We wish to examine the dietary patterns in the ALSPAC partners (when children are 47 months of age) which will be obtained using Principal Components Analaysis. This work will feed into project B 716, which examines the association between maternal and child dietary patterns. This work was recently well received at the ICDAM7 conference in Washington and we feel it is important to also take into account any effects of partner's diet.

Before we add partner's patterns into our models forming project B716, we plan to publish a paper first, describing partner's dietary patterns; examining social and demographic associations with them and also examining associations with maternal dietary patterns assessed at the same time.