ArticleAmerican journal of public health1998
Maternal anthropometric factors and risk of primary cesarean delivery.
Article in American journal of public health, 1998. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Randomized trial of a behavioral intervention to prevent excessive gestational weight gain: the Fit for Delivery Study.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2011Trial
- Maternal Height Is an Independent Risk of Adverse Outcomes in Women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders · 2024Article
- A safe, low-cost, easy-to-use 3D camera platform to assess risk of obstructed labor due to cephalopelvic disproportion.PloS one · 2018Article
- Cesarean section indications and anthropometric parameters in Rwandan nulliparae: preliminary results from a longitudinal survey.The Pan African medical journal · 2016Article
- Maternal weight gain during pregnancy and neonatal birth weight: a review of the literature.Journal of prenatal medicine · 2011Article
- Pregnancy: a "teachable moment" for weight control and obesity prevention.American journal of obstetrics and gynecology · 2010Article
- How should gestational weight gain be assessed? A comparison of existing methods and a novel method, area under the weight gain curve.International journal of epidemiology · 2007Article
- Changes in maternal characteristics in Nova Scotia, Canada from 1988 to 2001.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publiqueArticle
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Abstract
objectivesThis study examined absolute and proportional gestational weight gain and prepregnancy body mass index as predictors of primary cesarean delivery.
methodsData were derived from a prospective study of pregnancy outcome risk factors in 2301 women in greater New Haven, Conn, who had singleton deliveries by primary cesarean (n = 312) or vaginal delivery (n = 1989) and for whom height, prepregnancy weight, and weight gain were available. Women were divided into 4 body mass index groups (underweight, low average, high average, and obese) and further subdivided into 8 groups according to median proportional or absolute weight gain.
resultsRisk of cesarean delivery increased with increasing body mass index and gestational weight gain greater than the median for one's body mass index. Proportional weight gain was more predictive of cesarean delivery than absolute weight gain. Underweight women gaining more than 27.8% of their prepregnancy weight had a 2-fold adjusted relative risk of cesarean delivery.
conclusionsProportional weight gain is an important predictor of cesarean delivery for underweight women; high body mass index is also predictive of increased risk.
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