Pregnancy Weight Gain and Childhood Body Weight: A Within-Family Comparison

Excessive pregnancy weight gain is associated with obesity in the offspring, but this relationship may be confounded by genetic and other shared influences. We aimed to examine the association of pregnancy weight gain with body mass index (BMI) in the offspring, using a within-family design to minimize confounding. = 0.0007).Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summar