Maternal postpartum distress and childhood overweight.

Normal or below-normal pre-pregnancy BMI, physical activity and adequate weight gain during pregnancy, lower parity, exclusive breastfeeding for a longer period, appropriate or low

The authors suggested there are risk factors more important than LBW or gestational age that are related to increased blood pressure in childhood, such as high maternal BMI and a

A prospective cohort study conducted with 245,526 Swedish pregnant women in order to estimate the effects of low and high gestational weight gain in different ranges of maternal

Another intriguing finding in this study in- dicates that being overweight or obese prior to pregnancy is a risk factor for excessive weight gain, but having low pre-pregnancy BMI

This review aimed to: (a) identify studies that investigated the relationship between maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and/or gestational weight gain and offspring fat mass, lean

The following risk factors were analyzed concerning their relation to neurological and developmental abnormalities: high-risk pregnancy, maternal hypertension, social class,

For the evaluation of adequacy of total gestational weight gain, after the classiication of the pre-pregnancy BMI by the diferent methods, the total gain weight of the pregnant

Table 2 shows that, in models simultaneously investigating age, pre-pregnancy BMI, early pregnancy weight gain, parity, study centre and smoking, the first three