Trends in Maternal Weight Disparities: Statewide Differences in Rural and Urban Minnesota Residents From 2012 to 2019.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Despite research showing substantial weight disparities along the rural-urban continuum, little work has attempted to identify differences in prepregnancy weight status or gestational weight gain (GWG) outcomes between rural and urban birthing people. As such, the goals of this research were to 1) document the prevalence of prepregnancy overweight and obesity and excessive GWG in rural and urban birthing people and 2) examine changes in rural and urban prepregnancy overweight or obesity and excessive GWG over time.

Methods

Birth certificate data provided sociodemographic variables, prepregnancy body mass index, GWG, and rurality status on 465,709 respondents who gave birth in Minnesota from 2012 to 2019. A series of regression models estimated risk differences i

SUBMITTER: Emery Tavernier RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10838365 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature