Observational studyAnnals of epidemiology2017
Weight gain during pregnancy and the black-white disparity in preterm birth.
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- Differential effects of a stakeholder-informed intensive perinatal eHealth behavioral weight gain intervention between non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White individuals: a secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2025Trial
- Examining demographic and psychosocial factors related to self-weighing behavior during pregnancy and postpartum periods.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Article
- Associations of the Neighborhood Built Environment with Gestational Weight Gain.American journal of perinatology · 2023Article
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- Explaining the Black-White Disparity in Preterm Birth: A Consensus Statement From a Multi-Disciplinary Scientific Work Group Convened by the March of Dimes.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2021Review
- Racial differences in contribution of prepregnancy obesity and excessive gestational weight gain to large-for-gestational-age neonates.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2020Article
- Neighborhood Racial/Ethnic Composition Trajectories and Black-White Differences in Preterm Birth among Women in Texas.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2020Article
- The Current Understanding of Gestational Weight Gain Among Women with Obesity and the Need for Future Research.NAM perspectives · 2020Review
- The association between gestational weight gain z-score and stillbirth: a case-control study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2019Article
- Gestational Weight Gain and Adverse Birth Outcomes in Twin Pregnancies.Obstetrics and gynecology · 2019Article
- Racial Disparities in Obesity Treatment.Current obesity reports · 2018Review
- Gestational Weight Gain-for-Gestational Age Z-Score Charts Applied across U.S. Populations.Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · 2018Article
- Good Practices for Observational Studies of Maternal Weight and Weight Gain in Pregnancy.Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · 2018Review
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Abstract
purposeTo quantify the relationship between pregnancy weight gain with early and late preterm birth and evaluate whether associations differed between non-Hispanic (NH) black and NH white women.
methodsWe analyzed a retrospective cohort of all live births to NH black and NH white women in the United States 2011-2015 (n = 10,714,983). We used weight gain z-scores in multiple logistic regression models stratified by prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) and race to calculate population attributable risk (PAR) percentages for the contribution of high and low pregnancy weight gain to early and late preterm birth.
resultsPregnancy weight gain was related to early and late preterm birth, but associations varied by BMI and race. For early preterm birth, the PAR percentage for high pregnancy weight gain ranged from 8 to 10% in NH black women and from 6 to 8% in NH white women. There was little evidence of racial differences in late preterm birth: PAR percentages ranged from 2 to 7% in NH black women and from 3 to 7% in NH white women.
conclusionsModerate gestational weight gain is associated with lower rate of preterm birth, with greatest reductions for early preterm birth in NH black women.
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