Pregnancy Craving and Pica: 60 Years Later

• 作者: Sarah E. Goodheart
• 来源期刊: 妇产科期刊(英文)
• 学科: 数学
• 关键词: Pregnancy Craving PICA
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（8）
• 页码范围: 1079-1085
• 页数: 7页
• 分类号: O17

摘要

<strong>Purpose</strong>: <span style="font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">To study pregnancy craving and pica in a cohort of women and compare our findings to a historic study. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Methods: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Prospective survey of women in the third trimester of pregnancy. Data were collected using the same questionnaire from a study published in </span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Obstetrics and Gynecology</span></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> in 1957. All surveys were conducted by clinicians at 35 0/7-41 6/7 weeks gestational age. High risk pregnancies were excluded. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Results: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">We included 547 women in the analysis. Of those, 60.8% reported food craving vs 65.7% in the 1957 cohort, </span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">p</span></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">-value 0.09. The most common food craving was fruit, seen in 31.1% vs 13.6%, </span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">p</span></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">-value < 0.00001. In the group of women with craving, 64.6% reported that they craved the food item prior to becoming pregnant, 76.0% could not wait until another day to satisfy their food craving, and 41.7% reported there was something they liked as much. Only 2.9% of women in our cohort had pica vs 9.0%, </span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">p</span></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">-value 0.00001. The cohorts differed in fruit craving, (31.1% vs 13.6%), meat, poultry, fish, dry beans, eggs, and nuts (21.0% vs 5.0%), milk, yogurt, and cheese, (17.0% vs 2.2%) and vegetable, (14.1% vs 6.9%), all with </span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">p</span></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">-value < 0.00001. They did not differ in the category of bread, cereal, rice, and pasta, 17.9% vs 22.3, </span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">p</span></i><span style="font-family:Ve