Prevalence of U.S. Pregnant Women Meeting 2015 ACOG Physical Activity Guidelines

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Population, Policy and Practice, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: kathryn.hesketh@ucl.ac.uk.
² Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Kathryn R Hesketh et al. Am J Prev Med. 2016 Sep.

. 2016 Sep;51(3):e87-9.

doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2016.05.023.

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Population, Policy and Practice, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: kathryn.hesketh@ucl.ac.uk.
² Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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