Weight gain in pregnancy

Poidevin, L.O.S.

Med. J. Austral. 2: 324-328

1960


DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(62)91706-3
Document Number: 487928
The gain in weight in women with pre-eclamptic toxaemia, in three grades of severity, was compared with that in 935 pregnancies without toxaemia. The mean was slightly greater in the toxaemic group because of more rapid gain between 30 and 40 weeks. Weight gain between 20 and 30 weeks had no prognostic significance. Gain was not related to the severity of toxaemia; only 2 of 7 women with eclampsia gained more than 20 Ib for the whole pregnancy.

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