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Maternal fish oil supplementation during lactation is associated with reduced height at 13 years of age and higher blood pressure in boys only

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dc.contributor.authorLauritzen, Lotte
dc.contributor.authorEriksen, S. E.
dc.contributor.authorHjorth, Mads F.
dc.contributor.authorNielsen, M. S.
dc.contributor.authorOlsen, Sjurdur F.
dc.contributor.authorStark, Ken
dc.contributor.authorMichaelsen, Kim F.
dc.contributor.authorDamsgaard, Camilla T.
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-20T18:53:33Z
dc.date.available2017-11-20T18:53:33Z
dc.date.issued2016-12-28
dc.descriptionPublished by Cambridge University Press in the British Journal of Nutrition. Lauritzen, L., Eriksen, S. E., Hjorth, M. F., Nielsen, M. S., Olsen, S. F., Stark, K. D., … Damsgaard, C. T. (2016). Maternal fish oil supplementation during lactation is associated with reduced height at 13 years of age and higher blood pressure in boys only. British Journal of Nutrition, 116(12), 2082–2090. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114516004293. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © The Authorsen
dc.description.abstractDietary long-chain n-3 PUFA (n-3 LCPUFA) in infancy may have long-term effects on lifestyle disease risk. The present follow-up study investigated whether maternal fish oil (FO) supplementation during lactation affected growth and blood pressure in adolescents and whether the effects differed between boys and girls. Mother-infant pairs (n 103) completed a randomised controlled trial with FO (1.5 g/d n-3 LCPUFA) or olive oil (OO) supplements during the first 4 months of lactation; forty-seven mother-infant pairs with high fish intake were followed-up for 4 months as the reference group. We also followed-up 100 children with assessment of growth, blood pressure, diet by FFQ and physical activity by 7-d accelerometry at 13.5 (SD 0.4) years of age. Dried whole-blood fatty acid composition was analysed in a subgroup (n 49). At 13 years of age, whole-blood n-3 LCPUFA, diet, physical activity and body composition did not differ between the three groups. The children from the FO group were 3.4 (95% CI 0.2, 6.6) cm shorter (P = 0.035) than those from the OO group, and tended to have less advanced puberty (P= 0.068), which explained the difference in height. There was a sex-specific effect on diastolic blood pressure (P-sex x group = 0.020), which was driven by a 3.9 (95% CI 0.2, 7.5) mmHg higher diastolic blood pressure in the FO compared with the OO group among boys only (P= 0.041). Our results indicate that early n-3 LCPUFA intake may reduce height in early adolescence due to a delay in pubertal maturation and increase blood pressure specifically in boys, thereby tending to counteract existing sex differences.en
dc.description.sponsorshipBASF Aktiengesellschaften
dc.description.sponsorshipFOTEK, The Danish Research and Development Program for Food and Technologyen
dc.identifier.urihttp:/dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007114516004293
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/12646
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.subjectN-3 Long-Chain Pufaen
dc.subjectPubertyen
dc.subjectGrowthen
dc.subjectProgrammingen
dc.subjectHealthen
dc.titleMaternal fish oil supplementation during lactation is associated with reduced height at 13 years of age and higher blood pressure in boys onlyen
dc.typeArticleen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationLauritzen, L., Eriksen, S. E., Hjorth, M. F., Nielsen, M. S., Olsen, S. F., Stark, K. D., … Damsgaard, C. T. (2016). Maternal fish oil supplementation during lactation is associated with reduced height at 13 years of age and higher blood pressure in boys only. British Journal of Nutrition, 116(12), 2082–2090. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114516004293en
uws.contributor.affiliation1Faculty of Applied Health Sciencesen
uws.contributor.affiliation2Kinesiologyen
uws.peerReviewStatusRevieweden
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