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Excessive Gestational Weight Gain and Subsequent Maternal Obesity at Age 40: A Hypothetical Intervention
American journal of public health (1971), v 107(9), pp 1463-1469
Sep 2017
PMID: 28727522
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Abstract
To model the hypothetical impact of preventing excessive gestational weight gain on midlife obesity and compare the estimated reduction with the US Healthy People 2020 goal of a 10% reduction of obesity prevalence in adults.
We analyzed 3917 women with 1 to 3 pregnancies in the prospective US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, from 1979 to 2012. We compared the estimated obesity prevalence between 2 scenarios: gestational weight gain as reported and under the scenario of a hypothetical intervention that all women with excessive gestational weight gain instead gained as recommended by the Institute of Medicine (2009).
A hypothetical intervention was associated with a significantly reduced estimated prevalence of obesity for first (3.3 percentage points; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.0, 5.6) and second (3.0 percentage points; 95% CI = 0.7, 5.2) births, and twice as high in Black as in White mothers, but not significant in Hispanics. The population attributable fraction was 10.7% (95% CI = 3.3%, 18.1%) in first and 9.3% (95% CI = 2.2%, 16.5%) in second births.
Development of effective weight-management interventions for childbearing women could lead to meaningful reductions in long-term obesity.
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- Title
- Excessive Gestational Weight Gain and Subsequent Maternal Obesity at Age 40: A Hypothetical Intervention
- Creators
- Barbara Abrams - Stanford UniversityJeremy Coyle - Stanford UniversityAlison K Cohen - Stanford UniversityIrene Headen - Stanford UniversityAlan Hubbard - Stanford UniversityLorrene Ritchie - Stanford UniversityDavid H Rehkopf - Stanford University
- Publication Details
- American journal of public health (1971), v 107(9), pp 1463-1469
- Grant note
- R21 HD056581 / NICHD NIH HHS R01 MD006104 / NIMHD NIH HHS K01 AG047280 / NIA NIH HHS
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Community Health and Prevention; Drexel University
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000412491700044
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85027836608
- Other Identifier
- 991020100190404721
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- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health