Pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) and maternal gestational weight gain are positively associated with birth outcomes in rural Malawi

Austrida Gondwe; Per Ashorn; Ulla Ashorn; Kathryn G. Dewey; Kenneth Maleta; Minyanga Nkhoma; John Mbotwa; Josh M. Jorgensen

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0206035

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Pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) and maternal gestational weight gain are positively associated with birth outcomes in rural Malawi

Austrida Gondwe ,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: augondwe@yahoo.co.uk

Affiliation University of Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Centre for Child Health Research, Tampere, Finland

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1921-2225

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Per Ashorn,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University of Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Centre for Child Health Research, Tampere, Finland, Tampere University Hospital, Department of Paediatrics, Tampere, Finland
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Ulla Ashorn,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Centre for Child Health Research, Tampere, Finland
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Kathryn G. Dewey,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
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Kenneth Maleta,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Malawi College of Medicine, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi
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Minyanga Nkhoma,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Centre for Child Health Research, Tampere, Finland
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John Mbotwa,

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Malawi College of Medicine, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi
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Josh M. Jorgensen

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
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Pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) and maternal gestational weight gain are positively associated with birth outcomes in rural Malawi

Austrida Gondwe,
Per Ashorn,
Ulla Ashorn,
Kathryn G. Dewey,
Kenneth Maleta,
Minyanga Nkhoma,
John Mbotwa,
Josh M. Jorgensen

Published: October 23, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206035

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