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ReviewJournal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association2022

Overweight, obesity and excessive weight gain in pregnancy as risk factors for adverse pregnancy outcomes: A narrative review.

Simon C Langley-Evans, Jo Pearce, Sarah Ellis

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Review in Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 134 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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134citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

134 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 256 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Risks to the Unborn: An Umbrella Review on the Effects of Prenatal Maternal Stress Caused by Natural Disasters.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2025
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  3. Gestational weight gain according to treatment in gestational diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetricia : revista da Federacao Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetricia · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Simon C Langley-EvansSchool of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, Loughborough, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1969-8416
Jo PearceFood & Nutrition Subject Group, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0974-479X
Sarah EllisSchool of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, Loughborough, UK.
University of Nottingham · GBSheffield Hallam University · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The global prevalence of overweight and obesity in pregnancy is rising and this represents a significant challenge for the management of pregnancy and delivery. Women who have a pre-pregnancy body mass index greater than 25 kg m

Indexed as

Gestational Weight GainPregnancy ComplicationsPregnancy in ObesityBody Mass IndexFemaleHumansObesityOverweightPregnancyPregnancy OutcomeRisk FactorsWeight Gaingestational diabetesobesitypre-eclampsiapregnancystillbirth

Identifiers

PMID35239212
PMCPMC9311414
OpenAlexW4214936957

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