Should gestational weight gain charts exclude individuals with excess postpartum weight retention?

ABSTRACT:

Background

High gestational weight gain is associated with excess postpartum weight retention, yet excess postpartum weight retention is not an exclusion criterion for current gestational weight gain charts. We aimed to assess the impact of excluding individuals with high interpregnancy weight change (a proxy for excess postpartum weight retention) on gestational weight gain distributions.

Methods

We included individuals with an index birth from 2008 to 2014 and a subsequent birth before 2019, in the population-based Stockholm-Gotland Perinatal Cohort. We estimated gestational weight gain (kg) at 25 and 37 weeks, using weight at first prenatal visit (<14 weeks) as the reference. We calculated high interpregnancy weight change (≥10 kg and ≥5 kg) using the difference between w

SUBMITTER: Socha PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11771746 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature