Delivery-to-Delivery Weight Gain and Risk of Hypertensive Disorders in a Subsequent Pregnancy.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate whether weight gain between deliveries is associated with an increased risk of hypertensive disorders in a subsequent pregnancy.

Methods

This is a case-control study of women who had two live singleton births of at least 24 weeks of gestation at a single maternity hospital from January 1, 2005, to December 31, 2015, with no hypertensive disorder documented in the index pregnancy. Maternal weight gain between deliveries was measured as the change in body mass index (BMI) at delivery. Women who were diagnosed with any hypertensive disorder in the subsequent pregnancy were compared with those who experienced no hypertensive disorder in the subsequent pregnancy using χ statistics for categorical variables and t tests for continuous variables. Logistic regre

SUBMITTER: Dude AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6153032 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature