Taken from a local newspaper, date unknown (sometime in 2006).

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"Preterm Birth Risk Hit By Weight Gain"
New York (Reuters Health)


A new study confirms that weight gain during pregnancy affects the risk of spontaneous preterm birth, and suggests that race and a history or preterm birth that seem to influence the association.

Prior studies have suggested low and high weight gain during pregnancy raise the chance a woman will deliver prematurely. Ethnicity and birth history are known to influence the risk of preterm bith, but it was unclear whether these factors interact with maternal weight gain.