• Manoochehr Babanezhad.
• Department of Statistics, Faculty of Sciences, Golestan University, Gorgan, Golestan, Iran.
• Afr Health Sci. 2017 Mar 1; 17 (1): 142314-23.

BackgroundWomen in study areas suffered from the problems of caesarean delivery (CD), low birth weight (LBW), and macrosomia.ObjectiveTo investigate how gestational weight gain (GWG) influences the effect of the pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) on the risks of CD, LBW, and macrosomia in urban and rural areas in a city of Iran.MethodsWe used 767 and 612 eligible subjects from the public health care centers in urban and rural areas respectively.ResultsThe risk of CD increased from 74% to 2.62-fold in urban and from 62% to 2.15-fold in rural areas, and the risk of macrosomia increased from 58% to 2.35-fold in urban and from 47% to 96% in rural areas, among obese women compared to normal weight women who gained above median GWG. The risk of LBW increased from 38% to 92% in urban and from 49% to 97% in rural areas among lean women compared to normal weight women who gained below median GWG.ConclusionThese findings strongly support the need to reform adequate pre-pregnancy weight and GWG against the risks of CD and macrosomia among overweight and obese women, and against the risk of LBW among lean women in both areas.

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