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Cohen, Alison K. Kazi, Chandni Headen, Irene Rehkopf, David Hendrick, C. Emily Patil, Divya Abrams, Barbara |
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Educational Attainment and Gestational Weight Gain among U.S. Mothers Women's Health Issues 26,4 (July-August 2016): 460-467. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1049386716300457 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Educational Attainment; Gestation/Gestational weight gain; Weight Methods: We used data from 1979 through 2010 for women in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979) cohort (n = 6,344 pregnancies from 2,769 women). We used generalized estimating equations to estimate the association between educational attainment and GWG adequacy (as defined by 2009 Institute of Medicine guidelines), controlling for diverse social factors from across the life course (e.g., income, wealth, educational aspirations and expectations) and considering effect measure modification by race/ethnicity and prepregnancy overweight status. Results: In most cases, women with more education had increased odds of gaining a recommended amount of gestational weight, independent of educational aspirations and educational expectations and relatively robust to sensitivity analyses. This trend manifested itself in a few different ways. Those with less education had higher odds of inadequate GWG than those with more education. Among those who were not overweight before pregnancy, those with less education had higher odds of excessive GWG than college graduates. Among women who were White, those with less than a high school degree had higher odds of excessive GWG than those with more education. |
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Cohen, Alison K., Chandni Kazi, Irene Headen, David Rehkopf, C. Emily Hendrick, Divya Patil and Barbara Abrams. "Educational Attainment and Gestational Weight Gain among U.S. Mothers." Women's Health Issues 26,4 (July-August 2016): 460-467.
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