{"id":3176,"date":"2016-08-05T12:14:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T15:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2016-08-05T12:14:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T15:14:01","slug":"prepregnancy-body-mass-index-by-maternal-characteristics-and-state-data-from-the-birth-certificate-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2016\/08\/05\/3176\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepregnancy Body Mass Index by Maternal Characteristics and State: Data From the Birth Certificate, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nvsr\/nvsr65\/nvsr65_06.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-3177\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/prepregnancy-body-mass-index-infographic1.jpg?w=450\" alt=\"Prepregnancy Body Mass Index Infographic1\" width=\"450\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>A new NCHS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nvsr\/nvsr65\/nvsr65_06.pdf\">report<\/a> describes prepregnancy body mass\u00a0index (BMI) among women giving birth in 2014 for the 47-state and\u00a0District of Columbia reporting areas that implemented the 2003 U.S.\u00a0Standard Certificate of Live Birth by January 1, 2014.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Findings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Among women giving birth in 2014, 3.8% were underweight (BMI is less than 18.5), 45.9% were of normal weight (BMI is 18.5\u201324.9), 25.6% were overweight (BMI is 25.0\u201329.9), and 24.8% were obese (BMI is greater than 29.9) before becoming pregnant.<\/li>\n<li>The prevalence of overweight and obesity before pregnancy was lowest among women under age 20, non-Hispanic Asian women, women with at least a college degree, women giving birth for the first time, and women using self-payment for delivery.<\/li>\n<li>Women with obesity before pregnancy were more likely to be older (aged 40\u201354), non-Hispanic black or non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native, at least partially college educated, to have had three previous births or more, or using Medicaid for payment of delivery.<\/li>\n<li>Prepregnancy obesity prevalence increased in 30 of the 37 reporting areas that adopted the 2003 certificate in 2011 and 2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new NCHS report describes prepregnancy body mass\u00a0index (BMI) among women giving birth in 2014 for the 47-state and\u00a0District of Columbia reporting areas that implemented the 2003 U.S.\u00a0Standard Certificate of Live Birth by January 1, 2014. Findings: Among women giving birth in 2014, 3.8% were underweight (BMI is less than 18.5), 45.9% were of normal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47309,62237],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}