Competing priorities: a qualitative study of how women make and enact decisions about weight gain in pregnancy
Abstract Background Despite ample clinical evidence that gaining excess weight in pregnancy results in negative health outcomes for women and infants, more than half of women in Western industrialized nations gain in excess of national guidelines. The influence of socio-demographic factors and weigh...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2020-09-01
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| Series: | BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12884-020-03210-5 |