Gestational weight gain outside the 2009 Institute of Medicine recommendations: novel psychological and behavioural factors associated with inadequate or excess weight gain in a prospective cohort study

• Main Authors: Yu Yang Feng (Author), Zhijie Michael Yu (Author), Sherry van Blyderveen (Author), Louis Schmidt (Author), Wendy Sword (Author), Meredith Vanstone (Author), Anne Biringer (Author), Helen McDonald (Author), Joseph Beyene (Author), Sarah Diana McDonald (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Previous studies have noted traditional physical, demographic, and obstetrical predictors of inadequate or excess gestational weight gain, but the roles of psychological and behavioral factors are not well established. Few interventions targeting traditional factors of gestationa...