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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Semin Perinatol. 2012 Jun;36(3):213–221. doi: 10.1053/j.semperi.2012.05.001

Figure 1. Prevalence of obesity among racial and ethnic groups among gravidae.

Figure 1

As delineated in the text, the near majority of self-identifying Black or African-American women manifest obesity in pregnancy. A significant and growing minority of both Hispanic-ethnicity and Caucasian women similarly present in pregnancy as obese (20, 21).

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