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Perspectives about and approaches to weight gain in pregnancy: a qualitative study of physicians and nurse midwives

BACKGROUND: Over one third of reproductive age women in the US are obese. Pregnancy is a strong risk factor for obesity, with excess weight gain as the greatest predictor of long term obesity. The majority of pregnant women gain more weight than recommended by the Institute of Medicine guidelines. T...

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Autores principales: Chang, Tammy, Llanes, Mikel, Gold, Katherine J, Fetters, Michael D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3626918/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23433216
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-13-47