Katherine Sauder: Supporting Healthy Children by Supporting Healthy Pregnancies: A Prebirth Nutrition Perspective

Discovery Summary

Key Takeaways:

• In recent years, there has been a rise in obesity and type 2 diabetes cases among children at increasingly younger ages, indicating that factors during early infancy – and even during pregnancy and pre-conception – may play a role in the development of these conditions.
• Maternal nutrition can influence the risk of neonatal adiposity, which is a predictor for overweight/obesity at 5 years.
• In developed countries, a common prenatal risk factor is excessive intake of certain vitamins due to fortified foods and use of dietary supplements. Pregnant people in ECHO Cohorts were at risk for excessive intake of zinc, folic acid, and iron.
• Programs that can help pregnant people eat well before and during pregnancy may improve infant health outcomes.

Speaker:

Katherine Sauder, PhD

Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center
Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Sauder received her PhD in biobehavioral Health from Penn State University in 2014 and completed her post-doctoral fellowship in Nutrition at the University of Colorado in 2016. She is now an ECHO Cohort Investigator (Dabelea Cohort), Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Section of Nutrition, and Deputy Director of the Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center at the University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus.

Date: Wednesday, December 14th, 1 to 2pm ET