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Are women who quit smoking at high risk of excess weight gain throughout pregnancy?

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, September 2016
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Title
Are women who quit smoking at high risk of excess weight gain throughout pregnancy?
Published in
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, September 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12884-016-1056-z
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Authors

Adam Hulman, Olha Lutsiv, Christina K. Park, Lynette Krebs, Joseph Beyene, Sarah D. McDonald

Abstract

Smoking cessation has been reported to be associated with high total gestational weight gain (GWG), which itself is a risk factor for adverse maternal-infant outcomes. Recent studies have criticized conventional single measures of GWG, since they may lead to biased results. Therefore, we aimed to compare patterns of GWG based on serial antenatal weight measurements between women who: never smoked, quit during pregnancy, continued to smoke. Participants (N = 509) of our longitudinal study were recruited from seven antenatal clinics in Southwestern Ontario. Serial GWG measurements were abstracted from medical charts, while information on smoking status was obtained from a self-administered questionnaire at a median gestational age of 32 (27-37) weeks. GWG patterns were assessed by fitting piecewise mixed-effects models. First trimester weight gains and weekly rates for the last two trimesters were compared by smoking status. During the first trimester, women who never smoked and those who quit during pregnancy gained on average 1.7 kg (95 % CI: 1.4-2.1) and 1.2 kg (0.3-2.1), respectively, whereas women who continued smoking gained more than twice as much (3.5 kg, 2.4-4.6). Weekly rate of gain in the second and third trimesters was highest in women who quit smoking (0.60 kg/week, 0.54-0.65), approximately 20 and 50 % higher than in women who never smoked and those who smoked during pregnancy, respectively. In this longitudinal study to examine GWG by smoking status based on serial GWG measurements, we found that women who quit smoking experienced a rapid rate of gain during the last two trimesters, suggesting that this high-risk group may benefit from targeted interventions.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 50 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 7 14%
Student > Master 7 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 10%
Researcher 5 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 8%
Other 7 14%
Unknown 15 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 11 22%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 14%
Unspecified 2 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 4%
Arts and Humanities 1 2%
Other 5 10%
Unknown 22 44%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 September 2016.
All research outputs
#6,312,234
of 24,580,204 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#1,623
of 4,588 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#93,004
of 341,407 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#45
of 109 outputs
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