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Obesity in pregnancy, gestational weight gain

 

Africa

• Journal of Public Health
  • Maternal obesity in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2016]

Asia

• Journal of Pregnancy
  • Gestational Weight Gain among Healthy Pregnant Women from Asia in Comparison with Institute of Medicine (IOM) Guidelines-2009: A Systematic Review [2019]

Australia

• Better Safer Care
  • Obesity during pregnancy, birth and postpartum

• Department of Health Australia
  • Weight and body mass index

• Journal of Pregnancy
  • Australian Pregnant Women's Awareness of Gestational Weight Gain and Dietary Guidelines: Opportunity for Action [2016]

• Queensland Clinical Guidelines
  • Obesity in pregnancy

Australia, United Kingdom

• PLoS ONE
  • Maternal and perinatal outcomes in pregnant women with BMI >50: An international collaborative study [2019]

Brazil

• Clinics
  • A systematic review and meta-analysis of gestational weight gain recommendations and related outcomes in Brazil [2015]

Cameroon

• BMC Research Notes
  • Associations of body mass index and gestational weight gain with term pregnancy outcomes in urban Cameroon: a retrospective cohort study in a tertiary hospital [2015]

Canada

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Knowledge translation tool to improve pregnant women’s awareness of gestational weight gain goals and risks of gaining outside recommendations: a non-randomized intervention study [2015]
  • Contribution of prepregnancy body mass index and gestational weight gain to adverse neonatal outcomes: population attributable fractions for Canada [2015]
  • Documentation of guideline adherence in antenatal records across maternal weight categories: a chart review [2014]

• Canadian Family Physician
  • Widespread misconceptions about pregnancy for women living with obesity [2021]
  • Gestational weight gain trajectories in primary care [2016]
  • Distribution of pregnancy-related weight measures [2016]

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Effect of Maternal Weight on Pregnancy Outcomes

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Pregnancy and Maternal Obesity Part 2: Team Planning for Delivery and Postpartum Care [2019]
  • Pregnancy and Maternal Obesity Part 1: Pre-conception and Prenatal Care [2019]
  • Obesity in Pregnancy [2018]

Canada, France

• Scientific Reports
  • Impact of maternal obesity on the incidence of pregnancy complications in France and Canada [2017]

Chile

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Effectiveness of a normative nutrition intervention (diet, physical activity and breastfeeding) on maternal nutrition and offspring growth: the Chilean maternal and infant nutrition cohort study (CHiMINCs) [2015]

China

• Journal of Epidemiology
  • Gestational weight gain charts by gestational age and body mass index for Chinese women: A population-based follow-up study [2019]

• PLoS ONE
  • Pre-Pregnancy Body Mass Index, Gestational Weight Gain, and Birth Weight: A Cohort Study in China [2015]
  • Joint and Independent Associations of Gestational Weight Gain and Pre-Pregnancy Body Mass Index with Outcomes of Pregnancy in Chinese Women: A Retrospective Cohort Study [2015]

Denmark

• Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Obesity in pregnancy [2017]

France

• BMJ Open
  • Maternal characteristics associated with gestational weight gain in France: a population-based, nationally representative study [2021]

Germany

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Secular trends in pregnancy weight gain in German women and their influences on foetal outcome: a hospital-based study [2014]

Ghana

• BMC Obesity
  • Socio-demographic trends in overweight and obesity among parous and nulliparous women in Ghana [2016]

Greece

• Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics
  • Association between gestational weight gain and risk of obesity in preadolescence: a longitudinal study (1997–2007) of 5,125 children in Greece [2017]

International

• AJP Reports
  • Nutrition and Exercise Strategies to Prevent Excessive Pregnancy Weight Gain: A Meta-analysis [2019]

• BMC Medicine
  • Gestational weight gain charts for different body mass index groups for women in Europe, North America, and Oceania [2018]
  • Gestational weight gain across continents and ethnicity: systematic review and meta-analysis of maternal and infant outcomes in more than one million women [2018]

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Monitoring gestational weight gain and prepregnancy BMI using the 2009 IOM guidelines in the global population: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
  • No global consensus: a cross-sectional survey of maternal weight policies [2014]

• International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • Management of prepregnancy, pregnancy, and postpartum obesity from the FIGO Pregnancy and Non-Communicable Diseases Committee: A FIGO (International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics) guideline [2020]

• Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Health in Preconception, Pregnancy and Postpartum Global Alliance: International Network Preconception Research Priorities for the Prevention of Maternal Obesity and Related Pregnancy and Long-Term Complications [2019]

• PLoS ONE
  • Estimated global overweight and obesity burden in pregnant women based on panel data model [2018]

Ireland

• Ireland's Health Services
  • Obesity and pregnancy [2011]

Japan

• Journal of Clinical Medicine Research
  • Optimal Weight Gain During Pregnancy in Japanese Women [2016]

• Journal of Epidemiology
  • Pre-pregnancy BMI-specific optimal gestational weight gain for women in Japan [2017]

• PLoS ONE
  • Pregnancy Outcomes Based on Pre-Pregnancy Body Mass Index in Japanese Women [2016]

• Scientific Reports
  • Investigation of optimal weight gain during pregnancy for Japanese Women [2017]

Malawi

• Reproductive Health
  • Maternal overweight and obesity and the risk of caesarean birth in Malawi [2019]

New Zealand

• Ministry of Health New Zealand
  • Guidance for Healthy Weight Gain in Pregnancy [2014]

Norway

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Associations of pre-pregnancy body mass index and gestational weight gain with pregnancy outcome and postpartum weight retention: a prospective observational cohort study [2014]

Republic of Korea

• BMJ Open
  • Secular trends in postpartum weight retention from 2003 to 2012: a nationwide, population-based, retrospective, longitudinal study in South Korea [2020]

• PLoS ONE
  • Is it appropriate for Korean women to adopt the 2009 Institute of Medicine recommendations for gestational weight gain? [2017]

• Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology
  • Determining optimal gestational weight gain in the Korean population: a retrospective cohort study [2017]

South Asia

• Obesity Reviews
  • Effects of maternal anthropometrics on pregnancy outcomes in South Asian women: a systematic review [2018]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• Annals of Global Health
  • Country-Level Analysis of the Association between Maternal Obesity and Neonatal Mortality in 34 Sub-Saharan African Countries [2019]

• Tropical Medicine & International Health
  • Maternal obesity and Caesarean delivery in sub-Saharan Africa [2016]

Sweden

• BMJ
  • Risk of major congenital malformations in relation to maternal overweight and obesity severity: cohort study of 1.2 million singletons [2017]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Inter-pregnancy Weight Change and Risks of Severe Birth-Asphyxia-Related Outcomes in Singleton Infants Born at Term: A Nationwide Swedish Cohort Study [2016]

• PLoS ONE
  • Prediction of stillbirth in women with overweight or obesity—A register-based cohort study [2018]

• Scientific Reports
  • Obesity rates in two generations of Swedish women entering pregnancy, and associated obesity risk among adult daughters [2015]

Taiwan

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Maternal Prepregnancy Body Mass Index, Gestational Weight Gain, and Risk of Adverse Perinatal Outcomes in Taiwan: A Population-Based Birth Cohort Study [2020]

• Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Gestational weight gain and risks for adverse perinatal outcomes: A retrospective cohort study based on the 2009 Institute of Medicine guidelines [2015]

United Kingdom

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Obesity and normal birth: A qualitative study of clinician’s management of obese pregnant women during labour [2015]
  • Existing maternal obesity guidelines may increase inequalities between ethnic groups: a national epidemiological study of 502,474 births in England [2012]

• BMJ Open
  • Cohort study of high maternal body mass index and the risk of adverse pregnancy and delivery outcomes in Scotland [2020]

• International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
  • Guidelines and interventions for obesity during pregnancy [2012]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Weight management before, during and after pregnancy [2010]

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Care of Women with Obesity in Pregnancy [2018]

United States

• Advances in Nutrition
  • Racial-Ethnic Differences in Pregnancy-Related Weight [2012]

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Counseling and Behavioral Interventions for Healthy Weight and Weight Gain in Pregnancy: A Systematic Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force [2021]

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Weight Gain During Pregnancy [2013]

• American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Trends in gestational weight gain: the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, 2000—2009 [2015]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Prevalence and Trends in Prepregnancy Normal Weight — 48 States, New York City, and District of Columbia, 2011–2015 [2018]
  • Prepregnancy Body Mass Index by Maternal Characteristics and State: Data From the Birth Certificate, 2014 [2016]
  • Gestational Weight Gain — United States, 2012 and 2013 [2015]

• Expert Review of Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • Optimizing Weight for Maternal and Infant Health – Tenable, or Too Late? [2014]

• Healthcare
  • Impact of Pre-Pregnancy Weight and Gestational Weight Gain on Birth Outcomes by Nativity in the United States: A Systematic Review [2017]

• National Academies Press
  • Weight Gain During Pregnancy: Reexamining the Guidelines [2009]

• Nutrition Reviews
  • Gestational weight gain recommendations in the context of the obesity epidemic [2013]

• Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Prevalence and Characteristics Associated With Gestational Weight Gain Adequacy [2015]
  • Pregnancy Outcomes With Weight Gain Above or Below the 2009 Institute of Medicine Guidelines [2013]

• Obstetrics & Gynecology Clinics of North America
  • Childbearing and Obesity in Women: Weight Before, During, and After Pregnancy [2009]

• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
  • Healthy Weight and Weight Gain In Pregnancy: Behavioral Counseling Interventions [2021]

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