Is obesity still increasing among pregnant women? Prepregnancy obesity trends in 20 states, 2003-2009.
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...Recent evidence among non-pregnant women ages 20–39 years suggests that obesity prevalence has plateaued, but we do not know whether this is true among pregnant women (Flegal et al., 2010)....
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...NHANES data do not indicate an increase in obesity among women aged 20–39 years during 1999–2008 (Flegal et al., 2010)....
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...We categorized adolescent women as underweight ( 5th BMIfor-age percentile), normal weight (5th–84.9th BMI-for-age percentile), overweight (85th– 94.9th BMI-for-age percentile), and obese (>95th BMI-for-age percentile) (Barlow and Expert, 2007)....
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...9th BMI-for-age percentile and in the 97th or higher BMI-for-age percentile (Ogden et al., 2012)....
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...For subanalyses, we assessed trends among adolescents in the 95th–96.9th BMI-for-age percentile and in the 97th or higher BMI-for-age percentile (Ogden et al., 2012)....
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...Records excluded because of missing data were disproportionately young, Hispanic, had two or more previous live births, had completed fewer than 12 years of education, were unmarried, nonsmokers, and enrolled in WIC and Medicaid (P 0.001)....
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...A uthor M anuscript A uthor M anuscript A uthor M anuscript A uthor M anuscript A uthor M anuscript A uthor M anuscript A uthor M anuscript A uthor M anuscript Table 1 Maternal characteristics among consistently reporting US states (20 states), 2003, 2006 and 2009a. Characteristic 2003 2006 2009 P-value Maternal age (y) <0.001 <20 9.2 (0.3) 9.1 (0.3) 9.0 (0.3) 20–24 25.5 (0.4) 23.7 (0.4) 22.8 (0.4) 25–29 27.3 (0.4) 28.9 (0.4) 30.1 (0.4) 30–34 24.7 (0.4) 23.9 (0.4) 24.4 (0.4) ≥35 13.4 (0.3) 14.4 (0.3) 13.8 (0.3) Maternal race–ethnicity <0.001 Non-Hispanic White 69.1 (0.3) 66.9 (0.4) 64.9 (0.4) Non-Hispanic Black 13.1 (0.3) 13.1 (0.3) 13.6 (0.2) Hispanic 11.3 (0.3) 12.6 (0.3) 13.1 (0.3) American Indian/Alaskan Native 1.2 (0.1) 1.3 (0.1) 1.3 (0.1) Asian/Pacific Islander 4.9 (0.1) 5.1 (0.2) 5.0 (0.1) Other 0.4 (0.1) 1.1 (0.1) 2.1 (0.1) Parity 0.16 0 41.2 (0.5) 40.8 (0.5) 40.7 (0.5) 1 32.1 (0.4) 31.9 (0.4) 33.2 (0.4) ≥2 26.7 (0.4) 27.2 (0.4) 26.1 (0.4) Maternal education (y) <0.001 <12 15.6 (0.4) 15.2 (0.3) 14.3 (0.3) 12 31.9 (0.4) 29.1 (0.4) 26.7 (0.4) ≥13 52.5 (0.5) 55.8 (0.4) 59.0 (0.5) Married 67.2 (0.4) 65.8 (0.4) 62.5 (0.4) <0.001 WIC enrolled 39.0 (0.4) 40.3 (0.4) 44.5 (0.5) <0.001 Medicaid enrolled 40.1 (0.4) 43.0 (0.4) 46.8 (0.5) <0.001 Smoking before pregnancy 24.5 (0.4) 24.5 (0.4) 26.9 (0.4) <0.001 Abbreviations: WIC, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. a Values are weighted percentages (standard error)....
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...We defined WIC enrollment as having received WIC assistance during pregnancy....
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...Results Across the study period, respondents were predominantly non-Hispanic white, married, post-high school, not enrolled in WIC or Medicaid, and nonsmokers before pregnancy (Table 1)....
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...We used Medicaid and Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) enrollment as dichotomous proxy indicators of socioeconomic status....
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