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The educational gradient of obesity increases among Swedish pregnant women: a register-based study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, April 2015
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Title
The educational gradient of obesity increases among Swedish pregnant women: a register-based study
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BMC Public Health, April 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12889-015-1624-6
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Helena Bjermo, Simon Lind, Finn Rasmussen

Abstract

Overweight or obesity is detrimental during pregnancy. We studied time trends in the educational gradient of overweight and obesity among pregnant women. Differences in overweight and obesity by area of residence and country of birth were also examined. The study was based on the Swedish Medical Birth Register between 1992 and 2010 and included 1,569,173 singleton pregnancies. Weight and height were registered during the first visit at the antenatal-care clinic. Data on education, country of birth, and area of residence were derived from registers with national coverage. In 2008-2010, 32% of Swedish nulliparous pregnant women were overweight or obese. The relative risk of obesity among lower educated women compared to women with higher education increased from 1.91 (95% confidence interval: 1.85-1.97) in 1992-1995 to 2.09 (95% confidence interval: 2.05-2.14) in 2008-2010. There was an inverse linear relationship between risks of overweight or obesity, and population density and type of residence municipality. An excessive gestational weight gain according to the American Institute of Medicine was observed among 57-63% of the overweight or obese women, but there were small differences by education. Pregnant women born in Africa, Middle East or Latin America had higher risks of being overweight or obese compared to women born in Sweden. The prevalence of obesity as well as the social inequalities in obesity during pregnancy increased in Sweden between 1992 and 2010. Further understanding of social inequalities and geographical differentials in health behaviours of pregnant women is needed when planning public health interventions.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Rwanda 1 1%
Taiwan 1 1%
Unknown 79 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 15 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 14%
Student > Bachelor 8 10%
Other 5 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 5%
Other 14 17%
Unknown 24 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 24 30%
Nursing and Health Professions 13 16%
Social Sciences 6 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 2%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 1%
Other 5 6%
Unknown 30 37%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 21 April 2015.
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#7,399,977
of 22,797,621 outputs
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#7,805
of 14,855 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#89,767
of 264,674 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#142
of 270 outputs
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