Are the 2009 Institute of Medicine gestational weight gain recommendations applicable in a contemporary South-East Asian pregnancy cohort? Results of a prospective analysis.

Nevertheless, the significant correlation of excessive GWG with increased SSFT we observed is highly significant clinically, given the established phenomenon of the ‘thin-fat’ Asian baby and evidence that fat mass at birth is a more discriminatory indicator of future cardio-metabolic risk in childhood than crude birth weight [ 25 – 27 ].

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