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Maternal Dietary Diversity and Infant Outcome of Pregnant Women in Northern Ghana
ISSN: 1929 - 4247
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Maternal Dietary Diversity and Infant Outcome of Pregnant Women in Northern Ghana
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Publisher: Lifescience Global Inc.
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IAA.ZONE/1929101494247
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Abstract
Objective: Little is known regarding the role of maternal dietary diversity score (DDS) in predicting poor outcomes of pregnancy including preterm delivery, and low birth weight (LBW). The main aim of this study was to explore the relationship between dietary diversity scores of urban Ghanaian women and infant weight at birth. Methods: This analytical cross-sectional study comprised 524 pregnant women who delivered singleton babies. A Structured questionnaire was used to collect data on socio-demographic variables (e.g. educational status, age, maternal occupation, household wealth index), obstetric history (for example, gravidity, gestational weight gain), dietary intake, malarial infection and Sulphadoxine pyrimethamine (SP) uptake, blood pressure (BP), haemoglobin concentration (Hb), anthropometric measurements (e.g. weight of mother and new born baby). Results: This study showed that maternal dietary diversity as measured by indiv...
