Is obesity still increasing among pregnant women? Prepregnancy obesity trends in 20 states, 2003-2009.
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Overall, prepregnancy obesity prevalence continues to increase and varies by race-ethnicity and maternal age and the need to address obesity as a key component of preconception care, particularly among high-risk groups is highlighted.About:
This article is published in Preventive Medicine.The article was published on 2013-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 236 citations till now.read more
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Completion and Sensitivity of the Second-Trimester Fetal Anatomic Survey in Obese Gravidas
TL;DR: To estimate the effect of maternal body mass index (BMI) on the completion of fetal anatomic surveys before 20 weeks' estimated gestational age (GA), a dummy pregnancy is considered.
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Maternal serum paraxanthine during pregnancy and offspring body mass index at ages 4 and 7 years.
Mark A. Klebanoff,Sarah A. Keim +1 more
TL;DR: This study does not support an increased risk of childhood obesity with increasing maternal caffeine consumption during pregnancy, and associations of maternal serum paraxanthine and child obesity were nonlinear, and adjustment reduced the magnitude of all associations.
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Lifestyle modification intervention for overweight and obese Hispanic pregnant women: development, implementation, lessons learned and future applications.
Roxana Torres,Sandra Soltero,Maria Angelica Trak,Carolyn M. Tucker,Keimari Mendez,Maribel Campos,Walter C. Willett,Marytere Meléndez,M.W. Gillman,Paul W. Franks,Kaumudi Joshipura,Jeremy Pomeroy,Cristina Palacios +12 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the development, implementation and lessons learned of lifestyle intervention to promote appropriate gestational weight gain among Hispanic pregnant women in the Pregnancy and Early Life Improvement Study.
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Bias from restricting to live births when estimating effects of prescription drug use on pregnancy complications: A simulation.
TL;DR: Administrative claim databases are increasingly being used to study the safety of medication exposures during pregnancy, but studies are restricted to live births due to a reliance on algorithms for estimating gestational age that are based on codes associated with live delivery.
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Maternal prepregnancy weight and gestational weight gain in association with autism and developmental disorders in offspring.
Susana L Matias,Michelle Pearl,Kristen Lyall,Lisa A. Croen,Tanja V.E. Kral,Daniele Fallin,Li Ching Lee,Chyrise B. Bradley,Laura A. Schieve,Gayle C. Windham +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined maternal prepregnancy BMI and gestational weight gain in relation to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental disorders (DD) in offspring in a multisite case-control study.
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