1. Associations of Diet Quality, Socioeconomic Factors, and Nutritional Status with Gestational Weight Gain among Pregnant Women in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Cliffer, Ilana, Darling, Anne Marie, Madzorera, Isabel, Wang, Dongqing, Perumal, Nandita, Wang, Molin, Liu, Enju, Pembe, Andrea B, Urassa, Willy, and Fawzi, Wafaie W
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Biomedical and Clinical Sciences ,Nutrition and Dietetics ,Prevention ,Obesity ,Clinical Research ,Behavioral and Social Science ,Nutrition ,Good Health and Well Being ,gestational weight gain ,pregnant women ,diet quality ,low-income and middle-income countries ,Animal production ,Food sciences ,Nutrition and dietetics - Abstract
BackgroundGestational weight gain (GWG) is a modifiable factor associated with maternal and child health outcomes, but the relationship between diet quality and GWG has not been evaluated using metrics validated for low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).ObjectiveThis study aimed to investigate relationships between diet quality, socioeconomic characteristics, and GWG adequacy using the novel Global Diet Quality Score (GDQS), the first diet quality indicator validated for use across LMIC.MethodsWeights of pregnant women enrolled between 12 and 27 wk of gestation (N = 7577) were recorded in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, from 2001 to 2005 during a prenatal micronutrient supplementation trial. GWG adequacy was the ratio of measured GWG to Institute of Medicine-recommended GWG, categorized into severely inadequate (
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- 2023