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Evidence suggests consumption of a Mediterranean diet (MD) can positively impact both maternal and offspring health, potentially mediated by a beneficial effect on inflammatory pathways. We aimed to apply metabolic profiling of serum and urine samples to assess differences between women who were stratified into high and low alignment to a MD throughout pregnancy and investigate the relationship of the diet to inflammatory markers.  

Although the physical consequences for offspring in utero and in the prenatal period are well known, the psychologic consequences of older motherhood for...

Environmental exposures including maternal inflammation, diet, nutrient balance, microbial colonization and toxin exposures can directly and indirectly...

Gut microbiome patterns have been associated with predisposition to eczema potentially through modulation of innate immune signalling.

We aimed to investigate the long-term effects (12 years) of fish oil supplementation in pregnancy on neurodevelopment, including cognition, language and fine...

This book chapter explains the maturation of immune functions during pregnancy & in early childhood, and addresses the importance of early environmental...

The rise in food allergy is more rapid than genetic deviation would allow and the current consensus is that environmental factors integrally linked to the...

Allergic diseases are a major cause of morbidity in the developed world, now affecting up to 40 % of the population with no evidence that this is abating.

The aim of this study was to determine whether supplementation with fish oil-derived n-3 PUFA during pregnancy modifies modifies placental PUFA composition...

The diagnosis of food allergy (FA) can be challenging because approximately half of food-sensitized patients are asymptomatic.