Nutrient intake and dietary pattern among pregnant women visiting the tertiary hospital of Nepal

Introduction The amount of each nutrient needed for the physiological process such as pregnancy depends upon a person’s physical factors such as age, weight and psychological factors during pregnancy demands for high nutrition [1]. Pregnancy demands for the adequate requirement of nutrients than any other life course for positive maternal outcome such as healthy foetal growth, expansion of maternal tissue and to decrease the likelihood of unfavourable pregnancy outcomes such as premature birth and/or low birth weight [2, 3, 4, 5]. Inadequate supplementation of nutrients during pregnancy has been one of the public health problems around the globe and South Asia including Nepal [6, 7]. Research on dietary patterns in poor resource settings shows Received: 22 February 2020