Design of lifestyle intervention trials to prevent excessive gestational weight gain in women with overweight or obesity.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The Lifestyle Interventions for Expectant Moms (LIFE-Moms) Consortium is designed to determine, in pregnant women with overweight or obesity, whether various behavioral and lifestyle interventions reduce excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) and subsequent adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes and obesity in offspring. The design and planning process of the LIFE-Moms Consortium is described.

Methods

The LIFE-Moms Consortium is a collaboration among seven clinical centers, a Research Coordinating Unit, and the NIH designed to support each clinical center's conduct of a separate trial of a unique intervention. Specific common measures, procedures, and eligibility criteria are consistent across the seven trials allowing data to be combined in exploratory analyses a

SUBMITTER: Clifton RG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4731277 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature