Associations of gestational weight gain with offspring thinness and obesity: by prepregnancy body mass index

Table 4 Association between GWG and child weight status stratified by prepregnancy BMI categories

GWG categories	Childhood thinness		Childhood overweight/obesity
GWG categories	OR (95% CI)	P	OR (95% CI)	P
Overall
Inadequate	1.18(1.08, 1.30)	0.0004	0.86(0.79, 0.94)	0.0009
Adequate	1.00		1.00
Excessive	0.80(0.72, 0.90)	0.0002	1.31(1.20, 1.43)	< 0.0001
Prepregnancy underweight
Inadequate	1.24(1.05, 1.46)	0.01	1.19(0.96, 1.47)	0.1127
Adequate	1.00		1.00
Excessive	0.91(0.74, 1.11)	0.3458	1.51(1.21, 1.90)	0.0004
Prepregnancy normal weight
Inadequate	1.17(1.04, 1.32)	0.0071	0.80(0.72, 0.89)	< 0.0001
Adequate	1.00		1.00
Excessive	0.76(0.66, 0.88)	0.0002	1.30(1.17, 1.45)	< 0.0001
Prepregnancy overweight
Inadequate	1.20(0.69, 2.09)	0.5243	0.55(0.39, 0.79)	0.0013
Adequate	1.00		1.00
Excessive	0.84(0.48, 1.47)	0.5363	1.16(0.87, 1.54)	0.3214

Adjusted for child’s age, gender, school, gestational age, birth weight, feeding patterns in the first 6 months, child’s physical activities, maternal prepregnancy BMI, maternal education level, family monthly income and gestational diabetes mellitus
GWG gestational weight gain, BMI body mass index, OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval

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