ArticleAnnals of epidemiology2017
Perinatal weight and risk of prenatal and postpartum depressive symptoms.
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- A narrative review on the relationship between consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and post-partum non-communicable diseases among women.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
- Improvements in Maternal Cardiovascular Health Over the Perinatal Period Longitudinally Predict Lower Postpartum Psychological Distress Among Individuals Who Began Their Pregnancies With Overweight or Obesity.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2024Article
- Improvements in cardiovascular health over the perinatal period predicts lower postpartum psychological distress.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2023Article
- Effects of maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index and gestational weight gain on antenatal mental disorders in China: a prospective study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
- The Association of Prepregnancy Body Mass Index with Pregnancy Outcomes in Chinese Women.Journal of diabetes research · 2022Article
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- Maternal depression trajectories and child BMI in a multi-ethnic sample: a latent growth modeling analysis.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2021Article
- Pregnancy-Related Weight and Postpartum Depressive Symptoms: Do the Relationships Differ by Race/Ethnicity?Journal of women's health (2002) · 2021Article
- Postpartum depression symptoms in survey-based research: a structural equation analysis.BMC public health · 2021Article
- The relationship between depression, stress, anxiety, and postpartum weight retention: A systematic review.Journal of education and health promotion · 2021Review
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- Management of prepregnancy, pregnancy, and postpartum obesity from the FIGO Pregnancy and Non-Communicable Diseases Committee: A FIGO (International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics) guideline.International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2020Review
- mHealth Apps Assessment among Postpartum Women with Obesity and Depression.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Association Between Physical Activity During Pregnancy and Perinatal Depressive Symptoms in Pregnant Individuals With Overweight and Obesity.Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's HealthArticle
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Abstract
purposePrepregnancy obesity and weight changes accompanying pregnancy (gestational weight gain and postpartum weight retention) may be associated with risk of maternal depressive symptoms during pregnancy and in the postpartum. The few studies that have examined these relationships report conflicting findings.
methodsWe studied pregnant (n = 2112) and postpartum (n = 1686) women enrolled in Project Viva. We used self-reported prepregnancy and postpartum weight and measured prenatal weight to calculate prepregnancy body mass index (BMI), gestational weight gain (GWG), and postpartum weight retention at 6 months after birth. We assessed elevated depressive symptoms (EDS) with the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (≥13 on 0-30 scale) at midpregnancy and 6 months postpartum. We used logistic regression to estimate the odds of prenatal and postpartum EDS in relation to prepregnancy BMI, GWG, and postpartum weight retention.
resultsA total of 214 (10%) participants experienced prenatal EDS and 151 (9%) postpartum EDS. Neither prepregnancy BMI nor GWG was associated with prenatal EDS. Prepregnancy obesity (BMI ≥ 30 kg per m
conclusionsPrepregnancy obesity is associated with elevated depressive symptoms in the postpartum period. Given the current obesity epidemic in the US and the consequences of perinatal depression, additional prevention and screening efforts in this population may be warranted.
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