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- Title
Predictors of Gestational Weight Gain among White and Latina Women and Associations with Birth Weight.
- Authors
Rosal, Milagros C.; Wang, Monica L.; Moore Simas, Tiffany A.; Bodenlos, Jamie S.; Crawford, Sybil L.; Leung, Katherine; Sankey, Heather Z.
- Abstract
This study examined racial/ethnic differences in gestational weight gain (GWG) predictors and association of first-trimester GWG to overall GWG among 271 White women and 300 Latina women. Rates of within-guideline GWG were higher among Latinas than among Whites (28.7% versus 24.4%, p<0.016). Adjusted odds of above-guideline GWG were higher among prepregnancy overweight (OR = 3.4, CI = 1.8–6.5) and obese (OR = 4.5, CI = 2.3–9.0) women than among healthy weight women and among women with above-guideline first-trimester GWG than among those with within-guideline first-trimester GWG (OR = 4.9, CI = 2.8–8.8). GWG was positively associated with neonate birth size (p<0.001). Interventions targeting prepregnancy overweight or obese women and those with excessive first-trimester GWG are needed.
- Subjects
WEIGHT gain in pregnancy; BIRTH weight; HISPANIC American women; WHITE women; ETHNIC differences; FIRST trimester of pregnancy
- Publication
Journal of Pregnancy, 2016, p1
- ISSN
2090-2727
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2016/8984928