Relationship Between Gestational Weight Gain and Birthweight Among Clients Enrolled in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), Hawaii, 2003–2005

Relationship Between Gestational Weight Gain and Birthweight Among Clients Enrolled in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), Hawaii, 2003–2005

To investigate the relationship between gestational weight gain (GWG) and birthweight outcomes among a low-income population in Hawaii using GWG recommendations from the 2009 Institute of Medicine (IOM) guidelines. Data were analyzed for 19,130 mother-infant pairs who participated in Hawaii’s Specia...

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Veröffentlicht in:Maternal and child health journal 2014-07, Vol.18 (5), p.1123-1131
Hauptverfasser: Chihara, Izumi, Hayes, Donald K., Chock, Linda R., Fuddy, Loretta J., Rosenberg, Deborah L., Handler, Arden S.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Adult
Analysis
Babies
Birth size
Birth Weight
Body Mass Index
Childrens health
Demography
Disease control
Ethnicity
Families & family life
Female
Food Assistance
Gestational age
Gynecology
Hawaii
Health aspects
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Infants
Low income groups
Maternal and Child Health
Measurement
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Morbidity
Mortality
Mothers
Multiple births
Nutrition
Overweight
Patient outcomes
Pediatrics
Population
Population Economics
Poverty
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Outcome
Public Health
Race
Sociology
Weight gain
Weight Gain - ethnology
Womens health
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Zusammenfassung:To investigate the relationship between gestational weight gain (GWG) and birthweight outcomes among a low-income population in Hawaii using GWG recommendations from the 2009 Institute of Medicine (IOM) guidelines. Data were analyzed for 19,130 mother-infant pairs who participated in Hawaii’s Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children from 2003 through 2005. GWG was categorized as inadequate, adequate, or excessive on the basis of GWG charts in the guidelines. Generalized logit models assessed the relationship between mothers’ GWG and their child’s birthweight category (low birthweight [LBW:
ISSN:1092-7875
1573-6628
DOI:10.1007/s10995-013-1342-6