A weight-gain-for-gestational-age z score chart for the assessment of maternal weight gain in pregnancy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To establish the unbiased relation between maternal weight gain in pregnancy and perinatal health, a classification for maternal weight gain is needed that is uncorrelated with gestational age.

Objective

The goal of this study was to create a weight-gain-for-gestational-age percentile and z score chart to describe the mean, SD, and selected percentiles of maternal weight gain throughout pregnancy in a contemporary cohort of US women.

Design

The study population was drawn from normal-weight women with uncomplicated, singleton pregnancies who delivered at the Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA, 1998-2008. Analyses were based on a randomly selected subset of 648 women for whom serial prenatal weight measurements were available through medical chart record

SUBMITTER: Hutcheon JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3625243 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature