Women's Health Issues
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 133-138 , March 2010

Multiparity is Associated With High Motivation to Change Diet Among Overweight and Obese Postpartum Women

  • Lori A. Bastian, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
    • Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Lori A. Bastian, MD, MPH, DVAMC (152), 508 Fulton Street, Bldg 16, Rm 70, Durham, NC 27705; Phone: 919-668-2127; fax: 919-668-1300.
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  • Viranga C. Pathiraja, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
    • ,
  • Katrina Krause

      Affiliations

    • Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
    • ,
  • Rebecca J. Namenek Brouwer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
    • ,
  • Geeta K. Swamy, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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  • Cheryl A. Lovelady, PhD, RD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina
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  • Truls Østbye, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
    • Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, Singapore

Received 28 May 2009 ,Revised 5 November 2009 ,Accepted 11 November 2009.

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 Funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Bastian had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. Grant # DK 64986.

PII: S1049-3867(09)00138-8

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2009.11.005

Women's Health Issues
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 133-138 , March 2010

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