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. 2014 Apr 30;14:153. doi: 10.1186/1471-2393-14-153

Table 4.

Direction of associations between maternal underweight and obesity and early and late medically-induced and spontaneous PTB compared to term births

  Medically-induced PTB
Spontaneous PTB
Early Late Early Late
Maternal underweight




Maternal obesity

─no association; ↑ = increased odds; ↓ = decreased odds.