Pre-Pregnancy BMI, Gestational Weight Gain, and the Risk of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: A Cohort Study in Wuhan, China
Zhou A, Xiong C, Hu R, Zhang Y, Bassig BA, Triche E, Yang S, Qiu L, Zhang Y, Yao C, Xu S, Wang Y, Xia W, Qian Z, Zheng T, Zhang B. Pre-Pregnancy BMI, Gestational Weight Gain, and the Risk of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: A Cohort Study in Wuhan, China. PLOS ONE 2015, 10: e0136291. PMID: 26305565, PMCID: PMC4548954, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0136291.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTotal gestational weight gainGestational weight gainRisk of HDPPre-pregnancy BMIRisk factorsHypertensive disordersCohort studyBMI gainEarly gestational weight gainMaternal pre-pregnancy BMIChinese womenWeight gainMultiple unconditional logistic regressionLive singleton pregnancyUnconditional logistic regressionNormal-weight counterpartsPutative risk factorsWeight control effortsSingleton pregnanciesMaternal deathsEarly pregnancyIOM recommendationsMedicine recommendationsElevated riskPregnancy