Women's Health Issues
Volume 19, Issue 6 , Pages 398-405 , November 2009

Low-Income Women's Reproductive Weight Patterns: Empirically Based Clusters of Prepregnant, Gestational, and Postpartum Weights

  • Lorraine O. Walker, RN, EdD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Lorraine O. Walker, RN, EdD, MPH, School of Nursing, The University of Texas at Austin, 1700 Red River Street, Austin, TX 78701; Phone: 512-232-4751.

Received 12 December 2008 ,Revised 4 May 2009 ,Accepted 6 August 2009.

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 Data used in this study were originally gathered with partial support from RO1 NR04679.

PII: S1049-3867(09)00079-6

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2009.08.003

Women's Health Issues
Volume 19, Issue 6 , Pages 398-405 , November 2009

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