title: Fish consumption measured during pregnancy and risk of cardiovascular diseases later in life: an observational prospective study.
abstract: Previous studies have indicated a protective effect of long chain n-3 PUFAs against cardiovascular disease; however, the overall evidence remains uncertain, and there is a general lack of knowledge in the field of cardiovascular epidemiology in women. Therefore, the objective of this study was to explore the association between fish intake and cardiovascular disease among 7429 women from a prospective pregnancy cohort in Aarhus, Denmark, who were followed for 12-17 years. Exposure information derived from a questionnaire sent to the women in gestation week 16, and daily fish consumption was quantified based on assumptions of standard portion sizes and food tables. Information on admissions to hospital was obtained from the Danish National Patient Registry and diagnoses of hypertensive, cerebrovascular and ischaemic heart disease were used to define the outcome: cardiovascular disease. During the follow-up period 263 events of cardiovascular disease were identified. Overall, there was no association between cardiovascular disease and fish intake, confidence intervals for effect estimates in the different fish intake groups were wide, overlapped and for all but one they encompassed unity. Restricting the analysis to women who had reported the same fish intake in a questionnaire in gestation week 30 did not alter these findings. In conclusion, our data from a prospective cohort of relatively young and initially healthy women from Aarhus linked with information from registries could not substantiate a protective effect of fish intake against cardiovascular disease.
authors.affiliation: Maternal Nutrition Group, Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark. mrm@ssi.dk
authors.forename: Marin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Strøm
authors.forename: Erik L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Mortensen
authors.forename: Tine B
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Henriksen
authors.forename: Sjurdur F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Olsen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003718:Denmark; D004435:Eating / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005399:Fishes; D006801:Humans; D019370:Observation; D011247:Pregnancy; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012306:Risk; D017747:Seafood; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
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