Association Between Gestational Weight Gain and Low Birth Weight Across the Pre-pregnancy Body Mass Index Strata: The Sri Lanka Maternal and Newborn Growth Study.

The disappearance of the nearly significant association observed in the normal BMI group when using GWG categories, as opposed to z‐scores, may be because the Institute of Medicine ( 2009 ) GWG recommendations are relatively high in the Sri Lankan context, as Sri Lankans tend to have small body frames, as do many other Asians.

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