Preventing large birth size in women with preexisting diabetes mellitus: The benefit of appropriate gestational weight gain.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the percentage of infants with large birth size attributable to excess gestational weight gain (GWG), independent of prepregnancy body mass index, among mothers with preexisting diabetes mellitus (PDM).

Study design

We analyzed 2004-2008 Florida linked birth certificate and maternal hospital discharge data of live, term (37-41weeks) singleton deliveries (N=641,857). We calculated prevalence of large-for-gestational age (LGA) (birth weight-for-gestational age≥90th percentile) and macrosomia (birth weight>4500g) by GWG categories (inadequate, appropriate, or excess). We used multivariable logistic regression to estimate the relative risk (RR) of large birth size associated with excess compared to appropriate GWG among mothers with PDM. We then estimated t

SUBMITTER: Kim SY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5050147 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature