September 2016

Low gestational weight gain, desire to be slender and quality of life in pregnant Japanese women

In Japan, many young women desire to be slim, contributing to an increase in the number of women with low gestational weight gain. This study aimed to clarify the association between low gestational weight gain and low birth weight infant, desire of pregnant women to be slim, self-efficacy, or quality of life (QOL). Subjects were Japanese women in their ≥24th week of pregnancy who visited four primary hospitals in...

Author(s): Yuriko Kusumi and Hitomi Koizumi,