HEALTHY DIETS AND SCIENCE: Diets during pregnancy LACKING both fish and meat are associated with a more than 4-fold increased risk of hypospadias

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Diets during pregnancy LACKING both fish and meat are associated with a more than 4-fold increased risk of hypospadias

Published in Environ Health Perspect. 2008 Aug;116(8):1071-6.

Maternal and gestational risk factors for hypospadias.
Akre O, Boyd HA, Ahlgren M, Wilbrand K, Westergaard T, Hjalgrim H, Nordenskjöld A, Ekbom A, Melbye M.
Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. olof.akre@ki.se

This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18709149

The goal of the study was to assess the association between risk of hypospadias and maternal diet during pregnancy.

Akre found that a diet during pregnancy LACKING both fish and meat was associated with a more than 4-fold increased risk of hypospadias.

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