Prepregnancy weights and weight gains related to birth weights of infants born to overweight women
1984
George, Nancy N. | Kim, Sooja K. | Duhring, John L.
A study of the pregnancy weight gains of overweight women found no pattern of increase in birth weight as maternal percentage overweight increased. The correlation between prepregnancy weight and infant birth weight was not significant in a sample selected from a migrant health clinic's participants in a Federally-funded Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). However, in a private population of white, upper-middle-class professionals, as the percentage overweight increased, so did the infant birth weight. Mothers in the private population had weight gains within the recommendations of the NRC, while the most overweight subjects in the WIC group gained less weight than recommended. In both groups, infant birth weight and maternal weight gain was correlated. (emc)
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