Impact of the change of the Atalah standard cut-off point to classify underweight nutritional status during pregnancy

Authors :: Marcela Araya B
María Luisa Garmendia
Camila Corvalán
Juan Pedro Kusanovic
Source :: Revista chilena de nutrición v.48 n.5 2021, SciELO Chile, CONICYT Chile, instacron:CONICYT
Publication Year :: 2021
Publisher :: SciELO Agencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo (ANID), 2021.
Abstract: Chile, and several Latin American countries, use the Atalah standard to assess nutritional status during pregnancy. However, this standard (underweight: pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI)

Subjects :: Nutritional status assessment
Pregnancy
Nutrition and Dietetics
business.industry
Gestational weight gain
Nutritional status
medicine.disease
Cut off point
Environmental health
Medicine
IOM
Underweight
medicine.symptom
Pre-pregnancy underweight
business
Food Science

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