Maternal nutritional status & dietary intake during pregnancy play an important role in the fetal programming of cardio metabolic diseases. Experimental and human studies have suggested that maternal nutrition during pregnancy can program the developing fetus and influence body size, performance and health, later in life. The aim of study is to explore the impact of maternal under-nutrition on metabolic status in newborns at birth.

The study was conducted by Baqai Institute of Diabetology & Endocrinology in collaboration with University of Oslo, Norway. From December 2009 to July 2012.

Now we are about to start the Interventional Study of this Project, where supplementation of Vitamin D3 & Vitamin B12 will be given to the controlled group of 300 mothers out of 600.