Review Article
Gestational Weight Gain among Healthy Pregnant Women from Asia in Comparison with Institute of Medicine (IOM) Guidelines-2009: A Systematic Review
Table 2
Comparison of gestational weight gain (GWG) based on body mass index (BMI).
| | Author/Year/Number of women included | Inadequate weight gain | Adequate weight gain | Excessive weight gain | | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) |
| | Enomoto, 2016 [17], n= 97,157 | UW 13529 (76.3) | UW 3783 (21.3) | UW 412 (2.3) | | NW 44189(63.9) | NW 20835 (30.1) | NW 4102 (5.9) | | OW 2990 (39.9) | OW 2810 (37.5) | OW 1702 (22.7) | | OB 1297 (46.2) | OB 853 (30.4) | OB 655 (23.4) |
| | Bhavadharini, 2017 [16], n=2,728 | UW 102 (66.2) | UW 47 (30.5) | UW 5 (3.3) | | NW 550(69.5) | NW 185 (23.4) | NW 56 (7.1) | | OW 347 (68.8) | OW 113(22.5) | OW 44(8.7) | | OB 440(34.4) | OB 474(37.1) | OB 365(28.5) |
| | Munim, 2012, [14], n=4735 | UW 112 (78.0) | UW 25 (17.4) | UW 7 (4.6) | | NW 1740 (79.2) | NW 359 (16.3) | NW 104 (4.5) | | OW 483 (35.9) | OW 647 (48.2) | OW 214 (15.9) | | OB 147 (14.1) | OB 585 (56.0) | OB 312 (29.9) |
| | Pal, 2017, [22], n= 200 | UW 12 (92.3) | UW 1 (7.7) | UW 0 (0) | | NW 79 (75.2) | NW 22 (21) | NW 4 (3.8) | | OW 25 (38.5) | OW 29 (44.6) | OW 11 (16.9) | | OB 2 (11.8) | OB 7 (41.2) | OB 8 (47.1) |
| | Rozlan, 2012, [23], n=436 | UW 41 (62.1) | UW 13 (19.7) | UW 12 (18.2) | | NW 53 (30.3) | NW 54 (30.9) | NW 68 (38.9) | | OW 22 (17.6) | OW 33 (26.4) | OW 70 (56) | | OB 12 (17.1) | OB 21 (30) | OB 37 (52.9) |
| | Li. C, 2015, [19], n=48,867 | UW 1728 (26.90) | UW 2859 (44.50) | UW 1837(28.60) | | NW 9975 (26.70) | NW 13599 (36.40) | NW 13785(36.90) | | OW 495 (11.00) | OW 1381 (30.70) | OW 2621(58.30) | | OB 8 (1.40) | OB 161 (27.40) | OB 418 (71.20) |
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NW: normal weight, OB: obese, OW: overweight, and UW: underweight.
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