The relationship between maternal and infant dietary intake of fermentable fibre, gut microbiota, short chain fatty acids and allergic disease and asthma: a population-derived birth cohort study

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/GNT1082307

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The proposed study will involve the Barwon Infant Study (BIS) cohort of 1074 infants to provide the first systematic investigation of the hypotheses that the epidemic of allergic disease and asthma in many parts of the world relates to the paucity of fermentable fibre in the modern diet, and that the protective effect of fermentable fibre is mediated by changes in the organisms that colonise the gut and the metabolites that they produce.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2015

End Date: 01-01-2019

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $871,700.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Paediatrics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

asthma | food allergy | immune development | microbial ecology | perinatal