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Publication Date:
June 2005
ISSN:
1619-3997
DOI:
10.1515/JPM.2005.021

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Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Official Journal of the World Association of Perinatal Medicine

Editor-in-Chief: Dudenhausen, Joachim W.

Editorial Board Member: / Bancalari, Eduardo / Greenough, Anne / Genc, Mehmet R. / Chervenak, Frank A. / Aslam, Muhammad / Bergmann, Renate L. / Bernardes, J.F. / Bevilacqua, G. / Blickstein, Isaac / Brezinka, Christoph / Cabero Roura, Luis / Carbonell-Estrany, Xavier / Carrera, Jose M. / D`Addario, Vincenzo / Dimitrou, G. / Foulon, Walter / Grunebaum, G. E. / Harding, Jane / Hentschel, Roland / Kawabata, Ichiro / Keirse, M.J.M.C. / Kurjak M.D., Asim / Levene, Malcolm / Lockwood, Charles J. / Marsal, Karel / Nishida, Hiroshi / Papp, Zoltán / Makatsariya, Alexander / Pejaver, Ranjan Kumar / Pooh, Ritsuko K. / Saugstad, Ola D. / Schenker, Joseph G. / Sen, Cihat / Geijn, Herman P. / Vetter, Klaus / Young, Bruce K. / Zimmermann, Roland / Köpcke, W.

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Characteristics of mothers who delivered the heaviest, average-weight, and lightest triplet sets

Isaac Blickstein1 / Debbie J. Rhea2 / Louis G. Keith3

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Corresponding author: Isaac Blickstein, M.D., Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kaplan Medical Center, 76100 Rehovot/Israel. Tel.: +972-8-944 1930; Fax: +972-8-941 1944;

Citation Information: Journal of Perinatal Medicine. Volume 33, Issue 2, Pages 113–116, ISSN (Online) 1619-3997, ISSN (Print) 0300-5577, DOI: 10.1515/JPM.2005.021, June 2005

Publication History:
Received:
August 6, 2004
Revised:
November 2, 2004
Accepted:
December 1, 2004
Published Online:
2005-06-01

Abstract

We analyzed a cohort of 2850 live-born triplet sets to compare age, parity, stature, pre-gravid body mass index (BMI), and weekly weight gain in mothers who delivered triplets with a total weight in the 10th, 5th, and 1st deciles corresponding to the heaviest, average-weight, and lightest triplet sets, respectively. Mothers who delivered the heaviest triplets were significantly older, multiparous, taller, heavily built, and gained more weight compared with mothers of average-weight triplets. In contrast, except for higher parity, mothers of average-weight sets were not significantly different compared with mothers who delivered the lightest triplet sets. We concluded that parity was the only significant factor for increased total triplet weight in the first five deciles. However, the presence of other factors in addition to parity is needed for a triplet pregnancy to be included in the 10th decile.

Keywords: Body mass index; parity; pregnancy outcome; stature; triplets; weight gain

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