Behavioral Counseling Interventions for Healthy Weight and Weight Gain in Pregnancy: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Abstract

(Abstracted from JAMA 2021;325:2087–2093) Overweight and obesity is increasingly common among women who are pregnant or are of childbearing age. Almost half of all pregnant women in 2015 were overweight (24%) or obese (24%) at the start of their pregnancy.