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

Table 7

Maternal and pregnancy-related characteristics according to Body Mass Index at the onset of pregnancy.

	BMI < 30 kg/m^2	BMI ≥ 30 kg/m^2
	()	()
	% m  ± sd
Weight at the time of surgery (kg)			0.001
Time between surgery and minimum weight (months)			0.02
Body weight dynamics at the onset of pregnancy			0.03
(i) Weight loss	13	37
(ii) Weight stabilisation	87	53
(iii) Weight gain	0	10

Mass Index. . . deviation. All the maternal, neonatal, nutritional, and pregnancy-related characteristics presented in Tables 2 and 3 were compared according to BMI at the onset of pregnancy. The table only shows results that were statistically significant or were of borderline statistical significance.