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Trajectory Patterns of Gestational Weight Gain

Journal of the American Nutrition Association, 2022
To identify gestational weight gain trajectories and their association with demographic, obstetric, and anthropometric characteristics.Information of 599 pregnant women undergoing prenatal care in public health units was collected through questionnaires and medical records, resulting in 4,272 measures of body weight.
Fernanda Manera, Renata Cordeiro Fernandes, Doroteia Aparecida Höfelmann   +2 more
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Excessive Gestational Weight Gain

Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, 2018
AbstractExcessive gestational weight gain (GWG) is associated with an increasing incidence of maternal and neonatal complications, including hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, fetal macrosomia, and increased cesarean birth rates. In the United States, it is recommended that health care providers use an individualized approach to counsel a woman about
Megan McDowell, Mary Ashley Cain, Jessica Brumley   +2 more
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Adolescent Gestational Weight Gain and Birth Weight

Pediatrics, 1993
Objective. To examine the relationship among maternal age, prepregnancy weight, gestational weight gain, and birth weight in 141 low-income black adolescents and their infants. Study sample. One hundred forty-one consecutively enrolled, low-income, black adolescents who entered prenatal care prior to their 23rd week of gestation, were ...
C, Stevens-Simon, E R, McAnarney, K J, Roghmann   +2 more
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Gestational Weight Gain and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2008
To examine the association between gestational weight gain and perinatal outcome in women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM).This is a retrospective cohort study of women with nonanomalous singleton pregnancies with GDM enrolled in the Sweet Success California Diabetes and Pregnancy Program between 2001 and 2004.
Yvonne W, Cheng, Judith H, Chung, Ingrid, Kurbisch-Block, Maribeth, Inturrisi, Sherri, Shafer, Aaron B, Caughey   +5 more
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Counseling About Weight Gain Guidelines and Subsequent Gestational Weight Gain

Journal of Women's Health, 2015
The purpose of this study was to investigate what percentage of postpartum women were informed about how much weight to gain during pregnancy, the accuracy of the weight gain recommendations based on the 2009 Institute of Medicine (IOM) gestational weight gain (GWG) recommendations and whether being informed was associated with greater likelihood of ...
Brian H, Wrotniak, Shoshone, Dentice, Kathleen, Mariano, Erin M, Salaam, Ashley E, Cowley, Erin M, Mauro   +5 more
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Gestational Weight Gain Among Hispanic Women

Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2014
To describe gestational weight gain among Hispanic women and to examine psychological, social, and cultural contexts affecting weight gain. A total of 282 Hispanic women were surveyed post-partum before leaving the hospital. Women were queried about their prepregnancy weight and weight gained during pregnancy.
Haleh, Sangi-Haghpeykar, Kim, Lam, Susan P, Raine   +2 more
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Weight gain patterns during twin gestation

Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 1989
Few data are available about desirable weight gain during twin gestation. The present study addresses this issue through retrospective evaluation of 217 women pregnant with twins who delivered at Swedish Hospital Medical Center, Seattle, between 1982 and 1986.
A L, Pederson, B, Worthington-Roberts, D E, Hickok   +2 more
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Gestational weight gain in consecutive pregnancies

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine the association between gestational weight gain (GWG) in a woman's first and second pregnancies.We conducted a retrospective observational cohort study of 27,771 women with their first and second births in North Carolina's Pregnancy Nutrition Surveillance System database from 1996-2004.
Chin, J.R., Krause, K.M., Østbye, T., Chowdhury, N., Lovelady, C.A., Swamy, G.K.   +5 more
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Intuitive eating and gestational weight gain

Eating Behaviors, 2019
This observational study was designed to establish whether there is a relationship between intuitive eating and gestational weight gain. Intuitive eating involves eating according to hunger and satiety cues, rather than following diet rules or eating in response to external triggers or emotions.
Helen, Paterson, Gareth J, Treharne, Caroline, Horwath, Jillian J, Haszard, Peter, Herbison, E Jean C, Hay-Smith   +5 more
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Prepregnancy weight change associated with high gestational weight gain

Obesity, 2022
AbstractObjectiveGestational weight gain (GWG) above recommendations is a risk factor for adverse maternal, perinatal, and long‐term outcomes. This study hypothesized that prepregnancy weight gain may portend excess GWG.MethodsAmong 1,126 women (51% of whom were of Black race) in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study with ...
Janet M. Catov, Baiyang Sun, Cora E. Lewis, Marnie Bertolet, Erica P. Gunderson   +4 more
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