Characterization of Dietary Patterns in the Danish National Birth Cohort in Relation to Preterm Birth

Morten Arendt Rasmussen, Ekaterina Maslova, Thorhallur Ingi Halldorsson and Sjurdur Frodi Olsen

PLOS ONE, 2014, vol. 9, issue 4, 1-9

Abstract: Background: Dietary patterns better reflect eating habits as opposed to single dietary components. However, the use of dietary pattern analysis in nutritional epidemiology has been hampered by the complexity of interpreting and presenting multidimensional dietary data. Methods: This study extracts and visualizes dietary patterns from self-reported dietary data collected in mid-pregnancy (25th week of gestation) from nearly 60,000 mother-child pairs part of a prospective, longitudinal cohort (Danish National Birth Cohort) and further examines their associations with spontaneous and induced preterm birth (gestational age

Date: 2014
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