Association between maternal and fetal weight gain: cohort study

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Excessive gestational weight gain is related to many complications (both maternal and fetal), such as macrosomia. The most common complications in macrosomic fetuses include: increased risk of intrauterine death, need for intensive care, fractures, neonatal hyperbilirubinemia,...

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Main Authors: Bárbara Miranda Ferreira Costa, Régis Resende Paulinelli, Maria Alves Barbosa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Paulista de Medicina
Series:São Paulo Medical Journal
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-31802012000400007&lng=en&tlng=en