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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Matern Child Health J. 2015 Oct;19(10):2286–2294. doi: 10.1007/s10995-015-1747-5

Table 3.

Gestational weight gain by group and trimester (n=156)

Trimester 1 Trimester 2 Trimester 3
Total GWG1, kg
  Low −3.00 ± 2.38 (42) 3.70 ± 1.62 (39) 2.75 ± 1.30 (43)
  Medium 2.22 ± 1.06 (74) 7.36 ± 0.98 (77) 6.25 ± 1.04 (73)
  High 6.47 ± 1.92 (40) 11.01 ± 2.04 (40) 10.79 ± 2.70 (40)
Weekly trimester GWG2, kg/wk
  Low −0.16 ± 0.20 (56) 0.29 ± 0.12 (54) 0.26 ± 0.11 (51)
  Medium 0.18 ± 0.05 (47) 0.50 ± 0.05 (50) 0.51 ± 0.06 (51)
  High 0.44 ± 0.16 (53) 0.70 ± 0.14 (52) 0.79 ± 0.21 (54)
1

For the first, second and third trimesters, low GWG in was defined as gain of ≤25%ile and high GWG was ≥75%ile.

2

Grouped into tertiles

Mean ± SD (n). GWG, gestational weight gain