Effects of maternal lifestyle interventions on child neurobehavioral development: Follow-up of randomized controlled trials

  • Malou D. Menting*
  • , Cornelieke van de Beek
  • , Kristiina Rono
  • , Annemieke Hoek
  • , Henk Groen
  • , Rebecca C. Painter
  • , Polina Girchenko
  • , Marius Lahti-Pulkkinen
  • , Saila B. Koivusalo
  • , Katri Raikkonen
  • , Johan G. Eriksson
  • , Tessa J. Roseboom
  • , Kati Heinonen
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Obesity is a major public health problem. Children of women who were obese before or during pregnancy are at increased risk for neurobehavioral developmental problems. Whether a maternal lifestyle intervention conducted before and during pregnancy in obese women affects child neurobehavioral development is unknown. This study reports on the follow-up of a subsample of two randomized controlled trials, the Finnish RADIEL (n = 216) and Dutch LIFEstyle (n = 305) trial. Women with a pre-pregnancy BMI >= 29 kg/m(2) wishing to conceive or who were already pregnant (

Original languageEnglish
Number of pages11
JournalScandinavian Journal of Psychology
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 9-Sept-2019

Keywords

  • Pregnancy
  • lifestyle intervention
  • obesity
  • behavioral problems
  • neurodevelopment
  • OBESITY
  • PREGNANCY
  • METAANALYSIS
  • PREVENTION
  • OVERWEIGHT
  • EXERCISE
  • BEHAVIOR
  • ANXIETY
  • HEALTH
  • WOMEN

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