The impact of setting a pregnancy weight gain goal on total weight gain.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Expert groups recommend that women set a pregnancy weight gain goal with their care provider to optimise weight gain.

Objective

Our aim was to describe the concordance between first-trimester personal and provider pregnancy weight gain goals with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommendations and to determine the association between these goals and total weight gain.

Methods

We used data from 9353 women in the Nulliparous Pregnancy Outcomes Study: monitoring mothers-to-be. In the first trimester, women reported their personal pregnancy weight gain goal and their provider weight gain goal, and we categorised personal and provider weight gain goals and total weight gain according to IOM recommendations. We used log-binomial or linear regression models to rel

SUBMITTER: Bodnar LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7878338 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature