Desarrollo de una curva patrón de incrementos ponderales para la embarazada / Design of a standard weight chart for pregnant women
Rev. méd. Chile
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125(12): 1437-48, dic. 1997. ilus, tab
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in Spanish
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| ID: lil-210391
ABSTRACT
Background:
A low weight for height of pregnant women at the start of pregnancy has a negative impact of fetal growth.Aim:
To report the design of a weight gain chart for pregnant women that allows to classyfy mothers according to their nutritional status and to monitor weight gain during gestation. Material andmethods:
Data from 1745 Chilean mothers who delivered their newborns in 1983 and 1984 were used to build this chart.Results:
The instrument could diagnose, from gestational week 10 onwards, mothers at risk of delivering babies with birth weight under 3000 g and set weight gain goals for each individual mother based on ber nutritional status. Similarly, mothers at risk of delivering babies with birth weight over 3999 g could be early diagnosed during pregnancy and guided to have a prudent weight gain.Conclusions:
The chart can be easily used in prenatal clinics of developing countries and is currently applied in several Latin American countries
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Main subject:
Pregnancy Complications
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Reference Standards
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Weight by Height
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Birth Weight
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Nutrition Assessment
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Maternal Nutrition
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Risk factors
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Infant, Newborn
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Pregnancy
Language:
Spanish
Journal:
Rev. méd. Chile
Journal subject:
Medicine
Year:
1997
Type:
Article
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Project document
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