Influence of Food Security Status and Diet Quality on Maternal Gestational Weight Gain.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recommended gestational weight gain (GWG) is crucial for health of women and their offspring. Food security status is hypothesized to influence diet quality and GWG. Therefore, we examined the relationship between diet quality and GWG by food security status.

Methods

Participants (n = 679) were enrolled in the Initial Vanguard Study of the National Children's Study. GWG was calculated as third trimester weight minus prepregnancy weight. Food security status and diet quality (Healthy Eating Index [HEI]-2015) were assessed using the Household Food Security Survey and a Diet History Questionnaire, respectively. General linear models evaluated the relationship between GWG and HEI-2015 by food security status.

Results

A greater proportion of women experienced fo

SUBMITTER: Sparks JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11150105 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature