Gestational Weight Gain-for-Gestational Age Z-Score Charts Applied across U.S. Populations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Gestational weight gain may be a modifiable contributor to infant health outcomes, but the effect of gestational duration on gestational weight gain has limited the identification of optimal weight gain ranges. Recently developed z-score and percentile charts can be used to classify gestational weight gain independent of gestational duration. However, racial/ethnic variation in gestational weight gain and the possibility that optimal weight gain differs among racial/ethnic groups could affect generalizability of the z-score charts. The objectives of this study were (1) to apply the weight gain z-score charts in two different U.S. populations as an assessment of generalisability and (2) to determine whether race/ethnicity modifies the weight gain range associated with min

SUBMITTER: Leonard SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6637422 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature