Mother’s prenatal gut microbiota may predict child behavior: Study Increased diversity of a mother’s gut microbiota during the third trimester of pregnancy may influence a child’s brain development and behavior, says a new study from Australia.
Data published in
EBioMedicine indicated that increased maternal alpha diversity during pregnancy was associated with a reduction in internalizing symptoms in children at two years of age.
In addition, researchers reported that butyrate-producing families of bacteria called
Lachnospiraceae and
Ruminococcaceae were more abundant in moms of kids with “normative behavior”.
“This is the first human study to investigate the relationship between maternal fecal microbiota during pregnancy and behavioral outcomes in children,” wrote the researchers, led by Professor Peter Vuillermina from Deakin University in Australia.
Increased diversity of a mother’s gut microbiota during the third trimester of pregnancy may influence a child’s brain development and behavior, says a new study from Australia.
Phase 1A and 1B vaccinations are still ongoing after starting in February.
That includes health workers, aged care staff and residents, border and quarantine workers and their households, critical and high-risk workers, over-70s, people with medical conditions and disabilities, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 50 years and over.
People attend the Barwon Health COVID-19 Vaccination Hub in Geelong, Victoria.(The Age)
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