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Linking Prenatal Nutrition to Adult Mental Health

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Preventive Nutrition

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The effects on child health and development of exposure to either general malnutrition or to specific micronutrient deficiencies during early life are well documented (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1136:172–184, 2008). For example, prenatal folate deficiency increases the risk of neural tube defects, and low maternal iodine intake can cause fetal iodine deficiency syndrome and cretinism (Lancet 338(8760):131–137, 1991; Lancet 1(7694):308–310, 1971; Journal of Nutrition 130:493S–495S, 2000; Nutrients 3:265–273, 2011). However, the impact of malnutrition during early life is not restricted to infancy and childhood. It is now clear that there are latent effects that may only become evident in adult life. The prenatal antecedents responsible for these latent effects can arise from exposures at any point from conception onward (Mothers, babies and health in later life. Edinburgh, Scotland: Churchill Livingstone, 1998; Schizophrenia Bulletin 34(6):1054–1063, 2008).

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This chapter is an updated and expanded version of a previous article [133] The authors thank Kim Fader for her help and the Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program for its financial support.

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St. Clair, D., Susser, E. (2015). Linking Prenatal Nutrition to Adult Mental Health. In: Bendich, A., Deckelbaum, R. (eds) Preventive Nutrition. Nutrition and Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22431-2_34

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