Open AccessThe pattern of maternal weight gain in women with good pregnancy outcomes.
Author(s) -
Suzan L. Carmichael,
Barbara Abrams,
Steve Selvin
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.87.12.1984
Subject(s) - weight gain , medicine , pregnancy , body mass index , percentile , obstetrics , demography , body weight , statistics , genetics , mathematics , sociology , biology
This study describes the pattern of maternal weight gain in women with good pregnancy outcomes and provides data to fill in the provisional weight-gain charts published by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 1990.