The effect of antenatal lifestyle advice for women who are overweight or obese on secondary measures of neonatal body composition: the LIMIT randomised trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the effect of providing antenatal dietary and lifestyle advice on neonatal anthropometry, and to determine the inter-observer variability in obtaining anthropometric measurements.

Design

Randomised controlled trial.

Setting

Public maternity hospitals across metropolitan Adelaide, South Australia.

Population

Pregnant women with a singleton gestation between 10(+0) and 20(+0) weeks, and body mass index (BMI) ≥25 kg/m(2).

Methods

Women were randomised to either Lifestyle Advice (comprehensive dietary and lifestyle intervention over the course of pregnancy including dietary, exercise and behavioural strategies, delivered by a research dietician and research assistants) or continued Standard Care. Analyses were conducted using intention-

SUBMITTER: Dodd JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4859433 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature