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SUBMITTER: Davis D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6000478 | biostudies-other | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Davis Deborah D Davey Rachel R Williams Lauren T LT Foureur Maralyn M Nohr Ellen E Knight-Agarwal Catherine C Lawlis Tanya T Oats Jeremy J Skouteris Helen H Fuller-Tyszkiewicz Matthew M
JMIR research protocols 20180530 5
<h4>Background</h4>Approximately 50% of women gain excessive weight in pregnancy. Optimizing gestational weight gain is important for the short- and long-term health of the childbearing woman and her baby. Despite this, there is no recommendation for routine weighing in pregnancy, and weight is a topic that many maternity care providers avoid. Resource-intensive interventions have mainly targeted overweight and obese women with variable results. Few studies have examined the way that socioeconom ...[more]