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SUBMITTER: Bodnar LM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4731302 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bodnar Lisa M LM Siminerio Lara L LL Himes Katherine P KP Hutcheon Jennifer A JA Lash Timothy L TL Parisi Sara M SM Abrams Barbara B
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 20151117 2
<h4>Objective</h4>Assessment of the joint and independent relationships of gestational weight gain and prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) on risk of infant mortality was performed.<h4>Methods</h4>This study used Pennsylvania linked birth-infant death records (2003-2011) from infants without anomalies born to mothers with prepregnancy BMI categorized as underweight (n = 58,973), normal weight (n = 610,118), overweight (n = 296,630), grade 1 obesity (n = 147,608), grade 2 obesity (n = 71,740), and ...[more]