Proportional weight gain and complications of pregnancy, labor, and delivery in healthy women of normal prepregnant stature
Shepard M, Hellenbrand K, Bracken M. Proportional weight gain and complications of pregnancy, labor, and delivery in healthy women of normal prepregnant stature. American Journal Of Obstetrics And Gynecology 1986, 155: 947-954. PMID: 3619994, DOI: 10.1016/0002-9378(86)90323-6.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsComplications of pregnancyProlonged second stageProportional weight gainWeight gainMultigravid womenHealthy womenYale-New Haven HospitalEarly prenatal visitPreexisting chronic diseaseAdverse neonatal outcomesMajor congenital malformationsSignificant risk factorsDays of deliveryHealth maintenance organizationGestational hypertensionPrepregnant weightNeonatal outcomesCesarean sectionFourfold riskPrenatal visitPrimigravid womenHospital clinicQuetelet indexRisk factorsChronic diseases