Literature Review: Pregnant and breastfeeding ... - Eat For Health

Systematic Review MethodsIntroductionOur team from the University of Adelaide and the Women’s and Children’s Health Research Institute was contracted by NHMRC to comprehensively search forstudies reporting maternal and child outcomes resulting from, or associated with, maternal dietary patterns or specific foods or food groups. The team was led byPhilippa Middleton and comprises Professor Maria Makrides, Dr Carmel Collins, Dr Alice Rumbold, Dr Jo Zhou, Professor Caroline Crowther and Associate ProfessorVicki Flenady.QuestionsThe principal question addressed in this part of the systematic review was:What food groups consumed by pregnant and breastfeeding women, are associated with health outcomes for the mother and/or child?The groups included dietary patterns; fruit; vegetables; meat; dairy foods (cheese, milks and yoghurt); cereals/grains; legumes; nuts and seeds; fish; poultry; eggs;fat/oil; salt/sodium; sugars; and beverages.Search strategyWe searched the following databases and sources: Cochrane Library: issue 8, 2010 (published 4 August 2010); Other databases and sources to 31 July 2010 (including Pubmed, EMBASE, Austhealth, Google Scholar, Google, government and agency sources, otherdietary guidelines).These sources were searched from inception, with no date restrictions applied.We made extensive use of pearling and snowballing strategies on retrieved references.We did not apply language or publication status restrictions.Search terms included: Maternal diet, pregnancy diet, pregnancy intake, breastfeeding diet, breastfeeding intake alone and in combination with the food patterns and foodgroups specified above.We used Endnote to manage the references.Methods8