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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Excessive Gestational Weight Gain"”.
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Factors Affecting Pregnancy Weight Gain In African American Women
… American women, who have high rates of overweight and obesity, are also more susceptible to weight retention due to pregnancy than women of other races, leading to increased risk of health problems for mother and child. However, research into physical activity and nutritional barriers has …
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Characterizing the Factors Associated with Women’s Adherence to Institute of Medicine Gestational Weight Gain Guidelines and Assessing a Possible Role for Mobile Health through the Evaluation of a Pregnancy-Specific Application SmartMoms Canada
… environment affected by maternal obesity and excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) pose several adverse short- and long-term health risks to infants. Excessive GWG and maternal obesity are of high priority to public health across many nations. Improving maternal and child health can be …
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La glycémie maternelle en grossesse et la leptine dans le sang de cordon : des déterminants de l’adiposité dans l’enfance
Childhood overweight and obesity are serious public health issues that affect both the physical and mental health of children. In the province of Quebec, more than a quarter of children are overweight. Exposure to maternal hyperglycaemia complicated or not by gestational diabetes (GDM), maternal …
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Prepregnancy Body Mass Index, Gestational Weight Gain, and Child's Asthma Development
… asthma, maternal prepregnancy obesity, and excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) have been on the rise in recent decades. This has brought attention to these topics and whether maternal weight related metrics affect the risk of asthma. Methodological challenges and data quality have led to …
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An Examination of Maternal Contributors and Potential Modifiers of Fetal Growth in Pregnancy
… understanding of critical periods of body weight regulation, including pregnancy, may aid in efforts to optimize weight management strategies for the mother and her baby. The gestational period has been implicated to play, in the child, a vital role in the developmental origins of obesity …
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Three essays on nutrition and health: sugar-sweetened beverages, postpartum military wellness, and online grocery shopping
… essay examines the impact of pregnancy and excessive gestational weight gain (eGWG) on physical fitness among active duty United States Air Force (USAF) servicewomen. Active duty members of the USAF must undergo regular physical fitness assessments, with repeated failures potentially leading …
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Feasibility of Online Nutritional Counseling and/or Remote Self Weighing in Pregnant Women With Obesity
… of effect using a combination of weekly weights and an online registered dietician to control excessive gestational weight gain in pregnant women with obesity using a pilot randomized controlled trial.</p> <p><strong>Specific Aims</strong></p> <p>There are three specific aims. Aim 1: …
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Influence of a physical exercise program, physical activity, sedentarism, body composition and physical fitness during pregnancy on body composition, physical fitness and neurocognition of the offspring: the gestafitos project
… as it has been associated with reduced risk of excessive gestational weight gain and a better control of offspring birth weight in healthy ranges. Additionally, the increased prevalence of maternal obesity in recent decades has occurred in parallel with the rise of macrosomia (defined as body …