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TORONTO -- Women who diet to lose weight before getting pregnant could be at increased risk of giving birth prematurely, according to Jim Johnstone of the department of physiology at the University of Toronto.
The findings, which he presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation, come from a subset of the Southampton Women's Survey, in which 12,500 women aged 24-34 years were interviewed before they became pregnant, and then 3,000 were followed through their subsequent pregnancies.
In Mr. Johnstone's sample of 605 of these pregnant women, 23.3% had indicated before conception that they were dieting to lose weight. However, the time interval between the survey interview and their subsequent pregnancy was not recorded.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Preconception dieting raises preterm risk.(Obstetrics)