Early maternal weight gain as a risk factor for SGA in pregnancies with hyperemesis gravidarum: a 15-year hospital cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Inadequate maternal weight gain increases the risk of small-for-gestational age (SGA) infants. Women with hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) are at risk of significant early pregnancy weight loss and insufficient total pregnancy weight gain. Recent studies have implied that weight gain during the first half of pregnancy is more crucial to pregnancy outcome than total weight gain. The aim of this study was to investigate whether not regaining prepregnancy weight by 13-18 weeks of gestation contributed to not reaching minimum body mass index (BMI)-specific total pregnancy weight gain and influenced the risk of SGA outcome in HG pregnancies.

Methods

In this retrospective 15-year cohort (2002-2016) of women hospitalized due to hyperemesis gravidarum, we reviewed individual p

SUBMITTER: Meinich T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7189646 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature