Lipid Technology - 2015 - Wurff - Maastricht essential fatty acid birth cohort.pdf
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… professor at Maastricht University, Department of Epidemiology & Complex Genetics, School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism (NUTRIM)/Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht, the Netherlands Supporting Table S1 is available online http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lite.201500007 Summary The Maastricht Essential Fatty Acid Birth cohort (MEFAB) was established in 1989 to study the changes in fatty acid concentration during pregnancy and how this related to the fatty acid … available for analyses (90%). How often have they been followed-up For the flow diagram see Figure 1. The pregnant women were fol- lowed during pregnancy and after pregnancy and their neonates were studied at birth (MEFAB 1). Between 1997 and 2000, when the children were approximately 7 years old a follow-up study was DOI 10.1002/lite.201500007 Lipid Technology March 2015, Vol. 27, No. 3 59 © 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim www.lipid-technology.com executed to investigate the … Age 4 Children born 1994-1995 Par�cipated n = 128 MEFAB 2 (1997-2000) Age 7-8 Children born before 1994 Traced n=728 Par�cipated n=306 Blood sample n = 264 Ques�onnaire n=299-306 Tests n= 256-298 MEFAB 1 (1989-1995) 1334 screened 131 excluded Clinical data partus n=1203 Maternal blood sample n =1056-1123 Maternal RBC fa�y acid n = 277-313 Infant RBC n= 252 Infant plasma n= 1019 Umbilical cord n =540 MEFAB 4 (2002-2005) Age 12 Children born 1990-1993 Ques�onnaire n=105 Tests n= 105 Blood sample …