Nunnery Danielle, Ammerman Alice, Dharod Jigna
a Department of Human Nutrition , Winthrop University , Rock Hill , SC , USA.
b Department of Nutrition , Gillings School of Global Public Health and School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill , NC , USA.
Health Care Women Int. 2018 Jan;39(1):19-33. doi: 10.1080/07399332.2017.1391263. Epub 2017 Dec 6.
Low-income women were interviewed and their post-natal records were retrieved (n = 160) to assess prevalence of excess gestational weight gain and its socio-demographic predictors. More than half of the women (64%) gained excess weight during pregnancy, with an average of 10 lbs in excess of Institute of Medicine guidelines. Logistic regression indicated that women that started pregnancy at an obese body mass index; who were African American or having an unplanned pregnancy were at significant risk of gaining excess weight in pregnancy. Intervention to prevent excess weight gain during pregnancy is critical in addressing obesity epidemic in the United States and worldwide.
研究人员对低收入女性进行了访谈，并检索了她们的产后记录（n = 160），以评估孕期体重过度增加的患病率及其社会人口学预测因素。超过一半的女性（64%）在孕期体重增加过多，平均超出医学研究所指南规定的体重10磅。逻辑回归分析表明，孕前体重指数为肥胖的女性、非裔美国女性或意外怀孕的女性在孕期体重过度增加的风险显著。预防孕期体重过度增加的干预措施对于解决美国乃至全球的肥胖流行问题至关重要。
