The challenges in gestational weight gain monitoring in low and middle income settings

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¹ Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Puducherry, India.
² Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad, Haryana, India.
³ Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research, New Delhi, India.
⁴ Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad, Haryana, India. shinjini.bhatnagar@thsti.res.in.

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Ramachandran Thiruvengadam et al. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2023 Jul.

. 2023 Jul;77(7):764-765.

doi: 10.1038/s41430-023-01292-w. Epub 2023 Jun 14.

¹ Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Puducherry, India.
² Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad, Haryana, India.
³ Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research, New Delhi, India.
⁴ Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad, Haryana, India. shinjini.bhatnagar@thsti.res.in.

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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.
Should local references or global standards be used to assess gestational weight gain?
Carrilho TRB, Kac G, Hutcheon JA. Carrilho TRB, et al. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2023 Jul;77(7):762-763. doi: 10.1038/s41430-022-01202-6. Epub 2022 Sep 8. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2023. PMID: 36076066 No abstract available.

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