Can prepregnancy BMI be used to detect the risk of sarcopenia in Japanese pregnant women?
Among the pregnant women who were classified as 'normal' based on their prepregnancy BMI, 12%-26% had sarcopenia. It is therefore suggested that pregnant women's health problems could be more appropriately assessed by body composition rather than by BMI classification.
Authors
- Kimie Kubota
- Y Miwa
- Etsuko Fujimoto
- Tomohiro Yasuda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8526-5486)
Institutions
- Seirei Christopher University (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Women s Health
- Published
- 2025-10-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/17455057241297108
- Primary Topic
- Gestational Diabetes Research and Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00