Primal Health Databank: Study
| Entry No: | 0250 |
| Title: | Famine, third trimester pregnancy weight gain, and intrauterine growth: the Dutch famine birth cohort study |
| Author(s): | Stein AD, Ravelli ACJ, Lumey LH |
| Reference: | Human Biol. 1995; 67:135-150 |
| Place of Study: | Netherlands |
| Abstract: | Records were examined for 734 women who gave birth at the Amsterdam Teaching Hospital between August 1944 and April 1946, i.e. a period which preceded, encompassed and followed the winter famine. Weight loss during pregnancy or low weight gain was strongly associated with offspring birth weight. When weight gains were <0.5 kg per week weight gain was not associated with birth size. These results suggest that acute maternal nutritional deprivation affects fetal growth only below threshold. |
| Keyword(s): | famine, fetal growth, nutrition during pregnancy, starvation |
| Discussion: | This study does not belong to the framework of primal health research but is useful to interpret the long term effects of early exposure to food deprivation. See entries 0106, 0107, 0127 and 0219. |
| See Also: | 0106, 0107, 0127, 0219 |
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