Healthier diet associated with reduced risk of excessive gestational weight gain: A Chinese prospective cohort study

• DOI: 10.1111/mcn.13397
• Publication Date: 2022-07-13T05:45:57Z
• Authors: Mengtong Yang; Qiuyu Feng; Cong Chen; Sijia Chen; Yishan Guo; Danping Su; Hong Chen; Hong Sun; Hongli Dong; Guo Zeng
• Keywords: Generation R

Limited studies have examined the associations between diet quality and gestational weight gain (GWG) among Chinese pregnant women, adopting GWG guidelines. We prospectively investigate of quality, using Healthy Diet Index for Pregnancy (CHDI-P), which assessed from 'Diversity', 'Adequacy' 'Limitation' dimensions with overall 100 points, participants enroled in Southwest China. Food consumption was collected by 24 h dietary recalls three consecutive days CHDI-P scores were divided into tertiles. calculated according to measured before delivery classified adequate (AWG), insufficient (IWG) excessive gain(EWG) following Multinomial regression analyses stratified pre-pregnancy body mass index performed estimate association GWG. A total 1416 recruited early pregnancy, 971 997 respectively followed up middle late pregnancy. The mean score 56.44 ± 6.74, 57.07 7.44 57.38 7.94 points early, respectively. Women lowest group had an increased risk EWG (OR = 1.53, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.08-2.17) pregnancy 1.71, CI 1.21-2.41) than women highest group, while overweight/obese a greater 4.25, 1.30-13.90). No found IWG. Poor associated higher EWG.