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Title: Perspective: Early-Life Nutrition Research Supported by the US National Institutes of Health from 2018 to 2020
Authors: J Landry, Matthew
D Ruiz, Lyndsey
Gibbs, Kimberlea
D Radtke, Marcela
Lerman, Jennifer
J Vargas, Ashley
Keywords: dietary guidelines,
birth to 24 months,
complementary foods,
dietary pattern,
early-life nutrition,
research funding,
pregnancy,
lactation,
breastfeeding,
maternal health
Issue Date: 2022
Publisher: Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Society for Nutrition
Abstract: The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020–2025, included guidelines for pregnancy, lactation, and children from birth to age 24 mo (B-24) to reflect the growing body of evidence about appropriate nutrition during the earliest stages of life. Guidelines were based on a thorough review of the existing scientific evidence by the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC). This study’s objective was to enumerate early-life (pregnancy, lactation, and B-24) nutrition research needs that are already being addressed by the scientific community and to identify remaining research gaps. The Scientific Report of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee was reviewed, and 138 research gaps relevant to early life were identified. Research gaps were consolidated into 13 topic areas. A total of 1632 nutrition- and early-life–focused research projects funded by the NIH between 2018 and 2020 were manually coded using title, abstract, and public health relevance statement available on NIH RePORTER. Projects were coded as affirmative if they addressed a research gap within 1 of the 13 research gap topic areas. Of coded projects, 235 (14.4%) addressed any earlylife nutrition research gap. Between fiscal years 2018 to 2020, total costs of projects addressing any gap represented only 15% of total costs for all projects reviewed. Complementary foods, breastfeeding (never vs. ever), and frequency of eating were research gap areas most frequently coded as being addressed by a funded project. Iron supplementation, seafood consumption, and maternal diet food allergens were research gap areas least frequently coded as being potentially addressed by a funded project. This analysis highlights opportunities for changes in the federal government investment in maternal and child nutrition research to support development of effective, evidence-based dietary guidelines for improvement in early-life nutrition practices and overall public health
URI: http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/5187
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