Maternal Nutritional Deficiencies and Small-for-Gestational-Age Neonates at Birth of Women Who Have Undergone Bariatric Surgery

Table 6

Maternal and pregnancy-related characteristics according to the time between bariatric surgery and pregnancy.

	Period < 18 months	Period ≥ 18 months
	% m  ± sd
	Time between surgery and pregnancy (months)				<0.0001
Minimum weight after surgery (kg)			0.01
Body weight dynamics at the onset of pregnancy			0.008
(i) Weight loss	47.1	7.7
(ii) Weight stabilisation	53	84
(iii) Weight gain	0	8.0

. . deviation. All the maternal, neonatal, nutritional, and pregnancy-related characteristics presented in Tables 2 and 3 were compared according to the time between bariatric surgery and pregnancy. The table only shows results that were statistically significant or were of borderline statistical significance.