Concepedia
PubMed · 1999 · 27 citations · 17 references
Efforts should be made to attain adequate prepregnancy weight to reduce the likelihood of low birth weight babies. Hence, special attention should be paid to women with low prepregnancy BMI.
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Excessive maternal weight and pregnancy outcome
John Johnson, Jeff Longmate, Barbara Frentzen · American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology · 1992 · 270 citations
Obesity, Excessive Maternal Weight, Maternal Cardiovascular Outcome +8
Prenatal weight gain advice: an examination of the recent prenatal weight gain recommendations of the Institute of Medicine.
Jennifer D. Parker, Barbara Abrams · PubMed · 1992 · 122 citations
Nutrition, Weight Management, Fetal Health +20
Prenatal Weight Gain Patterns and Spontaneous Preterm Birth Among Nonobese Black and White Women
Carol A. Hickey, Suzanne Cliver, Sandre F. McNeal et al. · Obstetrics and Gynecology · 1995 · 93 citations
Prenatal Weight Gain Patterns and Birth Weight Among Nonobese Black and White Women
Carol A. Hickey · Obstetrics and Gynecology · 1996 · 84 citations
Weight gain during pregnancy and prepregnancy weight. Association with birth weight of term gestation.
Kenneth R. Niswander, Joel Singer, Manfred Westphal et al. · PubMed · 1969 · 72 citations
Obesity, Medicine, Pregnancy Disorders +12