Association Between Maternal Dietary Patterns and Birthweight: A Cross-Sectional Study from South India.

Rajani Merlin Sam, Raju Naganandini, Esther John, Panneerselvam Periasamy

Abstract read

In one paragraph

Article in Journal of pharmacy & bioallied sciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

0citing papers in PubMed

–field-weighted citation impact

1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Rajani Merlin SamP.hD Scholar, Department of Nursing, Vinayaka Missions Research Foundation, Deemed to be University, Salem, Tamil Nadu, India.

Raju NaganandiniAssociate Professor and HOD, Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Vinayaka Missions Annapoorana College of Nursing, Vinayaka Missions Research Foundation, Deemed to be University, Salem, Tamil Nadu, India.

Esther JohnDean Cum Principal, Ganga Institute of Health Sciences, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

Panneerselvam PeriasamyDepartment of Physiology, Government Erode Medical College, Perundurai, Affiliated Under the Tamil Nadu, Dr MGR Medical University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: This study explores the link between a mother's dietary variety score and her prenatal eating patterns, focusing on the potential impact on her health and the likelihood of a low-birth-weight baby. Methods: Mothers at the Ganga Medical Centre and Hospitals in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, were interviewed to measure bio-social variables, including pre-pregnancy weight, height, BMI, total weight gain, and birth weight. Low birth weight was the main measure of interest. Results: The study found that 63.33% of neonates had a low birth weight, with 68% preterm and 32% late due to IUGR. 45% of mothers had a low BMI during pregnancy and pregnancies. Conclusion: Nutrition programs should prioritize screening and treating at-risk women, reducing the low-birth-weight infant burden, and promoting better maternal protein intake to improve baby birth weight.

Indexed as

Birth weightBMIgestational weight gainmaternal healthmaternal nutritionpregnancy

Identifiers

PMID40061751

DOI10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_909_24

PMCPMC11888756

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata

LicenceCC BY-NC-SA

Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.