Publications by authors named "Anna Delahunt"
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- - The study investigates how oral sensory hypersensitivity and social-emotional responses in typically developing preteen children relate to their eating behaviors, especially focusing on traits like fussy eating and desire to drink.
- - Using data from 130 mother-child pairs, researchers employed established sensory profile assessments and a children's eating behavior questionnaire to analyze the connections between child and maternal sensory processing traits.
- - Results showed that children with higher oral sensory processing sensitivity often exhibited increased food fussiness and a greater desire to drink, while maternal sensory profiles revealed significant correlations with their children's sensory traits, indicating a shared sensory processing influence.
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- * It analyzed data from the ROLO trial involving 514 children and their mothers, comparing outcomes between those receiving low GI dietary advice versus standard care.
- * Results suggest that a low GI diet may lower asthma risk at 5 years old, especially for children of mothers with lower educational attainment, but results were not significant for children of mothers with higher education levels.
Background: Macrosomia (birthweight ≥4 kg) may alter the associations of physical activity (PA) and screen time (ST) throughout childhood with later cardiometabolic risk.
Objective: To investigate associations of PA and ST over a 4-6-year follow-up period with cardiometabolic outcomes in preteens (9-11-year-olds) who were born to mothers with previous macrosomic delivery.
Methods: This is an analysis of 402 preteens from the ROLO study, who were born to mothers that previously delivered an infant with macrosomia.
Background: Childhood represents a critical period of nutritional risk in the programming of later chronic disease. Few longitudinal studies have explored repeated measures of nutrition throughout the first decade of life in relation to preteen cardiometabolic outcomes.
Objectives: This research aimed to explore associations of early feeding practices (human milk exposure and duration and timing of introduction to solids) and childhood dietary quality and inflammatory scores (at 5 and 9-11 y and change during childhood) on preteen cardiometabolic outcomes.
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- The study aimed to explore the link between breastfeeding practices and cardiovascular risk in women during their reproductive years.
- It involved a 10-year study of 168 women, analyzing health data and blood samples, and found that while breastfeeding duration did not affect cardiovascular risk scores, longer breastfeeding was linked to healthier body composition and lower inflammatory markers.
- The findings suggest that prolonged breastfeeding benefits women's health and may lower cardiovascular risk, highlighting the importance of counseling pregnant women on the advantages of breastfeeding.
Background: We explored change in child appetitive traits from 5 to 9-11 years old and examined associations between appetitive traits at both timepoints and child diet quality.
Methods: This is secondary analyses of the ROLO longitudinal birth cohort study, including mother-child dyads from the 5 and 9-11-year old follow-up. The Children's Eating Behaviour Questionnaire measured child appetitive traits, with 167 children having matched data for both timepoints.
Background: Macrosomia (birthweight ≥ 4 kg or ≥ 4.5 kg) is strongly associated with a predisposition to childhood obesity, which in turn is linked with adverse cardiometabolic health. Despite this, there is a lack of longitudinal investigation on the impact of high birthweight on cardiometabolic outcomes in youth.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Excessive inflammation during pregnancy has been linked to adverse long-term health outcomes for both mothers and their children. One such outcome is maternal cardiometabolic dysfunction. The Energy-Adjusted Dietary Inflammatory Index is a method of scoring the overall inflammatory potential of the diet.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Public and patient involvement (PPI) through Young Person's Advisory Groups (YPAG) enables children to provide guidance and insight into research activities. PPI is an important characteristic of research, however, to date, most collaboration has been with adults. Also, few YPAGs have been established within the Irish setting.
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- Maternal diet during pregnancy significantly impacts birth outcomes and later child health, yet its effect on children's eating behaviors is still under-researched.
- This study analyzed maternal diet quality using the Alternative Healthy Eating Index for Pregnancy (AHEI-P) and its relationship with children’s eating traits at age 5, involving data from 306 participants.
- Results showed that better maternal diet quality in the first two trimesters was linked to lower "Desire to Drink" in children, suggesting that improving maternal nutrition during pregnancy could foster healthier eating habits in offspring.
Background: Individual differences in children eating behaviours have been linked with childhood overweight and obesity. The determinants of childhood eating behaviours are influenced by a complex combination of hereditary and ecological factors. This study examines if key ecological predictors of childhood overweight; maternal socio-economic status (SES), children's screen time, and childcare arrangements, are associated with eating behaviours in children aged 5-years-old.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe investigated the effect of an antenatal lifestyle intervention of a low-glycaemic index (GI) diet and physical activity on energy-adjusted dietary inflammatory index (E-DII) and explored its relationship with maternal and child health in women with overweight and obesity. This was a secondary analysis of 434 mother-child pairs from the Pregnancy Exercise and Nutrition Study (PEARS) trial in Dublin, Ireland. E-DII scores were calculated for early (10-16 weeks) and late (28 weeks) pregnancy.
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- Inadequate sleep and poor eating habits increase the risk of childhood obesity, but the link between sleep and eating behaviors, and how this varies by sex, is not fully understood.
- A study on 5-year-old children found that longer sleep duration is associated with lower BMI and body measurements, with girls showing stronger negative associations than boys.
- Additionally, while some eating behaviors related to food enjoyment were positively associated with body measurements in girls, sleep duration influenced emotional eating and food fussiness differently in boys and girls.