DHA Supplementation and Pregnancy Outcomes
The project seeks to determine whether prenatal nutritional supplementation to docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) affects developmental outcomes related to intelligence and school readiness. DHA is a member of the omega-3 fatty acid family; it is found in all cell membranes, and is accumulated in especially large quantities in the retina and brain. The possibility that nutritional compounds may have long-term implications for meaningful measures that bear on cognitive-intellectual development and on measures that are directly related to or predictive of school achievement would have enormous implications for the formulation of public policy on prenatal nutrition.
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John Colombo, Ph.D.
colombo@ku.edu
785-864-4295 (phone)
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Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies
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1052 Dole Human Development Center
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