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Africa

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

Australia

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

• Queensland Maternity and Neonatal Clinical Guidelines Program
  • Obesity in pregnancy

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
  • 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

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

• 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]

Cochrane

• Cochrane Library
  • Interventions for preventing excessive weight gain during pregnancy
  • Directed preconception health programs and interventions for improving pregnancy outcomes for women who are overweight or obese
  • Diet or exercise, or both, for weight reduction in women after childbirth
  • Diet or exercise, or both, for preventing excessive weight gain in pregnancy
  • Deflation of gastric band balloon in pregnancy for improving outcomes

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]

International

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • No global consensus: a cross-sectional survey of maternal weight policies [2014]

• FANTA (Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance III Project)
  • Evidence on the Effectiveness of Counseling on Excess Weight Gain during Pregnancy [2015]

Japan

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

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

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

• 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]

Sub-Saharan Africa

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

Sweden

• 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]

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

Taiwan

• 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]

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

United States of America

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

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Outcomes of Maternal Weight Gain [2008]
  • Bariatric Surgery in Women of Reproductive Age: Special Concerns for Pregnancy [2008]

• American Congress 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]

• CDC National Center for Health Statistics
  • Prepregnancy Body Mass Index by Maternal Characteristics and State: Data From the Birth Certificate, 2014 [2016]

• 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]
  • 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]

Articles in journals

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Psychological antecedents of excess gestational weight gain: a systematic review [2015]

• International Journal of Obesity
  • Maternal obesity and metabolic risk to the offspring: why lifestyle interventions may have not achieved the desired outcomes [2015]

• Women and Birth
  • Gestational weight gain in obese women by class of obesity and select maternal/newborn outcomes: A systematic review [2015]

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