Higher Maternal Plasma Folate but Not Vitamin B-12 Concentrations during Pregnancy Are Associated with Better Cognitive Function Scores in 9- to 10- Year-Old Children in South India  

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Veena, Sargoor R. ; Krishnaveni, Ghattu V. ; Srinivasan, Krishnamachari ; Wills, Andrew K.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: JN: The Journal of Nutrition vol. 140 no. 05 (May 2010), page 1014-1022.
Topik: SOUTH INDIA; CHILDREN; MATERNAL PLASMA FOLATE

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: J42.K.2010.02 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Folate and vitamin B-12 are essential for normal brain development. Few studies have examined the relationship of maternal folate and vitamin B-12 status during pregnancy and offspring cognitive function. To test the hypothesis that lower maternal plasma folate and vitamin B-12 concentrations and higher plasma homocysteine concentrations during pregnancy are associated with poorer neurodevelopment, 536 children (aged 9–10 y) from the Mysore Parthenon birth cohort underwent cognitive function assessment during 2007–2008 using 3 core tests from the Kaufman Assessment Battery, and additional tests measuring learning, long-term storage/retrieval, attention and concentration, and visuo-spatial and verbal abilities. Maternal folate, vitamin B-12, and homocysteine concentrations were measured at 30 ± 2 wk gestation. During pregnancy, 4% of mothers had low folate concentrations (<7 nmol/L), 42.5% had low vitamin B-12 concentrations (<150 pmol/L), and 3% had hyperhomocysteinemia (>10 µmol/L). The children's cognitive test scores increased by 0.1–0.2 SD per SD increase across the entire range of maternal folate concentrations (P < 0.001 for all), with no apparent associations at the deficiency level. The associations with learning, long-term storage/retrieval, visuo-spatial ability, attention, and concentration were independent of the parents' education, socioeconomic status, religion, and the child's sex, age, current size, and folate and vitamin B-12 concentrations. There were no consistent associations of maternal vitamin B-12 and homocysteine concentrations with childhood cognitive performance. In this Indian population, higher maternal folate, but not vitamin B-12, concentrations during pregnancy predicted better childhood cognitive ability. It also suggests that, in terms of neurodevelopment, the concentration used to define folate deficiency may be set too low.

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