Patterns of Women's Postpartum Weight Retention and Its Associations with Maternal Obesity-Related Factors and Parity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is not much data on the effects of the timing of gestational weight gain (GWG), pre-pregnancy waist circumference (WC), pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI), and parity, with postpartum weight retention (PPWR) trajectories.

Methods

This study was based on a longitudinal cohort. Latent growth mixture models were applied to identify the latent trajectories of PPWR and test the effects of the predictors on distinct classes of PPWR trajectories.

Results

Three PPWR trajectories were identified. About 2.8% (n = 26) of women were classified into Class 1, with an inverted U-shape trajectory; 6.6% (n = 61) were assigned to Class 2, with a rapid increase trajectory; 90.6% (n = 837) were classified into Class 3, with a significant decrease. W

SUBMITTER: Sha T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6888503 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature