RT Journal Article
A1 Harris, Emily
T1 Limited Pregnancy Weight Gain for People With Obesity Might Be Safe
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2024
DO 10.1001/jama.2024.6718
SN 0098-7484
AB People with obesity who gained less than the recommended 5 kg to 9 kg of weight during pregnancy did not experience adverse outcomes, and neither did their children, according to data from about 15 800 pregnancies among people with obesity in Sweden.The findings from this population-based cohort study support calls for lowering or removing the current lower limit of weight gain recommended by the US Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine) for pregnant patients with obesity, which “might help to reduce the high burden of poor maternal and infant health outcomes associated with prepregnancy obesity,” the researchers wrote in The Lancet. The results were based on a score that took into account stillbirths, size at birth, gestational diabetes, and cardiometabolic diseases that began after pregnancy.
RD 5/20/2024
UL https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.6718