Objectives: To determine the relationship between maternal weight gain pattern and birth
weight. Methods: All nonobese, white women delivered at the University of California, San …

Prepregnancy weight status and weight gain during pregnancy are major independent
variables associated with infant birth weight. This study quantitated the influence of weight …

Objective: To review the relationship between gestational weight gain and preterm delivery.
Data Sources: We identified published studies through Medline searches (for the period …

From a population of singleton pregnancies, 152 overweight women (greater than 110% of
standard) were matched with normal weight women (95-110%) for age, height, parity, race …

Background. In a prospective study, the association between maternal nutritional status and
psychomotor development of low-income African-American children was evaluated. We …

Prospective data from 696 adolescents who delivered at 37 weeks or more gestation were
analyzed to determine factors associated with weight gain during pregnancy and effects of …

We examined whether adolescents required greater prenatal weight gains than
nonadolescents to deliver equal weight babies following a low-risk pregnancy. Maternal …

Relationships between body mass index (BMI) and weight gain with perinatal outcome and
birthweight were examined. BMI was calculated on 582 consecutive pregnant women who …

We examined whether the risk of preterm birth and its subtypes (medically indicated and
spontaneous preterm) are influenced by changes in prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) …

This study determined the prevalence of low maternal weight gain among a target group of
low-income black and Hispanic women and compared weight-for-height near term with total …