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9395736

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-12-29
pubmed:abstractText
The independent associations between parity and maternal body mass index (BMI), and between parity and maternal weight gain, were investigated using a combination of cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses based on a retrospective, repeat-pregnancy study that examined the change in maternal body weight from the beginning of one pregnancy to the beginning of the next. A group of 523 multiparous women who had been weighed regularly during pregnancy, and none of whom had fallen pregnant less than 12 months after the birth of their previous child, were examined. Sociodemographic, behavioural, medical, obstetric and perinatal data, together with antenatal measurements of maternal body weight and height, were abstracted from each mother's obstetric notes. Parity was found to be independently associated with maternal BMI (p < 0.001), gestational weight gain (p < 0.001) and interpregnancy weight gain (p = 0.032). Women of different parities were found to be at differential risk of long-term weight gain for two reasons. First, primiparous women are at risk of long-term weight gain because they gain the most weight during pregnancy, and high gestational weight gain is in itself a risk factor for long-term weight gain. Second, women of higher parity (4+) are at risk of long-term weight gain because they gain more weight in association with pregnancy, irrespective of the amount of weight they gain during their pregnancies. For women of parity 3 or less, the association between maternal body weight and parity appears to be the result of cumulative weight gained during successive pregnancies. For women of greater parity, the association between maternal body weight and parity is partly the result of cumulative excess gestational weight gained during successive pregnancies, and partly the result of gaining more weight from the beginning of one pregnancy to the next at later pregnancies.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0301-4460
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
24
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
507-19
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Is there an independent association between parity and maternal weight gain?
pubmed:affiliation
Maternal and Child Health Research Programme, School of Chemical and Life Sciences, University of Greenwich, London.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't