The Association of Maternal Dietary Patterns With Asthma and Wheeze Diagnosis in Canadian Children
Fazle Rabbi, Pinaz Gulacha, Lehana Thabane, Sonia S Anand, Kozeta Miliku, Theo J Moraes, Elinor Simons, Padmaja Subbarao, Russell J de Souza · 2026
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Fazle Rabbi and colleagues test whether a mother's diet in pregnancy predicts her child's asthma in a 2026 analysis of Canada's CHILD cohort. Asthma affects over 850,000 Canadian children, and prenatal nutrition is a suspected early influence. Food frequency questionnaires from 2,968 mother-child pairs were distilled into three eating patterns: plant-based, Western, and balanced.
Neither asthma at ages one to three nor recurrent wheeze showed any association with any of the three dietary patterns, in either statistical approach the team used. What did predict outcomes was family history and birth timing. A mother's own asthma more than doubled her child's odds, and a father's asthma or wheeze did the same. Each added week of gestation lowered risk, and a mother's prior wheeze strongly predicted her child's recurrent wheeze. Prenatal diet pattern, at least as measured here, does not appear to be a lever for prevention.
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| CREATOR | Fazle Rabbi, Pinaz Gulacha, Lehana Thabane, Sonia S Anand, Kozeta Miliku, Theo J Moraes, Elinor Simons, Padmaja Subbarao, Russell J de Souza |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 47 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |