Part of the symposium ‘Preconception and pregnancy nutrition and health ‘

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Session Outlines and Learning Objectives

About the session

The majority of studies addressing the effect of maternal nutrition on the longer-term health of the child have been observational in nature, and causality is difficult to prove due to the potential for residual confounding.

Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of a relevant dietary intervention are the gold standard for determining whether relationships are causal. Many RCTs of nutritional interventions in pregnancy have been negative and often appear not to support the hypothesis that maternal nutritional status is an important determinant of child health. However, suboptimal study design, compliance and lack of efficacy of the intervention to change maternal dietary behaviours need to be considered before discarding the hypothesis proposed. These issues will be discussed with references to example from the literature.

Watch this webinar to

GAIN CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF:

• Maternal nutrition and its relationship with child health
• Evidence from RCTs of nutritional interventions
• Issues with studies addressing the effect of maternal nutrition on child health

BE AWARE OF:

• How nutrition in pregnancy can affect child health
• Current evidence from RCTs of nutrition interventions in pregnancy
• Issues and controversies with the current evidence

BE ABLE TO:

• Summarise how maternal nutrition is linked to child health
• Summarise evidence from RCTs underpinning maternal nutritional interventions and their effect on child outcomes
• Explain issues with study designs and interventions with examples from the literature

CPD CERTIFICATE & LEARNING MATERIALS

This webinar has been approved for CPD by the BDA and AfN

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This webinar is being run in association with Department of Women and Children’s Health at Kings College London

The research of the Department of Women and Children’s Health at King’s College London, centres around the concept of the life course of health. The health of the next generation begins at the earliest stages, the research spans preconception, maternity, infancy and adolescence.

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