Gestational weight gain among average-weight and overweight women - What is excessive?

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 172, Issue 2 PART 1, 1995, Pages 705-712

  Cogswell, Mary Edmonds ^a   Serdula, Mary Kathleen ^a   Hungerford, Daniel Wilson ^a   Yip, Ray ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth weight; body mass index; pregnancy; weight gain

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; OBESITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; FETAL MACROSOMIA; HUMAN; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0028907012     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0002-9378(95)90598-7     Document Type: Article

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