ArticleNutrients2017
The Influence of Maternal Dietary Patterns on Body Mass Index and Gestational Weight Gain in Urban Black South African Women.
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- Definition of the traditional African diet: a scoping review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Risk factors for inadequate and excessive gestational weight gain in 25 low- and middle-income countries: An individual-level participant meta-analysis.PLoS medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Maternal Consumption of Ultra-Processed Foods-Rich Diet and Perinatal Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2022Pooled it
- Dietary Patterns during Pregnancy and Gestational Weight Gain: A Systematic Review.Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetricia : revista da Federacao Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetricia · 2022Pooled it
- Associations between Maternal Dietary Patterns and Perinatal Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2021Pooled it
- Gestational weight gain and its effect on birth outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa: Systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2020Pooled it
- Gestational weight gain during the second and third trimesters and adverse pregnancy outcomes, results from a prospective pregnancy cohort in urban Tanzania.Reproductive health · 2022Trial
- Dietary patterns are associated with gestational weight gain and nutrient adequacy during pregnancy: the effects of healthy diet in pregnancy.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Article
- Understanding maternal nutrition through the voices of community health workers and mother mentors in Limpopo Province, South Africa.Frontiers in global women's health · 2026Article
- Non-Communicable Disease Burden and Dietary Determinants in Women of Reproductive Age in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Gestational weight gain and its determinant factors among women attending at public health facilities, Northwest Ethiopia, 2023.Maternal health, neonatology and perinatology · 2025Article
- Mediterranean Diet Outcomes Across the Mother-Milk-Infant Triad: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Association of maternal dietary patterns in early pregnancy with gestational weight gain: Yazd Birth Cohort.International journal of reproductive biomedicine · 2025Article
- Association among Gestational Weight Gain, Fucosylated Human Milk Oligosaccharides, and Breast Milk Microbiota─An Evidence in Healthy Mothers from Northwest China.Journal of agricultural and food chemistry · 2024Article
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- Association between Gestational Weight Gain and Maternal and Birth Outcomes in Northern Ghana.BioMed research international · 2024Article
- Dietary patterns and their socio-demographic correlates in the context of migration and urbanisation demonstrate nutrition transitions in South Africa.Global public health · 2024Article
- Association of dietary patterns of pregnant women with pregnancy outcomes: A hospital-based study.Food science & nutrition · 2023Article
- Healthier diet associated with reduced risk of excessive gestational weight gain: A Chinese prospective cohort study.Maternal & child nutrition · 2023Article
- Sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among pregnant women attending general and teaching hospitals in Ibadan, Nigeria : SSB consumption during pregnancy.BMC public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
Maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) and subsequent gestational weight gain (GWG) are strong predictors of maternal and infant outcomes; however the influence of dietary patterns on BMI-specific GWG is unclear. This study identifies patterns of habitual dietary intake in urban South African women and explores their associations with first trimester BMI and GWG. Habitual dietary intake of 538 pregnant women was assessed using a quantitative food-frequency questionnaire and dietary patterns were depicted via principle component analysis. Associations between dietary patterns and BMI-specific GWG were analyzed using linear and logistic regression. Three dietary patterns were identified: Western, Traditional and Mixed. Western and Mixed diet patterns were associated with 35 g/week (
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