Inadequate maternal weight gain in the third trimester increases the risk of intrauterine growth restriction in rural Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:To estimate the effect of inadequate maternal weight gain in the third trimester on the risk of intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) in rural Bangladesh. METHODS:This study analyzed data from 1,463 mother-infant pairs in Matlab, Bangladesh which were available through the electronic databases of Matlab Health and Demographic Surveillance System and Matlab hospital of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b). All the mothers were admitted to Matlab hospital for childbirth from January 2012 to December 2014, and they had singleton live births at term. Third-trimester weight gain (kg) was calculated by subtracting the estimated weight at the end of the second trimester from the weight taken before childbirth. Inadequate third-trimester weight

SUBMITTER: Hasan SMT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6368315 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature