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. 2022 Jun 10;19(12):7127. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19127127

Table 2.

Characteristics of study populations.

Cohort: Single-Arm Interventions
Authors, Year, Ref. Country Sample Size Ethnicity Pre-Pregnancy Weight Status *
Badon et al., 2018 [30] USA 3687 Caucasian (86%)
Other
Normal (73%)
Overweight/Obese (26%)
Badon et al., 2016 [31] USA 3310 Caucasian (86%)
Other
Normal (71%)
Overweight/Obese (25%)
Bisson et al., 2017 [32] Canada 104 Caucasian (96%)
African American
Other
23.7 ± 0.4 kg/m2
Collings et al., 2020 [33] U.K. 6921 Caucasian (50%)
Other
Active 24.7 kg/m2
Inactive 25.6 kg/m2
Dahly et al., 2018 [34] Ireland 1754 Caucasian (98%)
Other
Normal (65%)
Overweight/Obese (35%)
Diaz et al., 2020 [35] USA 209 Caucasian (85%)
Other
26 kg/m2
Harrod et al., 2014 [36] USA 826 Caucasian (53.4%)
Black (16.7%)
Hispanic
Other
25.8 ± 0.4 kg/m2
Jones et al., 2020 [37] USA 103 Caucasian (76%)
Black
Other
26.4 kg/m2
Joshi et al., 2005 [38] India 770 Other 18.2 ± 0.3 kg/m2
Juhl et al., 2010 [39] Denmark 79,692 Caucasian
Other
Normal (68%)
Overweight/Obese (27%)
Mudd et al., 2019 [40] USA 37 Caucasian (81%)
Other
Normal (62%)
Overweight/Obese (38%)
Nagpal et al., 2018 [41] Canada 61 Caucasian (88%)
Other
Normal (69%)
Overweight/Obese (31%)
Norris et al., 2017 [42] Norway 1200 Caucasian (98%)
Other
24 ± 0.5 kg/m2
Przybylowicz et al., 2014 [43] Poland 510 NA Normal (71%)
Overweight/Obese (18.5%)
Rao et al., 2003 [44] India 797 Indonesian
Other
41.6 ± 5.1 kg
Watson et al., 2018 [45] South Africa 130 Black 27.7 ± 5.2 kg/m2

* kilogram per meters squared (kg/m2).