Maternal Nutrition and Child Neurodevelopment: Actions Across Generations

Premature birth remains a major cause of neurodevelopmental morbidity. Multiple factors underlie this morbidity, many of which are not under the control of the health care team; however, nutritional health is one modifiable factor that has a clear impact on the developing brain of the fetus and neonate. The majority of the recent literature on nutrition and neurodevelopment in preterm infants has focused on postnatal nutritional strategies to improve outcomes, whereas older studies have focused on undernutrition of the mother and its role in intrauterine growth restriction and negative consequences on the brain in term infants.

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