Implications of Gestational Weight Gain as A Modifiable Risk Factor for Obesity in Mother and Child
Background: Obesity is a growing public health concern in the United States with 17.1% and 33.2% of childrenand women obese and many more at risk for becoming obese. Many obese women have regarded pregnancy as theonset of extreme weight gain, thus efforts to identify the relationship between pregnan...
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Professor Despina Sapountzi-Krepia
2011-01-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Caring Sciences |
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| Online Access: | http://internationaljournalofcaringsciences.org/docs/Vol4_Issue2_03_Soma.pdf |