ArticleThe Lancet regional health. Western Pacific2021
Optimal gestational weight gain for Chinese women - analysis from a longitudinal cohort with childhood follow-up.
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Abstract
backgroundMaternal gestational weight gain (GWG) influences not only on pregnancy outcome but also impacts on mothers' and children's long-term health. However, there is no consensus on recommendations of optimal GWG in Asians or the Chinese population.
methodsWe performed a secondary analysis of the birth outcome of Chinese women who had joined the "Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome" study in Hong Kong and their children's cardiometabolic risk at 7-year of age. Optimal ranges of GWG were derived from models based on the probabilities of small for gestational age and large for gestational age (model 1), lean and fat infants (model 2) and the integration of model 1 and 2 (model 3), and were compared with that recommended by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) on children's cardiometabolic risk.
findingsGWG range derived from model 2 is associated with 8 cardiometabolic risk factors, while that from models 1 and 3 are associated with 1 and 7 of them respectively. Mothers whose GWG lie within the recommended range increases from 40.8% according to the IOM recommendation to 50.2% according to that derived from model 2.
interpretationOptimal GWG derived from model 2 (i.e. 14.0-18.5 kg, 9.0-16.5 kg and 5.0-11.0 kg for underweight, normal weight and overweight Chinese women, respectively) appeared to be associated with the lowest cardiometabolic risk in the offspring.
fundingGeneral Research Fund of the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong SAR, China (grants CUHK 473408 and, in part, CUHK 471713).
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