Early life is an important window of opportunity to improve health across the full lifecycle. An
accumulating body of evidence suggests that exposure to adverse stressors during early life …

Background Fetal smoke exposure is a common and key avoidable risk factor for birth
complications and seems to influence later risk of overweight. It is unclear whether this …

Context Ensuring a healthy pregnancy and achieving optimal gestational weight gain (GWG)
are important for maternal and child health. Nevertheless, the nutritional advice provided …

Background Self-reported pre-pregnancy weight and weight measured in the first trimester
are both used to estimate pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain …

Introduction Gestational weight gain (GWG) has important implications for maternal and
child health and is an ideal modifiable factor for preconceptional and antenatal care …

Background Excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) is a modifiable risk factor associated
with maternal and infant health, and pregnancy outcomes. However, several factors …

Background Insufficient or excessive gestational weight gain are associated with increased
risks of adverse birth and childhood outcomes. Increasing evidence suggests that exposure …

We sought to investigate whether early mid pregnancy visceral and subcutaneous fat depths
measured by ultrasound were associated with infant birth size, independent of early …

Pooled data analysis in the field of maternal and child nutrition rarely incorporates data from
low-and middle-income countries and existing studies lack a description of the methods …

Objectives To examine the association between maternal body mass index (BMI) and
gestational weight gain (GWG) and adverse birth outcomes in HIV‐infected and HIV …