers. The review of trial...
Date:   Feb 2010
Title:   Dietary advice in pregnancy for preventing gestational diabetes mellitus
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Diabetes mellitus is associated with abnormal glucose metabolism, with raised blood sugar and sugar in the urine. When this arises in pregnancy and disappears after birth, it is called 'gestational diabetes mellitus' or GDM. Between 1% and 14% of women ...
Date:   Jan 2008
Title:   Zinc supplementation for improving pregnancy and infant outcome
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Taking zinc during pregnancy helps to slightly reduce preterm births, but does not help prevent other problems such as low birthweight babies. Many women of childbearing age may have mild to moderate zinc deficiency. Low zinc levels may cause preterm bi...
Date:   Feb 2007
Title:   Marine oil, and other prostaglandin precursor, supplementation for pregnancy uncomplicated by pre-eclampsia or intrauterine growth restriction
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Not enough evidence to say if fish oil supplementation in pregnancy helps reduce the risk of pre-eclampsia and small-for-date babies. Pre-eclampsia in the mother and a baby being born too soon or too small are relatively common complication of pregnancy...
Date:   Apr 2006
Title:   Magnesium supplementation in pregnancy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   There is not enough high quality evidence to show that dietary magnesium supplementation during pregnancy is beneficial. Many women, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, have intakes of magnesium below recommended levels. Magnesium supplemen...
Date:   Jul 2001
Title:   Interventions for treating constipation in pregnancy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Mild laxatives help relieve constipation in pregnancy. Constipation is a common problem in late pregnancy. The time taken for food to get through the gut to the bowel is increased in the second and third trimester and may be caused by an increase in the...
Date:   Feb 2001
Title:   Reduced salt intake compared to normal dietary salt, or high intake, in pregnancy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   In the past women have been advised that lowering their salt intake might reduce their risk of pre-eclampsia. Although this practice has largely ceased, it remains important to assess the evidence about possible effects of advice to alter dietary salt intake during pregnancy.

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