Study: Pregnant Women Can Consume Moderate Amounts Of Coffee - Researchers say pregnant women who drink moderate amounts of coffee
don’t have to worry about their offspring’s behavior or intelligence.
A study published
Thursday in the American Journal of Epidemiology reveals that
expectant mothers who drink or eat products with caffeine should be
reassured that they are not harming their baby’s IQ development down the
road.
Everyday, pregnant women encounter suggestions, and dos and don’ts
when it comes to food they eat or drink. Apparently, some of these
reports include caffeine-related risk (or myths) during pregnancy. Some
articles say expectants should totally avoid coffee and caffeinated
food, while others advise no more than three cups per day. According to
the NHS, pregnant women can still enjoy morning cup of joe, but the
daily “safe” limit is 200 milligrams (mg) or two cups to three cups of
instant coffee per day, depending on the size of the mug.
The new study from Nationwide Children’s Hospital researchers is one
of the first to focus on the coffee-pregnancy issue, and if caffeine can
affect the child’s future intelligence and behavior.
Principal investigator Mark A. Klebanoff, MD announces that they
didn’t find “evidence of an adverse association of maternal pregnancy
caffeine consumption with child cognition or behavior at 4 or 7 years of
age.”
Dr. Klebanoff and Sarah Keim, PhD have examined blood samples taken
between the years 1959 and 1975 from nearly 2,200 pregnant women who
participated in the Collaborative Perinatal Project in the United
States. Dr. Klebanoff said this was an era when coffee consumption
during pregnancy was more prevalent compared to this internet-savvy
generation.
The team looked at the association between a chemical called
paraxanthine, a primary metabolite of caffeine, at two points in
pregnancy - and compared the levels to child’s intelligence (IQ) and
behavior at age 4 and 7 years.
Dr. Klebanoff said they found that there were no consistent patterns
between drinking coffee during pregnancy and the development and
behavior of children at those points in their lives.
The study also reveals that 11 percent of children were considered
obese at 4 years, and about 7 percent of children at age 7. However,
researchers didn’t find associations between their mother’s caffeine
consumption and these occurrences of obesity.
In March 2015, Dr. Klebanoff with co-author Sarah Keim, PhD published
a study in Epidemiology involving the same group of women from the
project in the U.S., and it found that increased ingestion of caffeine
during pregnancy months didn’t increase childhood obesity risk.
The study is titled “Maternal Caffeine Intake During Pregnancy and
Child Cognition and Behavior at 4 and 7 Years of Age”, and it’s now
available online via the Oxford Journals website. Source: StGist
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