Dietary intervention during pregnancy improves maternal diet index: The PEAPOD pilot trial

C Venter^{1

2}, S Bodén^{1

3}, K Pickett-Nairne^{1

4}, D H Glueck¹, S S Comstock⁵, Jean M Kerver⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
² Section of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Children's Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
³ Department of Clinical Sciences, Pediatrics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
⁴ Colorado Child Health Research Institute, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
⁵ Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
⁶ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.

C Venter et al. Pediatr Allergy Immunol. 2025 Dec.

. 2025 Dec;36(12):e70259.

doi: 10.1111/pai.70259.

C Venter^{1

2}, S Bodén^{1

3}, K Pickett-Nairne^{1

4}, D H Glueck¹, S S Comstock⁵, Jean M Kerver⁶

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
² Section of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Children's Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
³ Department of Clinical Sciences, Pediatrics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
⁴ Colorado Child Health Research Institute, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
⁵ Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
⁶ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: maternal diet; nutrition; pilot study; randomized controlled trials.

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