Using appropriate pre-pregnancy body mass index cut points for obesity in the Chinese population: a retrospective cohort study

• मुख्य लेखकों: Yanxin Wu (लेखक), Wai-Kit Ming (लेखक), Dongyu Wang (लेखक), Haitian Chen (लेखक), Zhuyu Li (लेखक), Zilian Wang (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: BMC, 2018-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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Abstract Background Appropriate classification of obesity is vital for risk assessment and complication prevention during pregnancy. We aimed to explore which pre-pregnancy BMI cut-offs of obesity, either BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2 as recommended by the WHO for Asians or BMI ≥ 28 kg/m2 as suggested by the Worki...