Vivatkusol Y, et al. – This article was written with the objective to study the prevalence and pregnancy outcomes of inappropriate gestational weight gain (GWG) among teenage pregnant women. The current study showed that the inappropriate GWG was exhibited in more than 60% of teenage pregnancies. GWG significantly affected pregnancy outcomes.

Methods

• For this research, they designed a retrospective descriptive study.
• This study was conducted on 2,165 teenage pregnant women who attended their antenatal clinic between January 2007 and August 2015.
• Adverse pregnancy outcomes, including maternal and neonatal outcomes of women with inappropriate GWG, including underweight and overweight, were studied and compared with those of women with appropriate GWG.

Results

• In this study, they obtained complete data of 1,943 women.
• Among these women, the mean age was 17.4±1.4 years and mean body mass index at first visit was 19.1±3.0 kg/m².
• 61.7% was the prevalence of inappropriate GWG.
• Underweight women were will probably experience anemia and preterm delivery, whereas overweight women required more cesarean sections due to cephalopelvic disproportion and preeclampsia, compared to women with appropriate weight gain (all P<0.001).
• The rates of gestational diabetes mellitus among women who were underweight, overweight, or appropriate weight were not significantly different.