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Preconception dieting raises preterm risk.(Obstetrics)

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| May 01, 2006 | Johnson, Kate | COPYRIGHT 2006 International Medical News Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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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