The impact of cohort inclusion/exclusion criteria on pregnancy weight gain chart percentiles.

ABSTRACT: Pregnancy weight gain standards are charts describing percentiles of weight gain among participants with no risk factors that could adversely affect weight gain. This detailed information is burdensome to collect. We investigated the extent to which exclusion of various pre-pregnancy, pregnancy and postpartum factors impacted the values of pregnancy weight gain percentiles. We examined pregnancy weight gain (kg) among 3178 participants of the US nuMoM2b-Heart Health Study (HHS). We identified five groups of potential exclusion criteria for pregnancy weight gain standards: socio-economic characteristics (group 1), maternal morbidities (group 2), lifestyle/behaviour factors (group 3), adverse neonatal outcomes (group 4) and longer-term adverse outcomes (group 5). We established the impact of

SUBMITTER: Rangel Bousquet Carrilho T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11557291 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature