Should local references or global standards be used to assess gestational weight gain?

Affiliations

¹ Nutritional Epidemiology Observatory, Josué de Castro Nutrition Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. thaisrangelnut@gmail.com.
² Nutritional Epidemiology Observatory, Josué de Castro Nutrition Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
³ Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Comment

Thais Rangel Bousquet Carrilho et al. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2023 Jul.

. 2023 Jul;77(7):762-763.

doi: 10.1038/s41430-022-01202-6. Epub 2022 Sep 8.

¹ Nutritional Epidemiology Observatory, Josué de Castro Nutrition Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. thaisrangelnut@gmail.com.
² Nutritional Epidemiology Observatory, Josué de Castro Nutrition Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
³ Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

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The challenges in gestational weight gain monitoring in low and middle income settings.
Thiruvengadam R, Desiraju BK, Sachdev HS, Bhatnagar S. Thiruvengadam R, et al. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2023 Jul;77(7):764-765. doi: 10.1038/s41430-023-01292-w. Epub 2023 Jun 14. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2023. PMID: 37316558 No abstract available.

Gestational weight gain trajectories in GARBH-Ini pregnancy cohort in North India and a comparative analysis with global references.
Thiruvengadam R, Desiraju BK, Natchu UCM, Wadhwa N, Sachdeva K, Misra S, Parmar N, Juyal M, Mittal P, Bharti R, Tripathi R, Ramji S, Sachdev HS, Bhatnagar S; GARBH–Ini study team. Thiruvengadam R, et al. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2022 Jun;76(6):855-862. doi: 10.1038/s41430-021-01040-y. Epub 2021 Nov 16. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2022. PMID: 34785811
Pregnant women need local references for gestational weight gain - an editorial.
Hermanussen M. Hermanussen M. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2022 Jun;76(6):781-782. doi: 10.1038/s41430-022-01113-6. Epub 2022 Mar 10. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2022. PMID: 35273365 No abstract available.

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