Background:Depression is associated with weight change outside of pregnancy. We assessed associations of prepregnancy or early pregnancy onset depression with gestational weight gain (GWG) rate overall and according to Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommendations. Materials and Methods:Depression from 6 months prepregnancy through 20 weeks gestation was identified in a health care system in northern California with perinatal depression screening (2011-2016; n = 87,600). GWG rate (lbs/week) was calculated using weight at delivery and at diagnosis or depression screening ≤20 weeks. Results:Compared to women without prepregnancy or early pregnancy depression, women with prepregnancy onset depression had 11% greater risk of GWG rate
Pre- and Early Pregnancy Onset Depression and Subsequent Rate of Gestational Weight Gain
Authors: Badon SE; Hedderson MM; Hyde RJ; Quesenberry CP; Avalos LA
J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2019 09;28(9):1237-1245. Epub 2019-05-07.