Association of Gestational Weight Gain With Adverse Maternal and Infant Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Both low and high gestational weight gain have been associated with adverse maternal and infant outcomes, but optimal gestational weight gain remains uncertain and not well defined for all prepregnancy weight ranges.

Objectives

To examine the association of ranges of gestational weight gain with risk of adverse maternal and infant outcomes and estimate optimal gestational weight gain ranges across prepregnancy body mass index categories.

Design, setting, and participants

Individual participant-level meta-analysis using data from 196 670 participants within 25 cohort studies from Europe and North America (main study sample). Optimal gestational weight gain ranges were estimated for each prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) category by selecting the range of ge

SUBMITTER: LifeCycle Project-Maternal Obesity and Childhood Outcomes Study Group 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6506886 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature