Students' Scientific Group Affiliated to 2nd Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of Warsaw, 00-315 Warsaw, Poland.
2nd Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of Warsaw, 00-315 Warsaw, Poland.
Nutrients. 2023 Nov 8;15(22):4717. doi: 10.3390/nu15224717.
In the last decades, plant-based diets have gained popularity. Pregnancy is not a contraindication to follow a meat-free diet. This study aimed to compare maternal and neonatal outcomes between women who followed a plant-based diet with those on an omnivore diet. Our second purpose was to investigate the association between physical activity level in combination with diet type and the occurrence of GDM and gestational hypertension.
A questionnaire was distributed electronically via social media. The survey was conducted on a population of Polish women.
The final research group included 1015 women. The results showed that a maternal plant-based diet 6 months before pregnancy and during pregnancy does not change the incidence of GDM, anemia, and gestational hypertension. Moreover, no association was found between a diet type before conception and a delivery method or newborn birth weight. Among women who followed an omnivore diet, the risk of GDM was lower in a group with adequate physical activity during 6 months before conception ( = 0.0166). However, the combination of a plant-based diet with adequate activity during the preconception period did not influence GDM incidence.
Our study indicates that a plant-based diet during the preconception period is not worse than an omnivore diet.
在过去的几十年中,植物性饮食越来越受欢迎。怀孕并不是素食的禁忌症。本研究旨在比较素食饮食和杂食饮食的孕妇和新生儿结局。我们的第二个目的是研究饮食类型与体力活动水平相结合与 GDM 和妊娠高血压的发生之间的关联。
通过社交媒体以电子方式分发问卷。该调查针对波兰女性进行。
最终的研究组包括 1015 名女性。结果表明,怀孕前 6 个月和怀孕期间的母体植物性饮食不会改变 GDM、贫血和妊娠高血压的发生率。此外,孕前饮食类型与分娩方式或新生儿出生体重之间没有关联。在遵循杂食饮食的女性中,在受孕前 6 个月进行足够体力活动的组中 GDM 的风险较低(= 0.0166)。然而,在受孕前期间,植物性饮食与足够的活动相结合并不会影响 GDM 的发生率。
我们的研究表明,受孕前期间的植物性饮食并不比杂食饮食差。