A pilot study of the nutritional status of opiate-using pregnant women on methadone maintenance therapy

Laura Elizabeth Tomedi; Debra L. Bogen; Barbara H. Hanusa; Katherine L. Wisner; Lisa M. Bodnar

doi:10.3109/10826084.2011.635324

A pilot study of the nutritional status of opiate-using pregnant women on methadone maintenance therapy

Laura Elizabeth Tomedi^*, Debra L. Bogen, Barbara H. Hanusa, Katherine L. Wisner, Lisa M. Bodnar

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Abstract

Pregnant women in methadone maintenance therapy may have poor nutrition during pregnancy. In 20062008, methadone-treated pregnant women (n = 22) were recruited at an urban academic medical center and compared with nondrug-using pregnant women (n = 119) at 2035 weeks' gestation. We measured adiposity using prepregnancy body mass index (BMI), dietary intake using a food frequency questionnaire, and micronutrient and essential fatty acid status using biomarkers. Methadone-treated women had lower BMI, consumed more calories, had lower serum carotenoid concentrations, and higher plasma homocysteine concentrations than controls. The study's limitations and implications for future research are discussed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	286-295
Number of pages	10
Journal	Substance Use and Misuse
Volume	47
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3109/10826084.2011.635324
State	Published - Feb 2012

Funding

This study was funded by the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Research Advisory Committee and the Gerber Foundation. Study visits were conducted in the Magee-Womens Hospital Clinical and Translational Research Center, which is funded by National Institutes of Health (NIH; grant MO1RR00056). The authors’ contributions to this work were supported by K12 HD043441 [Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) Award], NIH/NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health) grants R01 MH060335 and K01 MH074092, and the Reproductive, Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiology grant HD 055 162-03 NIH NRSA T32 [National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)]. 1The journal’s style utilizes the category substance abuse as a diagnostic category. Substances are used or misused; living organisms are and can be abused. Editor’s note. Address correspondence to Laura Elizabeth Tomedi, M.P.H., Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; E-mail: [email protected]

Keywords

Dietary intake
Methadone
Nutrition
Nutritional biomarkers
Obesity
Pregnancy

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Health(social science)
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Psychiatry and Mental health
Medicine (miscellaneous)

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